Search results
Results From The WOW.Com Content Network
The National Association of Women Artists, Inc. (NAWA) is a United States organization, founded in 1889 to gain recognition for professional women fine artists in an era when that field was strongly male-oriented. It sponsors exhibitions, awards and prizes, and organizes lectures and special events.
Alternately, NAWA provides funding for Polish scientists to do internships abroad. [5] NAWA funds student support services for foreign students in Poland. [12] NAWA provides both Polish and foreign students, researchers and higher education institutions with scholarships and grants in four different fields, with the main focus on mobility:
Saje Natural Wellness is a Canadian retailer of private-label essential oils and skin care products. [1] The company was founded in 1992 by Kate and Jean-Pierre LeBlanc in Lonsdale Quay, Vancouver, British Columbia. [2] In 2016, the company opened their first international location in California. [3]
He is a proponent of the alternative medicine concept of "wellness", originally proposed in 1961 by Halbert L. Dunn, and has written books on the subject. In the 1970s, Travis founded the first "wellness center" in California. [1] He originated the Illness–Wellness Continuum. [2]
Fariba Nawa (born 1973) is an Afghan-American freelance journalist who grew up in Herat and Lashkargah in Afghanistan as well as Fremont, California. She was born in Herat to a native Afghan family. [1] Her family fled the country during the Soviet invasion in the 1980s. She is trilingual in Persian, Arabic, and English. [1]
Workplace wellness programs have been around since the 1970s [34] and have gained new popularity as the push for cost savings in the health delivery system becomes more evident as a result of high health care expenditures in the U.S. Employer wellness programs have shown to have a return on investment of about $3 for every $1 invested over a ...
Enrollment started on October 1, 2013; [9] during the first month of operation, 35,364 people enrolled in health plans offered through Covered California, more than were enrolled through the website for the federal exchange (HealthCare.gov) in the same period. [10] As of November 2013, over 360,000 people had completed applications. [11]
In 2004, 24 Hour Fitness became a sponsor of the 2004–2008 United States Olympic teams. The sponsorship grants memberships to some U.S. Olympic hopefuls, and includes upgrades to some U.S. Olympic Training Centers across the country, including renovation of the facility in Colorado Springs, Colorado, in 2004 to be followed by Lake Placid, New York, and Chula Vista, California.