Sentences with phrase «city community face»

Not exact matches

But while we certainly haven't solved every issue facing urban residents, there is an urgency and energy toward improving economic opportunity in cities that is lacking in the discussion about rural communities.

The first of these stores is set to open in early 2017 in Baltimore, MD, where Starbucks has been working with local community, civic and business leaders with the collective goal of addressing the opportunity gap facing the city's young men and women.

Grounded in Boston Fed research, the Challenge encourages leaders from the public, private, and nonprofit sectors to advance proposals that tackle complex challenges facing smaller post-industrial cities and achieve large scale impact across communities.

What about other, shall I call them «soft issues» or non-core issues like, family counseling, youth ministry, childrens's ministry, community upliftment, marriage support, involvement in local cahllenges facing our community, being the moral compass in our city, etc etc..

We simply do not know what community would look like in a modern city because our deepest cultural experience with it comes from the 19th century, in the small - town, face - to - face relationships of an agrarian economy.

The people of Ferguson — and all protesters who gather in cities and colleges and communities around the world — are doing one thing: they are standing with their hands up and their faces blank.

Two years ago, the Czechs were in the streets of Prague facing Russian tanks, not because of compassion for human want and misery, but because they were not free; the Vietnamese continue to resist America, as they did Japan and France before us, not because of hunger for food but hunger to determine their own destinies; black militants are in the streets of our cities today, not because they are famished — though poverty and want still stalk our land, particularly black communities — but because black citizens, more than any others, have been politically isolated and impotent, unable to act in their own governance.

The study, titled Impossible Choices, spoke to almost 200 teenagers between the ages of 13 and 18 in 20 focus groups across 10 different communities — including big cities like Chicago and Los Angeles, as well as rural areas like rural North Carolina and eastern Oregon — who were members of families facing poverty and food insecurity.

The Red Devils face English champions Leicester City in the Community Shield at Wembley on August 7, before beginning their Premier League season with a trip to Bournemouth.

Last season we started the season by beating Man City in the Community Shield, and it meant we were far more confident when facing them in the League, and if this has the same effect on Chelsea this time around, then Wenger won't be the only one believing that we can beat Mourinho to the League title as well....

United and Wigan face off in the Community Shield, with the Latics returning to Wembley hoping to spring another surprise after upsetting Manchester City in the FA Cup Final.

After beating Leicester City in the Community Shield contest last weekend, Manchester United will face Bournemouth in their opening Premier League fixture of the new season.

With Arsenal due to face Chelsea in the Community Shield at Wembley on August 6 before opening their Premier League campaign against Leicester City five days later, Wenger will be hoping Lacazette's injury is nothing serious.

United take on Everton in the next clash and following that, they face Leicester City in the 2016 Community Shield clash at Wembley.

There is still the possibility of facing Manchester City in the Community Shield at Wembley Stadium on August 5 if they win the FA Cup.

Jose Mourinho will battle it out against Claudio Ranieri when Manchester United face Leicester City in the Community Shield tomorrow.

Leicester City and Manchester United will officially open their respective campaigns today as they face each other at Wembley for the Community Shield.

When he announced the endorsement, the union's president, Bruce Both, said Meng had «pledged her support for our Union's effort to hold Walmart accountable for reckless corporate policies that effect the worker families, small business owners, and women that live in the 6th Congressional,» adding: «Our Union believes that Grace will help unify an ethnically diverse community around the most pressing issue facing our Unions membership: keeping New York City Walmart free.»

LIBRARY SQUARE — New Development With Community Programs Faces Opposition From MV City Council

Randy Dillard, an organizer with Community Action for Safe Apartments (CASA), noted that the city's Right to Counsel law, which provides tenants with free legal assistance in housing court, has provided substantial relief to tenants facing eviction, but said the rent loopholes must be closed to ensure more low - income New Yorkers remain in their apartments.

«Our Union believes that Grace will help unify an ethnically diverse community around the most pressing issue facing our Unions membership: keeping New York City Walmart free.»

And while the event was not meant to solve poverty or gun violence in the city, it brought a very diverse community to stand together against any kind of violence they may face next.

Jewish communities centers, meanwhile, have faced roughly 100 bomb threats in 2017, including four this week in the New York City metropolitan area.

New York City Mayor Bill de Blasio found himself on the defensive Wednesday as he faced questions about investigations that involve supporters in the Orthodox Jewish community, a potential political problem as he prepares to run for re-election next year.

Primary Candidates from across the city were invited to come talk with educators and community members - and face the tough questions about how they will fight for our schools and communities.

I am continuing to work hard on important issues facing Lower Manhattan including ensuring that our Downtown Little League and Soccer League get the field time they need at the B.P.C. ball fields, coming up with an appropriate redevelopment plan for the South Street Seaport, providing adequate funding to NYCHA residents and community programs serving youth and seniors, and maintaining affordable housing in Battery Park City and throughout the district.

For so many of us, Jon was a leader, a mentor, a friend and above all the person whose belief in our ability to create change moved us, day in and day out, to fight for the issues facing our communities, our city and our state.

And he signaled his awareness of the potential political fight he might face when he tries to open new shelters across the city, promising that while he would work harder to communicate with local communities about plans to open shelters, that «doesn't mean there's going to be peace and love all the time.»

«The scope and magnitude of so many challenges we face when addressing quality of life in our communities require the collaborative efforts of both county and city government partnered with the private sector,» Picente said.

On Wednesday, New York City Comptroller Scott M. Stringer toured the Bronx County Housing Court and held a press availability with members of Community Action for Safe Apartments (CASA) at which he announced that he was supportive of City legislation that would provide attorneys to New Yorkers facing eviction or foreclosures.

New York City Comptroller Scott M. Stringer stands with members of Community Action for Safe Apartments outside of Bronx County Housing Court today to announce his support for City legislation to provide attorneys for New Yorkers facing eviction or foreclosures.

The city Conflicts of Interest Board ruled in March that Koslowitz would face no issues running for the 29th District Council seat if she switched her position from deputy borough president to director of community boards.

Asked how he intended to support the technology community as it faced numerous regulatory challenges on the federal level, De Blasio pointed to his experience working under Andrew Cuomo as the HUD Secretary and as campaign manager for Hillary Clinton's first Senate campaign, and said he would be a forceful advocate in Washington for New York City interests.

The communities that have faced funding issues from the state Office for the Aging include seven in New York City and two upstate communities, including Rochester.

Latimer faces Rye City Councilwoman Julie Killian for the district that includes parts of Yonkers and the Sound Shore communities in Westchester.

Those communities include New York City, Albany and Syracuse and could face a cut in federal funding should they not comply with enforcement efforts.

«I expect to run a vigorous campaign on the issues facing the citizens of my community,» Lopez said in a statement «and hope to continue to serve them in the City Council.»

«This is one of the challenging issues a community has to face,» said Assemblyman Guillermo Linares, who first began dealing with the issue when he served on the City Council in the»90s.

«They reflect what I am hearing from parents and grandparents from all across our city: that statistics alone are cold comfort to communities that face the threat of gun violence — and that a real conversation on real solutions is needed.»

Cox is well - known to the community but faces a little bump in the road: he doesn't live within city limits, one of the requirements to be chief.

The issues raised in the Department of Justice report go well beyond the confines of state operations — they involve the enormous challenges faced in our inner city schools, communities and families.

The leaders of the community proposal and rally, reverends from Brooklyn, achieved significant attention for their plan and support from elected officials, in part because their critique of de Blasio's housing program touched the core tension of what some see as a solid, fairly moderate approach, but others call too timid to address the affordability crisis facing the city and its residents and, in some cases, a catalyst of detrimental gentrification.

Lappin, who represents the East Side, is expected to face a crowded field, including Upper Manhattan City Councilman Robert Jackson, former Community Board 1 Chairwoman Julie Menin and Upper West Side City Councilwoman Gale Brewer, in a contentious battle to replace current Borough President Scott Stringer, who is running for comptroller.

Still, Jackson is facing a crowded field of challengers, including former Community Board 1 Chairwoman Julie Menin, East Side City Councilwoman Jessica Lappin and Upper West Side City Councilwoman Gale Brewer.

One political operative said Castro's resignation is a serious blow to the legislative hopes of Dominicans, especially for the community that is still licking its wounds after the 2009 corruption scandal saw City Councilman Miguel Martinez imprisoned for five years after facing fraud charges.

Aubry, whose district covers Elmhurst, East Elmhurst, Corona and LeFrak City, faces an opponent for the first time in years in Democratic community activist Anthony Miranda.

Project developer Bruce Ratner, of Forest City Ratner Companies, said that this announcement was a key victory for the plan, which has faced immense community opposition.

«I expect to run a vigorous campaign on the issues facing the citizens of my community and hope to continue to serve them as a member of the City Council,» Lopez said.

In the state Senate primary set for September 13, she is facing former City Council Member Robert Jackson; Micah Lasher, former chief of staff to Attorney General Eric Schneiderman; and Luis Tejada, a community activist.

In addition to Flint, residents of many communities are affected — including Newark, New Jersey; Cleveland and Sebring, Ohio; New York City; and in Jackson, Mississippi — where the «situation illustrates another aspect of the broad paralysis facing the nation,» stated Rosner.