Sentences with phrase «city community in»

The Alternative Museum was founded in 1975 by artists for artists and the broader New York City community in the United States.

«We support a significant role for community boards in general and the Battery Park City community in the governance of BPCA in particular,» the letter read.

The Louisiana State Loan Repayment Program was created to encourage health care professionals to serve in rural or inner - city communities in exchange for loan assistance.

ICare, an alumni organization in Liberty City sponsored a trip for 40 high school students from inner - city communities in Miami to go to the march in Washington.

Not exact matches

In this way, the bill «empowers cities and municipalities in California to pass whatever rules are best for their communities including where to ride an e-scooter,» Kenneth Baer, a spokesman for Bird told Business Insider in a statement via emaiIn this way, the bill «empowers cities and municipalities in California to pass whatever rules are best for their communities including where to ride an e-scooter,» Kenneth Baer, a spokesman for Bird told Business Insider in a statement via emaiin California to pass whatever rules are best for their communities including where to ride an e-scooter,» Kenneth Baer, a spokesman for Bird told Business Insider in a statement via emaiin a statement via email.

In adopting its Cannabis Equity Program, the City of Oakland made a clear commitment to ensure access and equity in legal cannabis for communities most negatively impacted by the drug waIn adopting its Cannabis Equity Program, the City of Oakland made a clear commitment to ensure access and equity in legal cannabis for communities most negatively impacted by the drug wain legal cannabis for communities most negatively impacted by the drug war.

«Based on data from the Council for Community and Economic Research in the second quarter of 2017, we ranked the [10] cheapest cities to live in based on [its] cost - of - living index score,» compared to a national average benchmark of 100.

«We should all feel safe walking in our cities and communities,» he said.

Safety experts have ranked the community as the second - safest city in the nation.

I did the challenge for second time, for an additional 60 days to a closed community of young entrepreneurs, most of whom I'd never met and who live in different cities.

Adam Legge, the director of the city's chamber of commerce, noted in an interview later that the Calgary business community perhaps were not feeling the grip of the sure hand they were hoping Notley would possess.

After Playworld selected six finalists, consumers who «liked» the company's Facebook page were able to vote for the community or school they considered most deserving; Parker's Woods park in Mason City, Iowa, and St. Norbert School in Northbrook, Ill., were the winners.

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.

She said: «We're looking to tap into that and we think there are communities just like the ones we've tapped into New York in cities and countries all over the world.»

• Pilotworks, New York City - based a community of food entrepreneurs formerly known as FoodWorks, raised $ 13 million in Series A funding led by Techstars Ventures and Acre Venture Partners.

«If a venture's mentor network, investors, and early customers are in Kansas City, for example, why would you pull them out of the community that is best positioned to support them?»

Ned Staebler, president and CEO of TechTown, says SWOT City works in six neighborhoods, partnering with local community development corporations to identify entrepreneurs and provide them with technical assistance and support.

The work being done to bring entrepreneurship and funding resources to cities like St. Louis and Albuquerque — and in rural communities — isn't just about creating high - paying tech jobs.

Of course, I said that we had a startup at 1871 (mRelief.com) that was already working with the city of Chicago and state of Illinois on «an app for that,» one that allows just about anyone to quickly and easily figure out exactly which government and / or community - based programs exist that might have benefits immediately available to them - especially in the current environment.

Dr. Jason Greenspan (L) and emergency room nurse Junizar Manansala care for a patient in the ER of Mission Community Hospital in Panorama City, California.

«The real value of what we're doing is in the community and not in the space and features,» says Tony Bacigalupo, the founder of New Work City, another co-working space in downtown Manhattan.

After all, they provide an opportunity for people to meet, build meaningful relationships, and reaffirm the vibrant community present in any city.

For somebody who had never been to New Orleans, but moved there initially to teach and then a year later left the classroom to start a company, I've seen firsthand just how much the community has invested in bringing in and retaining young people who really want to contribute to rebranding the city, bringing it from, old oil and gas and just tourism really into the 21st century with lots of high - tech, high - growth businesses.

Statistics Canada cited the northern coastal community as the city with the greatest population decline in Canada.

I'll tell you about my experiences growing up in a traditional American circus and the current aerial circus community thriving in New York City.

Amazon's plan to build a second headquarters in one lucky city across the U.S. is being met with some criticism from civic leaders who are concerned the company won't do enough to help the community it will ultimately choose.

«Small banks are definitely the driver of small business,» says Joshua Siegel, founder and managing principal at StoneCastle Partners, a financial firm that invests in community banks and is based in New York City.

They took into account how many new members of the LGBT community moved into each city in 2015, as well as how many «winks» were sent between gay and lesbian matches.

«Broad rules, such as those imposed by SB4, that push local law enforcement to take a more active role in immigration enforcement will further strain the relationship between local law enforcement and these diverse communities,» police chiefs from several major Texas cities wrote in a letter last week.

The mayor was so concerned about gang violence in the city that he had certain liquor stores and gang - heavy communities closed, he told CBS News in July.

A current success story is Mahogany, the 1,000 - plus - acre community in southeast Calgary set around the city's largest freshwater lake.

Type in your zip code or city in the search bar to find and evaluate banks in your community.

«We're not seeing the kind of growth and scale - ups, and if we can solve that problem we'll also keep our most talented in Miami by using entrepreneurship as a tool for community building,» says Matt Haggman, the program director in Miami for the Knight Foundation, which committed a $ 2 million investment to help bring Endeavor to the city.

We always dreamt of the possibility of being part of this great community and collaborating with the incredible talents found in this city.

In other words, like the startups they are trying to support, cities like St. Louis (and Kansas City, Columbus, Pittsburgh, and pretty much every community in the middle) must pull themselves up by their bootstrapIn other words, like the startups they are trying to support, cities like St. Louis (and Kansas City, Columbus, Pittsburgh, and pretty much every community in the middle) must pull themselves up by their bootstrapin the middle) must pull themselves up by their bootstraps.

When the collection of major works housed at the city's world - class Detroit Institute of Arts Museum was in danger of being liquidated to pay off municipal debt, the federal mediator, Judge Gerald Rosen, city emergency manager, Kevyn Orr, and other civic leaders leaned heavily on community and national foundations, lawmakers and the museum itself to put their money where their masterpieces were.

Priced out from buying a home in Toronto, they settled on Ajax, a bedroom community east of the city.

Nonetheless, there are also worries the Royal Mail's quest for profit may mean remote — and therefore higher - cost — communities in the UK will not get the same service as cities and towns.

Dugan said there weren't any surprises CMHC found when compiling the report, but he did spot «a little bit of a softening» of market activity in Toronto and less of a «spillover» in demand from the city to neighbouring communities, including Hamilton.

He is also African - American, which some politicians have said could help him deal with community leaders in a city that is 83 percent black.

Otherwise, there's the nearby and ever - entertaining New York City, a hundred - plus miles of Atlantic Ocean coastline, a smallish mountain range or two, a major amusement park, a half dozen professional sports teams (most of them mediocre at best), small - time skiing, a pretty Ivy League campus by the name of Princeton University, a wealth of black bear in exclusive suburban communities, the early homes of such celebrity types as Martha Stewart, Jack Nicholson and Bruce Springsteen, the site of the Hindenburg disaster, and (for visionary types) the ghosts of Albert Einstein and Thomas Edison, who lived and worked in the state for awhile.

It has become a community hub, part of a corporate commitment the company has embraced to help create jobs and opportunity for towns and cities that might otherwise be overlooked in corporate road maps.

At this point parts of the city were completely under water after nearby dykes broke in the flooding that devastated many river communities along the Danube that week.

«There's a community of entrepreneurship [here] that you wouldn't necessarily expect in a flyover city,» he says.

The city's newfound appeal is due in large part to a growing creative community that includes artists, chefs, and directors and programmers from Pixar Animation Studios.

Take some tips from Charles Bonello, cofounder of Grand Central Tech, a community of startups and partners that breaks from the traditional accelerator model by providing accepted companies free office space in New York City for a year without requiring equity.

Similar shared workspaces, both co-operative and for - profit, sprang up in other cities, as did a Google co-working group that defined the movement's principles as collaboration, openness, community, accessibility and sustainability.

City planners are even pondering a temporary Chicago - style shoreline ferris wheel as a tourist attraction — all in an effort to continue to grow this community's «fun factor» says Montemayor.

If we didn't train our people, the city was going to bring in people from outside of our community.

«There are a lot of programs in this city that serve low income communities that really need that money.