Sentences with phrase «from small community groups»

From small community groups to state and nation - wide organizations and labor groups, we have more than 1000 Partners.

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The project's main opponent, the local environmental group Douglas Channel Watch, maintains the risk from either a tanker accident or a pipeline breach is too high for the small number of jobs the pipeline would bring to the community.

In an ultimate story of small business savvy enacting huge community change, a group of female elders from the Wirlu - murra Aboriginal community in Roebourne have translated a market stall selling local artwork into joint venture mining contracts worth over $ 100 million.

Making and marking history in low - income community struggle at the edge of Metro Vancouver On May 2nd 2017 a small group of homeless people and supporters marched from Maple Ridge's soon - to - close Rain City

As a pastor I've been getting help for years, from a psychiatrist, from a clinical pastoral course I took years ago, from small groups over the years, from dear friends who are honest enough to speak into my life, from my medical doctor, from the elders in my church, from my wife (mostly) from an adult children for alcoholics group I started only because there was nothing in place in my community.

And the communities that can best serve from the margins will almost always initially be small groups or small Christian churches like St. Andrew.

From a small group of Monks at Taizé the influence upon the Christian community has been immense, both on Catholics and Protestants.

Robert C. Leslie identifies these salient points at which small groups played a vital role in church history: Christ and his disciples, the Apostolic church, Montanism, monasticism, the Waldenses, the Franciscans, the Friends of God, the Brethren of the Common Life, German pietism, the Anabaptists, the Society of Friends, the Wesleyan revival, the Great Awakening, the Iona Community, the Emmanuel Movement, and the Oxford Group Movement (from which came Alcoholics Anonymous).

New churches, schools and Catholic institutions were constantly being opened, and the Catholic community was a vibrant one, the small nucleus of «Old Catholics» having been augmented by Anglican converts and Irish emigrants — from which groups came Francis Bourne's own family.

The operation of such a ruling group is pictured in the story of Boaz» negotiations for the redemption of Naomi's property (Ruth 4:1 - 12); the narrative is presumably from a comparatively late time, but the councils of elders persisted in the smaller communities right through Old Testament history, so there is ground for believing that the author relates practice with which he was familiar.

Several women's groups turned from primary concern with the institutional church to community projects, as a result of the «new flavor» developed in the groups through interpersonal deepening.20 It has been my experience that many larger church meetings, including worship services, can be enlivened by incorporating small group communication and awareness experiences into the proceedings.

In the West Brighton section of Staten Island, small groups of people walk across the street from the project buildings into the parking lot of New Hope Community Church, where they dodge basketballs whizzing by before congregating in a beautifully renovated building that was a staging area for an underground pit bull fighting ring up until a few years ago.

So when people say they are finding community in a small group, and even when they describe their group as a family, they mean something quite different from the connotations that words like «community» and «family» have had in the past.

Providing people with a stronger sense of community has been a key aim of the small - group movement from its inception.

A decade later, a study of Episcopal churches by Wade Clark Roof showed that church people tend to be divided into two groups: the «locals» who prefer to live in small communities, get their satisfaction from relating closely to families and to friends, and belong to local groups; and the «cosmopolitans» who prefer living in large cities, get their satisfaction from dealing with ideas and international issues, and belong to large state or nationwide organizations.

Intervention: caseload midwifery care (receiving care through antenatal, intrapartum and postpartum, in hospital and in the community) from a named caseload midwife working in a small group of midwives known as a midwifery group practice (4 full - time MWs).

Trained Community Health Teams provided individual family or small group counseling from for fathers, mothers, pregnant women, etc. b; engaged religious leaders to communicate healthy behavior messages

«I deeply appreciate that I can count on strong fundraising support from progressive groups, labor unions, local small businesses, and my community's leaders,» Constantinides said.

They have both moved from addressing large rallies to going door - to - door and talking to smaller community groups.

Specifically, Klein's bill (S. 6343 / NYS Assembly same - as A.6442 - A / Cook) requires municipalities that sell, transfer, or lease land from a community garden for a different purpose to use a small portion (10 %) of the sale price to purchase or create a new garden, sustain another existing garden, or support local groups that maintain these gardens.

These communities, which reached the Alpine territories only in the Middle Ages, originated from small groups, sometimes even from single families of various origins, and since their foundation they have maintained a relative geographical and cultural isolation.

Now, a small group of researchers and organizations including AAAS and the Association of Public and Land - grant Universities (APLU), are trying to help break the knowledge their respective communities have free from such constraints.

Attracted to fringe scientists like the small and vocal group of climate skeptics, Republicans appear to be alienated from a mainstream scientific community that by and large doesn't share their political beliefs.

We are pleased to announce that the Company has partnered with NuHub, a collaborative group of public, private, academic, and community development groups working to maximize the economic and job creation impact of the nuclear renaissance on the Midstate of South Carolina, to compete for one of two federal grants from the U.S. Department of Energy (DOE) for small modular reactor (SMR) development.

The bipartisan group of 180 U.S. mayors, representing cities large and small in 42 states, resolve to make solar power a key element of their communities» energy plans and call on others to embrace clean energy from the sun.

The committee strongly encourages NSF AST to find a mechanism to obtain such advice, on a continuing basis, from a small group of experts representative of the community.

Using a grant from the Bill & Melinda Gates Foundation, the district hired a consultant, William McKersie, to work with a group of administrators and teachers who were tasked with researching the best situations for the smaller learning communities.

Heisler consulted with neighborhood groups and with the whole Pie Ranch community, now including several teachers at Mission and dozens of kids, before she sold her house and purchased a building at 25th Street and Mission, just a few blocks from the high school, and turned a small downstairs apartment into a café.

The comments come from current Teachers, Teaching Assistants, SEND co-ordinators, heads of house, inclusion managers and Form Group Tutors...: We used this in small groups in our new class every morning for a week, what a great start, everyone is still buzzing... Builds a strong sense of belonging to something special... your class... Encourages differences and similarities to recognised and valued... Hugely improves our efforts at inclusion... The students quickly came out of their shells and are blossoming... Reveals much of the nature of the students... Gets us buzzing as a group... Encourages participants to take part in their own game and go and find things out from others... brilliant ice breaker game... Helped to resolve a huge problem we had in getting students to gel... Switches the students brains on from the moment go... Helps to break down various barriers... Gives a big boost to developing important life skills... This gives a great insight and a fantastic array of examples, clues and hints as to the characters of each individual in the group... Helps participants learn some things about themselves... Helps participants learn some things about others... Helps you learn about the participants (you can be a player as well on some occasions)... Makes it easy to develop class rules of fairness and cooperation... Builds a sense of purpose... Creates a sense of community and togetherness... Brilliant, just brilliant... our school is buzziGroup Tutors...: We used this in small groups in our new class every morning for a week, what a great start, everyone is still buzzing... Builds a strong sense of belonging to something special... your class... Encourages differences and similarities to recognised and valued... Hugely improves our efforts at inclusion... The students quickly came out of their shells and are blossoming... Reveals much of the nature of the students... Gets us buzzing as a group... Encourages participants to take part in their own game and go and find things out from others... brilliant ice breaker game... Helped to resolve a huge problem we had in getting students to gel... Switches the students brains on from the moment go... Helps to break down various barriers... Gives a big boost to developing important life skills... This gives a great insight and a fantastic array of examples, clues and hints as to the characters of each individual in the group... Helps participants learn some things about themselves... Helps participants learn some things about others... Helps you learn about the participants (you can be a player as well on some occasions)... Makes it easy to develop class rules of fairness and cooperation... Builds a sense of purpose... Creates a sense of community and togetherness... Brilliant, just brilliant... our school is buzzigroup... Encourages participants to take part in their own game and go and find things out from others... brilliant ice breaker game... Helped to resolve a huge problem we had in getting students to gel... Switches the students brains on from the moment go... Helps to break down various barriers... Gives a big boost to developing important life skills... This gives a great insight and a fantastic array of examples, clues and hints as to the characters of each individual in the group... Helps participants learn some things about themselves... Helps participants learn some things about others... Helps you learn about the participants (you can be a player as well on some occasions)... Makes it easy to develop class rules of fairness and cooperation... Builds a sense of purpose... Creates a sense of community and togetherness... Brilliant, just brilliant... our school is buzzigroup... Helps participants learn some things about themselves... Helps participants learn some things about others... Helps you learn about the participants (you can be a player as well on some occasions)... Makes it easy to develop class rules of fairness and cooperation... Builds a sense of purpose... Creates a sense of community and togetherness... Brilliant, just brilliant... our school is buzzing...

However, using these two studies as the basis for policy is problematic for several reasons: the groups studied were very small, they came from single communities several decades ago, and both programs were far more intensive than the programs being contemplated today.

Waskowitz Environmental Leadership & Service (WELS) is a program for students who stand to benefit the most from the use of an active curriculum, a smaller more supportive learning community, alternative learning formats and a new peer group.

Facilitating a series of one - to - one or small group discussions, how members of a particular sub-group of students (the disengaged, high - achievers, young women, young men, or students not from the majority culture in the surrounding community, for example) are feeling about their learning experiences; or shaping a new initiative in the classroom or school.

The Saratoga Community Federal Credit Union (SCFCU) started as a small credit union formed by a group of teachers from the Saratoga Springs City School District in 1945 to better serve their banking needs.

Findings: From small groups of volunteers to citywide TNR programs, TNR is the only effective method for stabilizing and reducing community cat colonies.

Located just a few minutes from the small beach town of Coco, this beachside community is close to many adventure and nature activities, yet this peaceful home is tucked away on a private hilltop.Featuring 7 amazing bedroom suites with separate balconies, this home is perfect for groups of up to 20 people.

This 16 - room country inn in the traditional community of Yanahuara is perfectly scaled to the landscape and its environment. It's an excellent choice for families and small groups who want to be in touch with authentic Peruvian countryside. Far enough from the busy main highway to be quiet, it's only 15 minutes to the Ollantaytambo train station for your Machu Picchu train.

This article takes a look at what I call the «Massive Identity Crisis», or how the modern MMO paradigm has shifted away from the features that originally set the genre apart, moving from the persistent worlds and massive communities unique to MMOs in favor of segregating players into small - group instances using community - circumventing group finders in a way that makes modern MMOs more reminiscent of games like Diablo than of the games that made the genre great.

Dear Artists of Maine: Where can I find Artist Community (ies) I «m looking for a small house to buy that not too far from the sea in Southern Maine that have good painting artist group (s) that I can learn from or, and paint with.

Selected Group Exhibitions 2016 — «Faculty Exhibition», Evanston Art Center, Evanston, IL 2015 — «Wish List», Gallery Project, curated by Gloria Pritschet and Rocco DePietro, Toledo, Ohio and Ann Arbor, Michigan 2015 — «Roots», Linda Warren Projects, Chicago, IL 2015 — Noyes Cultural Arts Center, Evanston, IL 2015 — «Faculty Exhibition», Evanston Art Center, Evanston, IL 2014 — «National Contemporary Painting», Weatherhead Gallery, University of Saint Francis, Fort Wayne, Indiana 2013 — «31st Juried Art Show», Wilmette Public Library, Wimette, IL 2012 — «30th Juried Art Show», Wilmette Public Library, Wimette, IL 2012 — «Narrative Fragments», Quidley & Company, Boston, MA 2011 — «Juxtaposed», juried by Alyssa Monks, Six Summit Gallery, Ivoryton, CT 2011 — «Paintworks», Gowanus Ballroom, curated by Kristin Kunc, Courtney Jordan & Hyeseung Marriage - Song, Brooklyn, NY 2011 — «Space Invaders», co-curated by Virginia Rose and John Nickle, Rose Contemporary, Portland, ME 2011 — «Cinematic Bodies», curated by Jamie Adams, Zolla Lieberman Gallery, Chicago, IL 2010 — «Snow», XL Projects, Syracuse University Gallery, Syracuse, NY 2010 — «Women Painting Women», Robert Lange Studios Gallery, Charleston, SC 2010 — «Remnants», Fuse Gallery, New York, NY 2010 — «Highlights» Island Weiss Gallery, New York, NY 2010 — «Conceptually Sound», Medialia Rack and Hamper Gallery, New York, NY 2010 — «Chicago Art Fair», shown by Linda Warren Gallery in Chicago, Illinois 2010 — «Looks good on Paper», DFN Gallery, New York, NY 2009 — «Water / Bodies», Eden Rock Gallery, St. Barths, F.W.I. 2009 — «Summer Exhibition 2009», curated by Eric Fischl, Matthew Flowers, Anne Strauss, New York Academy of Art, NY, NY 2009 — «Old School», Jack the Pelican, Brooklyn, NY 2009 — Caldwell Snyder, San Francisco, CA 2008 — «Small Works», Sarah Bain Gallery, Anaheim, CA 2008 — «City Lights», George Billis Gallery, New York, NY 2008 — «Chicago Art Fair», shown by Linda Warren Gallery in Chicago, Illinois 2008 — «Take Home a Nude» Art Auction at Phillips de Pury & Company, New York, NY 2007 — «Summer Exhibition 2007», curated by Eric Fischl, Jenny Saville, Vincent Desiderio, New York Academy of Art, NY, NY 2007 — «Four Handed Lift: Advocacy, Art, Spirit and Community», Moti Hasson Gallery, New York, NY 2007 — «Small Works», Sarah Bain Gallery, Anaheim, CA 2008 — «Chicago Art Fair», shown by Linda Warren Gallery in Chicago, Illinois 2006 — «Contemporary Imaginings, The Howard A. and Judith Tullman Collection», Mobile Museum of Art, Mobile, Alabama 2006 — «Night of a Thousand Drawings», Group Show, Artist's Space, New York, NY 2006 — «AAF», shown by DFN Gallery, New York, NY 2006 — «Salon 2006», New York Academy of Art, New York, NY 2006 — «LA Art Fair», shown by Linda Warren Gallery in Chicago, Los Angeles, CA 2005 — «New Works», curated by Eric Fischl, Jane Gallery, St. Barthelemy, F.W.I. 2005 — «A Terrible Beauty: Figurative painting in the 21st Century», Grey McGear Modern, Santa Monica, CA 2005 — «Small Works», Sarah Bain Gallery, Brea, CA 2005 — «Cityscapes», Sarah Bain Gallery, Brea, CA 2005 — «Take Home a Nude» Art Auction at Phillips de Pury & Company, New York, NY 2005 — «Go Figure», George Billis Gallery, New York, NY 2004 — «Postcards from the Edge, Visual Aids Benefit», Brent Sikemma Gallery, New York, NY 2004 — «Night of a Thousand Drawings», Group Show, Artist's Space, New York, NY 2004 — «Points of Muse», Linda Warren Gallery, Chicago, IL 2004 — «Separate Visions», Sarah Bain Gallery, Brea, CA 2004 — «Still Life», Sarah Bain Gallery, Brea, CA 2004 — «27th Small Works Exhibition», New York, NY 2003 — «Space Invaders», curated by Peter Drake, Fish Tank Gallery, New York, NY 2003 — «26th Small Works Exhibition», New York, NY 2002 — «National Arts Club 26th Annual Student Show», National Arts Club, New York, NY

ATTENTION ALL ARTISTS: the Services for Artists Committee is hosting two informative community - building roundtable sessions that will allow you to meet with representatives from local and national institutions, artist - run centers, residency programs, and skilled professionals for your business and professional development in small group settings.

Last night over 100 amazing members of the NYC community showed up for our opening of Reuse Remixed, our first - ever exhibit featuring small works by a diverse group of artists from recipient organizations.

The display recreates a scene of when a small group of Cooper Union students and alumni from all three disciplines congregated in front of 41 Cooper Square to participate in a «read out» of «The Way Forward,» a 32 - page document published by Friends of Cooper Union that provided a palette of financial, academic and community building recommendations.

We'd invited a small bunch of regular collaborators to contribute to the issue as well as a group of printers from a Dutch arts community center called Knust to drive to Geneva and operate a couple of stencil printing machines.

, Gallery Joe, Philadelphia, PA 14th Annual Inliquid Benefit Auction, Gallery Joe Booth, Icebox Project Space, Crane Arts, Philadelphia, PA 2013 In Front of Strangers, I Sing: 72nd Annual Juried Exhibition, Woodmere Art Museum, Philadelphia, PA 2012 Transformations, Philadelphia Episcopal Cathedral, Philadelphia, PA All About Etchings, Chris Neptune Gallery, Washington, DC 2011 Something French, Art Gallery at City Hall, Philadelphia, PA Exhibition of Select Prints, Wayne Art Center, Wayne, PA 2010 Prints by Gallery Artists, Gallery Joe, Philadelphia, PA Selections from C.R. Ettinger Studio, 2000 - 2010, Pennsylvania Academy of the Fine Arts, Philadelphia, PA 2009 50 very small drawings, Gallery Joe, Philadelphia, PA 2008 The Figure Today, Jenkins Johnson Gallery, New York, NY The Figure Today, Jenkins Johnson Gallery, San Francisco, CA Fantastical Imaginings, Delaware Center for Contemporary Art, Wilmington, DE Group Show, Loyola University, Baltimore, MD 2007 Magical Realism, Abington Art Center, Jenkintown, PA 2006 Art on Paper 2006, Weatherspoon Art Museum, Greensboro, NC 2005 Telling Stories: The Narrative in Contemporary Art, Pennsylvania College of Art and Design, Lancaster, PA Collaboration As a Medium, Edison Gallery, Washington, DC (traveling Art Place, Baltimore MD and more sites) 2004 Figure Out: Drawing as Narrative, Gallery Joe, Philadelphia, PA 2002 25th Anniversary Exhibition, The Drawing Center, New York, NY 2001 Ten Contemporary Artists, 5 x 2, Allentown Art Museum, Allentown, PA 2000 Drawing With Color, Mangel Gallery, Philadelphia, PA When Reason Dreams: Drawings Inspired By the Visionary, the Fantastic, and the Unreal, Philadelphia Museum of Art, Philadelphia, PA Body Dismorphia, Hicks Art Center, Bucks County Community College, Newtown, PA curated by Jeanne Jaffe Allentown Art Museum, 27th Annual Juried Exhibition, Allentown, PA (Juror: Judith Tannenbaum, Curator, Rhode Island School of Design, Providence, RI) 1999 Biographies: Philadelphia Narratives, Institute of Contemporary Art, Univ. of Pennsylvania, Philadelphia, PA (catalog) Biographies: Philadelphia Narratives, Freedman Gallery, Albright College, Reading, PA (Nov. - Dec.)

Since its formation, KFTC has grown from a small group of concerned citizens to a large organization that builds power through community organizing.

We talk to people involved in three Friends of the Earth groups, on the potential for community - owned and managed renewables in Denmark, on the perfect plan for transitioning Estonia away from dirty oil shale, and on how local resistance and perseverance has turned a small Czech town into an example of the just transition we need to move away from dirty fossil fuels.

Attracted to fringe scientists like the small and vocal group of climate skeptics, Republicans appear to be alienated from a mainstream scientific community that by and large doesn't share their political beliefs.

The letter to Congress is signed by public and private organizations from every state, including community development organizations; nonprofit service providers; banks and credit unions; state and national trade associations and chambers of commerce, including the American Bankers Association and other groups representing thousands of members; affordable housing organizations; schools, universities and education nonprofits; city governments, state and local elected officials and agencies; and many other businesses, ranging from very large businesses to small, family - owned businesses.

So, as a part of trying to build the business for my last employer, I was trying to become more involved in the business community, getting to know folks and small business owners, and I was involved in some networking groups and things, and I was just finding, I was super-impressed with folks who could just take nothing and build something, folks who could kind of start from scratch, put together a business plan, have a dream, have a vision and create this viable business that supports them, their family, employees and give something to the community.

Ever since it emerged from Chicago's small startup community in 2008, Groupon has had nothing short of a spectacular story in terms of its growth: With estimated annual revenues of more than $ 4 billion after just three years of existence, the poster child for the «group buying» phenomenon is now one of the fastest - growing companies in recent memory.