Sentences with phrase «powerful community group»
To make its point about being close to de Blasio, the group gave its announcement the not - so - subtle headline: «Powerful Community Group and de Blasio Supporter Endorses Walrond for Congress from the 13th District.»
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«The disintegration of the Soviet Union in 1991 spawned thousands of powerful crime gangs — collectively known as the Russian mafia — and some of these groups, officials warn, are establishing bases among emigre communities in the United States, particularly in South Brooklyn.»
Do a personal or group study around Forgive Us: Confessions of a Compromised Faith by Soong - Chan Rah, Mae Elise Cannon, Lisa Sharon Harper, and Troy Jackson This powerful book provides historical information, reflection, and prayers around Christian complicity in sins against God's creation, indigenous people, African Americans and people of color, women, the LGBTQ community, immigrants, Jews and Muslims.
There are a gazillion buzzwords out there like «authentic» and «missional» and»em ergent» this or that but really, I have yet to see anything capbable of transforming the politics of power and privelege into, well, into a group of believers living in the world whose love for God and one another is lived in a way so real and so powerful that they become a transformational presence in their community.
This working together in preventive education not only lightens the burdens for both groups, it establishes that close sense of community that is a powerful resource for health and against illness.
But I think when kids can have that experience of feeling like they're part of a team, group, or community — in school or in camp — it is enormously powerful and positive for them.
The community right to buy will be a powerful option for neighbourhoods and community groups that want to take on assets, and that will be backed by money.
This is shaping up to be a showdown between the developer, The Related Companies (and other powerful developers with similar interests) who will be backed by the Bloomberg administration and a coalition of Bronx elected officials and community groups.
Powerful new partnerships with the common aim of achieving a more environmentally and economically sustainable future can be forged by community action groups and local authorities - which often regard each other with mutual suspicion and mistrust according to social scientists.
Good government groups hail participatory budgeting as a powerful tool to increase civic participation and community engagement.
In that time, environmental and community groups turned the 124 - mile pipeline, which would have connected gas from Pennsylvania's robust fracking industry into a network of pipelines that terminate in Schoharie County, into a powerful symbol of the fossil fuel industry that causes climate change.
The most powerful opponents of the energy highway are protest groups and local elected officials from communities all along some of the earlier proposed routes.
With a recent K23 Career Development Award from the National Institutes of Health (NIH), Johnson is investigating whether group singing training with older adults in residential retirement communities will improve the structure of the larynx, giving the adults stronger, more powerful voices.
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As a part of the FriendFinder Network, JFF offers access to thousands of registered members, and powerful tools for making connections within the Jewish community, like blogs, interest groups, and an online magazine.
Nov. 15, 2 p.m. ET: Powerful Partnerships: Creating Community Coalitions for District Reform The Syracuse City School District and Say Yes to Education have launched an innovative partnership intended to link public, private, and nonprofit community groups in support of the 19,000 - student Community Coalitions for District Reform The Syracuse City School District and Say Yes to Education have launched an innovative partnership intended to link public, private, and nonprofit community groups in support of the 19,000 - student community groups in support of the 19,000 - student district.
Abstract: During the last decades, Village Savings and Loans groups (VSL) have been consolidated as a powerful tool for the generation of economic alternatives, strengthening of the social fabric and recovery of supportive relationships in vulnerable communities.
The CFE, which had begun as a modest public - interest group in 1993 by Robert Jackson, then president of one of the city's 32 community school boards, and Michael Rebell, the attorney for the same school board, had grown into an impressively powerful education lobbying organization.
Chris Grant, Chief Executive at Sported, said: «Sporteducate's results prove how powerful sport and community groups can be in transforming young lives when given the right support and resources.
The Pittsburgh Interfaith Network was featured, with director Jamaal Craig talking about how Pittsburgh organizing groups have built a powerful political base that is beginning to win community schools.
The opportunities provided by community schools can be grouped into three broad areas: powerful learning, integrated health and social supports, and authentic family and community engagement.
Although a powerful analytical tool, Rasmussen and Stephan's (2008) framework is limited in the assumption that the group being analyzed is already a community.
NEW YORK STATE In New York State, the Alliance for Quality Education and other community organizations are fighting against a powerful group of hedge - fund managers bent on privatizing the state's education system.
It is beginning to look as though the Chicago Teachers Union, allied with Chicago parents, students and community groups, are powerful enough to make a good start.
Californians Together is a statewide advocacy coalition of powerful organizations from all segments of the education community including: teachers, administrators, board members, parents and civil rights non-profit groups.
CPS has been changing its discipline code in large part because of a powerful student - led campaign by Voices of Youth in Chicago Education (VOYCE), with the support of its affiliate community - based groups.
Typically, they are not community - based but are run by charter school management companies, backed by hedge fund groups and other powerful sectors of American society.
This is especially true in animal welfare, where the powerful emotional connections people have with companion animals are critical to getting pets adopted and inspiring community members to volunteer, foster, and donate to shelters and rescue groups.
In an equally powerful and transformative program, Griffin curated an ongoing artist - led publication developed with various community groups called Tate Modern and You.
Are the taxpayers of the American family, acting alone, to become responsible for the problems now presented to the human community by the greed of a small group of rich and powerful people worldwide?
They've written letters to the government demanding that Ottawa stop a swarm of activist groups backed by foreign billionaires from hijacking — as the prime minister himself put it — the hearings over the Canadian Northern Gateway pipeline that would carry our oil from Alberta to B.C. Canadians have been calling into radio shows and writing blogs, and spreading the word in their communities about the fact that this crucial decision over Canada's national energy policy is being infiltrated by what are essentially the well - paid lobbyists of wealthy and powerful foreign interests.
What has changed are a grouping of subtle but powerful features, most of which started as staples in the custom ROM community years ago, and many others introduced or popularized by various other Android manufacturers.
Mediachain has joined the likes of OpenBazaar and Blockstack and joined the community of Blockchain startups backed by some of the most powerful venture capitalists in Silicon Valley including Union Square Venture, Andreessen Horowitz, and RRE Ventures — as well as Digital Currency Group, LDV Capital, Alexis Ohanian, William Mougayar, Kanyi Maqubela, David Lee, Mathieu Drouin and Brian Message.
Another powerful tool on Facebook that is important to success are Facebook groups to build a community around people who use you.
The connections I've made through the chamber and Envision Scottsdale, Scottsdale Citizens for Today and Tomorrow, and Scottsdale Leadership have been extremely powerful for our association because now these influential groups know who we are and how much we care about the economic vitality, sustainability, and environmental health of our communities.