Sentences with phrase «project supporting women»

I have set up my own charitable project in Malawi called Growing Babies: The Little Blossoms Project supporting women and babies in poverty with infant massage and safe motherhood.

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She is founder of Project Rachel, the main US organisation supporting women who have had abortions.

The first joint project with CARE Burundi was established in 2010, with support from the Howard Buffett Foundation, to train ex-combatant women in rice production.

«However, there is still much to be done and so I would encourage all Oxford's sportsmen and women to spread the word about the project and, if they haven't yet supported it, would ask them to consider doing so.»

UN International Women's Day - information for children Faces of Survivors: Voices Reclaimed - photo project Stop Violence Against Women (Safe Schools for Girls)- Amnesty International Women Thrive Worldwide - ask your (US) senator to support the I - VAWA (International Violence Against Women Act) Family Violence Prevention Fund - coaching boys into men

A large component of the project comprised of a breastfeeding peer support program which consisted of prenatal visits, hospital visits, home visits and phone calls with anticipatory breastfeeding guidance for up to an infants» first year of life to ascertain that woman in the study will breastfeed for longer durations to establish a link between DHA and neurological development.

The coalition has been awarded three grants over the past five years: Colorado Department of Public Health & Environment Cancer, Cardiovascular Disease and Pulmonary Disease Grant with the goal of increasing the number of policies and practices that promote and support breastfeeding - friendly environments; Business Case for Breastfeeding Grant to educate employers on how to comply with the Workplace Accommodations for Nursing Mothers Act and a Women Infants and Children (WIC) Local Agency Breastfeeding Special Project Grant.

To top it all off, this is a woman - owned start up that supports Project Peanut Butter (feeding malnourished children in Malawi and Sierra Leone).

The money raised benefits the Women's Cancer Programs of the Entertainment Industry Foundation (EIF) which include Lee Laboratories, the EIF Breast Cancer Biomarker Discovery Project and Cancer Support Communities.

* Day 1 Monday, February 22, 2016 4:00 PM -5:00 PM Registration & Networking 5:00 PM — 6:00 PM Welcome Reception & Opening Remarks Kevin de Leon, President pro Tem, California State Senate Debra McMannis, Director of Early Education & Support Division, California Department of Education (invited) Karen Stapf Walters, Executive Director, California State Board of Education (invited) 6:00 PM — 7:00 PM Keynote Address & Dinner Dr. Patricia K. Kuhl, Co-Director, Institute for Learning & Brain Sciences * Day 2 Tuesday February 23, 2016 8:00 AM — 9:00 AM Registration, Continental Breakfast, & Networking 9:00 AM — 9:15 AM Opening Remarks John Kim, Executive Director, Advancement Project Camille Maben, Executive Director, First 5 California Tom Torlakson, State Superintendent of Public Instruction, California Department of Education 9:15 AM — 10:00 AM Morning Keynote David B. Grusky, Executive Director, Stanford's Center on Poverty & Inequality 10:00 AM — 11:00 AM Educating California's Young Children: The Recent Developments in Transitional Kindergarten & Expanded Transitional Kindergarten (Panel Discussion) Deborah Kong, Executive Director, Early Edge California Heather Quick, Principal Research Scientist, American Institutes for Research Dean Tagawa, Administrator for Early Education, Los Angeles Unified School District Moderator: Erin Gabel, Deputy Director, First 5 California (Invited) 11:00 AM — 12:00 PM «Political Will & Prioritizing ECE» (Panel Discussion) Eric Heins, President, California Teachers Association Senator Hannah - Beth Jackson, Chair of the Women's Legislative Committee, California State Senate David Kirp, James D. Marver Professor of Public Policy, University of California, Berkeley Assemblyman Kevin McCarty, Chairman of Subcommittee No. 2 of Education Finance, California State Assembly Moderator: Kim Pattillo Brownson, Managing Director, Policy & Advocacy, Advancement Project 12:00 PM — 12:45 PM Lunch 12:45 PM — 1:45 PM Lunch Keynote - «How Children Succeed: Grit, Curiosity, and the Hidden Power of Character» Paul Tough, New York Times Magazine Writer, Author 1:45 PM — 1:55 PM Break 2:00 PM — 3:05 PM Elevating ECE Through Meaningful Community Partnerships (Panel Discussion) Sandra Guiterrez, National Director, Abriendo Purtas / Opening Doors Mary Ignatius, Statewide Organize of Parent Voices, California Child Care Resource & Referral Network Jacquelyn McCroskey, John Mile Professor of Child Welfare, University of Southern California School of Social Work Jolene Smith, Chief Executive Officer, First 5 Santa Clara County Moderator: Rafael González, Director of Best Start, First 5 LA 3:05 PM — 3:20 PM Closing Remarks Camille Maben, Executive Director, First 5 California * Agenda Subject to Change

I have been able to set up a charitable project in Malawi supporting over 450 women and babies in poverty through infant massage and safe motherhood programs.

These projects support pregnant women with HIV testing and counseling, improved health care, anti-retroviral drugs, and counseling on infant feeding options.

The goal of the project is to gather Real Stories of Real Babies into an oral history of cloth diapers and to connect our era of cloth diapering with internet support to an earlier era when women told one another face - to - face how to diaper their babies.

She is a Commissioner on the Ellen Story Commission on Postpartum Depression and also co-founded the Every Mother Project, an organization that provides training and support for women's health professionals around addressing perinatal emotional complications.

Vicky Fitzgerald & Rhianon Pinkham - Both these students will use infant massage training to support the Little Blossoms Project in Malawi by teaching and training women in poverty.

Current and Past Projects: Breast pump rental, purchase, and supplies; FREE walk - in breastfeeding clinic during regular business hours; monthly prenatal breastfeeding classes and monthly breastfeeding support group (support group starting January 2015); collaboration with Central Kansas Breastfeeding Coalition; annual community women's event in August for celebration of World Breastfeeding Week.

And it's not just refuges that are at risk - Portsmouth City Council currently plans to cut # 180,000 from its Early Intervention Project, which supports women and children in the community.

In the race to win the contract for the Aqueduct race track project, a group of more than 25 minority and women - owned business organizations have thrown their support behind the SL Green / Hard Rock development team, according to a release sent today.

The project is sponsored by Housing Visions.It is partnering with the YWCA of Niagara to provide 13 units, and support services, to formerly homeless women and their children.

Through a largely chronological history of Britain's relationship with the European project, Cato the Younger tells of not only the guilt of the fifteen men and women named above, but also of the «supporting cast» that includes the likes of Mr James Goldsmith, Mr George Osborne, the Barclay Brothers, Sir Edward Heath, Michael Gove and a range of backbench Conservative MPs.

«To support more opportunities for the girl child, especially those in the rural areas and those who were not opportune to go to school, we are planning on setting up six Women Development Centres to make it easier for them to access projects and programmes set up by government to better their living conditions», she said.

Rather than speculate as to how low a ceiling this places on Tory support, and whether it is lowest among ethnic minorities, northerners or women, Labour should be seeking to complete the decontamination project that the last general election confirmed we require.

GOP gubernatorial candidate Rick Lazio's latest Web video features man (and woman)- on - the - street interviews near the site of the proposed mosque with New Yorkers who oppose the project and support his call for AG Andrew Cuomo to investigate the $ 100 million project's funding (when and if any funding shows up).

Documenting the experiences of women worldwide who are living with HIV / AIDS, the project is supported by US fashion designer, Kenneth Cole, and human rights activist, Bianca Jagger, and backed by the United Nations Population Fund.

The state's Associated General Contractors says it supports the policy of encouraging businesses operated by minorities and women, or MWBEs, on public projects, but it still questions whether the program is run fairly.

This awarding of contracts may mark the largest single project ever granted the M / WBE business program in New York State, an organization that supports the economic and entrepreneurial development of women and minorities.

He advocated the participation and support of critical stakeholders such as women and youths that would be engaged in the course of the project, saying the project would bring both human and infrastructural development to the state.

The affinity groups conduct projects in K — 12 schools, provide networking opportunities and mentoring to engineering students, advise companies on best practices to support women engineers, sponsor special lectures and forums, and organize social outings.

«We're different to traditional non-profits that have long cycles of grants and projects, and feedback that happens over years rather than days or weeks,» says Shivani Garg Patel, co-founder of Samahope, which raises funds to support individual doctors in developing countries, especially those who are treating women and children.

In addition to providing comprehensive care to patients, the Center today also serves as an educational training site for medical and nursing students, and supports research projects that work to expand the scientific understanding of women's health issues.

Clairice Lloyd, CRA, is responsible for Medical Center program project proposals and awards, including the Cancer Center Support Grant (CCSG), Georgetown - Howard Universities Center for Clinical and Translational Science (GHUCCTS), Prostate, Lung, Colorectal, and Ovarian (PLCO) Cancer Screening, and the Women's Interagency HIV Study (WIHS), as well as the Neurology Basic Science Department.

Supported by a three - year grant from the National Science Foundation's ADVANCE program, the project will adapt and disseminate promising institutional practices for assisting women scientists and engineers in making this transition.

The Centre for Research and Education on Violence Against Women and Children (CREVAWC) has received $ 300,000 from the Ontario Government to support sexual violence and harassment training projects for campus...

It supports a variety of social and environmental projects large and small (building schools, supporting women and children, and even sponsoring a local football team).

The online campaign is being organized to support the work of Project Air, the only organization in the world that uses Ashtanga to help girls and women overcome the devastating effects of genocidal rape, sexual violence and HIV / AIDS.

BJJ Mums is a project whose goal is to support and extend Brazilian Jiu Jitsu as well as to encourage its practice amongst women who became mums.

A soft, warm green, inspired by fields of alliums that Annie saw in Ethiopia, grown by women farmers who are supported by Oxfam's Ethiopian Seed Project.

Project Curve Appeal specializes in uniting plus size women, all respectable trendy vendors that cater to them, men that love them, size acceptance groups that support women with Curve Appeal and other organizations with similar missions through our events, conventions and social media sites.

This project was supported by Grant Number 2015 - TA - AX - K012 awarded by the Office on Violence Against Women, US.

Greta Gerwig who wrote and directed «Lady Bird,» which won Best Motion Picture - Musical or Comedy, noted that «it's been such an incredible year for women in film both as actors and also writers and directors and producers and people who are really coming to the forefront to tell their stories about the world as they know it from where they are standing, and I think that the response to these projects and the support that these projects have gotten and the way that audiences are going to see them or watching them in their homes, I think all of this just makes it so much easier for the next crop of filmmakers who want to tell stories about women.»

«In support of the women & men who are leading this fight, I will be adopting the Inclusion Rider for all projects produced by my company...»

Sundance Institute and The Harnisch Foundation joined forces to launch Catalyst Women, a groundbreaking new program offering creative investors the opportunity to directly support women - led film projWomen, a groundbreaking new program offering creative investors the opportunity to directly support women - led film projwomen - led film projects!

To connect film financiers dedicated to women artists with highly anticipated Sundance Institute — supported feature and documentary projects.

0:00 — Intro 10:20 — Headlines: Woman Sues Over Drive Trailer, Werner Herzog to Play Villain in One Shot, Disney to Re-Release Four More Movies in 3D, Tower Heist to Get Comcast VOD Release 33:45 — Review: The Ides of March 56:00 — Review: Real Steel 1:21:45 — Trailer Trash: Young Adult 1:26:55 — Other Stuff We Watched: Catching Hell, The Real Rocky, Halloween II, Blood Feast, A Nightmare on Elm Street 2: Freddy's Revenge, A Nightmare on Elm Street 3: Dream Warriors, The Innocents, Pulp Fiction, Jackie Brown, Black Sunday aka The Mask of Satan, Black Sabbath, The Blair Witch Project, The Living Corpse aka Dracula in Pakistan, Horror of Dracula, The Lion King, The Beaver, The Company Men, Pee - wee's Big Adventure, Miracle, Charlie and the Chocolate Factory, Submarine, Mimic, George Harrison: Living in the Material World 2:23:00 — Junk Mail: Supporting Filmmakers You Like, The Disney Vault, LOTR Theatrical vs. Extended Editions, Fantasy Films Piggybacking on Harry Potter, Henry Rollins and Kobe Bryant, Mathematical Equation for Determining the Best Directors, Friend in Me Remix 2:57:40 — This Week's DVD Releases 2:59:30 — Outro

Other Awards Gala honorees were Allison Janney, who won the Spotlight Award, Actress for her role in «I, Tonya,»; «Wonder Woman» star Gal Gadot (Rising Star Award, Actress), who told her husband that she loved him in Hebrew during her thank you speech (Ani ohevet otcha); «Darkest Hour» star Gary Oldman (Desert Palm Achievement Award, Actor); «The Big Sick» lead Holly Hunter (Career Achievement Award); Mary J. Blige, feted with the Breakthrough Performance Award for her supporting role in «Mudbound»; Sam Rockwell, honored with the Spotlight Award, Actor for his performance in «Three Billboards Outside Ebbing, Missouri»; «Lady Bird» lead Saoirse Ronan (Desert Palm Achievement Award, Actress); «The Florida Project's» Willem Dafoe (Icon Award); and «Call Me By Your Name» star Timothée Chalamet, who took home the Rising Star Award, Actor.

The women had gathered for a brunch that Monáe was hosting for her «Fem the Future» project to support women in the entertainment industry.

Together, Sundance Institute and The Harnisch Foundation launched Catalyst Women, a groundbreaking new program offering creative investors the opportunity to directly support women - led projects seeking finanWomen, a groundbreaking new program offering creative investors the opportunity to directly support women - led projects seeking finanwomen - led projects seeking financing.

«In support of the women & men who are leading this fight, I will be adopting the Inclusion Rider for all projects produced by my company Outlier Society,» he posted on Instagram Wednesday.

Coming off a Foreign Language Oscar win for A Fantastic Woman, writer / director Sebastián Lelio is already back on the festival circuit in support of his latest project, Disobedience.

In support of the women & men who are leading this fight, I will be adopting the Inclusion Rider for all projects produced by my company Outlier Society.