Sentences with phrase «tipping point community»

Mimi and Peter Haas Fund Silicon Schools Fund * Tipping Point Community UBS Wayne and Gladys Valley Foundation * The Walton Family Foundation *

Elena came to the Fund from Tipping Point Community, where she worked as a senior program officer to support nonprofits fighting poverty in the Bay Area.

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If there is one area in which the children as a group do seem to differ somewhat, in emotional reactions, from the children that I meet in wealthier communities — and even here I would be very cautious not to overstate this — it is in their sensitivity to other children's moments of anxiety and their acute awareness of emotional fragility and of the tipping point between exhilaration and depression.

Both of these instances are serving as a sort of «tipping point» in a long line of injustices and abuses within the community.

We seek to elucidate the mechanistic underpinnings of state transitions and tipping points through multiscale characterizations of networks within model systems (organisms and communities).

With this in mind, here are 4 tips for using eLearning as a launch point for community learning experiences:

For all these reasons, and despite my own affection for the idea of all - charter systems, the charter community in most cities is failing to achieve the goals assumed by the tipping point strategy.

By Steve Windwalker I know there are lots of different reasons why you read Kindle Nation: the freebies, the news, the tips, and the fun — without putting too fine a point on it — of being part of a dynamic community of the world's greatest readers.

«Greenhill is one of the community's most visible and effective animal welfare agencies, and we're very pleased to be able to contribute to their cause,» said Veronica Carrai, Director of Tipping Point.

The Tipping Point Foundation investment will help Greenhill Humane Society provide a higher level of care for the animals while at the same time improving access to Greenhill's programs and services for people in the community.

Thinking about it, Black & White was the first game that led me to seek out online communities - joining forums to pick up tips on the finer points of Creature care and the best way of getting through that bastard of a final level.

We can no longer exclude the possibility that our collective actions will trigger tipping points, risking abrupt and irreversible consequences for human communities and ecological systems.

The polar researchers who are now feverishly evaluating the great melting haven't yet pushed the entire scientific community to the edge of despair, though they have managed to inspire a great deal of dark muttering about positive feedbacks and tipping points.

(Earthjustice attorney Deborah Goldberg also defended the rights of those communities in a precedent - setting legal victory, something state officials highlighted as a tipping point in their decision to ban fracking.)

To this end, we organized a workshop entitled «Tipping Points in the Earth System» at the British Embassy, Berlin, which brought together 36 leading experts, and we conducted an expert elicitation that involved 52 members of the international scientific community.

When the scientific community states that we are already locked into climate change in the near future because of the pollution we have already emitted, it is a logical conclusion to the idea of a «point of no return» or «tipping point».

The dramatic growth of the legal IT start - up community has reached the tipping point where it is shifting mainstream thinking.

While Reddit loans offers an active, engaged community and can offer some tips to point you in the right direction, it should be just one of many means you use to manage your student debt.

Family Strengthening at the Tipping Point: Emerging Transformation in the Human Services Field (PDF - 279 KB) Family Strengthening Policy Center, National Human Services Assembly (2007) Describes advances at national and community levels in human services organizations to integrate place - based, family - strengthening approaches into policies, programs, and practices.