Sentences with phrase «address social challenges»

Teachers choose from lessons in these evidence - based programs to prepare students for positive interactions inside and outside of the classroom, and to address social challenges as they arise.

As we become a more global company and expand our operations outside the U.S., we know that we must play an even bigger leadership role in helping address social challenges.

But those schools that encourage data management expertise will be able to use and interpret their data to understand learning trends better, and enable them to address social challenges.»

Founded by Dr. Suzie Carmack, PhD, MFA, MEd, ERYT CWBE is dedicated to educating the public about the negative and long - term effects of work - and school - related stress, sitting disease, compassion fatigue and burnout, and to promoting the healing well - being benefits of mindfulness, mindful movement, and compassionate communication practices to address these social challenges.

I applaud her efforts to address the social challenges that youth face because of their weight, such as teasing and bullying, and to provide support to children and adolescents who often face these battles alone.»

Only governments can provide public goods and address social challenges on a national scale.

This series will look more narrowly at the opportunities, challenges and projects within the space that are specifically focused on addressing a social challenge.

If this movement was to collapse under its own contradictions and corruptions, and a peaceful pushback could be engineered, then climate action and the green businesses that are driving it are perfectly positioned to build a new economic model that both tackles the environmental crisis and addresses the social challenges that gave rise to the new populists in the first place.

The Fitzroy Valley experience clearly shows the transformative potential of community empowerment, community control and genuine engagement in addressing social challenges confronting Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander communities.

Not exact matches

A team under Airbnb's global head of social impact, Kim Rubey, was already working on a program to house refugee relief workers in Greece, Macedonia and Serbia, but to address the product challenge, Gebbia formed a new team under his Samara studio that was ultimately spun out and called the Human team.

Last year, a team of four students from New York University's Abu Dhabi campus and I presented in front of a panel of judges at the Hult Prize, which awards $ 1 million in seed funding to innovative startup ideas that address a global social challenge.

The Hult Prize is an annual competition that awards $ 1 million in seed funding to innovative startup ideas that address a global social challenge.

And the truth is, we need to plan how we're going to address the complex set of economic, social and political challenges we face.

Exxon has argued against all the other shareholder proposals as well, including a «policy to explicitly prohibit discrimination based on sexual orientation and gender identity»; a policy articulating Exxon's «respect for and commitment to the human right to water»; «a report discussing possible long term risks to the company's finances and operations posed by the environmental, social and economic challenges associated with the oil sands»; a report of «known and potential environmental impacts» and «policy options» to address the impacts of the company's «fracturing operations»; a report of recommendations on how Exxon can become an «environmentally sustainable energy company»; and adoption of «quantitative goals... for reducing total greenhouse gas emissions.»

The Home Project is Zillow Group's signature social impact program that aims to address challenges around housing insecurity.

• A product / services that addresses a large market need (not a nice to have) • Team that can execute who has a solid understanding of business and challenges • Validation / proof (de-risk) • Some are seeking social impact or to balance impact with profits The Investment Process • Pitch deck is bare essential • Meet and greet is only the first step • All investment basics must be met • Due diligence review • Terms negotiated • Close (in person) What are investors looking for?

He launched that challenge right from his first interaction with the class at the program orientation dinner, as he addressed a subject he is particularly passionate about: social responsibility.

Either remote or in - person, Brian Honigman will work with you or your leadership over a group of hours in a three month period to help address challenges, opportunities and areas of growth with social media, content marketing, personal branding and thought leadership.

Ventures to Address Global Challenges — Princeton, NJ Techonomy — Tucson, AZ Global Clean Energy Congress — Calgary, AB Mashable Social Good Summit — New York, NY Postcode Lottery Green Challenge — Amsterdam, The Netherlands COMMON Pitch — Boulder, CO Colloquium on Education, Science and Technology in African Development — Princeton, NJ National Collegiate Inventors and Innovators Alliance: Open Minds Exhibition — Washington, DC

Ian Simmons is Co-Founder and Principal of Blue Haven Initiative, where he oversees a portfolio focused on investments that generate competitive financial returns and address social and environmental challenges.

I will be sharing new approaches and tools that address the many challenges faced by organizations in marketing, sales, social business, and content strategy planning.

And in truth prudent privatization could address more effectively «social justice» issues than single - payer schemes given our demographic and debt challenges.

Gods will is for us humans today to evolved to a level of conciousness that will prepare us for the challenges of our future survival, Scientists now predicts of hardships in the future due to over population and changes to the natural environment.and that is happening now with activists through out the world are reminding us of protecting nature.That is why we need a phsychological revolution to hasten the evolution of consciousness that will address the problems.Ideological and philosophical enlightenment had the past great minds to develop ideas and belief because God sent them to reality in their times.Abraham, Jesus, Mohammad, Buddha, and many other religious leaders to teach humanity the doctrines that God willed to be appropriate and applicable in those periods of their existence, Also great philosophers in another dimension of social involvement were born to interprete and connect philosophically as the second element of our conscience, Kant, Marx and countless of them also were born.To complete the triangular structure or dimension of our conscience is knowledge.

That which is truly prophetic and radical is not that which challenges individual social and political realities (although these certainly do need to be addressed), but that which challenges our underlying worldview.

The Lodi Winegrape Commission created Lodi Rules ™, California's first third - party - certified sustainable winegrowing program, which recently won Gov. Brown's annual Governor's Environmental and Economic Leadership Award (GEELA)-- the highest environmental award in the state of California — for its mission to address major environmental, economic and social challenges facing California's agricultural industry.

Sustainability standards address many of the world's biggest environmental and social challenges, and they have real impact.

But Creating Shared Value is more than this, it about identifying the environmental and social challenges where our business and society intersect, as it is these challenges that we can most substantively help to address.

The OECD (Organisation for Economic Cooperation and Development) involves 30 leading industrialised economies (note 2)(not including China or Russia) that «work together to address the economic, social and environmental challenges of globalisation.»

Especially when children exhibit challenging behaviors, adults want to know exactly how to address these situations with strategies that promote positive behavior, good social - emotional development and increased self - esteem.

PFC's goal is to help women and men find answers and get the support they need to make important medical decisions and address the medical, emotional, social and economic challenges infertility can present.

Five Acres School is an intensive therapeutic learning environment for children K - 10 with academic, emotional, behavioral and social challenges which are best addressed with an alternative educational setting.

Bill Brindley (BillBrindley.com) discusses how mobile, social, and big data are changing the ways we address global challenges like...

This perception needs to be addressed and challenged in school physical education (PE) according to research funded by the Economic and Social Research Council (ESRC), which shows how school provision could make use of visual approaches in developing young people's critical learning about the body.

While addressing journalists, the Special Adviser to the Governor on Education, Mr. Obafela Bank - Olemoh, said the project will foster necessary skills to create sustainable solutions to social challenges and create employment opportunities.

In her address, Mrs Maryam Uwais, Special Advisor to the President on Social Investments, said that objective of the meeting was to showcase the current NHGSFP; its concept, process and challenges to generate the highest level of political commitment.

The President of the Archdiocesan Laity, Mr. Steve Olasupo in his welcome address while decrying various social vices and problems militating against various families across the world however recommended a more conscious and structured approach and formation, promotion and sustenance of family values and Basic Christian Community (BBC), in tackling the challenges confronting families across the globe.

Proposing to address the challenges of homelessness and a lack of affordable housing, Cuomo called for a financial and spiritual commitment to rebuild the state's social and physical infrastructure.

The comment split opinion on the social media with some people expressing support for the President and others accusing his administration of failing to take appropriate steps to address the country's challenges.

«While it is understandable that unemployment, illiteracy, radicalization, negative peer group influence, substance abuse and erosion of family and moral values are social factors that underline criminal tendency, the reality remains that the task of addressing these challenges is that of parents, community and the state».

«The fact that 25.4 percent of New Yorkers are obese is a reminder that we need to do more to address the health needs of populations that face the most significant social, economic, and health challenges.

Further, previous lawsuits challenging the state's anti-smoking laws showed that state officials can tailor regulations to address social problems, the judge noted.

It provides a brief overview of key socio - ethical issues and discusses the application of social justice to address the challenges.

Britz discusses social justice as a moral norm for addressing ethical challenges in the global information society, seen as a continuation of relationships altered by information and communication technologies (ICT).

And there are other social challenges, such as poverty reduction, that need to be addressed simultaneously, Guan adds.

«So it's an ideal challenge for interdisciplinary research» that addresses all three of the key systems at work (natural, built, social) and their interactions across different types of hazards.

The research highlights the important role that big data, including streams from social media and environmental sensors, could play in addressing health challenges, Ram said.

Although I am annoyed that the majority of the posts seem to celebrate a very narrow representation of femininity, my real bitterness comes from the systemic challenges that these posts are working to address, and from seeing so many young female scientists compelled to turn to their personal social media pages to try to correct the system's failures.

«We were drawn to this collaboration because in spite of the different environments, cultures, histories, climates and identities of the two regions, we were asking the same kinds of questions about human capacities to address challenging climate conditions,» says lead author Margaret C. Nelson, President's Professor in Arizona State University's School of Human Evolution and Social Change.

The meeting's participants also addressed social and political implications of global scientific challenges, including the impact of the Arab Spring movement and reverberations from Japan's Fukushima nuclear disaster.

PNNL scientists also have contributed intellectual frameworks that influenced IPCC assessments and the broader climate change community in areas as diverse as integrated assessment, technology's role in mitigation, carbon dioxide capture and storage, and social science contributions in addressing climate change challenges.