Sentences with phrase «as community centers»

Schools serve as community centers, provide stability to families, and employ millions of teachers.

While, in general, suburban districts have had much success gaining support for construction projects and building improvements by promoting schools as community centers, most city districts have not.

Libraries also serve as community centers for our seniors.

Some local governments might consider buying a building as a community center.

This will be part of the bigger movement where libraries become even more active as community centers offering a variety of activities and in - house resources.

Under the new policy, «private non-profit houses of worship are now eligible for disaster assistance as community centers, without regard to their secular or religious nature».

Our staff and our patrons take pride, I think, in the fact that we are an independent bookstore and a part of a university that values its bookstore as a community center.

-LSB-...] As community centers, libraries also reach out to local writers.

Schools can be redesigned to also serve as community centers that provide health and social services for families, as well as counseling and parenting classes.

Levine was particularly concerned with the federations» funding of hospitals, defense agencies, and recreational institutions such as community centers at the expense of Jewish education.

The Park District is strongly considering the site for use as a community center with corporate offices, senior activities and a preschool.

The complex provides such amenities as a community center with a great room, hobby and craft studios, theater, game room, gourmet kitchen, fitness center, technology center, learning center, a patio with a BBQ center and outdoor lounging areas.

WP GLIMCHER (NYSE: WPG) is a retail REIT and a recognized leader in the ownership, management, acquisition and development of retail properties, including mixed use, open - air and enclosed regional malls as well as community centers.

The result has been several precious families coming to our body, a host of kids coming up the hill to our AWANA program where they can be loved and learn about Jesus and a group of people form India who use our church as their community center.

The town of Sennett is looking to repurpose the shuttered Harriet Tubman Residential Center and the 150 acres it sits on as a community center and a possible new site for the Cayuga County Fair.

Schools will leverage online learning for academics, which means they will be able to act as community centers in essence and focus far more on providing well - kept facilities that students want to attend with great face - to - face supports, high - quality meals, and a range of athletic, musical, and artistic programs — things that receive short shrift all too often today.

«Therefore, the challenge in an urban center is to change around the priorities of a community where education is not a top priority, and then to articulate that in such a way that it starts to gain enough priority that [residents] can begin to view the schools as a community center where they can become involved with each other and not just with schools.

Looking out for an opportunity of working as a community center director with an established social organization where I get a chance to use my managerial skills to watch over the administration of the association.

You enter a large cinder block building, once owned by Transcendental Meditation, now used as a community center.

Make fliers featuring your Web address, and post them in places such as community centers and college campuses, where potential visitors are likely to go.

Two Barrington residents, backed by a group that wanted to use the building as a community center, had sued to stop its destruction.

The program has two aspects, and is focused on the Unified Education Centers (Centros de Educação Unificados or CEU), schools for children 0 - 14 years old which also act as community centers offering sports and cultural activities to the residents of the neighborhoods in which they are installed.

Fariña was already proposing space solutions months ago, suggesting at a public forum that real estate developers be required to build early childhood education centers that would also serve as community centers for middle school students.

Executive Director, Caleb Dolan addressed the significant investment that KIPP has made in the Boston community, stating that KIPP's commitment to use the school as a community center as well as an educational institution will benefit residents of that neighborhood, sharing that our teachers, leaders, kids and families have worked hard to earn this beautiful building.

bastions of ignorance, hopefully they will one day be used as community centers.

They will use it for meetings, we are going to try and run it as a community center, working in conjunction with the town board.»

Protesters said that libraries were vital spaces for New Yorkers that served as community centers and provided resources for millions of patrons that were especially helpful to seniors, immigrants and working - class families.

The funds, which are controlled by the speaker, are dished out to members each summer to fund constituent - pleasing services, such as community centers and seniors programs.

Take your events or PTO meetings out to the community, in their neighborhoods, to places such as community centers, public libraries, or places of worship.

School as Community Center: The school serves as a hub for lifelong learning for the neighborhood providing services; such as, parenting workshops, computer literacy, and ESL classes.

As mayor of San Francisco, Newsom used city resources to help local schools serve as community centers.

But our schools matter in other ways as well — as community centers and leaders in sustainability.

Because these practices — developing trust, strong relationships, mutual respect and understanding, two - way communication, participation in decision making, and efforts to use the school as a community center — have a strong evidence base (Henderson & Mapp, 2002), they have informed our own work on the introduction of school - based teams focused on family partnership.

Today, they serve as community centers and digital outposts designed to help people get things done and discover new...

Although libraries of the future will be much more digitally focused, their primary function may be to act as community centers, which serve patrons by offering a variety of resources and diverse programming.

The Montara Grammar School opened in 1915; the historic two - story building still stands, serving as a community center.

We can not expect galleries regularly to serve as community centers or health clinics.

He intended to place the replica in downtown Detroit, where it would be used as a community center, providing services ranging from haircuts to block parties.

The Washington Street Art Center in Somerville provides studio workspace for professional painters photographers and writers and serves as a community center.

These Pure Salvage Outposts could function as cooperatives, or as an adjunct to a vocational program in a school system, or as community centers, and could be an excellent way to repurpose the materials that are already manufactured and sitting idle, so to speak, in old buildings and structures around the country.

Group therapy sessions can be held in a variety of settings, such as community centers, therapy offices, hospitals, libraries, members» houses, or churches.

- Proximity to desirable features (such as a community center, exercise facility, school, hospital, etc..)