Sentences with phrase «as community efforts»

We discussed the successes and challenges in prosecuting cases of animal abuse and neglect, as well as community efforts to decrease animal abuse.

This page and our MISSION was created as a community effort to END the neglect and abuse of our precious animal companions, man's best friend.

This program is best served as a community effort.

It is our hope that normalizing parenting education for all socioeconomic backgrounds as a community effort will help shape healthy childhood experiences.

Drew says he pitched the contest as a community effort rather than handing out brochures to individuals and having them compete against one another.

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«Write to Play» heralded Playworld's first - ever social media giveaway, and the results are impressive: Not only did its Facebook fan base increase from 600 to more than 9,000 during the two months the contest ran, but as finalists rallied to gain community support for their campaigns, many local news outlets reported on their efforts, earning Playworld significant free publicity in the process.

In an effort to make the rollout as «seamless and high - quality as possible,» Pak said Facebook chose brands that are «great members of the Instagram community that have a demonstrated history of understanding how Instagram operates and how people use the platform.»

Third, the business community must approach these efforts with the same long - term investor mindset and management rigor they apply in their own companies, making data - driven investments and evaluating, learning, and adjusting as they go.

The city's efforts to position itself as a hub of the global high - tech entrepreneurial community will be showcased this week with its five - day Digital Life Design (DLD) festival, driven by the mission to create a network of innovation, digital prospects, science and culture.

But the guild has recently upped its efforts to organize the story - shapers behind some of the biggest hits on TV, and these cases have been seen by many in the labor law community as a hardball tactic in that crusade.

City planners are even pondering a temporary Chicago - style shoreline ferris wheel as a tourist attraction — all in an effort to continue to grow this community's «fun factor» says Montemayor.

Besides flashy screens and efforts at community building, the flagship mega-stores — such as the first, an 80,000 - foot space in the West Edmonton Mall — are also geared toward product performance and customization.

As high - profile and as high - minded as My Brother's Keeper is, though, it is also sprawling in scope, from early - childhood health screenings to reading programs to efforts to reduce community violencAs high - profile and as high - minded as My Brother's Keeper is, though, it is also sprawling in scope, from early - childhood health screenings to reading programs to efforts to reduce community violencas high - minded as My Brother's Keeper is, though, it is also sprawling in scope, from early - childhood health screenings to reading programs to efforts to reduce community violencas My Brother's Keeper is, though, it is also sprawling in scope, from early - childhood health screenings to reading programs to efforts to reduce community violence.

Over the last five years, the organization has worked with some of the most well - known international relief efforts, such as Medic Mobile and Save the Children, helping them to add Bitcoin to their donation streams and running fundraising campaigns aimed at people in the Bitcoin community.

In tandem with the 100,000 Opportunity Youth Initiative, Starbucks has opened four stores with classroom and training space as part of its effort to support local economic development in diverse low - to - medium income communities across the U.S.. Each of these stores creates 20 to 25 new jobs with benefits, partners with a local women - and minority - owned supplier and contractor, and works with local nonprofits to provide job - skills training to youth.

At the forefront of commercial insurance, AFIRM evaluates and manages risk, serving clients across North America, and has shown a commitment to community outreach efforts, contributing to organizations such as the Fort Collins Habitat for Humanity, Partners Mentoring Youth, the Ronald McDonald charities, and the Boys and Girls Clubs of Larimer County, Colorado.

As part of our efforts to understand the issues of communities in the region, the New York Fed worked with small businesses in areas affected by Superstorm Sandy to comprehend the storm's impact and firms» progress with recovery efforts.

Monina leads social media efforts as Community Manager for the Content Marketing Institute.

as a Playful City USA for its efforts to engage neighborhood organizations to address the play deficit in the community.

I tend to think of myself as someone who was involved in the effort to build a sense of community in the aftermath of Hurricane Katrina through my work with the theater and the researchers at the University of Houston.

In addition to pledging a total of $ 3 million in grant funding to recovery and relief efforts to assist pets and pet owners in need, the company's PetSmart Charities philanthropic arm coordinated deliveries of several truckloads of critically needed pet food and pet supplies as part of its Buy A Bag, Give A Meal program to communities deeply impacted by the hurricanes.

The NHLPA works on behalf of the players in varied disciplines such as labor relations, product licensing, marketing, international hockey and community relations, all in furtherance of its efforts to promote its members and the game of hockey.

Bitcoin was designed to be a decentralized peer - to - peer monetary system, where community members gave their own computer processing powers to verify and create new blocks and mine new Bitcoin, and as a reward received Bitcoin proportional to their efforts.

We continue our efforts with all of you on our side as a community growing stronger every day.

The foundation's mission is, as stated on its website, «to prevent Virginia Tech - type shootings through education and advocacy; to employ comprehensive educational efforts to expand community and student awareness of campus safety issues; and to offer compassion, support, and hope to those affected by violence.»

It all began, quite literally, as a dream — a vision for a mobile computer lab that would travel across Canada to communities large and small in an effort to promote digital literacy and a love of coding.

In 2015, Starbucks community efforts focused on the opportunity youth population as partners worked with nonprofits that support young people.

I appreciate too the exemplary efforts of emergency workers, government officials, clean - up crews and the thousands of volunteers in dozens of communities who have done so much to get the recovery under way as quickly as possible.

ORLANDO, Fla. — June 24, 2016 — Marriott Vacations Worldwide (NYSE: VAC) is pleased to announce, as a member of the Orlando business community, it will be making a $ 25,000 donation divided among several local organizations coordinating support and healing efforts to those who have been so profoundly affected by the tragic event on June 12, 2016.

The organization also hosted events with Uber's Chief Advisor David Plouffe in September 2015 (listen to audio) and October 2016 (listen to audio) as well as an event with the Vancouver Taxi Association in June 2016 (listen to audio), in an effort to better inform the regional business community about the evolving ride - for - hire industry.

As an atheist, I prefer Catholicism to evangelical / fundamentalism, the Catholic church while having some rough spots with science, arts, and literature in the past has made strong efforts to co-exist with the science / educated community (they were some of the best scientists, writers, artists, etc).

The chief Rabbi of wartime Rome had been sheltered by Jesuits, and he later paid eloquent and generous tribute to Pius XII and his collaborators for their rescue efforts, as did Dr. Raffael Contoni, head of Italy's wartime Jewish Assistance Committee and later president of the union of Italian Jewish communities.

The Federal Emergency Management Agency (FEMA) is only part of a large team that continues to bring resources to as - sist a community in its response and recovery efforts.

Through focused disability integration efforts in Missouri, FEMA continues to take steps to ensure the whole community — including people with functional needs, seniors and those with low English proficiency — has the same opportunity to benefit from disaster as - sistance programs.»

In the tense atmosphere of the city council meeting the night of the vote, Presbyterian minister Paul Miller acknowledged that emotions were running high but told the overflow crowd he spoke from «deep pastoral concern»; he then read a prepared statement signed by 18 members of the clergy who decried «the recent efforts to single out a given group... and to seek to castigate them as being unworthy and unfit to belong to our community.»

This is why we are inviting you as individuals or churches or other communities to contribute to this effort.

A pilot program is being pioneered in Boston as a result of the efforts of Dr. Gerald Caplan, Director of Harvard Community Mental Health Program.

Hall said political leaders have been «in terror of the gun lobby,» but now they need to know that faith communities such as his are willing to stand behind efforts to push for gun control.

As part of his continued efforts to give back to his community in Chicago, he does a monthly «Open Mike» night in partnership with SocialWorks Chicago and the Chicago Public Library.

For me as an Arabic Muslim I have all respect to Obama the person for his efforts reaching out in a community where the whites call him black and the black call him white and he is lost in between as if a third race?

About a month into our community awareness campaign, I received a letter from a man who, as a result of our efforts, had now become aware of our church.

As a result, its counter-terrorism efforts have been largely driven by informants, intelligence reports or specific incidents that direct attention to a particular group or community.

To do this, he argues, is to disvalue the unique ontological status of societies, especially human communities, as durational unities achieved through collective effort over time.

The effort of the hand represents the setting forth of good conduct as example for the Islamic community and others.

As a result, some of the best recent efforts in Christian education have been in adult education — programs that enrich adult communities in which there are children, not communities of children in which there happen to be a few adults.

Brevard Childs of Yale and, on the Jewish side, Jon Levenson of Harvard have been key figures in the effort to reappropriate the text as sacred text, a text produced and interpreted by and for the believing community.

Rodney Bullard is a United States Air Force veteran, former Assistant U.S. Attorney and White House Fellow and currently serves as the Vice President of Community Affairs for Chick - fil - A and as the Executive Director of the Chick - fil - A Foundation where he shepherds the organization's extensive philanthropic and social responsibility efforts, which primarily focus on youth and education.

Most of our efforts to help individuals within the church are mediated through our efforts to make the church as a whole a more faithful community and institution.

For example, in the early 1930s, cities practiced redlining as an effort to keep people of color out of new suburban communities.

Are we prepared to undertake the rigorous examination of parish, family and personal life styles called for in a world of scarcity, and as a Christian community to make a serious effort to understand and confront the systems which perpetuate the problem of separation between the rich and the poor?