Sentences with phrase «began challenging communities»

When Cuomo took office in 2011, he began challenging communities and regions across the state to compete for this type of money.

Not exact matches

The challenge for women is finding an inventor community so you can begin the process of accessing available resources, funding and connections.

The challenge of our day is for the pastor to see his job as enabler and to begin to train laymen for the more challenging task of community mental health workers.

The challenge of our day, however, is for the pastor to see his job as enabler and to begin to train laymen for the more challenging task of community mental health workers.

For the first time, I decided to be part of the BattleFood, a very popular culinary challenge among the French community of bloggers and launched in the beginning by Carole from SunriseOverSea.

But while the challenges posed to rural communities in Honduras are great, so are the opportunities: in the last decade, the government has begun handing over land rights to some local and indigenous people, providing an excellent basis for efforts to create sustainable forest economies.

After a challenging first postpartum, she created this incredible system to support her family during her second postpartum and soon began sharing it with mothers in her community and beyond.

In FY11 the contractor has been funded to provide individualized, grantee - specific guidance around research and evaluation topics; begin analyzing and synthesizing challenges faced by grantees around research and evaluation; develop comprehensive, user - friendly synthesis of guidance for tribal grantees; and work with grantees on efforts to disseminate and share the knowledge they are building regarding effective home visiting in tribal communities.

From the beginning, the strategy's aims were complex and multi-faceted, seeking both to identify radicalized individuals but also to challenge the ideology behind violent extremism by empowering resilient communities.

«We've assembled a strong ground team, begun raising sufficient local funds to competently share our message and constructed a campaign platform that rejects labels, embraces bipartisan efforts for change and offers realistic, common sense solutions to the economic challenges that face our community,» Katko said in a statement.

«This is one of the challenging issues a community has to face,» said Assemblyman Guillermo Linares, who first began dealing with the issue when he served on the City Council in the»90s.

«Today, Buffalo is in the strongest budget position it's been in in many, many years and as other communities are just beginning to face some of the challenges that you faced a few years ago, this should serve as a model for how you could do it right,» DiNapoli said.

Yet Palmer and Templeton still face all the challenges of beginning a new faculty position: recruiting students and staff, finding research funding, teaching, integrating themselves into the academic community, and establishing a steady flow of ideas and data.

Five years ago, the small community that studies dengue began discussing challenge trials, which made some people nervous, says Anna Durbin of Johns Hopkins Bloomberg School of Public Health in Baltimore.

This always begins with a driving question that challenges the children to identify how they can use their learning and skills to help others within their communities.

As the 109th Congress begins this week, the Senate education committee is expected to get a new chairman — Sen. Michael B. Enzi of Wyoming — who observers say will bring to the job a blend of pragmatic conservatism and a keen appreciation for the challenges of rural communities.

Jelani began his career in education reform 11 years ago as a community organizer and youth worker at Mikva Challenge, where he developed curriculum to train teachers in grass roots activism and supported over 5,000 high school students» activism projects.

Through our QualityStart program, the NJCSA stands ready to help charter school founders & developers at any stage in the process — from those just gathering the support and community engagement to begin the application to those experienced developers looking to replicate a successful school in New Jersey; from already - approved charter applicants preparing for their first year to operating schools weathering the challenging (and rewarding!)

ASCD began its Whole Child Initiative three years ago to encourage schools and communities to move beyond a narrow curriculum and accountability system and, instead, work together to ensure that each student has access to a challenging, comprehensive curriculum in a healthy and supportive climate.

By buying into the veil of Common Core and not challenging its underpinning mandates from the beginning, education communities have lost their way, while education spirals down.

The authors begin by challenging the educational community to engage in discussion and research on critical issues regarding the implementation of RTI — such as what is counted as empirical evidence, or issues of fidelity and generalizability — to prevent the strategy from becoming a deficit - based approach to sorting children.

As the education community begins to discuss the implementation of the Every Student Achieves Act (ESSA), which is the latest iteration of the Elementary and Secondary Education Act (ESEA), NAESP has identified one overarching and critical challenge: whether states and districts will take full advantage of new opportunities afforded under the new law to build comprehensive systems to support a robust principal pipeline, and, as a matter of priority, support principals who are currently working in the profession.

For example, the community at Montbello High School in Denver continues to struggle through these challenges five years after DPS began the school turnaround.

The grant program began in 2002 to help small communities address the challenges of local air service, such as high fares, insufficient levels of service, and lack of competition.

In his article Those magnificent manifestos, The Bookseller editor Philip Jones revisited his call for the FutureBook community to reflect on five years of the digital dynamic, «to challenge the customs we have begun to adopt.»

It's like I'm getting to harness all of the energy and optimism I had for Digital Book World in the beginning, and directing it towards a community that does important, meaningful work and is facing serious real - world challenges.

The Community Engagement portion of ASPCA Challenge began yesterday, and we have the chance to win a $ 25,000 to help us save... Continue reading →

By presenting an accurate, unbiased look at the financial health of veterinarians and veterinary practices, from veterinarians» self - reporting, the veterinary community can begin the conversation that will lead to solutions to the challenges now faced by these essential healthcare professionals.

So they isolated three phases of implementation: triage, to deal with the immediate challenges; prevention, to slow down overall intakes; and sustainability, which would require community involvement.And so it began.

Begun in 2014, Brave Beauties is a series of portraits depicting transwomen in South Africa, and as such represents an overt challenge to a culture that continues to violently discriminate against the LGBTQI community.

By launching Recess in a storefront space in Soho, once a neighborhood amenable to the emerging artist studio but now dominated by a prohibitively established arts community, we began challenging our surroundings to embrace changing modes of artistic production and reception.

The tone here turned darker when Dr. Curry volunteered an unsupported «you're all wet» remark herself, then when challenged to substantiate her remarks abandoned calm discussion and began swerving into empty rhetoric in place of substantive discourse, employing terms such as «Hockey Team» to describe a research community, «shenanigans» and «joke» to describe editorial functioning at Stephen Schneider's journal, as well as crossing a conspicuous line by implying deceptive «cherry - picking» of statistical methods on the part of Mann et al..

After completing her Master's Degree in Environmental Management, Ms. Mossett began her work with IEN as the Tribal Campus Climate Challenge Coordinator, engaging with more than 30 tribal colleges to instate community based environmental programs, discuss issues of socio - ecologic injustice, and connect indigenous youth with green jobs.

We are excited to announce the affordable housing projects that have been given the opportunity to join a community of North America's leading sustainability innovators through the Living Building Challenge Affordable Housing Pilot Project pilot program which began August 1, 2015 and runs through June 30, 2017.

We've begun sharing diverse strategies to address the deepening challenges ahead, and are also forging key partnerships across organizations to build trust, solidarity, and power among communities working for racial justice and ecological sanity.

With the agreement reached this month in Paris, the international community appears to have begun to turn its attention to the right challenge, even as we recognize that we are still a long way away from fully addressing it.

Beginning just three months after Hurricane Katrina, it follows Mardi Gras Indians, musicians, police, bar owners, a civil rights lawyer, and others as they pick up the pieces, and shows the challenges and resiliency of a community refusing to break despite the levees doing so.

Literally 95 % of the resume advice floating through blogs, online communities, and career centers these days warns job seekers to take off that dreaded, single - line phrase that begins with «Seeking a challenging position...».

Second, in middle childhood, children begin to spend more time in social settings outside of the family, such as schools and communities, that present them with new challenges that may influence their developmental pathways (Bianchi and Robinson 1997; Lancy and Grove 2011).

In FY11 the contractor has been funded to provide individualized, grantee - specific guidance around research and evaluation topics; begin analyzing and synthesizing challenges faced by grantees around research and evaluation; develop comprehensive, user - friendly synthesis of guidance for tribal grantees; and work with grantees on efforts to disseminate and share the knowledge they are building regarding effective home visiting in tribal communities.

After a few years in the community banking industry, I began to see common problems and challenges my clients faced.