Sentences with phrase «began volunteering for»

Meanwhile, Nichols wrote for the magazine's YPN Lounge blog, graduated from the National Association of REALTORS ®» Leadership Academy, and began volunteering for national committees (he's current vice chair of the Social Media Advisory Board).

To help families like his, Bozigian began volunteering for Desert Haven Enterprises, a non-profit that helps the developmentally disabled become productive and self - sufficient.

Last fall, after her son was deployed for Iraq, she began volunteering for the Adopt a Soldier Now program.

Danialle Riggins began volunteering for Community Legal Services of Mid-Florida as a law student.

Liz Dranow began volunteering for SLCO Animal Services in January of 2015 as a volunteer photographer.

Upon moving to Oregon in 1996, she began volunteering for a number of environmental and animal welfare organizations, including the Sierra Club of Oregon and Golden Bond Golden Retriever Rescue.

Dr. Steven Ault began volunteering for PAW Team when he moved back to Portland in 2014.

Sachi began volunteering for PRA in 2011 as a temporary foster parent.

As I've always had a special affinity for pugs, I soon began volunteering for PRA.

Later in life, Tana became committed to being a voice for voiceless animals, and began volunteering for the Los Angeles city shelters.

During this time she began volunteering for the local humane society, which sparked her love for shelter medicine.

Kawasaki has been working in the industry for nearly 40 years and began volunteering for SEMA when he started his first company, Exports International, in the late»80s.

With absolutely ZERO clue in 1999 that I would be doing this — shortly after moving to Austin in 2003, I began volunteering for a charter school for under - served children in Austin, most with African American and Latino heritage.

In 2012, I began volunteering for a small ethnology museum in Luang Prabang, Laos — but I was doing it from New York.

Not exact matches

His passion for volunteering began as an award - winning coach for his children's sports teams, coaching over 27 teams in sports including hockey, soccer, lacrosse and baseball.

While volunteers began to poke the guests awake, collect the mats, and fix the coffee for the breakfast line, the smoke rose from first cigarettes, and one large man groaned off the floor, breath harsh, a map of beet - red lines high on his cheeks» he strains but can not bend enough to reach his feet.

For me the struggle probably began on a spring afternoon in 1956 when, as a Harvard student doing volunteer youth work in Boston's inner city, I called the police to report that one of my Cub Scouts had been bitten by a stray dog.

While volunteers began to poke the guests awake, collect the mats, and fix the coffee for the breakfast line, the smoke rose from first cigarettes, and one large man groaned off the floor, breath harsh, a map of beet - red lines....

James Matthews Hiskett said, «Through volunteering within the club, we decided to apply for the University's Coach Education bursary scheme to begin earning our Single Pitch Award (SPA), an internationally recognised outdoor coaching and supervision qualification for climbing.

When eight volunteers were confined to darkness for 14 hours a day, they began the study by sleeping about 11 hours at a stretch, as if they were catching up on their sleep.

She began working for the park district as a volunteer counselor when she was 13 and became a part - time paid recreation leader at 16.

Three years ago, the Wicker Park Advisory Council, a volunteer group of residents who love their park, began raising money for a new playground that sits at the intersection of Wicker Park and Damen Avenues, and Schiller Street.

Factors that may have contributed to the success for women who exclusively breastfed were face - to - face contact (rather than contact by telephone), volunteer support, a specific schedule of four to eight contacts and high numbers of women who began breastfeeding in the community or population (background rates).

When I began talking to my fellow volunteers and really dove into what the Nature Museum is about — preserving and protecting native Illinois wildlife while giving the public an opportunity for an authentic connection to nature — that is when I found that concentrating on a local level is much more approachable to someone like me, and probably you as well.

Karen volunteered in Haiti just weeks after the earthquake to help begin the process of providing supportive care for the women and babies in Fond Parisien and she is returning two years later to provide peer - to - peer support and training for the local Haitian midwives.

The critical point is that the MyBO features give participating activists tools to organize in their own communities, for instance by throwing house parties and fundraising drives, BEFORE the campaign has begun to direct volunteer activities from above.

The state Firemen's Association is beginning a campaign to win enhanced insurance coverage for volunteer firefighters who fall ill with duty - related cancer.

A particular achievement was the ground - breaking First - tier Tribunal case of LH Bishop Electrical Co Ltd which laid down a set of principles that HMRC have now used to define the categories of exemption from mandatory digital record - keeping and reporting.3 Anthony Thomas commented: «I began my five years as LITRG Chairman straight after finishing as President of the CIOT and it has been a privilege to work alongside such skilled and dedicated staff and volunteers for so long.

The non-partisan group which does its research primarily through the work of volunteers, studied meeting minutes of 16 municipal governments — eight from Erie County and eight from Niagara County — for six months starting at the beginning of this year.

Mr. Dill said he has volunteered to put together school budgets for the past several years and began doing so during former superintendent Bob Feger's tenure because Mr. Feger spent winters in Arizona, which is when school spending plans are worked out.

While Mr Javid's move to the front benches may not have been in the circumstances he would have envisioned, it will surely provide a keen sense of pride for a man that began his political life as a Conservative volunteer back in the days of his idol, Margaret Thatcher.

Ahmed's political involvement began as a volunteer for the 2008 Obama campaign.

From the very beginning, ask each volunteer you recruit to clear their calendar for Election Day, even if Election Day is a year away.

Stephanie Shultes has been with the museum for 30 years, beginning as a volunteer and is now the newly appointed director.

Consultant Balbes says she became a volunteer careers consultant for the ACS when worried chemists began asking her if there was anything they could do beyond working in a lab.

In the next month, they will begin searching for about 45 volunteers who have severe hearing loss, most likely caused by the side effects of drugs.

At the same time, if we want people to age healthier than normal, we need incentives for them to continue working or begin volunteering.»

Weinberg began dipping into her savings as she and other organizers scrambled to pull together a team of volunteers, craft a mission statement, establish partnerships with more experienced organizations, and lock down a date for the march.

Two teams of volunteer observers on geographically separated Queensland Sunshine Coast beaches tracked the whales» movements before airguns began firing, while guns were going off, and for an hour after.

In 2011, Brookings Health System became the first hospital in South Dakota to offer the services of volunteer doulas for labor and delivery at its New Beginnings Birth Center and, in 2012, the first in the nation to offer volunteer doulas for postpartum support — free of charge.

The researchers began by sequestering seven obese and three lean volunteers in a hospital for 6 to 9 months.

All volunteers received standard comprehensive smoking cessation treatment, including one - hour behavioral counseling sessions once a week, beginning two weeks before their quit date and lasting until four weeks after, and nicotine patches for the first month after quitting.

When her pain forced her to retire from her job as a graphic designer, she began volunteering as a patient advocate for the American Pain Foundation.

In our experience, even though we asked the volunteers not to change their diets or eating patterns before beginning the study, it is not uncommon for subjects to report for study with a fasting glucose concentration lower than when they were recruited (13, 21).

UA Center for Integrative Medicine researcher Esther Sternberg said each experiment begins with causing a volunteer subject to sweat.

I know that the volunteers get started hours and hours before the actual race begins, and I thought that it must have been a very busy day for you.

I love horseback riding (obviously lol) and am still searching for that one perfect creature to begin show jumping / eventing, oh and to date (guys thats for you;P) I work as an Emergency Medical Tech (EMT) and am a volunteer fire fighter for our local fire...

StockHolding began by offering custodial and post trading services, adding depository services and other online stock trading services to its portfolio A FREE online software tool for volunteer management and event planning.

3) In the beginning of the movie William shared with the young girl that he volunteered for his job.

Rumors begin to circulate that there may be special treatment for couples who are truly in love, but Kathy volunteers as a «carer,» which will take her on a different path from her friends.