Sentences with phrase «building community and business»

As the surrounding neighborhoods become more vibrant, Hope Tolson has worked on building community and business partnerships to support our learning community.

As Facebook has grown, people everywhere have gotten a powerful new tool to stay connected to the people they love, make their voices heard, and build communities and businesses.

These leaders embrace the district resources provided and use them appropriately, but they're also ambitious enough to build the community and business partnerships that yield more human, fiscal resources.

ACTS seeks to build community and business partnerships at the local, regional and international level, in order to bring together a network of people for positive engagement, capacity building and change.

Not exact matches

Every business hopes to build a sense of community and brand loyalty; the Tough Mudder tribe is a prime as the definition of a community.

The initiative is intended to teach small businesses how to use Facebook to generate new customers, retain existing ones and build an online community through things like buying display ads targeting specific markets as well as other cost - free measures.

Suzanne's remarkable entrepreneurial journey saw her build and successfully exit two energy businesses — Auriga Energy Inc. and Black Shire Energy Inc. — before starting Imaginea Energy Corp., an oil and gas company premised in sustainability and community, in 2013.

Your business is a work in progress and if you launch your product or service quickly, you will be able to build a community of customers who can provide valuable feedback that can help you improve the offerings.

Ottawa's MBA program has always taken advantage of its location to build connections to government and Ottawa's business community in both French and English.

My company, Women Rocking Business, has raised over half a million dollars for women around the globe, women in the rainforest and in Indonesia, supporting them to build businesses that serve their communities and protect our ecosystems, this is something I'm deeply proud of.

In many cases, efforts to become part of a community and build relationships will be necessary and this is not a bad idea for your business anyway.

This helps build a community with your customers, and it keeps your product and business on their minds.

Smart businesses know that you really grow when you extend beyond a product or service and build a community.

Building a long - term partnership with a nonprofit can be great for your business and the community but a lasting, meaningful alliance can't be bought with a large check.

Each meet for a total of six hours to build partnerships and offer suggestions for solving the problems within their individual topic areas, which include high - growth entrepreneurship, small business, early childhood education and community investing.

Of course, entrepreneurs don't need a scene or community to start a business because, after all, they have to trust in what they're building and be ready to support themselves.

Consider that Starbucks has built a business valued at over $ 75 billion by focusing on people and communities, not coffee.

«Some of our international students, if they're not aggressively reaching out and building that network and exposing to the business community, and only leveraging very narrow resources, they might lose their dream.»

He mentioned he had just read one of my articles (one of the first ones I had written for this column) and was fascinated by the correlations I made between the culture of the U.S. special - operations community and building high - performance teams in the business world.

When building a business, look after the care and feeding of your community.

But after she found a business partner and perfected her pitch — adding community - building events to her strategy for promoting the line — she says she received incredible support from the company.

He notes that many office building landlords and business owners have scaled back meeting spaces to curb costs, while many cafes and restaurants have stepped in to fill the void, promoting their venues as meeting places and community hubs.

By taking advantage of all the world has to offer — inconvenient or not, perfect or not — entrepreneurs can build businesses that provide their communities with products and services they needed and wanted.

Over the years they've built incredible organizations that are not just good businesses, they help provide jobs and livelihoods for thousands of people in their communities.»

The momentum they've gained is because of the way they run their business and the community they've built.

While in the building, your DCMNI columnist also spoke with senior White House advisor Valerie Jarrett, the administration's main liaison to Wall Street and the business community, and she had the same message.

Guru.com lagged behind those and other competitors in the job - matching business and had yet to prove its community - building concept.

If the region in which your headquarters is located is hit with a natural disaster like a hurricane or the power goes out in your building or city, but you have five or 15 or 50 employees spread out across the community, county or even the country, your entire business isn't suddenly out of commission, and all of your data isn't in one place.

Every business must recognize both the importance of branding and of building a brand community.

That means, for entrepreneurs, it's now as important to build a solid community and good reputation online as it once was to foster excellent small - town relations when businesses were more likely to have Main Street storefronts and returning locals as customers.

The same way communities must be built for the purpose of congregation, businesses also need to build communities around services and products.

Businesses stand to gain most advantage from building successful online communities as that is a direct channel between the organization and its members.

It is essential that your business invest in building and maintaining online communities of customers and employees to stay relevant and sustain a competitive edge in your industry.

At the same time, we're also working harder than ever to build ties to the creative community — artists, songwriters, producers and others — so that they understand how our business works and how committed we are to helping them succeed.

Whether you enjoy socializing, writing, helping your community, or helping your neighbor, there is a strategy for building your audience that can fit both your personality and your business, without costing an arm and a leg.

A combination of limited internal capacity and the lack of connectivity with the business community makes partnership building a real challenge — there doesn't seem to be an easy way to address this significant gap.

There are four fundamental pillars necessary to build the online economy — online businesses, online government agencies and departments, online community groups and online householders.

That's one reason America's largest bank is now steering some $ 250 million annually into community - building investments like small - business development, job - skills training, and neighborhood revitalization, and deploying a «service corps» of advisers to help those investments bear fruit.

And fully understanding the importance of contributing to discussions, in a transparent manner, will help you build the kind of reputation needed to become a valued member of the online communities important to your business.

I recently completed my Master's degree at Columbia (in Executvie Technology Management) and I am excited to take this business as far as it can go (I previously helped build http://www.ERE.net — an online community and events company in the HR industry).

The event showcased the growing community of Hong Kong startups and attendees learnt strategies for using social to build their business.

Read our 2016/2017 Annual Report to find out how Canada's business leaders are creating high - value jobs, investing in communities and building a healthier economy.

Learn how we put our people and capital to work helping women build businesses, entrepreneurs create jobs, volunteers improve their communities and help solve environmental issues.

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Local franchisees simply do a better job of serving their clients and building long - term trust — local business owners like to do business with other businesses in their community.

«The goal of this award is to showcase business success stories — when Canadian businesses strive to be innovative and embrace strategic thinking, they create jobs and build prosperity for communities across the country»

«The goal of this annual award is to showcase business success stories — when Canadian businesses strive to be innovative and embrace strategic thinking, they create jobs and build prosperity for communities across the country,» said Kevin Ladner, CPA, CA, CBV, CEO and Executive Partner, Grant Thornton LLP.

The CMIT Solutions franchise system is bursting with talented, inspirational business owners who actively help the small and medium - size businesses in their respective communities to build their companies» technological infrastructures in a safe and affordable manner.

They believe UTXO has much more in scalability terms for business functions by having limiting information and «Proof of Consensus» model, and they wanted to build something that could act as the ether for those who were hard at work mining in the bitcoin UTXO community.

To determine which communities are a good fit for the initiative, Starbucks looks at all the available data on the socio - economic health of America's cities to understand which communities have the biggest opportunity gaps, which have the biggest need for business investment and leadership, and where there is local movement underway to build a better future for its residents.