Sentences with phrase «by focusing on community»

Pinwheels for Prevention Prevent Child Abuse America Describes an effort to change the way individuals think about child abuse prevention by focusing on community activities and public policies that prioritize prevention right from the start to make sure child abuse and neglect never occur.

We do that by focusing on community - based efforts including education, awareness, and adoptions.

While Putty Hill expounded the aftermath of a death by focusing on a community coming together through mourning, I Used To Be Darker works with a decidedly smaller aim — which is, of course, a family rapidly disintegrating in the wake of a divorce.

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When I traveled with my partner, Chris, across various regions of Costa Rica in late August, I was impressed by how many of our guides and the wildlife experts we consulted with were born and raised in the region and had found work focused on conservation and wildlife preservation in their local communities.

With this space getting so much interest by all communities, there was a lot of pressure to grow quickly & companies began focusing on metrics such as onboarding more & more vendors, increasing queries per day by discounting.

There is a wave of new venture funds focused on bringing more diversity to Silicon Valley, by investing in women, people of color, or those of the LGBT community.

«Donor - advised funds that are sponsored by a community foundation tend to have a more singular focus and they're on the local pulse of charitable activity,» said Gavin Morrissey, managing partner at Financial Strategy Associates in Needham, Massachusetts.

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

These two coffee titans have tapped into that by focusing on creating a community and positive experiences between people as a foundational piece of their businesses.

Ridge describes how a focus on the servant leadership principles of values, learning, teaching, growth, and community can lead to enhanced performance by helping people step into the best version of themselves.

«Our advice to early stage hardware companies is focus on five things — validating and articulating the pain they eliminate or problem they solve, benefits versus features and being laser focused on tech product development, cultivating a community of believers and early customers, efficiently using their cash by leveraging experts and community hubs like makerspaces and reflecting great leadership and a community mindset.»

It accomplishes this by building healthy, sustainable communities through local engagement and partnerships and by focusing on the leading causes of mortality for mothers and children in targeted communities throughout Africa, Latin America and the Caribbean.

By creating social communities for sharing, focusing on the right product mix, and creating intentional customer service initiatives, we've had success connecting with mom's in the M2C space.»

Uber's promise has centered on getting effective transportation for less, but Lyft has opted for a more personal approach by focusing on building a community and establishing trust.

I fear that parts of the central bank community have become blinded by the science and the technique, and that there has been excess allocation of intellectual resources to this pursuit (which perhaps could have better been focused on financial stability issues).

These include: C$ 4.5 billion to support research, training, and infrastructure at universities and colleges; a Strategic Innovation Fund that will provide C$ 1.26 billion for business innovation in the aerospace and automotive sector; a Connect to Innovate Program that will invest C$ 500 million to bring high - speed Internet to remote and rural communities by 2021; and, C$ 70 million over six years to support agriculture innovation with a focus on climate change, and soil and water conservation.

The spring 2014 Impact8 cohort will also be supported by Saint Elizabeth, with a special focus on innovations that empower individuals to be in control of their health and well - being, enabling living and aging well at home and in the community.

Co-founder of Appstori.com, a crowdfunding platform, makes the following four predictions: (i) Vertical platforms will emerge to focus on select market segments; (ii) Crowdfunding platforms will evolve into «full - service» communities to better meet the needs of their members; (iii) Creativity and innovation through online crowdfunding will be supported not just by individuals but by organizations as well; and (iv) Benefits - based crowdfunding will complement equity - based platforms

With an initial focus on education and health care, the Christensen Institute is redefining the way policymakers, community leaders, and innovators address the problems of our day by distilling and promoting the transformational power of disruptive innovation.

Instead, the Millennial generation of entrepreneurs in America is more focused on building their influence For example, 47 per cent said they were motivated to go into business by the desire to better themselves, 29 per cent wanted to have a positive impact in their communities and 32 per cent wanted to build a name for themselves.

Called «a cult legend in the online - community building world» by Mashable, Ryan is now focused on creating a strong membership experience and positive business outcomes for thousands of successful executives, thought leaders, business owners and entrepreneurs across the country.

AMA Mexico catalyzed community members to plant 3,000 new trees in the park and weekly meetings focused on community development take place in the on - site classrooms built by the city of Puebla.

As a business community in Metro Vancouver, we will certainly benefit from having Transportation Minister Todd Stone focus on other economically crucial transportation matters without being constantly hounded by Translink - related questions when he's in the Lower Mainland.

At the same time, I saw that even with tribesmen of varying investment experience and knowledge here was a community which was less focused / obsessed on «which stock» or «when i will get my target price» or «will you tell me what to buy» and more focused on rational discussions — analysis which can be understood clearly by visitors with basic investment and stock market terminology knowledge.

Havas Blockchain will be led by Havas Paris consultant Fabien Aufrechter and a specialist team focusing exclusively on communities of cryptocurrency investors.

The progress made by General Mills in 2017 demonstrates the company's long - term commitment to protect and restore the resources upon which its business and communities depend, with an increased focus on improving the resiliency of its supply chain.

Inside his new community, Epstein noticed there was a misconception among outsiders that Lubavitcher Jews — who are distinguished by dark clothing, frequent use of Yiddish and what they say is an unyielding focus on devotion to God — shun the outside world.

We can do this by reaching out to our community and helping those in need as well as focusing on family and friends.»

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When his children got older and he could no longer vent his hate by beating his children and his wife as much, he focused his hatred on the community at large.

One of the consequences of the focus on the role of interpretive communities has been a renewed appreciation for the forms of interpretation practiced by Jewish and Christian communities before the rise of modern biblical studies during the Enlightenment.

While many quickly growing churches deal with growth by starting new ministries to handle the influx of new members, Warehouse 242 leaders decided to focus on doing three things well: small groups, the Sunday worship service and community outreach.

Guided by these two analogues, the homiletician is freer to examine the relationships between preaching and other expressive forms — literature, storytelling, drama and art, for example — and also focus on those sites for ceremony and ritual in our culture where persons are drawn together in fellowship and community.

A Year of Faith is a time set aside by the Church to focus on the meaning of our baptism» in other words, who we are, what we believe, and how we're called to act as a Christian community.

In describing and accounting for the lives of the Religious Right, which we define simply as religious conservatives with a considerable involvement in political activity, the book and the series tell the story primarily by focusing on leading episodes in the movement's history, including, but not limited to, the groundwork laid by Billy Graham in his relationships with presidents and other prominent political leaders; the resistance of evangelical and other Protestants to the candidacy of the Roman Catholic John F. Kennedy; the rise of what has been called the New Right out of the ashes of Barry Goldwater's defeat in 1964; a battle over sex education in Anaheim, California, in the mid-1960's; a prolonged cultural war over textbooks in West Virginia in the early 1970's — and that is a battle that has been fought less violently in community after community all over the country; the thrill conservative Christians felt over the election of a «born - again» Christian to the Presidency in 1976 and the subsequent disappointment they experienced when they found out that Jimmy Carter was, of all things, a Democrat; the rise of the Moral Majority and its infatuation with Ronald Reagan; the difficulty the Religious Right has had in dealing with abortion, homosexuality and AIDS; Pat Robertson's bid for the presidency and his subsequent launching of the Christian Coalition; efforts by Dr. James Dobson and Gary Bauer to win a «civil war of values» by changing the culture at a deeper level than is represented by winning elections; and, finally, by addressing crucial questions about the appropriate relationship between religion and politics or, as we usually put it, between church and state.

If a community of persons sets out to understand God more truly, it is going to have to go about it by focusing on something else whose study is believed to lead to truer understanding of God.

We knew what to do but we just kind of blew right past community by focusing on things like how much each parking space costs.

Hennesey's 1981 volume American Catholics enriched the classic portrait of Catholic Americans by focusing on Catholicism as a community of distinctive human beings, and not simply as a religious institution.

SAVOR becomes part of the fabric of a community by not only following SMG's 40 - year tradition of dedicated stewardship, but also by focusing on three brand pillars: hospitality, community and taste.

Sydney, New South Wales About Blog The Baby Vine is an educational parenting community that puts the focus back on the everyday parent by supporting them in every aspect of their lives.

This year, I'm teaming up with the dairy community and kicking - off on Earth Day by highlighting how our farmers are making dairy more sustainable while focusing on the land and animal health.

Glacier Restaurant Group may focus on delivering exceptional restaurant experiences, but it also lives by a creed of giving back to the community.

Harvest Market takes the better - for - you concept to a new level by focusing not only on what consumers put in their bodies, but also on how it can better the environment and communities in which it operates.

ARAMARK seeks to responsibly address issues that matter to its clients, customers, employees and communities by focusing on employee advocacy, environmental stewardship, health and wellness, and community involvement.

The «Organic Trade and Value Chain Development in East Africa» (OTEA) project focuses on the development of regional trade in the East African Community by establishing an Organic Guarantee System.

My Pie not only offers a taste of New York to local neighborhoods, but also remains focused on its core values by giving back to the local community.

In a region hard hit by climate change, the Rainforest Alliance focuses on advancing community forestry, sustainable agriculture, ecotourism, and environmental education to defend vulnerable landscapes and support rural communities.

While challenging at times, I was inspired by Bethanne and the rest of the community to focus on optimizing my health and well - being.

Coles plans to compete with competitors by moving away from low prices to a focus on other attributes, such as sustainability, local produce and community.

Founded by husband and wife team Timo and Ashby Marshall, this grain - to - glass facility is located in the heart of downtown Sebastopol within The Barlow artisan community, the first business center in the U.S. to focus on connecting customers not only with products and the people who make them, but also with the production itself.