Sentences with phrase «by nonprofit community»

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She's helped make Chicago greener by supporting «guerrilla gardening» (turning vacant or abandoned lots into green spaces) and funding nonprofits such as NeighborSpace, which sustains community gardens.

Musk made a name for himself by founding The Kitchen, a restaurant that emphasizes community through food and its attendant nonprofit, which helps build school gardens.

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In addition to creating jobs, serving as a community gathering place, and delivering a fantastic retail experience in the community, this store will be the first to offer a dedicated onsite training space where local youth can sign up for retail skills training courses provided in partnership by two local nonprofits.

Sibyl is also the cofounder of Black Female Founders and the President of DC Web Women (DCWW), one of the longest - running tech nonprofits for women in D.C, which supports and advocates for women and girls in technology by providing a community in which they can develop and promote their leadership, technical and professional skills.

Pay Off Your Student Loans With Volunteer Work Through SponsorChange Amid the great music and movies (and, yes, parties) that will light up Austin, Texas, next month during the South by Southwest festival, a small nonprofit called SponsorChange.org will receive a community service award for finding a way to help college graduates battle student loan debt by volunteering.

By David Lawson Many entrepreneurs want to use their businesses to make a difference in their communities, but don't necessarily want to start nonprofits or dedicate themselves only to charitable causes.

Among Florida's rental markets, South Florida imposes the heaviest financial burden, according to an analysis by Enterprise Community Partners, a nonprofit housing organization based in Columbia, Md..

The stores aim to boost local economic development through the creation of new jobs and by partnering with women - and minority - owned businesses and local nonprofits to provide job skills training opportunities for youth in the community.

Upbring is a leading Texas - based, faith - inspired nonprofit organization working to break the cycle of child abuse by empowering children, families and communities.

«Chief Collaboration Officer Rodney Youckton, as well as other executive team members, leads by example and sit on local nonprofit boards such as Community Youth Services, the Boys & Girls Club, Big Brothers Big Sisters or United Way,» Miles says.

The Calhouns were assisted in their early business endeavors by small business loans overseen by the nonprofit Center for Community Self - Help, a community development lender, credit union, and real estate developer that works with people «traditionally underserved by conventional markets,» the organizatCommunity Self - Help, a community development lender, credit union, and real estate developer that works with people «traditionally underserved by conventional markets,» the organizatcommunity development lender, credit union, and real estate developer that works with people «traditionally underserved by conventional markets,» the organization says.

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Hosted by the Napa Valley Vintners nonprofit association to raise funds for community health and childrens education, this year's Auction Napa Valley takes place May 31 - June 2, 2018...

Sulo is a nonprofit group organized by IRRI that helps women become effective leaders in the local community.

From the beginning, Philadelphians have seen the Reading Terminal Market as an investment in the community, and the nonprofit board that's managed it since 1994 has made it its mission to ensure it remains a space run by Philadelphian food experts for Philadelphian food lovers and home cooks (an agenda made even more critical by the fact that the many Philly neighborhoods are food deserts — the market is the largest single - location redeemer of SNAP benefits in the state).

From a pool of nearly 1,000 nominations, finalists were chosen by a judging panel of passionate leaders in the nonprofit community including Sam Davidson, president of Cool People Care, nonprofit strategist and Huffington Post columnist, Lisa M. Dietlin, Matt Petronzio, assistant features editor covering social good for Mashable.com, and star of «The Vampire Diaries» and nonprofit founder Ian Somerhalder.

Edible fruit went to nonprofit Lawrenceville United for distribution to refugee communities and inedible fruit went to Wigle to produce the City's first Pommeau, an alcoholic beverage made by combining apple brandy with apple cider.

The consortium, which also includes the Chicago Community Trust and Blue Cross and Blue Shield of Illinois, plans to tackle some of the «gold» requirements by training parents to be recess monitors, enlisting nonprofits to supplement nutrition and physical education, and helping principals make school policy changes.

Activate Good is a nonprofit Volunteer Center activating volunteers to help charitable causes in our local community by connecting individuals, groups, and companies to volunteer needs with nonprofits around the Triangle.

Run by the nonprofit Fort Point Arts Community and hidden away on the ground floor of 315 on A, this store offers arts and crafts made only by artists that live or work in Fort Point.

Community - based organizations must have 501 (c) 3 nonprofit status and must serve a population consisting of 50 % or more families earning a yearly income of $ 35,000 or less as cited by Heartland Alliance's poverty data by neighborhood

MDHS sent a letter, signed by more than 100 nonprofit, faith - based, and community - based organizations across the state, to the Maryland Congressional Delegation urging support of the vital federal nutrition programs in the upcoming Farm Bill.

The S. Mark Taper Foundation, founded in 1989, is a private family foundation dedicated to enhancing the quality of people's lives by supporting nonprofit organizations and their work in our communities.

Land trusts are typically community - based nonprofit groups that protect land by acquiring the land outright, or by entering into legal agreements called conservation restrictions, where landowners do not give up ownership, but instead agree to reduce the development potential of their land, generally in return for cash payment, tax advantages, or both.

The Community Builders interviewed by the auditors lacked knowledge of HUD's grant programs, the report said, and in some cases improperly interfered with housing transactions between local officials and nonprofit groups, resulting in the loss of millions of taxpayer dollars.

About QSAC Founded in 1978, QSAC is a New York City and Long Island based nonprofit that supports children and adults with autism, together with their families, in achieving greater independence, realizing their future potential, and contributing to their communities in a meaningful way by offering person - centered services.

He said the state has «condemned» 250,000 children — often poor and of color — to failing schools, and proposed a model for turning those schools around by handing them over to nonprofits or turnaround experts to create «community schools.»

«Money from megadonors from multibillion dollar fossil fuel industry should be rejected by all Long Island elected officials,» said Diane Goins of Hempstead, chairwoman of the Long Island Chapter of New York Communities for Change, a nonprofit coalition of working families in low and moderate income communities.

Conceived by the nonprofit group HANAC, the structure was built following strict «green communities» criteria, officials said.

The report was compiled by Kevin Connor, co-director of the nonprofit Public Accountability Initiative, in collaboration with Community Voices Heard and VOCAL — two groups that have been protesting CSNY and Cuomo's proposed spending cuts for several weeks now.

A dated allegation of fiscal mismanagement involving Soundview Community in Action, a now defunct nonprofit, once funded by Sen. Ruben Diaz, Sr..

And the money, which is being dispersed through a specifically - created nonprofit fund, has been slow in getting back into the community, not to mention racked by controversey and possible corruption.

Addabbo also said he is fighting to bring more money to the district by urging Gov. Andrew Cuomo to allow nonprofits and other community groups, which are hurting from the freezing of new discretionary dollars, apply directly to government agencies for funding.

Today's conference, held at the Rochester Riverside Convention Center, was co-hosted by HCR, the Governor's Office of Faith - Based Community Development Services and the Governor's Nonprofit Coordination Unit.

The rally was co-sponsored by members of the Let NY Vote coalition, which includes over thirty organizations, nonprofits, and labor unions, including Common Cause / NY, Public Citizen, New York State United Teachers, SEIU 32BJ, RWDSU, CWA District 1, as well as the statewide NAACP and the National Action Network, grassroots organizations, faith groups, civil liberties, reproductive and immigrant rights, criminal justice and re-entry groups, New American, and the LGBTQ community.

Also at 6 p.m., NYC Councilwoman Laurie Cumbo, joined by local agencies and nonprofit organizations, marks National Bullying Prevention Month with a community conversation and resource expo, W.E.B. DuBois Academic High School, 402 Eastern Parkway, Brooklyn.

Joined by area politicians and community leaders, the parents, students and teachers rallied in support of the Education Investment Tax Credit which would increase support for public and religious schools by creating a tax incentive for individuals and corporations to donate to scholarship programs administered by nonprofit educational organizations.

Dan Hurley, who recently retired as the university's vice president of government and community relations, said he believes Howe helped with efforts to free up the property for development by shifting ownership to a nonprofit instead of the state.

But the building has been sold for $ 38 million dollars last year by the Abyssinian Development Company (ADC) and nonprofit Community Association of the East Harlem Triangle Inc., which together owned 51 percent of the building.

Local parents and community activists organized through the nonprofit organization Advocating For Change met at the First Baptist Church of Spring Valley at 7 p.m. on the evening of January 7 to address problems faced by students in the East Ramapo School District.

The group, a nonprofit advocacy organization formed in 2001 and historically funded by teachers unions, has long offered itself as a voice for parents and communities of color and, as such, has also been a thorn in the side of successive state and city governments, consistently pushing for more funding in the state budget to meet the needs of underserved schools and fighting against school closures and charter schools.

BY MICHAEL RICONDA Local parents and community activists organized through the nonprofit organization Advocating For Change met at the First Baptist Church of Spring Valley at 7 p.m. on the evening of January 7 to address problems faced by students in the East Ramapo School DistricBY MICHAEL RICONDA Local parents and community activists organized through the nonprofit organization Advocating For Change met at the First Baptist Church of Spring Valley at 7 p.m. on the evening of January 7 to address problems faced by students in the East Ramapo School Districby students in the East Ramapo School District.

A new nonprofit group created to advocate for the Harlem community is controlled by workers and allies of local elected leaders, The Post has learned.

Notably, many of the expressed qualms with the project sans an accompanying downzoning closely mirrored those voiced by Greenwich Village Society For Historic Preservation (GVHSP), a community nonprofit that typically opposes development.

Iran, with its large academic community, seemed likely to top the list, an impression borne out by new analyses of publications and mobility data from Elsevier's SciVal and Scopus databases (below) and Science's own analysis of data from ORCID, a nonprofit with rich data about scientists» professional affiliations (below).

But of even more significance to the research community, it ends altogether quotas for scientists and engineers employed by universities, nonprofit organizations, and government research institutions.

The scrappy probe managed a rare resurrection after getting staunch support from the National Academy of Sciences and the community of outer - planet researchers, along with passionate lobbying by The Planetary Society, a nonprofit group.

Indeed, the toilet of the future may be needed most by poor communities swelling on the edges of the world's large cities, as more rural dwellers crowd into urban centers, said Randy Strash, senior manager at the nonprofit World Vision, a humanitarian organization focused on the rural poor.

These integrated, multi-investigator centers involve partnerships among universities, national laboratories, nonprofit organizations, and for - profit firms that conduct fundamental research focusing on one or more «grand challenges» and use - inspired «basic research needs» identified in major strategic planning efforts by the scientific community.