Sentences with phrase «by volunteer group»

The venture, licensed by the New York State Department of Health, was started by a volunteer group of lactation experts that included physicians, nurses, and lactation professionals.

More «mundane tools» like email, websites with information about when and where to vote, and of course Facebook pages set up by volunteer groups or lower - level candidates themselves were also integral to the campaigns everywhere.

Local clean - ups on Ambergris Caye have been organized largely by volunteer groups and include not only cleaning up the reef and beaches but also looking after the lagoon.

Physorg reports «This simple restoration process requires very little training, meaning that moving and reattaching elkhorn coral fragments can be done by recreational divers and could be woven into public educational activities and adopted by volunteer groups.»

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It was built by a group of volunteers who dub themselves the Tor project.

Northouse's group reduces waste by enlisting the help of student volunteers at 226 universities.

But a group of volunteers found the answer as if by magic.

In May, I was able to attend a Pick Pack Play Day, where over 3,600 pieces of sports equipment were sorted by volunteers from Dr Pepper Snapple Group and Good Sports, and then donated to three...

Enter David Shepherdson and Lisa Bovill, from Kaini Industries, who launched Hullcoin which enables people who engage with charities and community groups across the city of Hull to earn digital coins by volunteering and undertaking activities that benefit themselves.

The hypothetical case was prepared by volunteers of the Alumni Organizing Committee in partnership with global real estate investor, developer and manager Oxford Properties Group.

Team Rubicon: A veterans group sending volunteers to help with rescue operations in areas affected by Harvey.

Ambassadors are a vital volunteer group of business leaders who welcome first - year Members into the Greater Vancouver Board of Trade by acquainting them with The Board's services and encouraging them to get engaged.

On June 9, an international group of scholars produced a petition, which was subsequently translated by volunteers into twelve languages and in less than two days received the support of more than one thousand Orthodox scholars from all over the world.

Interestingly, the bullying behavior was by two women were limited to a group that participated in a single church service, and when I left that service, stopped volunteering in the ministry I enjoyed the most, and stopped attending on anything other than Sunday morning, the bullying stopped.

usually run by some inept volunteer leader... I like to call them «lack of Care Group» — out in the «world» people receive a lot of training to care for others — but in Church it's something of a free for all.

A good start is to help volunteers overcome the «edifice complex» by downplaying the notion that what's most important for the group is the classroom or clinic or house that they're going to build, and emphasizing that the real purpose is pastoral accompaniment.

Did you know that faith - based organizations are registered as volunteer groups for emergency response by public safety systems?

Local groups can be staffed by volunteers, but larger groups and organizations require permanent staff to run their charities.

An 18 - member volunteer group will arrive in Puerto Rico by the end of the weekend, bringing heavy - duty shelter plastic, hygiene kits, and more generators via Samaritan's Purse aircraft.

But the fire is burning more sporadically, is not necessarily connected to Judaism, and it doesn't «significantly embrace» Israel, according to a poll released Thursday by Repair the World, a group that promotes volunteering among Jews.

I volunteered at a hospice for women with AIDS run by a group of Missionaries of Charity and it was exactly as you'd expect any such organization in the United States to be.

The Abkhazi Garden has a pretty interesting history (it was created by the actual Prince and Princess Abkhazi and their story is rather amazing) and today it is owned by The Land Conservancy of BC and maintained by a dedicated group of volunteer gardeners.

OzHarvest partners with TAFE NSW in Sydney, Career Employment Group (CEG) in Adelaide and the Institute of Culinary Excellence (ICE) on the Gold Coast to deliver a full training program supported by volunteers, mentors and qualified industry professionals.

If you would like to hold a fundraising event that falls outside the scope of our online fundraising, please register with our national volunteer group, the Action Network, by clicking here.

The childbirth center, founded by a group of doctors and volunteers in 1979, was a pioneer in the Bay Area.

Today he posts about one D.C. public elementary school which may have its food services taken over this fall by a group of D.C. chefs — along with a lot of parent volunteers.

In person, by phone, online, and in informal group meetings our volunteer Leaders will be there to support you by providing evidence - based information on breastfeeding and human milk.

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.

Many youth sports programs today are run by a group of volunteers who dedicate an enormous amount of time to the league.

We currently operate in Santa Monica, where we continue Helen's legacy by providing parenting groups, individual counseling and support, training for interns and volunteers as well as our Warm Line.

We discovered yesterday that these groups have been taken over by persons unknown at an unknown time and the volunteers who have been carefully looking after these groups for many years have been locked out of the administration tools without notice or explanation.

The proposals were drafted by the District 41 Think Tank, a volunteer group of about 60 staff members and parents, formed last year as part of long - range planning.

Although Step 10 of the UNICEF UK Baby Friendly Initiatives requires that accredited maternity units provide post-natal breastfeeding support groups, the availability and uptake of these services remains unclear.40 The effectiveness of peer - support for long - term breastfeeding success has been well documented in middle - income countries, 35,41 and a systematic review has emphasized the importance of skilled post-natal breastfeeding support in the UK.39 However Graffy et al. 40 concluded from a randomized controlled trial of support provided by volunteer breastfeeding counsellors that although such support was rated by mothers as helpful, volunteer support was not effective at increasing breastfeeding duration, perhaps owing to mothers not actively taking up such support.

I've always loved aquariums, and by joining the Shedd Aquarium Auxiliary Board, I've had the amazing opportunity to work alongside a passionate group of employees, volunteers and fellow Aux Board members in supporting Shedd's mission of education, conservation and sustainability.

Frontier Days was begun a number of years ago in Arlington Heights by a group of northwest suburban volunteers.

A local group is looked after by trained, volunteer breastfeeding counsellors or educators who live in the area.

This session will update on progress since last year's conference, on the work between coalition members of the Baby Feeding Law Group to develop a resource for food bank organizers and volunteers, and a pilot to implement the resource supported by Leicester City Council.

Founded in 1996 by a group of San Francisco moms, it is a volunteer - run organization who work hard to support each other.

A nine - member volunteer group selected by the Village Board, the commission helps the village maintain its image as a safe, healthy and esthetically pleasant place to live.

Sure, commando strike teams can take a lot of work to organize and train, but groups such as MoveOn.org and the Obama campaign have created mini-online industries to support their offline work, providing volunteers with step - by - step guides to holding house parties, fundraisers, local press events and the like.

This can only happen in a society where people are not labelled or divided by their beliefs and where all voluntary and community groups and all volunteers are treated equally.

In 2008 a group of Brooklyn for Barack volunteers, energized by the history - making win for a community organizer, set out to find ways to get involved locally.

Two volunteers for City Council candidate Kevin Kim have filed a police complaint that they were harassed last week by a group of youths, who shouted racial slurs and tossed a football at them as they campaigned along Francis Lewis Boulevard, a spokesman for Kim said.

The board's case against Mark - Viverito centered on the acceptance of «volunteer efforts» from The Advance Group's president Scott Levenson, who volunteered to work for Mark - Viverito in 2013, according to a disposition document obtained by POLITICO.

The Advance Group paid $ 1,796 for the the service, printed 3,000 copies and had them transported to San Juan by one of their volunteers.

«We were just joking in our office that everyone on the second floor should resign and become a volunteer paid by the campaign, because we don't know of any laws that prohibit volunteers from acting on behalf of an elected official,» said John Kaehny, executive director of good government group Reinvent Albany.

«These volunteers already abide by a stringent code of conduct, which requires recusal from any project that poses a conflict of interest,» said Greg Biryla, the group's executive director.

This is his «passion» and the initiatives it has spawned are visible across government: from the new academy schools run by teachers rather than local authorities, via the health service mutuals planned in the NHS white paper, to the renewed emphasis on charities and volunteer groups.

BY ROBERT KNIGHT CITY EDITOR ROCKLAND COUNTY TIMES Orangetown's Volunteer Emergency Services Coalition detailed their plans Tuesday for upgrading eight homes the group controls and leases to local fire, ambulance and police volunteers and their families.

As part of the agreement, the Yankees also created a Community Benefits Fund, controlled by a volunteer board, that would give out $ 800,000 a year in grants to local community groups, $ 100,000 a year in equipment and merchandise, and 15,000 free game tickets.While some of these grants, merchandise and tickets have been distributed, activists at the rally said much of it remains unaccounted for.