Sentences with phrase «campaign was a community effort»
The Save the Beaches campaign was a community effort, he said, but as its main organizer, his mother played a pivotal role.
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«Write to Play» heralded Playworld's first - ever social media giveaway, and the results are impressive: Not only did its Facebook fan base increase from 600 to more than 9,000 during the two months the contest ran, but as finalists rallied to gain community support for their campaigns, many local news outlets reported on their efforts, earning Playworld significant free publicity in the process.
During the past year Louisville's news has been dominated by several seemingly disparate issues — the troubled relationship between the police department and the African - American community; efforts to build more mixed - income housing in the city; adoption of a regional plan intended to moderate suburban sprawl; disagreement about the number and location of proposed new Ohio River bridges linking Louisville and southern Indiana; a campaign to attract high - tech business to the downtown area; and a lively election campaign around the issue of a city - county merger.
It's also worth mentioning that in 2014, OshKosh B'gosh launched The B'gosh Jeanius Campaign as an annual effort to support customers» local communities with donated clothing and school supply needs.
Sex Positions The MSI Partnership, in collaboration with Interact Worldwide, has launched a campaign to put pressure on the UK government to take the lead in ensuring that the international donor community fulfils promises made a decade ago to support global efforts to achieve sexual and reproductive health and rights for all by 2015; and to lead opposition to those political and ideological forces in the USA, Europe and elsewhere that are actively seeking to undermine and even reverse progress made in the last decade.
A capital campaign is being launched in an effort to bring a community owned business to the Parkside neighborhood.
The curriculum is quite comprehensive; taught by a hodgepodge of veteran operatives and campaign professionals who donate their experience via lectures, webcasts, and grassroots campaigning exercises — all in an effort to raise future leaders equipped with skills in fundraising, community organizing, communications, and legislative action.
The minister who was speaking at the opening of the 4th session of the Nigeria - Cameroon Trans - Border Security Committee in Abuja, also said, «In the same vein, we call on the international community to sustain their support in our fight against Boko haram, and to see this effort as part of the global campaign to defeat terrorism».
«I think people were also taken aback by Sen. Addabbo, [for] whom the community had... dug deep into the pockets to help him get elected, put time and effort into his campaign.»
In response to the local community's support of the «Think DIFFERENTLY» campaign, Dutchess County is developing the inaugural «Think DIFFERENTLY» Awards, which will honor the best efforts of community agencies, municipalities, businesses and individuals to embrace the philosophy later this year.
California: Carl DeMaio (pictured) is the second person vying to become the first openly gay Republican elected to Congress, but his effort has been lost traction — first, by failing to win the support of the LGBT community, and, second, by being waylaid by a former campaign aide's claim that DeMaio sexually harassed him.
Crown Heights isn't anywhere near the district, but the event, attended by Mr. Turner as well, is yet another marker in a sharp trend of Mr. Lancman's campaign efforts courting the Jewish communities in Queens and Brooklyn.
A source familiar with the campaign against DeFrancisco said an effort is also underway to recruit a candidate to oppose him this fall — preferably someone from the labor community.
The campaign is designed to start a community conversation to educate the public on the real facts surrounding mental illness and give those who suffer a voice in an effort to reduce or eliminate stigma in Erie County.
In the federal court order, Cote stated that the county's campaign to encourage support for affordable housing has been inadequate thus far — that Westchester County «sought to undercut public confidence in the consent decree... [in a] concerted effort to influence public opinion against the settlement and its stated goal of improving communities.»
Kim, who lives in Bay Terrace and acts as deputy director of community affairs for Ackerman, is currently leading fund - raising efforts among the seven candidates vying for Avella's seat, according to city campaign finance records.
During the past two presidential campaigns, efforts were made by the science and engineering communities to engage candidates in a «user - friendly» science policy conversation not designed to be a debate (questions were to be provided in advance and «contentious» issues were off limits).
In the run up to the 2008 presidential election (and before we could get too deep in the education work), Be the Change's first campaign, an effort to expand national and community service called ServiceNation, started getting real traction.
Our Listening Campaign is a Youth Together, student - led effort to bring to light issues students face within their schools and community today.
Our Charters Changing Lives campaign is a way to share the stories that are often overlooked: to recognize the efforts of our students, teachers, leaders and community members who dedicate their lives to ensuring student success.
CCSA has launched the «Oakland Campaign: Telling the Charter School Story» on our website that is chock full of resources for your school ranging from how to grow community engagement to improving advocacy efforts with the school district.
The Campaign for Grade - Level Reading is a collaborative effort by foundations, nonprofit partners, business leaders, government agencies, states, and communities across the nation to ensure that more children in low - income families succeed in school and graduate prepared for college, a career, and active citizenship.
The Campaign is a collaborative effort by foundations, nonprofit partners, business leaders, government agencies, states and communities across the nation to ensure that more children in low - income families succeed in school and graduate prepared for college, a career, and active citizenship.
Parental and community engagement are key goals for NEA Priority Schools Campaign, a multi-year effort to bring permanent transformation and improvement to America's lower - performing priority schools.
They are using sophisticated campaign - building techniques, leading community organizing efforts, and driving education leadership to rethink the absence of student voice throughout school decision - making apparatuses on every level of school and in each layer of the education system.
Love Amplified Award presented by Petco to NBCUniversal Owned Television Stations for Clear the Shelters: In recognition of NBC and Telemundo owned stations marketing and community outreach efforts, in partnership with hundreds of animal shelters across the U.S. and in Puerto Rico, the stations» «Clear the Shelters» pet adoption campaign was inspired by a local pet adoption effort spearheaded by NBC 5 (KXAS) and Telemundo 39 (KXTX) in Dallas - Forth Worth, Texas and expanded nationally in 2015, resulting in more than 70,000 pet adoptions.
It's a breath of fresh air to hear that Call of Duty is putting effort into the campaign again, no matter if the gaming community seems to not like the game already or not.
«The campaign to «Bring Estelle Home» was a community effort; even New Orleans schoolchildren contributed to raise the money for this important work.
A component of the NY - Sun program and the Governor's comprehensive Reforming the Energy Vision strategy, the «Solarize» campaigns are geared towards locally - organized community outreach efforts aimed at getting more homes and businesses to install solar.
A campaign is a sustained effort toward a specific outcome, like getting a city to ban fossil fuel development or a public institution to commit to a just switch to renewable energy that communities have more control over.
At San Francisco's Green Festival, we hosted a panel discussion entitled «Resilience for All,» showcasing the efforts of a broad cross section of Bay Area organizers who are working across race and class on campaigns to prepare our communities for a post-carbon world.
Their efforts included helping develop a more sustainable waste management system, along with a recycling outreach campaign — the first efforts to recycle in the community did not really stick with residents because there wasn't very comprehensive public outreach and education done for the program.
While campaigns and various community outreach efforts to reduce pedestrian crashes may be effective for some drivers, those drivers who continue to engage in reckless and negligent driving behavior may not be deterred.
«Independent insurance agents and brokers have a strong track record with countless charity efforts in their communities and this successful campaign was an amazing way for us to join forces for a very worthy, national campaign.»
«Independent insurance agents and brokers have a strong track record with countless charity efforts in their communities and this is one way for all of us to join forces for a very worthy, national campaign.»
Having been involved in the crypto community since 2014, Josh has worked closely with a number of fintech and cryptocurrency service providers to bolster lead generation, increase service adoption and encourage ICO participation through the management of PPC campaigns and the deployment of growth hacking strategies in marketing efforts.
The community - driven #SOSBLAKAUSTRALIA campaign (do read this article at The Guardian by one of its founders, Sam Cook) is promising «to launch the biggest humanitarian effort for Aboriginal Australia, by Aboriginal Australia».
The Campaign for Grade - Level Reading, launched in May 2010, is a collaborative effort of funders, nonprofit partners, states and more than 140 communities across the nation to ensure that many more children from low - income families succeed in school and graduate prepared for college, a career and active citizenship.
The goal is to gather roughly 1,000 of the organization's most promising volunteers and encourage them to amplify their advocacy efforts by giving them the tools to create «intersectional grassroots organizing campaigns» in their own communities.
So in an effort to educate their community about true local conditions, many associations are launching their own public relations campaigns...
If the transaction is all cash, the buyers lawyer is the party that needs to gather the Fintrac required information, As usual money rules, CREA has let the Real Estate industry down again, by failing to aggressively lobby the government, to exempt us from Fintrac rules, The banking industry and the legal community have the ear of the government thru their financial contributions for campaigning, and their paid lobbyists, The government of Canada had to show that they are making an effort to stop money laundering, in order to meet International requirements for financing our massive National debt.
«This campaign is an important component of our efforts to both eliminate unfair barriers to housing opportunity and to establish vibrant, diverse, and inclusive neighborhoods in all communities,» said Shanna L. Smith, president and CEO of the National Fair Housing Alliance, HUD's partner in the creation of the campaign.