Sentences with phrase «change initiative project»

High Schools with a plan to systematize, scale, or sustain their bold systems change initiative project (s) from year 1 should consider applying.

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From classrooms to corporate initiatives, the awards recognize a variety of projects and celebrate those who demonstrate commitment to the environment and take the initiative to make quantifiable sustainable changes.

DiscoverOrg's Intel gives you a competitive advantage by allowing you to have a first look at leadership changes, projects, and spending initiatives happening across the nation.

Forward - looking statements may include, among others, statements concerning our projected adjusted income (loss) from operations outlook for 2018, on both a consolidated and segment basis; projected total revenue growth and global medical customer growth, each over year end 2017; projected growth beyond 2018; projected medical care and operating expense ratios and medical cost trends; our projected consolidated adjusted tax rate; future financial or operating performance, including our ability to deliver personalized and innovative solutions for our customers and clients; future growth, business strategy, strategic or operational initiatives; economic, regulatory or competitive environments, particularly with respect to the pace and extent of change in these areas; financing or capital deployment plans and amounts available for future deployment; our prospects for growth in the coming years; the proposed merger (the «Merger») with Express Scripts Holding Company («Express Scripts») and other statements regarding Cigna's future beliefs, expectations, plans, intentions, financial condition or performance.

In their development of this initiative, the three founders recruited additional members to forge the Project's Risk Committee, a group of dedicated individuals concerned about the economic future of America under the threat of global climate change.

He is currently employed on the Electronic Culture Research Project, a special initiative of the Uniting Church's Commission in Victoria to explore the impact of electronic media on global cultures and the implications of this cultural change on religious institutions and on the social experience and expression of religious faith.

SolarCity has promised to create 3,000 jobs in the region including 500 manufacturing positions, a number which has changed, like the companies and the industry, since the project was first announced as the anchor of the governor's Buffalo Billion initiative.

At 8:30 a.m., during a panel discussion about the MTA's five - year plan for construction and renovation projects, representatives of the Permanent Citizens Advisory Committee to the MTA and the Urban Land Institute New York introduce an initiative titled «Keeping NY on Track: The Importance of the MTA Transit Network in a Changing World»; Rosenthal Pavilion, 10th floor, Helen & Martin Kimmel Center for University Life, NYU, 60 Washington Square S., Manhattan.

More should be done to secure value - for - money when private finance initiative (PFI) projects undergo changes, the National Audit Office (NAO) believes.

The Hudson Estuary Watershed Resiliency Project is an educational initiative designed to help municipal officials and stream - side landowners throughout the Hudson Valley prepare for floods and climate change.

Those commissions were often criticized as being too closely controlled by the mayor and too narrowly focused — sometimes with the goal of pushing pet projects or political initiatives or seeking policy changes that would have been more appropriately handled as legislation by the City Council.

Offering a solution to the problem, the President advised residents living in flood prone areas to take the initiative to develop positive waste management practices saying, «if the rain water doesn't have an open cause to be able to go into the sea, it will flood city... even after we have done the Conti project, if we don't change our attitudes, we will continue to have this problem.»

Biomedical Advanced Research and Development Authority (BARDA) BARDA and its Project BioShield initiative would see essentially no change from FY 2017 omnibus funding levels, with each funded at or just above $ 510 million.

In a project sponsored by the U.S. National Aeronautics and Space Administration's (NASA) Carbon Monitoring System research initiative, researchers from the Joint Global Change Research Institute (JGCRI) found that global livestock methane (CH4) emissions for 2011 are 11 % higher than the estimates based on guidelines provided by the Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change (IPCC) in 2006.

None of the 88 projects in the NSF's Local Systemic Change initiative met even the most basic goal of delivering the promised 130 hours of additional training.

For their studies on a species of human malaria that is also carried by monkeys, as part of a larger project funded by the UK Research Council Living with Environmental Change initiative, Fornace and her colleagues are using a drone to map changes in mosquito and monkey habitats and correlate how those changes affect human infection.

The project aims to integrate and advance the control of air quality and carbon emissions in European cities in the context of climate change through the development of sustainable and passive air pollution remediation strategies, policy interventions and behavioural change initiatives.

The Blue Zones Project by Healthways is a community well - being improvement initiative designed to make healthy choices easier through permanent changes to environment, policy, and social networks.

In addition to funding the creation of new projects highlighting the work of global change - makers addressing the world's most pressing problems, the initiative brings together leaders in both independent filmmaking and social entrepreneurship at key gatherings globally, including the Skoll World Forum (SWF), the Sundance Film Festival, and intensive workshops at the Sundance Resort.

Through these efforts, the Institute has been able to launch a new initiative for films and emerging media projects exploring stories related to the urgent need for action with regard to the environment, conservation and climate change.

«It's time for action»: The «Systemic Change Project,» a joint initiative of Women in Film Los Angeles and the Sundance Institute, is pushing for more women in film and TV.

After almost a year of work undertaken by the Readiness Project — a statewide initiative (chaired by HGSE Professor Thomas Payzant) involving more than 200 educators, business leaders, and community leaders to develop a strategic blueprint for the next phase of education reform that was — the plan incorporates vast changes from K - 12 to higher education.

Such technologies also are changing the face of citizen science, enabling students to enlist in projects through school (or on their own initiative) that have an impact off campus.

The recycling initiative FairandFunky, a community interest company, focused on empowering participants to take their own little steps to change the world delivered the project, which made use of plastic straws and bottle caps to create a college to a total of 21 student council representatives from Boothroyd Primary Academy and Thornhill Junior and Infant School.

As the director of the Center for Strengthening Education Systems, Mike manages a portfolio of large - scale projects that build multiple stakeholders» capacity to plan, lead, and implement data - and evidence - driven change initiatives.

Week 1: Becoming a Socially - Emotionally Intelligent Leader Week 2: Becoming a Socially - Emotionally Intelligent Leader (Continued) Week 3: Building an Effective SEL Leadership Team Week 4: Building an Effective SEL Leadership Team (Continued) Week 5: Unjumbling the Schoolhouse Week 6: Assessing School Culture and Climate Week 7: The Impact of Policy on SEL and School Culture and Climate Initiatives Week 8: The Impact of Policy on SEL and School Culture and Climate Initiatives (Continued) Week 9: Leading Organizational Change to Improve School Culture and Climate Week 10: Bringing an SEL - Related Program Into Your School (Final Project Part 1) Week 11: Bringing an SEL - Related Program Into Your School (Final Project Part 2) Week 12: Bringing an SEL - Related Program Into Your School (Final Project Part 3)

Through a variety of initiatives, networks, and projects, Monica works with state education agency officials to strategically center school leadership and continuous improvement at the core of change in educational systems.

Project ASSIST: Comprehensive, systemic change initiative impacts school culture, climate, leadership, and instruction.

The event, held at the Rubin Museum in Manhattan, honored five people who have demonstrated exceptional commitment to enacting positive change in education: Tanell Pendleton, an English teacher who has worked at Bronx Haven High School for eight years, and Michael Wolach, founding teacher and instructional coach at Jill Chaifetz Transfer School, both of whom have worked with Eskolta on multi-year projects on topics ranging from developing students» academic mindsets to implementing outcomes - based grading; Cristal Cruz, a graduate of Brooklyn Frontiers High School, who, after facing significant challenges during school, graduated as salutatorian, enrolled in college, and is now working at Good Shepherd Service to support students in the same way she was supported; and Jeff and Tricia Raikes, co-founders of the Raikes Foundation and part of the founding team of Microsoft, who have become champions of school improvement by establishing national initiatives such as the Mindset Scholars Network and the Student Agency Improvement Community.

From the inception of the project in 2003, we worked intimately with Director Karen Phillips designing key elements of the initiative, including their «School Change Rubric,» coaching model, and professional development plan.

Quote — The Million Book Project, a university - led initiative to digitize books and make them available online, will have to change its name.

CAP AND TRADE: Proceeds from the cap - and - trade system — which is designed to reduce Ontario's greenhouse gas emissions — are projected to be $ 1.9 billion in 2017 — up from last year's projection of $ 1.3 billion — and will be used to invest in green projects and climate change initiatives.

Miavitz: We've partnered with Project Blue Collar on several occasions in the past, and when they reached out to us about an initiative to change the way the public views Pit Bulls, it was a no - brainer for us, since some of our biggest brand ambassadors are Pit Bulls.

Described by developer plethora - project as «both an educational and research initiative,» Block» hood was recognized in several competitions for games that are intended to make an impact and encourage change.

This applies to that culture change project, process improvement initiative... all of it.

Each project serves not only to deliver an artistically excellent and socially relevant body of work, but most importantly, to identify the people and initiatives that already are creating change in our community — and that we can invest in and create with in the future.

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Some international groups are helping to foster synergies, including the World Health Organization's recent conference on Climate and Health, the Convention on Biological Diversity's initiative on Health and Biodiversity, the Lancet - Rockefeller Commission on Planetary Health, and the DIVERSITAS - Future Earth ecoHEALTH project, which brings together public and animal health, development, ecology, economics, and other sectors to investigate connections between health and environmental change to generate science and policy outputs that can inform sustainability solutions.

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The Climate Classroom @ COP22 is an initiative of the Swiss Development Cooperation (SDC) and the One UN Climate Change Learning Partnership (UN CC: Learn), in collaboration with the UNDP / UNEP / GEF project «Building Capacity in LDCs to Participate Effectively in Intergovernmental Climate Change Processes».

(09/14/2011) For the next 24 hours the Climate Reality Project — an initiative founded and chaired by former Vice President Al Gore — is hosting an event to mobilize action on climate change.

This analytical report contains information on some of the many climate change initiatives — projects, campaigns, educational tools, websites and publications — produced by the United Nations and young people, independently or in partnership.

The project aims to integrate and advance the control of air quality and carbon emissions in European cities in the context of climate change through the development of sustainable and passive air pollution remediation strategies, policy interventions and behavioural change initiatives.

The money is readily available to launch such an initiative in an area such as Chicago, both from government agencies which in recent years are investing more than $ 20 million annually in climate change education initiatives and from private foundations which as I detail in the Climate Shift report invested more than $ 360 million in climate change and energy initiatives, but only a little more than a $ 1 million of this funding went to direct support for media organizations or projects.

Our own special project on climate change and food security includes field - level reportage on local adaption initiatives in Kenya, Nigeria, Senegal, and Zimbabwe.

Other initiatives include the CARPATCLIM project, which produces a high - resolution gridded climatology for the Carpathian region, and the production of information that governments can use to prepare documents for the United Nations Framework Convention on Climate Change (UNFCCC) or for impact studies.

The document is divided into five chapters, namely: 1) Uncovering mitigation potential showcasing initiatives to reduce greenhouse gases emissions; 2) Gearing up for the storm relating to adaptation and disaster risk reduction projects; 3) Nurturing youth leaders presenting activities in education, training and capacity - building; 4) Spreading the message highlighting awareness raising campaigns and materials; and 5) Shaping up the future climate change regime presenting examples of youth participation in climate change policy - making.

It has been produced as a tool and a source of inspiration for designing and carrying out climate change projects, initiatives and campaigns.

This document presents the BioCarbon Fund (BioCF), a public - private initiative, housed within the World Bank's Carbon Finance Unit, mobilizing resources for pioneering projects that sequester or conserve carbon in forest and agro-ecosystems, mitigating climate change and improving rural livelihoods.

This is an initiative that seeks to encourage systemic change in national adaptation - related policy through evidence based results from a portfolio of community - driven climate change risk management projects.