Sentences with phrase «citizen volunteers»

He described the group as a sounding board made up of citizen volunteers.

All of the above channels work even better when your lobbyists or citizen volunteers stop by to chat about the same issues.

Or how about the pharmaceutical industry — maybe we could have citizen volunteers take some crash courses in chemistry so they can check out their own drugs before swallowing them.

SoundCitizen encourages involvement with citizen volunteers and school groups, who voluntarily collect water samples from aquatic systems, perform a series of basic chemical tests, and then mail samples to the lab to be further analyzed for cooking spices and emerging pollutants.

Being able to buy renters insurance online is great news to the busy college student taking classes full time and working to pay for her off campus loft, as well as the senior citizen volunteering at his church and working part time in the city to help pay for his townhouse rental.

A handful of citizen volunteers digging up the correct information and piping it through blogs, social media, letters to the editor and conversations at coffee shops and on door steps to protect what we value — drinking water, schools, parks, key natural habitat and recreational areas.

As discussed a few days ago, a lobby team (or citizen volunteer Hill visitors) may be the best measuring tool, since they'll hear directly from staffers.

When citizens volunteer for their beliefs, it is the best part of our political process, and I am humbled to have been a part of it.»

«Now several members want to derail the REDCs by requiring their members to disclose personal financial information to a degree that is inappropriate for a private citizen volunteer,» Virginia Horvath and Jeff Belt, co-chairs of the governor's Western New York regional economic development council, wrote in a Feb. 27 letter to Western New York legislators, according to the Buffalo News.

The other group, to which Heineman devotes considerably more time, is the Autodefensas, a cadre of citizen volunteers in the Mexican state of Michoacán, led by the charismatic small - town physician Dr. Jose Mireles, known as «El Doctor.»

On March 8, she invited citizen volunteers to help audit the 2007 IPCC report.

Given the strong empirical support for adaptations of filial models, including Child - Parent Relationship Therapy (CPRT)(Landreth & Bratton, 2006) for use with teachers, teacher's aides, and even high school students, I decided to adapt Landreth & Bratton's CPRT 10 session model for use with senior citizen volunteers.

A committee comprised of local business owners, state Forest Rangers, and citizen volunteers is overseeing the process, alongside the town board in Schroon Lake and the Regional Office Of Sustainable Tourism (ROOST) in Lake Placid.

Thanks to citizen volunteers, scientists now know more than ever about the flies that attack monarch butterfly caterpillars.

At Citizen Schools, for example, citizen volunteers with specific skills teach the «apprenticeships.»

Minneapolis had the highest rate, with 36.7 % of its citizens volunteering; Miami came in last at 15.3 %

We monitor human activity in MPAs through our citizen volunteer program, MPA Watch, to detect changes in human activities as a result of the new protected area status in these areas, to identify instances and trends of non-compliance with MPA regulations, and to help interpret how fish populations are responding to the additional protection.

That's where the citizen volunteers and NGOs come in.

Even more, these citizen volunteers were lobbying for this carbon tax to be ratcheted up to be more more effective to meet the Canadian commitment to the December 2015 Paris Accords and reduce the global threat of climate change.

In 2010, I set out to see if senior citizen volunteers might be able to stand in the gap with school counselors and fill a crucial role by offering volunteer play sessions in the schools.