Sentences with phrase «citizen volunteers in»

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For example, in Britain, one of the biggest providers of legal advice is the Citizens» Advice Bureau, which is staffed with salaried managers, trained volunteers, and professionals (including solicitors) available as backup or for specialized advice.

A proud dual U.S. / Israel citizen, he has served as a volunteer in the Israel Defense Forces» Home Front Command, a specialized division of the Israeli Army dedicated to domestic and international search and rescue.

Red Cross volunteers are on the ground in the city assisting citizens with shelter and supplies.

This opportunity is only eligible for Global Citizens who are at least 18 years old and can volunteer for at least a week (ideally a minimum of two weeks) in Puerto Rico or Texas between now and Dec. 31, 2018.

«Though we already pay # 11 billion a year to subsidise a low - wage economy because employers are not paying people enough to live on, volunteers up and down the country are providing a further # 30 million a year in «free» labour to ensure that our fellow citizens in low paid work, on zero hour contracts, or relying on a broken benefits system have enough to eat.

Mormon volunteers in Ghana, for example, arranged for 1.5 million text messages to be sent to fellow citizens in support of the country's launch of vaccines against pneumonia and rotavirus, two diseases that together claim the lives of more than 2 million children around the world every year.

1) Charities spend their income on necessities, such as food and utilities, which ever - so - slightly re-orients our economy toward recession - resistant products, rather than luxuries 2) Charities spend their money quickly, but on independent schedules, making for a smoother stimulus effect on the economy 3) Charities make purchases tax - free, meaning that $ 1 spent by a charity generates a full $ 1 of private economic activity; furthermore, much of those tax revenues are recovered as income tax on the grocery stores, utility companies, etc. that might not have received that income otherwise 4) Charitable giving is by far the most democratic way to improve society; from birth control to bombers, government assuredly spends money on something you don't like, and charitable giving restores your say - so 5) Charitable donations are tax deductible, meaning you keep those tax dollars in your local community 6) Charitable donations provide the funds necessary for volunteers to serve the needy, thus giving «the average citizen» a chance to meet and interact with the needy, breaking down stereotypes

Though I have performed several volunteer efforts from being a «Big Sister» to working in organic farms, to food banks to troubled teenagers, senior citizens, abused kids, arts etc but I had never built a playground.

Arcadia offers many opportunities to participate in wildlife research and protection efforts as a citizen science volunteer.

Oak Knoll offers many opportunities to participate in wildlife research and protection efforts as a citizen science volunteer.

Endicott offers many opportunities to participate in wildlife research and protection efforts as a citizen science volunteer.

«Unfortunately, it's hard to get people to volunteer - and we already have a lot of citizen committees in Bloomingdale,» he said.

The board receives community input through its citizens in various capacities; including community volunteers, and from the general public.

Gause is one of 25 «Grandma, Please» volunteers, who will be honored Monday in a 10 a.m. awards ceremony at the Chicago Cultural Center, 78 E. Washington St. Started 10 years ago as a service for senior citizens by the Uptown Center Hull House Association and supported by the Chicago Community Trust, the program handles at least 800 calls a month from youngsters who come home after school to an empty house and want to talk to a grownup.

We offer many opportunities to participate in wildlife research and protection efforts as a citizen science volunteer in our monitoring and survey projects.

Broad Meadow Brook offers many opportunities to participate in wildlife research and protection efforts as a citizen science volunteer.

Wachusett Meadow offers many opportunities to participate in wildlife research and protection efforts as a citizen science volunteer.

Comprised of health professionals from hospitals, clinics, state - level public health departments, and universities, concerned parents and citizens, and volunteers from community organizations, each member contributes time, energy, and expertise to activities that support breastfeeding in Pennsylvania.

Habitat offers many opportunities to participate in wildlife research and protection efforts as a citizen science volunteer.

In addition to activating teens, the aquarium is also opening the citizen science project to its volunteer base of more than 800.

Moose Hill offers many opportunities to participate in wildlife research and protection efforts as a citizen science volunteer.

Felix Neck offers many opportunities to participate in wildlife research and protection efforts as a citizen science volunteer.

Oneida County Youth Bureau Director Kevin Green has recognized youth volunteers from The Center for Family Life and Recovery, Cornell Cooperative Extension, The Neighborhood Center, Thea Bowman House, John Bosco House, Utica Safe Schools / Underground Café and Dodge Pratt Northam Art Community all performed community service that included assisting in a bicycle giveaway for Utica children, making Christmas cards to send to veterans and service members, soliciting donations, collecting money and walking in Utica's version of America's Greatest Heart Run and Walk, the Walk to end Alzheimer's, Out of the Darkness Walk to Prevent Suicide, Making Strides to end Breast Cancer Walk, cleaning senior citizen's yards, preparing food and serving meals at local food pantries, youth mentoring and tutoring and other community activities.

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.

Green added, «compassion for those in need, caring enough to do the work, and bringing joy to others are three characteristics these 450 youth volunteers brought to Oneida Counties senior citizen population.»

Targeting shoreline sites, thousands of volunteers come out to engage in direct citizen action that makes our community a better place.

Oneida County Youth Bureau Director Bob Roth said youth volunteers from The Boys and Girls Club of the Mohawk Valley, The Center for Family Life and Recovery, Cornell Cooperative Extension, The Neighborhood Center, Thea Bowman House, Upstate Cerebral Palsy, Utica Safe Schools / Underground Café and the YMCA of the Greater Tri-Valley performed community service that included assisting in a bicycle giveaway for Utica children, making Christmas cards to send to veterans and service members, soliciting donations, collecting money and walking in Utica's version of America's Greatest Heart Run and Walk, the Walk to end Alzheimer's and Rome's Relay for Life, cleaning senior citizen's yards, preparing food and serving meals at local food pantries, folding and stuffing envelopes at the National Center for Missing and Exploited Children and other community activities.

A proud product of New York City's public schools, Jenny began volunteering as a teenager in activities that encourage Asian American citizens to become registered voters and participate in the electoral process.

A proud product of New York City's public schools, Jenny began volunteering as a teenager in activities that encourage Asian American citizens to become registered voters and participate...

[31] Maude argued that like most people he was doing things which could be defined as «volunteering with a capital V» but are part of being «an active citizen in an active community».

Varner's primary public engagement is through citizen science engagement programs, which she views as an opportunity help volunteers appreciate the natural world, consider local consequences of climate change and participate in all aspects of science.

In reviewing videos, Shanley «learned that a focus on the personal stories of the citizen science volunteers themselves, and what motivated them to contribute to scientific research, made for a much more compelling story than a strict focus on the science.»

While some citizen science programs are modeled on the idea that volunteers are strictly there to learn from professionals, Shirk said citizen scientists also want to be part of a discovery and help gather data relevant to a problem that interests them in calling upon programs to embrace learning together.

EYE SPY A new citizen science project needs volunteers to help identify protein molecules in micrographs (right image is the same micrograph as the left, except with the proteins circled).

Bioinformaticist Andrew Su (center front) has launched a crowdsourcing campaign to find game - changing links in biomedical literature by using volunteer «citizen scientists.»

Varner is an assistant professor of biology at Colorado Mesa University and a co-founder of Cascades Pika Watch in Oregon, a collaborative citizen science program that invites volunteers to track populations of pikas, tiny mammals that are vulnerable to the effects of climate change.

Those limited resources mean that JunoCam's scientists rely on a small army of volunteer «citizen scientists» using backyard telescopes to flag transient features in the Jovian atmosphere as «points of interest» for the instrument to observe.

A citizen science project is seeking volunteers to scour photos of Kenyan rocks in a bid to reconstruct past landscapes and environments

Thanks to the Internet, amateur volunteers known as «citizen scientists» can readily donate their time and effort to science — in fields ranging from medicine to zoology to astrophysics.

For Cooper, these results showed both that researchers had strong confidence in data from volunteers and revealed that the influence of citizen science on the study of birds and climate change was greater than is commonly acknowledged.

Wide range of opportunities Bonney was one of the first to use the term «citizen science» in 1994 as a way to more easily describe the types of volunteer - based studies that had become more popular at the university since the end of the 1980s.

That's unfortunate because using citizen science in studies would not only highlight volunteers» role in science, it could also could attract more investment into future research, said Rick Bonney, director of program development and evaluation at the Cornell Lab of Ornithology, who reviewed Cooper's study.

Early on, the experiments employed volunteers, but as the program grew, ordinary American citizens and foreign nationals became unsuspecting subjects in the studies.

Dr Cox said that it is important to understand the motivations of citizen scientists due to the possibility of increased competition to recruit and retain such volunteers in the future.

The citizen science website is seeking volunteers to look for fossils and stone tools and to classify rocks captured in aerial photos of Kenya's Lake Turkana Basin.

Therapist by day and amateur astronomer by night, Castro joined the NASA - funded Backyard Worlds: Planet 9 citizen science project when it began in February — not knowing she would become one of four volunteers to help identify the project's first brown dwarf, formally known as WISEA J110125.95 +540052.8.

The work of the 2.3 million volunteer citizen scientists who contribute to biodiversity research have an economic value of up to $ 2.5 billion per year, said Jennifer Gustetic, assistant director for open innovation in the White House Office of Science and Technology Policy, Executive Office of the President.

When you volunteer in Fort Worth, not only will it make you feel good that you're doing something for the city, but you'll also come together with other philanthropic citizens.

It's their hope that if they arm students with hands - on learning opportunities, those students will become more active, informed citizens — prepared to vote, volunteer, and engage in civic life.

Since its founding in 1992, NatureMapping has grown from its origin as a small - scale Washington State nature program that enlisted retired resources professionals, zoo docents, and Audubon Society members as citizen - scientist volunteer wildlife reporters.