Sentences with phrase «city initiatives in»

Gray's report points to a number of nationally known charter school organizations, such as Uncommon Schools, and city initiatives in New Orleans and New York City as examples of successful reform that Kansas City's new model could foster.

While this measure will not make it possible to compare progress across city initiatives in any meaningful way, it does provide a common indicator that can serve as a proxy for a number of factors that influence child wellbeing, including health, mental health, and family stability.

Bank - Olemoh also underscored the commitment of the State Government, under the leadership of Governor Akinwunmi Ambode to position Lagos State as the technology frontier in Africa saying it was also in line with the Lagos Smart City initiative in partnership with Dubai Smart City.

The beetles enter the country mainly through ports so New York City has been particularly at risk, Rachel Holmes, program coordinator for the Conservancy's Healthy Trees, Healthy Cities initiative in New York, told Tree Hugger.

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This topic came up recently at a meeting where everyone was bemoaning the funding cutbacks in social services in many cities and the fact that outreach efforts, awareness campaigns and other marketing initiatives were among the first things to be dropped.

The Omani - based company leads many different initiatives in a variety of sectors, ranging from higher education to solar energy to core testing for oil and gas, and even trying to build a «smart city» which may enable citizens to pay utility bills automatically, amongst other things.

While the initiative will cost the city around 12 million euros a year in lost fares, authorities in Tallinn argue that free transport offers several key benefits.

Over the years, Gotham has pushed through initiatives that ranged from lifestyle perks like free Wi - Fi in public parks and subway stations to make the city more attractive to a tech workforce, to establishing a network of business incubators to help provide affordable office space to more than 500 startups.

When it came to transforming the city's infrastructure, the mayor stayed within budget by implementing a temporary one - cent sales tax initiative, which will expire in December 2017.

«In a small city, it will be easier to get to know the best service providers, such as lawyers, your banker may likely be someone you know, and you can more easily create a name for yourself,» said Chuck Sacco, assistant dean of strategic initiatives in the Charles D. Close School of Entrepreneurship at Drexel UniversitIn a small city, it will be easier to get to know the best service providers, such as lawyers, your banker may likely be someone you know, and you can more easily create a name for yourself,» said Chuck Sacco, assistant dean of strategic initiatives in the Charles D. Close School of Entrepreneurship at Drexel Universitin the Charles D. Close School of Entrepreneurship at Drexel University.

New business owners in Memphis will find support in multiple city initiatives, including both incubators and accelerators.

«The state and city used Katrina to wipe away the dysfunction and corruption in the school system,» Medberry says, referring to the city's charter school initiative, which largely replaced public schools with privately operated institutions after 2005.

Within the next decade, all public schools in New York City will be required to offer computer - science classes to all students as part of Computer Science For All, a new initiative by Mayor Bill de Blasio.

The beating heart of the startup ecosystem in Argentina is the city of Buenos Aires, where the local government has created various initiatives for the entrepreneur community.

The two - day event in New York City, sponsored by Time Warner, highlighted the «State of the Network,» and offered insight on exciting new initiatives planned for 2015/2016, in addition to a focus on our certified women business owners.

Kuwait City — April 21, 2015: MIT Enterprise Forum of the Pan Arab region, with the strategic partner Abdul Latif Jameel Community Initiatives (ALJCI) and the Zain Group, announced that teams from Egypt, Jordan, Lebanon, Morocco, Saudi Arabia and the United Arab Emirates made it to the winner's stage at the MIT Enterprise Forum Arab Startup Competition for best start - up innovative and creative business ideas in the Arab world among 75 contesting teams from 15 Arab countries.

Mayor Steve Benjamin spoke about the city's passion for initiatives supporting veterans and their families and expressed his appreciation for the leadership role Starbucks has embraced in supporting veterans and the local Columbia community.

Prior to Forest City, Jeffrey worked for PricewaterhouseCoopers in the Management Consulting Services division, advising Fortune 500 clients on enterprise - wide process improvement initiatives.

Dubbed Xiong «An Global Blockchain Innovation Fund, the new initiative was announced Monday at the opening ceremony of a new Blockchain Industrial Park in Hangzhou - a Chinese city noted for its support for innovation and which plays host to major companies such as Alibaba.

Burnaby has pushed to be a better city for its citizens and it has been recognized in the past for its initiatives with awards even the Best Run City in Canada, as named by Maclean's Magazcity for its citizens and it has been recognized in the past for its initiatives with awards even the Best Run City in Canada, as named by Maclean's MagazCity in Canada, as named by Maclean's Magazine.

Among the initiatives is the creation this year of seven international news bureaus in «entertainment» markets — Hong Kong, Seoul, Mexico City, Moscow, Rio de Janiero, Lagos and Mumbai — headed up by Davan Maharaj, publisher and editor - in - chief of the LA Times.

At launch events in Toronto, Quebec City, Charlottetown and Clarington, the Government of Canada rolled out funding as part of its initiative to create 10,000 paid student work placements over the next four...

The church coordinated not only Foster the City but also other social justice initiatives in the surrounding neighborhoods.

Jackson and other religious leaders challenged the city on the measure saying the matter should be put to District voters in a ballot initiative.

These developments ignited parallel initiatives in other cities.

A statement read: «In a social and political climate such as ours, it often takes a gathering of unlikely individuals to shape the future of our nation on issues of faith and inner city initiatives.

His initiatives included sending two diocesan priests annually on doctoral studies mostly to the Jesuit Faculty of Theology in Brussels; reorganising the seminary in households linked to large city parishes where 10 to 12 seminarians live and undertake pastoral work while attending theological studies at the Faculte; and, perhaps above all, linking theological studies firmly to knowledge of the living Word of God in Scripture.

Alpha's North American initiative is directed by former management consultant Alistair Hanna, whose wife, Nancy Hanna, has led Alpha as a pastor at St. Bartholomew's Episcopal Church in New York City.

One of the most startling facts about America is the contrast between our great prosperity as a nation and these islands of misery in our cities, Why, with all our resources, initiative and ingenuity, do we do so little to solve these problems?

The campaign initiative is being headed by Michael Wear, the Obama campaign's National Faith Vote Coordinator, Derrick Harkins, Director of Faith Outreach for the Democratic National Committee, the Rev. Regena Thomas, pastor of Allen A.M.E. Church in Atlantic City, New Jersey, Katherine Archuleta, a political director for the campaign, and Broderick Johnson, a campaign adviser who focuses on Catholic outreach.

He travels all over the Southeast to support various ministry initiatives in inner cities.

An active national leader in the fight against hunger, Danny serves on the board of Share Our Strength and has long supported hunger relief initiatives including City Harvest, God's Love We Deliver, and the Bed - Stuy Campaign Against Hunger.

Le Pain Quotidien ran a pilot program in New York City last year certifying 43 of its restaurants as CO2 Neutral, a CO2logic initiative.

«As we've begun to launch initiatives in cities in the United States, we begin to move up in the overall category of lemon consumption,» Edwards says.

The one day initiative fits with Vancouver's Greenest City Action Plan and with environmental goals laid out in the city's recently - released Food StratCity Action Plan and with environmental goals laid out in the city's recently - released Food Stratcity's recently - released Food Strategy.

Foremost in their minds now is food security, something that the City of Davao has been proud of being the first with a local initiative in 2010 to pass the Organic Agriculture Ordinance ahead of Republic Act 10068 (Organic Agriculture Act of 2010) on the same year.

The initiative is being led by the Brazilian Vegetarian Society, in partnership with organisations that include São Paulo's Municipal Secretary of Green and Environment, Vegetarian Magazine, Greenpeace and others — a real breakthrough from a city in one of the world's biggest meat - exporting countries.

Chata products started in 1962 in the city of Culiacan, Sinaloa Mexico by the initiative of the Machado Pina Family with Mrs. Augusta Pina Machado, known as Mrs. Chata.

This year, Providence, R.I., Mayor Jorge Elorza was honored with 2nd place in the Medium City category in recognition of his «Eat Play Learn PVD» initiative.

This year Waterloo, Iowa, Mayor Quentin Hart received the 2017 Childhood Obesity Prevention Award for a small city in recognition of his innovative «Healthy H2O Loo» initiative.

(NEW YORK)-- The Alliance for a Healthier Generation and America's beverage companies announced today that New York City will now be part of a community - based initiative to help reduce beverage calories consumed by 20 percent per person by 2025 in neighborhoods where there has been less interest in or access to lower - calorie and smaller - portion beverages.

These lessons will be used to improve the effectiveness of the initiative, with the best strategies being applied elsewhere in Los Angeles as well as other cities where they might work.

These lessons will be used to improve the effectiveness of the initiative, with the best strategies being applied elsewhere in Mississippi as well as other cities where they might work.

These lessons will be used to improve the effectiveness of the initiative, with the best strategies being applied elsewhere in Alabama as well as other cities where they might work.

Hangzhou City, People's Republic of China (21 September 2017)- Agriculture research heads of 14 Asian countries supported the ASEAN +3 Rice Breeding and Genetics Initiative - a long - term regional investment and collaboration initiative in rice breeding aimed to address regional food security and national rice sector strategies.

Burger 21 began franchising in fall 2011 and launched an aggressive growth initiative to bring its crafted burger creations and signature shakes to more cities across the country.

negatives -LRB--)-- terrible result — wengers team selection (arteta + ozil in particular)-- generally poor work - rate across the pitch and nothing like the backbone we showed against man city — handing dortmund initiative to top the group (we all know what finishing 2nd means)-- lack of hunger + desire — welbeck misses — still no joel campbell (who in my personal opinion is a big game / stage player)-- in all our «set - piece» training we totally forgot about the bread and butter of football which is making an impact in open play

Everton in the Community is working with Liverpool City Council to deliver «City of Readers», an initiative to improve literacy levels and create a new generation of readers across the cCity Council to deliver «City of Readers», an initiative to improve literacy levels and create a new generation of readers across the cCity of Readers», an initiative to improve literacy levels and create a new generation of readers across the citycity.

Obama announced that if he is elected president, the main thrust of his urban - poverty policy will be a billion - dollar initiative to replicate the Harlem Children's Zone in twenty cities across the country.

To promote and support breastfeeding for all mothers in Ottawa, I also urge you to consider having the City of Ottawa follow the initiative of the City of Toronto's Public Health Department, which is working towards the internationally recognized Baby - Friendly Initiative (BFI) designation.