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«We join other faith and civic communities in being committed to playing our part in improving the welcome offered to refugees.

This is no less true of the civic communities in which we participate — and the stories that we live out as citizens.

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In the letter, which has been published online, the civic leaders said Amazon must be ready to hire local workers, pay its fair share of local taxes, and negotiate with the local community to ensure its facility will positive impact everyone.

Amazon's plan to build a second headquarters in one lucky city across the U.S. is being met with some criticism from civic leaders who are concerned the company won't do enough to help the community it will ultimately choose.

«This caused a lot of anguish in the community, not only among civic leadership,» he says.

When the collection of major works housed at the city's world - class Detroit Institute of Arts Museum was in danger of being liquidated to pay off municipal debt, the federal mediator, Judge Gerald Rosen, city emergency manager, Kevyn Orr, and other civic leaders leaned heavily on community and national foundations, lawmakers and the museum itself to put their money where their masterpieces were.

The community is currently building a new civic centre with a new ice rink and pool to come in the next couple of years.

Active in the community, Bessant was awarded the Order of the Long Leaf Pine for her civic and business contributions to the state of North Carolina and received the Women in Business Lifetime Achievement Award from the Charlotte Business Journal.

Zuckerberg said that Facebook could move far beyond its roots as a network for friends and families to communicate, suggesting that it can play a role in five areas, all of which he referred to as «communities,» ranging from strengthening traditional institutions, to providing help during and after crises, to boosting civic engagement.

She found little evidence to support the idea that owners participate in civic and community activities any more than renters, and after controlling for factors such as income, housing quality and health, she concluded that owners were no happier.

The first of these stores is set to open in early 2017 in Baltimore, MD, where Starbucks has been working with local community, civic and business leaders with the collective goal of addressing the opportunity gap facing the city's young men and women.

Deeply rooted in the St. Louis region, Polsinelli, an AM Law 100 firm, has a steadfast reputation in the legal and business communities and is known for its sophisticated work, industry knowledge, civic leadership and an entrepreneurial spirit.

Adam has developed strong connections in the local civic, educational, corporate and entrepreneur communities by working as a volunteer co-leader of the Kansas City Startup Village since its inception in 2012.

The recently retired head of Cox Communications in San Diego, Geppert has joined with businessman and civic benefactor Malin Burnham, who has led an effort to buy the U-T and form a community nonprofit to run it.

Religion, and Christian communities in particular, can and should, says the author, model the civic culture for which he hopes - a culture that will retrieve and rehabilitate the best of the liberal Enlightenment tradition.

It will require that we turn more of our attention homeward, away from raging national controversies and toward the everyday lives of our living moral communities — toward family, school, and congregation; toward civic priorities and local commitments; toward neighbors in need and friends in crisis.

We must construct new models, new pageantry, new hymns, new forms of prayer, new anthems of praise, new dramatizations, in which, for example, the labor movement may be caught up in the embrace of religion, the peace movement, the civic conscience, the community spirit, the family and every great aspiration of our time.

Most of the major civic institutions in American communities today — like the Boy Scouts, the Red Cross, the League of Women Voters, the NAACP, the Urban League, the Knights of Columbus, Rotary, Kiwanis, the Lions Club — were created in this period.

An African - American physician noted that this was the first time his community had been asked to come in at the beginning of an important civic project and play a significant role.»

If we are unable to affirm important enough meanings in the stories of our civic communities to be shared and celebrated in our churches, we will always stand in a secondary rather than a primary relationship to the struggle for eco-justice.

If we are going to teach a public ethic of eco-justice, we need public stories of eco-justice — public parables that have the capacity to communicate the meaning of our love for the earth and for people as citizens: the reality of the struggle for eco-justice in the ongoing history of our civic communities.

In the larger social community, in the affairs of business, and in civic life the notion of the infinite value of personality is a noble abstraction more than a living realitIn the larger social community, in the affairs of business, and in civic life the notion of the infinite value of personality is a noble abstraction more than a living realitin the affairs of business, and in civic life the notion of the infinite value of personality is a noble abstraction more than a living realitin civic life the notion of the infinite value of personality is a noble abstraction more than a living reality.

By contrast, the economic, cultural, and civic sources of marital strength remain comparatively strong in upscale communities like Darien, Connecticut, McLean, Virginia, Los Altos, California, and Southlake, Texas.

So, what we are seeing is that a range of economic, cultural, and civic changes in American life have all conspired to weaken marriage in poor and working - class communities across the United States.

Another had a legal background and became a resource in the community for prophetic ministry and civic action.

(CNN)-- Linda Stephens has lived in her upstate New York community for more than three decades and has long been active in civic affairs.

With stunning consistency, virtually every indicator of civic engagement currently available shows the same pattern of increase followed by stagnation and decline — newspaper reading; TV news watching; attending political meetings; petition signing; running for public office; attending public meetings; serving as an officer or committee member in any local clubs or organizations; writing letters to the editor; participating in local meetings of national organizations; attending religious services; socializing informally with friends, relatives or neighbors; attending club meetings; joining unions; entertaining friends at home; participating in picnics; eating the evening meal with the whole family; going out to bars, nightclubs, discos or taverns; playing cards; sending greeting cards; attending parties; playing sports; donating money as a percentage of income; working on community projects; giving blood.

A person's contribution is the whole of his life, which includes his acceptance of civic responsibility, his participation in the life of the church, and his personal relationships in the community and on the job.

In the congregation I serve, the teaching ministry once put all its eggs in a Sunday forum on community and civic issueIn the congregation I serve, the teaching ministry once put all its eggs in a Sunday forum on community and civic issuein a Sunday forum on community and civic issues.

To be truly beneficial these changes would go hand in hand with increasing productivity and declining work hours, reversing recent trends, so that family, community, and civic concerns might flourish.

For the time being, at least, we must keep it in place as an emotional crutch for the weak and as a civic religion that can bind us together in political community.

They see meaning in the various issues that come up in their business and family life, in community relations, in civic and social responsibilities, even in leisure.

In his book, The New York Idea, Mario Cuomo states that over and above both his «personal feelings» and the significant civic and religious opposition to casinos, «there is a respectable body of economic though that holds that casino gambling is actually economically regressive to a state and a community.»

The plaque had been placed in the cathedral in 2008, during the civic celebration of the four hundredth anniversary of the founding of New France, and it read like this (my translation): «The Society for the 400th Anniversary of Québec, through its president, Mr. Jean Leclerc, pays homage to bishops, priests, and religious communities of men and women for their exceptional contributions to the history and the culture of the people of Québec.»

«People aren't just atomistic individuals bouncing around in a free market; they are members of communities with attachments to faith, family, and civic associations that give their lives meaning.»

Francis Campbell sees Benedict XVI's message — especially as delivered to a gathering of MPs and leaders of civic society in Westminster Hall, a highlight of the State Visit — as central for today's Catholics, striving to make a positive contribution to national and community life in the 21st century.

She is well educated, deeply involved in the community and a successful businesswoman and civic leader — hardly a Neanderthal or escapist.

First, since human society always employs violence to enforce some set of standards, Christians» whom Christ called to live out a radically different form of community, one in which it is the crucified rather than his judges who is vindicated as God's Word» should simply take up the burden of civic order and abandon the Gospel where prudentially necessary because, you know, someone absolutely has to kill heretics, and so we should make sure the right heretics get killed.

In addition to money and particularly land, the heritage and background one brought from England was important, as was one's status in the church and in the various civic functions within the community.In addition to money and particularly land, the heritage and background one brought from England was important, as was one's status in the church and in the various civic functions within the community.in the church and in the various civic functions within the community.in the various civic functions within the community.14

I believe strongly in civic engagement, and am quite involved in my own community in serving and loving others.

In an area bereft of banks, civic clubs, industry, and professionals, the churches were the only organizations — apart from the rackets — that remained alive amid the wreckage of community.

We will consider requests to support social, community, civic, educational and economic endeavors if these support corporate business goals and meet contribution guidelines and / or if the organization's staff is involved in the governance of the organization.

For in - kind product donations, we focus more on local community, mission - aligned and civic organizations, and local schools.

EG350 works to combat climate change in our community and around the world through civics, education, and activism.

Newcastle is in many ways at a lower ebb than it was back then — before the consequences of the credit crunch and years of Tory government had really been felt — and, as I noted in that October article, is «in desperate need of the sense of community and belonging, the civic pride and identity, the feelgood factor and escapist pleasure, the solace and succour that the city's football club can potentially provide».

The Arlington Heights Park District establishes partnerships with many civic organizations and businesses both in and outside of our community.

Pomponi says, «I knew this could go viral because Miles» story was compelling and it appealed to civic pride and community in San Francisco, a city with tremendous social media presence.

Dr. Wheeler has over 30 years of progressive experience in all phases of public and private sector policy development working in process development, crisis resolution, civic engagement, community / economic development, and planning as well as policy development and implementation.

Shedd is governed by the Shedd Aquarium Society, composed of volunteer corporate, civic and community leaders that make up the 55 - member Board of Trustees with the primary responsibility for governance oversight and fiduciary accountability, as outlined in the Society's bylaws.

If a civic organization in your community came to your house selling tickets for $ 5 for a new car, and every two out of 100 people would win, you would think those are pretty good odds; much better than the average lottery.