Sentences with phrase «civic community»

The intent is to help urban planners, local leaders and civic communities make more informed decisions.

Teens looking to complete 5 hours or less of school or civic community service hours should contact us for availability.

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

The annual event, held this year at the Golden Ocala Golf and Equestrian Club, brings together judges, lawyers and representatives of the local civic community for an afternoon meal.

«Mayor Pugh, Baltimore Development Corporation, Sagamore Development Company and the business and civic community pulled together as a team and put together a comprehensive package to ensure that Baltimore put its best foot forward.

Create a coalition of elected, school and civic community leaders to sign a school - wide pledge to say No Bullying: Not In Our School / Not In Our Town.

Young: «In the 1990s, when the Annenberg Foundation gave LAUSD half a billion dollars and the local business and civic community matched that donation two - to - one, no one was screaming, «Don't let the billionaires take over our schools.»

In moving forward under John Deasy or any successor, unless we pull together as Board, teachers, and full civic community, we run the risk of losing the student achievement gains we have made during a short period of time.

In January 2005, leaders from Connecticut's business, higher education and civic communities came together to create ConnCAN: The Connecticut Coalition for Achievement Now, a nonprofit organization designed to be a catalyst for the fundamental changes needed to ensure every child in the state received a high - quality education, regardless of their address.

A project team has been assembled from Tauranga's most influential business and civic community bodies.

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.

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

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.

They alone will empower us to take the two most basic actions in this regard: first, to identify ourselves as members of civic communities — inclusive of the natural communities with which we share common ground; and second, to organize ourselves as civic communities by regaining control of our social, political and economic institutions and reinhabiting the land that sustains us.

The main thrust of this missiological approach is valid since, from the perspective of the Christian faith, there is no reason why conversion and baptism should involve changing one's civic community.

Parekh's complaint was that «the Christian church had become a civic community instead of a spiritual fellowship» (Carl Binslev, L.P.Larsen p. 69).

Club members felt the Rabbi should have a fitting tribute, yet still felt any memorial would fall short of recognizing the lives he touched throughout his travels in politics and in the civic community.

She continues to progressively serve her community and is active in the religious, educational and civic communities.

With his interest piqued, he then went on to educate himself on zoning law as well as the civic community, earned a masters of science in urban affairs and planning from Hunter College and helped form the North Flushing Civic Association.

2018-04-07 17:42 Robert Putnam, social capital and civic community.

The students were judged the best in such categories as understanding «the importance of civic engagement in a democratic society» and using «technological skills to enhance the value of their projects» by a panel including CEOs of large businesses such as Walgreens and Radio Shack, as well as members of the educational and civic communities.

Led by Excellent Schools Detroit, the civic community is working hard to address the challenges facing Detroit's families.

Participating in a democratic community enables young people to enter the adult world with the skills, values, and commitment to actively participate in our civic community.

The learning activities that were suggested for gifted / enrichment students are problem - based, necessitating small group collaboration, research, discussion, empathy, design, scientific inquiry, debate, question of our civic community constructs and personal and community reflection, the affective domain.

Building on her clinical cat commitments and organizational passions, she serves as the Executive Director of CATalyst Council, a not - for - profit coalition of organizations and individuals committed to changing the way society cares for cats, «Promoting the Power of Purr...» across veterinary, sheltering, and public / civic communities.

«Safdie's office has made a lasting impact on our local and regional architectural and civic community, and this exhibition will be a testament to an impressive body of work.»

Walker is very active in the legal and civic communities both locally and nationally.