Sentences with phrase «community development projects»

It also establishes community development projects in surrounding villages.

My credit was a mess because of the business closing, and my husband was still on the east coast working on community development projects.

Alexa Kasdan, director of research and policy at The Community Development Project at the Urban Justice Center, said in a statement participatory budgeting «engages people who are disenchanted with politics and traditionally excluded from civic affairs.»

The Himba and Herero tribes benefit by learning sustainable businesses skills and their work generates income for community development projects focused on health care, clean water, sanitation, and education.

An award - winning social enterprise and founding B - Corporation member, Numi supports community development projects worldwide.

CM: One reason I've bought World Nomads travel insurance in the past is because I know you guys support global community development projects.

said Alexa Kasdan, Director of Research and Policy at The Community Development Project.

The African Artists for Development Endowment was set up in 2009 by Gervanne and Matthias Leridon in response to the UN Millennium Development Goals (MDG), the endowment fund African Artists for Development backs community development projects associated with works by contemporary African artists.

Their foundation African Artists for Development (AAD) was started in 2009 in response to the UN Millennium Development Goals (MDG), with the endowment fund African Artists for Development backs community development projects associated with works by contemporary African artists with a deep - seated conviction to secure a better future for the continent through development projects.

«He has a soaring affection among the youth and downtrodden with his Various empowerment programs and communities development projects which include Bursary awards and Scholarship, provision of Pipeborne water, provision of Electricity to rural and urban communities across the state, provision of non-higher price cab for taxi drivers, weekly empowerment of widows and aged.

During the 1960s and 1970s the FHA contributed to federal community development projects by financing millions of units of privately owned rental units for the elderly, the handicapped and lower income Americans.

Mayor Koch wrote about the city - wide Puerto Rican Community Development Project (PRCDP), a program that helped many Puerto Ricans who came to New York to live.

The IDA has specific polices to encourage business and industrial development as well as community development projects in specially designated urban and community centers.

The Salvation Army will continue to work with Borough President James Oddo and other community leaders «in seeking more financially viable community development projects to serve the area.»

After five rounds of the REDC process, nearly $ 4 billion has been awarded to more than 4,100 job creation and community development projects consistent with each region's strategic plans, supporting the creation or retention of more than 165,000 jobs.

RuthAnne Visnauskas, Commissioner of New York State Homes and Community Renewal said, «Under Governor Cuomo's leadership, HCR is committed to investing in dynamic community development projects that support the revitalization of cities like Albany.

She currently serves as a Scholar for the Mass Humanities funded Photos de Nosotros initiative, a youth - led creative writing and photography community development project that seeks to highlight Lawrencians through photography and creative writing.

The new facilities will help the city continue to improve library service and save ongoing operating costs, while anchoring catalytic community development projects for each of the neighborhoods and business districts in which the projects are located.

With insurance provider World Nomads, a portion of the price of insurance goes toward community development projects around the world.

You can also support a Footprints community development project when you purchase online.

Burgin shot these photographs as part of a commission from the National Community Development Project, a UK national charity, but, in their strange lack of empathy, the images depart from traditions of picturing «the other half,» swinging between something like surveillance footage and promotional materials.

Founded in 1846, Eugene is known for its very active and informed citizenry and this has lead to numerous community development projects that have served as models for cities around the country.

Social capital has also been recognized by the World Bank as an important basis for poverty alleviation and sustainable economic and human development and is being incorporated into World Bank community development projects.46 The importance of social capital has also been identified by the Australian Productivity Commission, through its reports into gambling, competition policy and the job network.

Fairbanks Commons is the eighteenth community development project that U.S. Bank and Chelsea have partnered to develop and finance.

The Master Planned Communities segment includes the development and sale of land, primarily in large - scale, long - term community development projects in and around Columbia, Maryland, Summerlin, Nevada and Houston, Texas.

As the process continues to expand we look forward to seeing this community - driven civic engagement opportunity made available to an increasing number of New Yorkers,» said Erin Markman, Research and Policy Coordinator, Community Development Project at the Urban Justice Center.

Cities and towns throughout the United States offer grant funding for community development projects.

When you buy travel insurance with us, you can join more than 1 million other world nomads who have made micro-donations to our global community development projects.

We pay farmers and organic premium with another 10 % into a Fair Trade Fund that supports community development projects.

We hope to support initiatives and new organizations attracting, strengthening and developing pipelines for leaders of color in education and related fields as well as invest in partnerships with community based organizations engaged in community development projects in which education improvements figures prominently.

Caldwell's bio on the church's website says «In partnership with the Windsor Village Church Family, Caldwell has spearheaded several independently operated nonprofits and community development projects that have impacted the social and economic landscape of central Southwest Houston.»

Priscilla Almodovar oversees JPMorgan Chase's investments in community development projects in underserved markets.

The plan — always subject to change — is to visit an orphange, a community development project, a tent city, a church service, and hang out with local pastors and leaders.

Many NGOs and church groups have worked at community development projects, but governments and global agencies have engaged in top - down development, such as huge dams, destructive of community.

In New York, the Local Initiatives Support Corporation secures corporate and foundation investment capital for «locally created, locally executed» community development projects.

In the community development project of the year category, Price Rite Supermarket, R.O.D.E. Development Project, and Salina 1st LLC.

«The purpose of the money is to offset the cost of the stadium and the traffic and pollution surrounding it,» said Harvey Epstein, director of the Community Development Project at the Urban Justice Center.

«The data that we have collected over the past three years shows that participatory budgeting is a gateway to civic engagement for New Yorkers that are often left out of politics and government such as youth, immigrants, and low - income people,» said Alexa Kasdan, Director of Research and Policy at the Community Development Project at the Urban Justice Center.

According to findings from the Community Development Project at the Urban Justice Center, of Participatory Budgeting voters surveyed:

According to preliminary findings from the Community Development Project at the Urban Justice Center, of Participatory Budgeting voters surveyed:

Epstein is a public interest attorney who just wrapped up a 12 - year tour of duty as head of the Community Development Project at the Urban Justice Center.

On Friday, attorneys for the Community Development Project of the Urban Justice Center fired off a letter to City Planning Director Marisa Lago.

Epstein, an attorney, leads the Community Development Project of the Urban Justice Center.

Council Member Brad Lander (D - Brooklyn); Council Member Melissa Mark - Viverito (D - Manhattan); Council Member Eric Ulrich (R - Queens); Council Member Jumaane D. Williams (D - Brooklyn); Josh Lerner, Executive Director of the Participatory Budgeting Project; Agnes Rivera, Board Member of Community Voices Heard; Alexa Kasdan, Director of Research and Policy at the Community Development Project of the Urban Justice Center; local district committee members and budget delegates.

In the past, our County has left these stakeholders to largely fend for themselves when it came to navigating the confusing web of state - funded programs for job creation and community development projects.