Sentences with phrase «community efforts around»

Its location in the heart of New York, a short distance from the New York Stock Exchange, has since became a hub for Bitcoin in the large city and a model for other community efforts around the world.

Its location in the heart of New York, a short distance from the New York Stock Exchange, has since became a hub for Bitcoin in the large city and a model for other community efforts around the world.

Not exact matches

Through our model for driving inclusive growth, we are undertaking significant, long - term, and coordinated efforts in Washington and communities around the world.

Renzi's ministers say they will not let the communities around Amatrice die, but they have not explained how they can speed up Italy's rebuilding efforts and have declined to speculate when the reconstruction might be complete.

We're not only supporting companies, we're also building a community around us, opening our space to middle - and high - school students in an effort to create more entrepreneurs and makers.

Taobao is the e-commerce (and around Taobao, recently more effort is spent on its own SNS, open platform etc); Alipay solves the online payment; Koubei (Yelp - like service) is building an active online community; Aliwangwang, the Instant Messenger helps you to communicate with the seller, the customers and friends; Alisoft is the SaaS platform, and strong partnership with third parties and the government help on the logistics, setting up offline stores, branding etc..

Each June, Franklin Templeton celebrates Involved Impact Days, our global dedicated month of volunteering where employees around the world put in an extra effort to participate in community service projects.

Although Qlik's content centers around its products, the company receives high marks for its community building efforts and its clean, intuitive design.

A church is supposed to be the combined efforts of EVERYONE in it to serve their communities, not an exclusive group that sits around talking about their own needs.

Ridiculing Obama's efforts to engage the international community, Huckabee said, «There was once a time when our foreign policy was, «Walk softly and carry a big stick»... Our new policy is, walk softly and carry a great big olive branch, or maybe even a bag of Stay Puft marshmallows so that when we build around the campfire we can sing «Kumbaya» and have a lovely time holding arms and talking about how well we're getting on.»

During the past year Louisville's news has been dominated by several seemingly disparate issues — the troubled relationship between the police department and the African - American community; efforts to build more mixed - income housing in the city; adoption of a regional plan intended to moderate suburban sprawl; disagreement about the number and location of proposed new Ohio River bridges linking Louisville and southern Indiana; a campaign to attract high - tech business to the downtown area; and a lively election campaign around the issue of a city - county merger.

I did get to talk about John - Dylan's scholarship, and I told [the audience] to look around because I know in their lunchrooms there is someone who is putting forth that extra effort, trying to do something for the whole community.

The Independent Institute joins the successful efforts of numerous community initiatives around the country to offer children a competitive education alternative in the San Francisco East Bay.

As we celebrate the centennial of the National Park Service (NPS) and its stewardship of the over 400 national parks, monuments, and recreation areas covering more than 84 million acres, the Arlington Heights Park District announces the launch of a new community - wide effort taking steps to end hunger for families locally and to put shoes on the feet of people around the world.

In FY11 the contractor has been funded to provide individualized, grantee - specific guidance around research and evaluation topics; begin analyzing and synthesizing challenges faced by grantees around research and evaluation; develop comprehensive, user - friendly synthesis of guidance for tribal grantees; and work with grantees on efforts to disseminate and share the knowledge they are building regarding effective home visiting in tribal communities.

If SNS put even a fraction of that effort into community engagement around getting more kids to eat school breakfast, for example, it would yield immediate benefits for the program.

The report finds makes a list of recommendations for business, industry, professional bodies and government, namely: Construction businesses · Focus on better human resource management · Introduce and / or expand mentoring schemes · Boost investment in training · Develop talent from the trades as potential managers and professionals · Engage with the community and local education establishments Industry · Rally around social mobility as a collective theme · Promote better human resource management and support the effort of businesses · Promote and develop the UK as an international hub of construction excellence · Support diversity and schemes that widen access to management and the professions · Emphasise and spread understanding of the built environment's impact on social mobility Professional bodies and institutions · Drive the aspirations of Professions for Good for promoting social mobility and diversity · Support wider access to the professions and support those from less - privileged backgrounds · Promote and develop the UK as an international hub of construction excellence · Emphasise and spread understanding of the built environment's impact on social mobility · Provide greater routes for degree - level learning among those working within construction Government · Produce with urgency a plan to boost the UK as an international hub of construction excellence, as a core part of the Industrial Strategy · Provide greater funding to support the travel costs of apprentices · Support wider access to the professions and support those from less - privileged backgrounds · Place greater weight in project appraisal on the impact the built environment has on social mobility The report is being formally launched at an event in the House of Commons later today.

When he announced the endorsement, the union's president, Bruce Both, said Meng had «pledged her support for our Union's effort to hold Walmart accountable for reckless corporate policies that effect the worker families, small business owners, and women that live in the 6th Congressional,» adding: «Our Union believes that Grace will help unify an ethnically diverse community around the most pressing issue facing our Unions membership: keeping New York City Walmart free.»

For the first time, our community had rallied around one political candidate, and the result of our effort was intoxicating, along with the realization that our community was a «sleeping giant» and could make the difference in electing our public officials.

Oneida County Executive Anthony J. Picente Jr. today announced that the volunteers working under the direction of Cornell Cooperative Extension of Oneida County are planting flowers around the County Office Building in Utica as part of the county's efforts to beautify the community.

As a result of discussions with PSEG representatives, largely by Town Councilwoman Sylvia Overby, the company did eventually install some plantings around the site, but the effort, for some community residents, fell short.

Friday's service recognized the sacrifices of fallen law enforcement officers in Erie County along with the daily efforts of all individuals involved in public safety, as police chaplains and senior law enforcement officials from around the county noted the heroic efforts of those members of the public safety community who have made the ultimate sacrifice to ensure our safety.

The new effort aims to stop the Hepatitis C virus in its tracks by increasing access to medications that can cure Hepatitis C and expanding programs to connect New Yorkers in high - risk communities with wrap - around Hepatitis C prevention, screenings and treatment services.

The communities secretary, Eric Pickles, attacked what he called the «doom mongers» and said mainstream political consensus around the need for public spending restraint meant councils would have to «make extra effort» to find savings well into the future.

Both Syracuse University and Mohawk Valley Community College have aligned training curriculum and research efforts around the growing needs of this sector.

Former President Rawlings earlier in his address charged the citizenry to be responsible enough to protect wooden electric poles by employing a community effort to weed the shrubbery around such poles so they are not affected by bushfires with the attendant effect of collapsing the poles and disrupting power distribution.

«This is in incursion on the steady effort by local communities to rebuild, really, their community, their economy, their recreational access in and around the Hudson River,» says Molinaro.

They resolved that their article would not be just another well - meaning declaration gathering dust on some forgotten shelf, and they have undertaken a number of efforts to galvanize the scientific community around real reform.

Similarly, variations in research practices around the world need to be studied so that efforts to help reach consensus among the scientific communities can be encouraged.

The group solicits fecal samples from people all around the world in an effort to build a comprehensive library of microbiome communities.

Like New Mexico, the region around Lake Baikal in central Siberia is a land of enchantment and exploitation, offering a beautiful landscape rich with sites held sacred by the indigenous communities of the region and a target for international tourism and resource development efforts.

Green Discovery offers unique tours that range from sleeping in a tree to caving to kayaking and coffee tasting, while The Hiker offers treks around the area, and focuses on supporting conservation and preservation efforts of local communities.

You could get involved in your neighborhood, possibly around an activist or community - improvement effort.

This time around I'll be focusing on the 10 × 10 community and my 10 × 10 goals for the next 10 days so I won't be blogging until my wrap up post on April 9th (it seems my blogging efforts are futile anyway during challenges).

We publish stories that shift the conversation around sustainable agriculture in an effort to build economically and socially just communities.

New York, NY About Blog Return Recycling seeks to create a community around waste management, an effort that will promote further education, passion, and action in creating a sustainable and responsible waste system.

That's because funding for the game (around $ 5 million) was provided by a tight - knit community of fans who had appreciated the studio's efforts with the Shift titles.

The effects of these restoration efforts can be felt in communities around the Earth, and our innovative approach is a model with global scalability.

In an effort to address concerns on accountability, the UNCF, National Urban League and Education Post recently released a report Building Better Narratives in Black Education focusing on better engaging communities around K - 12 education and driving substantive policy changes.

For more information on best practices around family engagement that puts teachers and families at the center of your efforts, as well as some tips for how to think about this in an LCFF / LCAP context, see the chapter I co-authored, Why Family Engagement Matters, on the California Community Schools Network website.

Cohn wants to continue the reform work with a greater focus on building relationships and community engagement around reform efforts at the district level.

Your launch - point for engaging the community around SEL efforts, loaded with tools and templates.

«These school leaders have been at the forefront of efforts in their communities around the country to raise student achievement and provide urban schoolchildren the high - quality education they deserve,» added CUBE Chair Micah Ali, who serves on California's Compton Unified School District Board of Trustees.

These include: · Use of instructional programs and curricula that support state and district standards and of high quality testing systems that accurately measure achievement of the standards through a variety of measurement techniques · Professional development to prepare all teachers to teach to the standards · Commitment to providing remedial help to children who need it and sufficient resources for schools to meet the standards · Better communication to school staff, students, parents and the community about the content, purposes and consequences of standards · Alignment of standards, assessment and curricula, coupled with appropriate incentives for students and schools that meet the standards In the unlikely event that all of these efforts, including a change in school leadership, fail over a 3 - year period to «turn the school around,» drastic action is required.

Building upon an established record of collaboration by the community organizations and higher education institutions serving within ACAN, the goal of this effort was to use the forum of ACAN to identify regional priorities around college student persistence and success and select strategies and activities that could promote that success.

As part of focusing deeply on student needs, MAISD has assigned a staff member to provide community outreach, coordinate efforts between community agencies, and provide training around trauma and the effects trauma can have on student learning.

Report on Middle School Feeder Patterns: This report looks at new efforts in student assignment to address parent and community concerns around equity and proximity in middle schools.

In her role, she is responsible for leading the organization's support efforts around family engagement, community relationship building and partnership development for all New Visions district and charter schools.

Community Engagement: We cultivate character in the Lower School through annual clothing, food and toy drives, student - led fundraisers, and a fifth - grade community service team in charge of recycling efforts, classroom volunteer projects and community partnerships — in Atlanta and around tCommunity Engagement: We cultivate character in the Lower School through annual clothing, food and toy drives, student - led fundraisers, and a fifth - grade community service team in charge of recycling efforts, classroom volunteer projects and community partnerships — in Atlanta and around tcommunity service team in charge of recycling efforts, classroom volunteer projects and community partnerships — in Atlanta and around tcommunity partnerships — in Atlanta and around the world.

The California Way engages students, parents, and communities as part of a collaborative decision - making process around how to fund and implement these improvement efforts, and provides supplemental resources to ensure that California's English learners (ELs), foster youths, and students in poverty have the learning supports they need.2