Sentences with phrase «community issues on the ground»

The Community Resilience Reader combines a fresh look at the challenges humanity faces in the 21st century, the essential tools of resilience science, and the wisdom of activists, scholars, and analysts working with community issues on the ground.

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Now, 50 Global Citizens will have the opportunity to take direct action on these issues, working on - the - ground in affected communities in Puerto Rico and Texas.

An educated and worldly Muslim community leader like Rauf wants to build Muslim center close to ground zero, while the war and other thing is going, is this a common sense or decency have been exercise or just Muslims self - absorption and taking no responsibility of their own community conduct, they should not be crying like a spoil baby, when a ripple affect from their own conduct come back toward them (The Burning of Koran and fire attempt toward Muslim community were coming from his fake and insincere agenda on this building issue).

He provides staff support to OTA's Farmer Advisory Council, on - the - ground outreach to OTA's organic farmer membership community and analysis of policy issues that affect organic crop and livestock producers.

In an interview after the debate, Kramer said the community could not move forward on the merger issue until they approached it on common ground, rather than as adversaries of white versus black, county versus city.

«We don't agree with him on numerous issues — especially his unseemly fulminating against an Islamic community center and mosque near ground zero.

A few days after a poll showed that a majority of New Yorkers oppose the building of a mosque and community center two blocks from ground zero, Lazio has released a letter calling on Cuomo (who supports the mosque) as attorney general to investigate certain issues the media has raised about the mosque's leader, including his refusal to label Hamas a terrorist organization and his membership in an organization that donated money to the Palestinian aid flotillas — neither of which are illegal, but sure, why not?

Her recent books include: The Growing Out - of - School Time Field: Past, Present, and Future (Information Age Publishing, 2018); The Future Directions of Educational Change: Social Justice, Professional Capital, and Systems Change (Routledge, 2018); «Empowering Teachers: The Role of School - Community Partnerships» (book chapter with IEL's Reuben Jacobson in Flip the System: Changing Education from the Ground Up, 2015); Leading Educational Change: Global Issues, Challenges, and Lessons on Whole - System Reform (Teachers College Press, 2013), The Futures of School Reform (Harvard Education Press, 2012, co-authored chapter with Jeffrey Henig and Paul Reville).

«This is not simply a legacy issue — the military still wields considerable power on the ground and continues to grab yet more land from ethnic minority communities.

The training will not only help to empower the great work of community leaders on the ground there, but will also capture Iowa's unique political significance — as the first caucus state, Iowa's voters will help determine the issues and candidates that will feature in the presidential race for the next 18 months.

It's led by volunteer on the ground in the state who goes to bar association meetings, cold calls retired federal judges who might have a connection to the military community and ask them if they'd be willing to have coffee and talk about this issue.

The association brings together 189 local governments from around BC and six First Nations communities to form common ground and opinions on the complex issues

Mentors can help facilitate introductions for you, keep their ears to the ground regarding job opportunities, review cases with you, provide tips regarding trial strategy, shed light on how to best deal with particular attorneys and judges in the community, guide you through salary negotiations and other conversations with partners in your firm, and counsel you through ethical or work / life balance issues.

One is ensuring that we have a skilled public service that can interact appropriately with Indigenous people and communities - there are cultural issues here as well as ensuring that staff on the ground have skills in capacity development;

People on the ground collectively call on government and policy makers to see first - hand the successful initiatives that communities have developed to address complex health and social issues.

It considered how to develop and apply high quality evidence to the issue of childhood vulnerability in Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander populations that is grounded both in the neuroscience of early brain development and in the complex effects of social and community environments on children's development.

I believed, and still hope, it can provide greater flexibility, allowing more scope for on the ground responses to issues that confront our communities.