Sentences with phrase «community savings effort»

What makes them a bit more unique than other accounts is that you have the ability to get others to add funds into your account — sort of as a community savings effort.

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Although professional lactation support can improve the duration of overall breast feeding, its effect in improving exclusive breast feeding is unclear.11 18 22 Thus far, studies that report improvement of rates of exclusive breastfeeding have involved mainly community based peer counselling strategies.23 24 25 Even then, a randomised trial in the UK recently cast doubt on the efficacy of this approach.26 There are current recommendations from NICE for the UK - wide implementation of the baby friendly initiative.4 5 6 The 2006 NICE costing report on routine postnatal care of women and their babies estimates that efforts to improve rates of breast feeding will result in substantial cost savings for the NHS.6

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.

«This educational seminar is an effort to better educate senior citizens in the community and share strategies that will help make retirement savings last,» Legislator Rath said.

They found that, along with environmental concerns, the potential for fiscal savings and attracting development projects were significant factors in motivating sustainability efforts in these communities.

The school's sustainability program, mapped using the AuSSI framework, and partnership with the Maia Maia Foundation helps its students to visualise the reduction of carbon pollution in the atmosphere through individual and joint community efforts in recycling, composting, energy savings and more.

According to the Penn State Marcellus Center for Outreach and Research, during the first half of 2013 in the Marcellus shale play, 90 percent of the more than 14 million barrels of produced fluids from fracturing was reused.12 That represents a significant savings in the amount of new water needed for hydraulic fracturing elsewhere, and illustrates the industry's focus on environmental issues and efforts to reduce the impacts of energy development on resources and communities.

Some of these efforts have been cost - effective from a savings perspective, and some have longer paybacks but were done to be a good community partner.