Sentences with phrase «community voices»

Our process is inclusive of community voice and the result is a plan that drives multi-year improvement efforts.

These performances, exhibitions, and public programs will feature both local and international artists, engage community voices, respond to pressing social issues, and more.

Hundreds of low - income members of Community Voices Heard from around the state focusing on Gov. Cuomo and Senate Majority Leader Dean Skelos

Community Leaders from Community Voices Heard, Citizen Action of New York, Mid-Hudson Valley 99 %, Hudson Valley Area Labor Federation, AFL - CIO

He also had planned to consult a variety of community voices in developing the request for proposals, including UW - Madison faculty members, state lawmakers, parents, organizations and other experts to develop criteria.

At the same time, the council is working with Community Voices Heard Power, which is described as an independent joint field effort.

We are a well - funded, tech - for - good company, and since launch in May 2015 we have helped important cases raise millions of dollars in funding, seen plaintiffs get their cases to the Supreme Court and given communities a voice.

In tandem, we convened a Task Force, Mobilizing the Early Years Workforce: Community Voices on Decent Work in Early Childhood comprised of researchers, academics, RECEs, employers and policy experts to guide and our inform our work.

After an electrifying keynote by parent leader Rosazlia Grillier that left attendees standing in ovation, Jesse Sharkey of the Chicago Teachers Union facilitated a panel discussion during the Chicago Story plenary on current challenges facing the public school system and the difficulty for community voices to be heard.

City streets will continue to be designed for cars if there is not a strong community voice advocating for improved streets designed for all forms of transportation.

We discuss how The Wave is dealing with those challenges, as well as The Wave's role in both reporting the news and acting as a leading community voice as Rockaway works to rebuild.

Although the Mayor died before the Chicago School Reform law was passed, his support for strong community voice in public schools was a key catalyst for the movement.

Scientific community voices concerns about emphasis on commercializing biomedical research

Jitu has organized in the Kenwood Oakland neighborhood for over 17 years bringing community voices to the table on school issues.

Member groups in the New Deal for New York campaign include Community Voices Heard (CVH, in New York City, Newburgh, Poughkeepsie and Yonkers), Niagara Organizing Alliance for Hope (NOAH, in Niagara County), People United for Sustainable Housing (PUSH, in Buffalo), Syracuse United Neighbors (SUN), Voices of Community Activists and Leaders (VOCAL, in New York City, Westchester and Albany), and VOICE (in Erie County).

This week at PRP we featured OA&FS as part of our award - winning Community Voices series.

This week at PRP we featured OA&FS as part of our award - winning Community Voices series.

However, when social media gave neglected communities a voice, beauty brands were among the first to court and cater to them.

At two town hall meetings on April 9, members of the school community voiced differing opinions about how the portion of funds allocated to victims of trauma should be divided.

«I felt like today was more like the stragglers,» says Doug Christie, who has become an important community voice in the past week, watching from his broadcast booth above the court.

Here, District Leader Bob Botfeld, Honoree Assembly Member Deborah Glick, District Leader Cynthia Doty, Honoree Community Voices Heard members Ann Bragg, Agnes Rivera, Sondra Youdelman, Abigail McGloster, and Carmen Pineiro, and Council Member Melissa Mark - Viverito enjoy the festivities.

«Residents have fought for years to secure community voices at BPCA, and we are now a step closer towards bringing greater local representation to the Board.

De Blasio argued that, after 12 years under Mayor Michael Bloomberg, the city is ready for a new approach that empowers parents, prioritizes community voices, and treats all boroughs equally.

Community voices rang out in opposition to the plan to lengthen exit ramps, saying the new ramps would torpedo the city's ambitious plan to build housing, parks, office buildings and a hotel on the waterfront, completed last summer when the City Council and the Mayor signed off on rezoning the Lower Grand Concourse.

«The planning bill is undemocratic, marginalises community voices and does nothing to tackle climate change.»

Join Community Voices Heard, WeACT and DREAM on July 26, 6 - 8 pm for our Council District 8 candidate forum, where local residents are hearing directly from the candidates.

The idea that one person will be able to adequately take over the work of 19, and give all these diverse communities a voice, seems improbable at best.

INWOOD, Manhattan — Residents of an upper Manhattan community voiced their outrage Tuesday night over a controversial neighborhood - wide rezoning initiative undergoing public review.

According to one source familiar with the effort to pass the bill, despite the unambiguous limits on it, Senate Republican leaders pointed to concerns some religious communities voiced about their freedom to counsel young people unfettered by the state.

Schools report into local municipalities, who supplement resources; the traditional culture, including a deep Lutheran cultural imprint, underlines a pragmatic and prudent design disposition; universities assure a reliable professional base, imprinting research centrally within teacher development; and the business community voice assures vocational linkages, with the national government setting a generalized core curricular frame, the main plaza in which each sector interacts.

A Broader, Bolder Approach highlights the need for key community voices — including educators, parents, students, and faith and business leaders — to be at the center of developing and implementing education reforms.

«Bloomberg's proposals are a cynical effort to lock communities into permanent changes while ignoring community voices...» de Blasio said at the time.

October is the best time to share your collective charter community voice!

Public Advocates Inc. is a nonprofit law firm and advocacy organization that challenges the systemic causes of poverty and racial discrimination by strengthening community voices in public policy and achieving tangible legal victories advancing education, housing and transit equity.

Community Voices features opinion pieces from a wide variety of authors and perspectives.

The consensus throughout the independent bookstore's community voices disapproval of Amazon's latest affiliate program.

Despite this, members of the veterinary community voiced their concerns that moving to the three year vaccine would confuse pet owners and they would «forget» to vaccinate their animals.

2011: The Knights Landing community voices an interest in veterinary services, as there are no veterinary clinics in the area either.

Information experts will discuss privacy and online tracking at the next News & Observer Community Voices forum.

Since Taylor was ousted in 2003, Siakor has been working with Liberia's new leadership to create sustainable timber policies and give the local forest communities a voice through the first Forest People's Congress, which he organized.

While we appreciate your efforts to persuade the government to decide otherwise, the denial of funding and the silencing of community voices undermines the credibility of the work of the Commission.

I know there's some aggravation that comes with the ceaseless community voice, but that's what the delete key is for.

This 2015 report brings together recent data on child care in Ontario with community voices talking about lived experience.