Sentences with phrase «community workers from»

We also partner with parents, school staff and community workers from various agencies and systems.

We also partner with school staff and community workers from various agencies and systems.

Not exact matches

Hence: barely sweetened iced tea and totally biodegradable tea bags (Honest Tea Inc.); garden, home, and pet products made from recycled or organic materials (WorldWise Inc.); organic, shade - grown coffee with a guaranteed base price for growers (Sustainable Harvest Inc.); Web development using urban workers (CitySoft Inc.); nonsexist, nonviolent toys (Wild Planet Toys Inc.); revitalized communities and neighborhoods (Village Real Estate Services); and recycled paper products (New Leaf Paper LLC).

According to data from the American Community Survey, in 2014, the pay gap for full - time workers was smallest in Washington, D.C. (There, women were paid 90 percent of what men earned.)

The rest will go to programs to ease the transition away from coal for communities and workers dependent on that industry, as well as to innovation programs and energy efficiency measures.

For several years, Cameco has tied compensation to environmental sustainability and worker safety, because «being in the uranium business, the company understands the importance of the social licence from the community,» says Nancy Hopkins, a lawyer who sits on several private - and public - sector boards, including Cameco's.

One key to that process, we learned, is the solicitation and integration of feedback from both the design community and the customers who might buy or use the furniture: actual office workers and the property developers, entrepreneurs, and landlords who make purchasing decisions.

In their deliberations, they agreed to 20 specific actions to address global economic and social problems, ranging from building a corps of community health workers in poor regions of the world, to creating digital identities for the 2 billion people who lack access to financial services, to educating and training displaced, unemployed and underemployed workers.

It's also worth asking the deeper questions, like whether or not your company is contributing to disproportionate unemployment of trans * workers, or whether your company is placed to attract top talent from the trans community.

To find out, we interviewed several coworking space founders and community managers, and surveyed several hundred workers from dozens of coworking spaces around the U.S..

Second, meaning may also come from working in a culture where it is the norm to help each other out, and there are many opportunities to do so; the variety of workers in the space means that coworkers have unique skill sets that they can provide to other community members.

Co-working spaces attract freelancers and remote workers because most talented people crave the social interactions and mental stimulation that comes from a community of peers.

After this (and with the installation of the Workers» Party in power in Brazil), support from beyond Fortaleza, notably from the National Secretary of the Solidarity Economy in the Ministry of Labour, made possible a network of community banks in Brazil on the Banco Palmas model.

Ensure that a substantial percentage of jobs go to working people from disadvantaged communities; workers who struggle with irregular employment; and returning citizens; and

It is hurting the workers, families and communities who are hoping for benefits from LNG development,» said Horgan.

We represent over 35,000 workers from every sector of the economy and from every community in the province.

«When a trade case is initiated it begins an open and transparent process that allows American companies, workers, and communities to gain relief from the market - distorting effects of injurious dumping and subsidization of imports,» said Secretary Ross.

May 12 - 13, 2014 — This conference brought together leading thinkers and allies from government, worker centers, labor unions, business, academia and the policy community to address these challenges.

The clinic's community health workers went door - to - door delivering relief items from Americares to families living in temporary housing.

Looking to the future Campbell predicts, an increasing move away from employing professional children's workers to family and community workers.

One man wrote from Zimbabwe, where as a social worker and academic he was engaged in community planning sponsored by the Disciples of Christ and a local nongovernmental agency.

These inner - city workers understand the «victim mentality» and «entitlement mind - set» they encounter in the devastated communities where they live, but they do not let such attitudes go unchallenged, and they expect great things from their neighbors despite those neighbors» disadvantaged circumstances.

Women, men, children, unemployed people, excluded and oppressed people, workers, landless peasants, communities suffering from racism, impoverished city dwellers, indigenous peoples, students, intellectuals, migrants, small business people, outcasts, declining middle classes - citizens - are asserting their dignity, demanding respect for their human rights and natural heritages, and practising solidarity.

Those who died in the United States represent a cross section of the human community: 4,000 people from more than 80 nations, people of nearly every ethnicity and religious belief, wealthy individuals and people with very little, including low - wage immigrant workers.

In a corner, a team of volunteer workers from the community help to sort 10,000 pairs of donated socks into 1 kilo bags of socks so each charity receives a mix of sock sizes.

Newman's Own Organics buys 100 percent of its cocoa from Rainforest Alliance Certified farms that protect the environment and ensure the well - being of workers, their families and surrounding communities.

Nevertheless, they still want to stay involved,» says Shane Ryan, 41, chief executive of the award - winning charity Working With Men (WWM), which recruits its workers from the communities from which the young dads come, and sticks with them to improve their qualifications, employment opportunities and life skills.

As societies change, however, in particular with urbanization, support for mothers from a wider circle is needed, whether it is provided by trained health workers, lactation consultants, community leaders, or from friends who are also mothers, and / or from fathers / partners.

Mothers need ongoing skilled breastfeeding support from midwives, lactation consultants, community health workers, or appropriately trained peer counsellors to enable exclusive breastfeeding for 6 months.

Baby Milk Action took Nestlé at its word and entered into this «dialogue» — as a result Nestlé had to publish corrections and apologies in subsequent issues of the Code Action Report, including a full - page right - to - reply from Baby Milk Action after it disputed our evidence regarding its use of community health workers to promote baby milks in the Philippines.

We were interested in support from health professionals including midwives, nurses and doctors, or from trained lay workers such as community health workers and volunteers.

She earned a Master of Social Work with a concentration in management and community organizing from the University of Maryland, Baltimore, and she is a Licensed Graduate Social Worker (L.G.S.W.) in the state of Maryland.

Over the past year, I have met with community leaders and stakeholders from across the country — parents and teachers, school board members and principals, suppliers and food service workers — about the importance of making sure every child in America has access to nutritious meals at school.

We will need help from partners at all levels including parents, community leaders, educators, food service workers, and others who are positioned to help.

Wyeth advertising to health workers makes similar claims to those the ASA has ruled against today, but the ASA refuses to take action over advertising directed at health professionals (example below from Community Practitioner, July 2012).

Protection of breast feeding from commercial exploitation should be among the highest priorities for the international community, yet violations of the World Health Organization's code of marketing of breast milk substitutes have been seen regularly, despite companies» expressed intentions to conform.1 — 3 The study by Aguayo et al in west Africa in this issue (p 127) provides further evidence that many manufacturers fly in the face of the code by providing free samples, giving donations to health workers, and contravening standards for labelling.4

While Jermarion's social worker would love to find a caring couple who could share parenting responsibilities, she also would love to hear from those single moms and dads with good parenting skills and solid support from family, friends, and community resources.

It also encourages support for these children from their peers, school staff and other community workers.

Lack of awareness amongst mothers, and lack of support from health workers and communities, is largely to blame.

Waterford Green Party candidates have received numerous endorsements from community organizations, including AFT Connecticut, United Auto Workers, NARAL CT, and the UConn Graduate Employee Union.

Despite the fact that in her presentation she is clear of the influx of aid workers and researchers from the Global North coming into communities in the DRC to question abuse survivors (she reveals, for example, that only oral permission is obtained because the act of signing a document has taken on the meaning that the signer is entitled to some form of aid), she believes that US military personnel should be direct (and, it would seem, demanding) about the subject of sexual assault.

While informal workers and marginal youth are often envisaged as disengaging from, or making their community «invisible» to, a state «which is seen as more repressive than rewarding», young people's visions of a fair polity remained state - centric (Azarya 1994: 83).

Albany, NY — Leaders from community and worker» rights organizations held a press conference on Friday to protest the tax reform plan that could emerge from the House and Senate conference... (read more)

Albany participants include workers from area McDonald's, Wendy's, Boston Market and other fast - food restaurants; city crossing guards; Saint Rose College and Siena College adjunct professors; health care workers; UAlbany students; community groups and labor unions.

«And he wants to follow the path of Scott Walker which is to create, to basically divide workers from their communities,» Weingarten said.

Vanderhoef will also be seeking to layoff 150 county workers, save $ 1.8 million by not reimbursing out - of - county students at the community college, cut the intelligence task force from the police budget, kick $ 1.4 million in local election costs back to towns, reduce funding to contract agencies by $ 300,000 this year and over $ 500,000 next year, and install a new charge on your motor vehicle registration.

«From the Unemployment Strikeforce to the Urban Youth Jobs program, we are making smart investments to tackle unemployment in communities where it is most pervasive, and connect tomorrow's workers with the skills they need to succeed in a 21st century workplace,» said Cuomo at a bill signing ceremony held at Hostos Community College.

Also at 11 a.m., World Trade Center developer Larry Silverstein joins over 500 union construction workers and ublic officials, business leaders and representatives from the local community at a topping out ceremony for the 1,079 - foot tall 3 World Trade Center tower, Manhattan.

In June, Buffalo Mayor Byron Brown, the wage board's chairman and a longtime Cuomo ally, said he and his fellow members clearly believed «a substantial» increase was needed to bring fast food workers up the economic ladder — despite persistent opposition from the business community, which often found itself drowned out at public hearings that served more or less as labor rallies.

From 11 a.m. to 4 p.m., 1199SEIU healthcare workers at Albany's Hudson Park Nursing Home, (C.N.A.s, recreation aides, dietary laundry and housekeeping workers), elected officials, clergy, community and labor allies hold an informational picket, 325 Northern Blvd., Albany.