Sentences with phrase «dozens of city communities»

Services include Emergency Food Assistance and Hunger Relief, Nutritional Education, Income Support and a wide range of outreach services directed at children, seniors, expecting mothers and other needy groups from dozens of city communities.

Through Emergency Food Assistance, Hunger Relief, Nutritional Education, Income Support and a wide range of outreach services, the organization supports children, seniors, expecting mothers and other needy groups from dozens of city communities - going way beyond their need for food support.

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Otherwise, there's the nearby and ever - entertaining New York City, a hundred - plus miles of Atlantic Ocean coastline, a smallish mountain range or two, a major amusement park, a half dozen professional sports teams (most of them mediocre at best), small - time skiing, a pretty Ivy League campus by the name of Princeton University, a wealth of black bear in exclusive suburban communities, the early homes of such celebrity types as Martha Stewart, Jack Nicholson and Bruce Springsteen, the site of the Hindenburg disaster, and (for visionary types) the ghosts of Albert Einstein and Thomas Edison, who lived and worked in the state for awhile.

This Friday December 29th at 6:00 PM members of more than two dozen New York City and other community groups who are seriously concerned about the situation in Puerto Rico, now that more than 100 days have passed since the devastation that hurricane Maria brought to the island, will converge on the south side of Union Square to have their voices heard.

But the House of Commons» Environment, Food & Rural Affairs Committee chair Neil Parish said: «Councils in the dozens of other English cities currently exceeding EU pollution limits must also be given the option of using such powers if their communities support action.»

Following a month of abundant citywide community activism and outreach, City Public Advocate Bill de Blasio has submitted to City Hall more than 10,600 parent petition signatures, dozens of video and audio testimonies and nearly 20 resolutions from Community Education Councils, Community Boards and the Schools Chancellor's Parent Advisory Council, all protesting teacher and day ccommunity activism and outreach, City Public Advocate Bill de Blasio has submitted to City Hall more than 10,600 parent petition signatures, dozens of video and audio testimonies and nearly 20 resolutions from Community Education Councils, Community Boards and the Schools Chancellor's Parent Advisory Council, all protesting teacher and day cCommunity Education Councils, Community Boards and the Schools Chancellor's Parent Advisory Council, all protesting teacher and day cCommunity Boards and the Schools Chancellor's Parent Advisory Council, all protesting teacher and day care cuts.

«For a moment I was a little afraid, because there was a serious monsoon of efforts to create community gardens and green spaces, none of which generate any revenue,» said Bey, referring to dozens of community gardens the land bank has established throughout the city.

A group of about two dozen advocates — among them former City Council Speaker Melissa Mark - Viverito, City Councilmember Diana Ayala and Community Board 11 Chair Diane Collier, who all campaigned vigorously for years for the removal of the statue — gathered on Tuesday morning to watch its removal.

And while labor leaders and the coalition of dozens of community groups celebrated in the rotunda of City Hall after the vote, they acknowledged there was a long way to go.

HARLEM — Dozens of New York City politicians and leaders vowed on Sunday to lobby on behalf of the community that reelected Rep. Charles Rangel, demanding the shamed Harlem politician not be censured.

Jen has worked to make utility costs more affordable, helped local governments save energy and taxpayer dollars, and organized dozens of town and city councils across the political spectrum to stop new crude oil pipelines from endangering our communities.

Jen has worked to bring down utility costs, helped local governments save energy and taxpayer dollars, and organized dozens of town and city councils across the political spectrum to stop new crude oil pipelines from endangering our communities.

City lawmakers voted late Monday night to join more than two - dozen other New York communities in opposing a controversial oil pipeline linking the Port of Albany to northern New Jersey.

This system already exists in New York City, and it has enabled dozens of grassroots community advocates - including librarians, teachers and tenant leaders - to challenge corporate - backed candidates and win election to city offCity, and it has enabled dozens of grassroots community advocates - including librarians, teachers and tenant leaders - to challenge corporate - backed candidates and win election to city offcity office.

Its three cities — Utica, Rome and Sherrill — and dozens of towns and villages constitute a unique community, with business and industry ranging from agriculture and low - tech family - owned enterprises to the high - tech engineers and scientists that support cutting - edge research and development ongoing at the Air Force Research Laboratory in Rome, N.Y and the Masonic Medical Research Laboratory in Utica, N.Y.

«Pennsylvania has dozens of forgotten cities and communities,» says Fetterman, who's an underdog in the Democratic primary against 2010 Senate nominee Joe Sestak and Katie McGinty, former chief of staff to Governor Tom Wolf.

Members of dozens of city and state unions joined the rally Monday, including hardhats from the Building and Trades Council, teachers from the United Federation of Teachers, transit workers from Transport Workers Local 100 and many more, along with several community groups.

Other attendees included Erie County Legislator Peter J. Savage; Kimberly Trent, representing the City of Buffalo's Commission on Citizens» Rights and Community Relations; a dozen local human service agency partners; students from Bennett Park Montessori School, singer Kevin McCarthy, young entrepreneur Daniel Gibbs; and the Library System's new owl mascot «Reada Book.»

Children from the Hamilton Madison House and Chung Pak day care centers gathered at City Hall — alongside dozens of child care providers, day care center workers, parents, politicians and faith and community leaders — for a June 7 press conference denouncing the mayor's proposed $ 51 million cut to city funding for child cCity Hall — alongside dozens of child care providers, day care center workers, parents, politicians and faith and community leaders — for a June 7 press conference denouncing the mayor's proposed $ 51 million cut to city funding for child ccity funding for child care.

NEW YORK, NY (04/04/2012)(readMedia)-- Council Members Brad Lander (D - Brooklyn), Melissa Mark - Viverito (D - Manhattan), Eric Ulrich (R - Queens) and Jumaane D. Williams (D - Brooklyn) came together on the steps of City Hall Wednesday with partners from Community Voices Heard, the Participatory Budgeting Project, and the Urban Justice Center's Community Development Project and dozens of local organizations to declare the results of the groundbreaking participatory budgeting vote held last week.

Maloney joined dozens of community leaders, labor unions and political action committees in endorsing Costa's City Council campaign for a 22nd District seat, which represents Astoria along with parts of Long Island City, Woodside, East Elmhurst, and Jackson Heights.

Just over a dozen transfer stations in Community Board 1 alone process about 30 percent of all of the city's garbage, according to quarterly reports from the city's Department of Sanitation.

Queens State Senator Tony Avella gathered a dozens - strong crowd outside the Holiday Inn Express in Maspeth, Queens — the site of a bitter battle over the city's effort to lodge homeless families — to launch a quixotic bid to beat Mayor Bill de Blasio in next fall's Democratic primary, accusing the liberal leader of an arrogant «top - down» approach that ignores the needs of local communities.

EAST WILLIAMSBURG — Neighbors of about a dozen waste transfer sites in East Williamsburg and Greenpoint, are calling on the City Council to revive a bill introduced last year that would limit how much trash any one community could take on.

Several dozen members of various community groups organized under the coalition of «Real Affordability for All» gathered on the steps of City Hall to voice their concerns about Mr. de Blasio's housing program, which aims to build and preserve 200,000 units of affordable housing over the next decade.

The feds have also committed $ 2.4 billion for research and development into improving EV batteries, and another $ 115 million for the installation of EV charging infrastructure in 16 different metro areas around the country — not to mention some $ 300 million in clean cities grants to dozens of American communities working to reduce petroleum use, and the $ 25 billion being doled out to help U.S. automakers retool.

It's an online city and culture engine that brings together dozens of ethnic and lifestyle communities.

Matchmaker was broken into dozens of city and religious communities and had one of the first personality tests used to match potential members.

The International Rescue Committee works in dozens of countries around the world to aid individuals and communities uprooted by conflict or natural disaster and also has offices in 22 cities across the U.S. to help resettle refugees here.

Nicknamed the City of Angels, it could easily be called the city of education with three public colleges, nine community colleges, and nearly two dozen private colleCity of Angels, it could easily be called the city of education with three public colleges, nine community colleges, and nearly two dozen private collecity of education with three public colleges, nine community colleges, and nearly two dozen private colleges.

In our effort to better understand the logic behind these parents» school choices, as well as the impact of these urban demographic changes on public schools, we conducted in - depth interviews with dozens of parents participating in a kindergarten lottery in one of the increasingly white community school districts in New York City.

The Alliance to Reclaim Our Schools is linking together parents, educators, students, school staff and community members in dozens of cities across the country on and around February 17 as they WALK - IN to support the quality public schools that all our students deserve.

The Alliance to Reclaim Our Schools is linking together parents, educators, students, school staff and community members in dozens of cities across the country on February 17 as they WALK - IN to support the quality public schools that all our students deserve.

And check out the Coalition for Community Schools to learn more about what community schools do and the dozens of cities nationwide that are using them succCommunity Schools to learn more about what community schools do and the dozens of cities nationwide that are using them succcommunity schools do and the dozens of cities nationwide that are using them successfully.

Libraries around the world are increasingly using their OverDrive platform to host and promote «eBook Reading Clubs» enabling dozens of «city read» or «one book, one community» programs.

By expanding the list of cities, we invited dozens of bedroom communities into our report that we haven't considered in the past and we were delighted to see that many of them sprang to the top of our list.

Dozens of community members took turns with the sledgehammer that day: police officers, city officials, children, even a pregnant woman.

From the heartland of Texas where dozens of cities now claim live release rates between 90 % to 99 %, to the shores of the Great Lakes where over 50 of Michigan's 80 sheltered communities have likewise done the same, causing killing to plummet and adoptions to skyrocket, and all points north and south, east and west and in between, virtually all marks on the compass now point in the direction of an American shelter which has replaced the killing of nine out of 10 animals with humane, life - affirming alternatives.

In Belfast, Bob and Roberta Smith (actually a single acclaimed contemporary artist called Patrick Brill) is working with dozens of community groups and local artists, each making one letter of his text, which will be brought together and lit by thousands of candles outside the city hall, spelling out his words: «What unites human beings is huge and wonderful.

They come at a vital time because for every major city like New York or Paris moving huge amounts of money and using their political power to take on Big Oil, we need dozens of successful divestment campaigns on our campuses, and hundreds of grassroots organisers to win arguments in our communities.

Across the nation, more than a dozen cities are become officially tiny - home friendly and 50 - plus communities of tiny homes have cropped up — everything from intimate backyard co-ops and tiny house / RV parks to upcoming full - on urban developments.

«Bike Share simply wouldn't be possible in our City without the organizational and financial support of nearly a dozen community partners.

The continued ravaging of the wetlands threatens those industries as well as dozens of coastal communities and a storied 300 - year - old city.»

On June 21, the town of Medicine Hat also declared a state of emergency and braced for flooding; followed by the City of Red Deer, as well as a dozen other communities, including several First Nation communities.

He has also performed extensive community service with the Tulane / Xavier National Center for the Urban Community, Project Independence, Job Corps, and dozens of other community service, non-profit, and church organizations, including the University of New Orleans Metropolitan College Department of Tourism & Economic Development, WYES - TV 12 / PBS, Friends of City Park, Prince of Peace Lutheran Church, Metairie Park Country Day School, New Orleans Mental Health Association, and Associated Catholic Ccommunity service with the Tulane / Xavier National Center for the Urban Community, Project Independence, Job Corps, and dozens of other community service, non-profit, and church organizations, including the University of New Orleans Metropolitan College Department of Tourism & Economic Development, WYES - TV 12 / PBS, Friends of City Park, Prince of Peace Lutheran Church, Metairie Park Country Day School, New Orleans Mental Health Association, and Associated Catholic CCommunity, Project Independence, Job Corps, and dozens of other community service, non-profit, and church organizations, including the University of New Orleans Metropolitan College Department of Tourism & Economic Development, WYES - TV 12 / PBS, Friends of City Park, Prince of Peace Lutheran Church, Metairie Park Country Day School, New Orleans Mental Health Association, and Associated Catholic Ccommunity service, non-profit, and church organizations, including the University of New Orleans Metropolitan College Department of Tourism & Economic Development, WYES - TV 12 / PBS, Friends of City Park, Prince of Peace Lutheran Church, Metairie Park Country Day School, New Orleans Mental Health Association, and Associated Catholic Charities.

While he was with the City of Avondale, he worked on dozens of successful grant proposals to develop and improve the city, and for the last 12 years he has been an instructor at Estrella Mountain Community College, teaching classes in leadership, economics, and the U.S. ConstitutCity of Avondale, he worked on dozens of successful grant proposals to develop and improve the city, and for the last 12 years he has been an instructor at Estrella Mountain Community College, teaching classes in leadership, economics, and the U.S. Constitutcity, and for the last 12 years he has been an instructor at Estrella Mountain Community College, teaching classes in leadership, economics, and the U.S. Constitution.

Organizers discovered their ward has plenty of green clout owing to the dozens of houses with solar panels and solar hot water heaters, multiple community gardens and an orchard, the city's first subway bike shelter, and Artscape Wychwood Barns, a LEED certified building that houses community organizations and events such as The Stop's Farmers» Market.