Sentences with phrase «economic needs of their communities»

Not exact matches

Many people argue about what needs to come first in order to create an entrepreneurial community — ideas or capital — but it's a chicken - and - egg debate, says Brad Whitehead, president of the Fund For Our Economic Future, a program that pools funding for entrepreneurs from various philanthropic organizations across Northeast Ohio.

«As you consider the Administration's proposal, I ask that you consider policies that will bridge the partisan divide and serve the myriad needs of communities across the country — including those of Nevada,» Sen. Catherine Cortez - Masto of Nevada wrote in a letter to Transportation Secretary Elaine Chao and Gary Cohn, the director of the National Economic Council.

To determine which communities are a good fit for the initiative, Starbucks looks at all the available data on the socio - economic health of America's cities to understand which communities have the biggest opportunity gaps, which have the biggest need for business investment and leadership, and where there is local movement underway to build a better future for its residents.

As part of our pledge, The Home Project is leveraging various aspects of Zillow Group's business — including economic research — to raise awareness about housing insecurity and create solutions to address the unique needs of our Community Partners and those who are housing vulnerable.

As part of our pledge, we are leveraging various aspects of our business — from product development, to economic research, to public affairs and marketing support — to raise awareness about housing insecurity and create solutions to address the unique needs of our Community Partners and those who are housing vulnerable.

«The bill provides much - needed relief from the Dodd - Frank Act for thousands of community banks and credit unions, and will spur lending and economic growth without creating risks to the financial system,» the White House said in a statement after the vote.

«The B.C. Liberals have made it next to impossible for young British Columbians to access the training and education they need to apply for jobs in their own communities, and the results of this short sighted planning is an economic crisis among young people in this province,» said Eby.

OneKC for Women is an alliance of the Women's Employment Network, Women's Business Center and Women's Capital Connection, all with the same mission and common theme of providing the resources women in our community need to assist them in their economic self - sufficiency.

«Nonprofits like WEN are instrumental to address critical community needs and strengthen the economic health of Kansas City,» said Gary Jankowitz, Bank of America's Kansas City Market President.

Instead, he proposes an Index of Sustainable Economic Welfare, and dvocates a new kind of economy, one based on the needs of the community, and suggests several steps to bring it about.

Hence the minister directs his attention as much toward the «world» as the dean of a medical school has his eye on the potentially and actually sick people of the society outside his closed community of healers, or, to use a wholly different analogy, as much as the mayor of a city keeps in view the nature and the needs of the cultural and economic society of which his city is a center.

Healthy community must meet the economic needs of its members, but its health consists more in the quality of human relationships than in the amount of goods and services consumed.

The systemic perspective can provide the general principles for developing the sorely needed sociotherapies for the larger groups, institutions, and socio - economic - political systems, which collectively determine the healing - growthing climate of our communities and of our world society.

While great attention therefore needs to be paid to the manipulation of power and the management of economic and political forces, we know that the primary mode by which a community reconstitutes itself is by its interpretation, by its reflection on ancient memory and tradition, and by its recasting of that memory and tradition in new ways that are resonant with the new situation.

It is up to the Christian communities to analyze with objectivity the situation which is proper to their own country, to shed on it the light of the gospel's unalterable words and to draw principles of the church... It is up to these Christian communities, with the help of the Holy Spirit, in communion with the bishops who hold responsibility and in dialogue with other Christian brethren and all men of good will, to discern the options and commitments which are called for in order to bring about the social, political and economic changes seen in many cases to be urgently needed.

For us, it must start with the vision of a peaceful world, where gradually the production and distribution of armaments gives way to the production and distribution of goods and services that benefit the human race instead of threatening to destroy it, a vision of the rule of law rather than of economic domination, a vision of democracy where people are able to have a real say in what their own future will be, a vision of smallness and community involvement, a vision of cultural pluralism and a diversity of ideas, a vision of leisure spent meeting human needs.

It is a power that is shared, as life within the community is shared».62 We need to ask whether all people, as children of God, participate in the agencies of power or whether there are groups that are excluded on the basis of, for example, sex, age, handicaps, economic circumstances, social marginalization.

In such a world, communities could measure their economic wellbeing by whether the basic needs of all citizens are met rather than by the growth of their product.

(5) Inner - city urban ministry either as a one - year resident or one day a week for thirty weeks to mingle with the people wherever they are, to engage the power structure of the community, to explore the economic and political strategies of community planning, to discover the potentialities for a ministry to total needs of persons who are deprived or in stress.

Providing this water to Banrock Station will deliver another boost to a tourist destination that creates economic benefit for the Riverland community and social understanding of the need to maintain sustainable wetlands.

Outreach to caregivers and other community groups followed, and the past two decades have seen tremendous achievements throughout the wider community, particularly in supporting parents who, because of their social and economic circumstances, might not have access to the resources they need as they take on the challenging job of raising young children.

I'm back from summer vacation in time to share some nice news: Houston ISD, the seventh largest district in the country, has announced that it's taking advantage of the Community Eligibility Provision (CEP) to provide universal (free) school breakfast and lunch to every student at 166 of its schools, regardless of economic status, and without the need for meal applications or other paperwork.

For example, Kibbutzes or hippie communies in California don't need to spend money on R&D in agriculture, or defense, or large scale law enforcement (again, you may have the luxury to exclude 1 - 3 % of psychopaths / sociopaths from a small community, and not worry about said excluded psychopaths attacking you for your communal material possessions from outside since they are dealt with by outside society), or on disaster preparedness, or on medical R&D, or pretty much any other economic overhead of modern civilization.

«If we want to build a brighter economic future, if we want to enhance the vibrancy of our economy, and if want to deliver local, community - level wealth creation, then we need to ensure fairness,» Stringer said.

The New York House members touted «the economic advantage of building the site at Fort Drum,» saying the home of the Army's 10th Mountain Division already has the infrastructure and community support needed for the project.

Designed to test the economic development skills of communities on a different sort of frontier, Gov. Andrew Cuomo's proposed $ 1.5 billion Upstate Thunderdome needs a slightly different chant: Seven regions enter, three regions leave holding a very large wad of state aid.

Teachout is a Catherine wheel of ideas — in the course of the day we talked about anti-trust, fracking, the desperate need for broadband in rural communities, the way Big Ag gobbles up subsidies meant for family farmers, and the «chickenization» of production that puts all the economic risk and environmental damage on farmers as firms like Tyson keep squeezing the market.

The Park Agency / Administration would finally be able to serve the unique economic needs of the Adirondack Park communities.

At 9 a.m. Friday, the Center for New York City Affairs will host «Getting Proactive in the Preserving & Strengthening of Human Services in NY,» discussing «the economic and social impact of human services CBOs, and the need to preserve and strengthen their critical role in building foundational supports that contribute to the health and well - being of individuals, families, and communities.»

David R. Jones, Chief Executive Officer and President of the Community Service Society, said, «In times of economic hardship, government must give priority to the needs of the most vulnerable New Yorkers.

«As a community, we need to support meaningful economic development which provides good - paying jobs that can help break families out of the cycle of poverty.»

I am particularly pleased we were able to expand services in the City of Poughkeepsie with a new Community Development Coordinator that will be able to help get needed economic development and community projects movingCommunity Development Coordinator that will be able to help get needed economic development and community projects movingcommunity projects moving forward.

Ajimobi while imploring academic community to find ways of solving social, political and economic needs of their host communities also called for effective communication link between the academic and the larger society.

He, therefore, assured that «on the basis of my country's specific needs, Government is keen on developing utility - scale solar energy projects, as well as accelerating the development of mini-grid solutions in off - grid and island communities for lighting, irrigation and other economic activities».

At 6 p.m., Assemblyman Richard Gottfried attends the Empire State Pride Agenda's release of a report, «Transgender Health and Economic Insecurity: A report from the 2015 NY State LGBT Health and Human Services Needs Assessment,» LGBT Community Services Center, 208 W. 13th St., Manhattan.

Hunt says his party needs to understand not just how it failed to find an aspirational economic message, but also to appreciate the sense of loss and dislocation many traditional working - class communities have felt over the past two decades.

The city's Economic Development Corporation, which is spearheading the rezoning discussion with the support of Councilman Ydanis Rodriguez, returned to the community last Thursday with the latest iteration of the proposal that now incorporates more neighborhood streets and a slew of goals meant to «meet Inwood's pressing needs.»

In a statement local Assemblyman Michael Blake said, «We are reminded that we need greater community and police relations, to get rid of these guns from our communities, provide economic opportunities so Bronxites don't go down the wrong path and ensure that violence is reduced while trust is gained.

This sort of old guard cronyist, backroom, undemocratic, manipulation will of course easily outmanoeuvre a politically uneducated and naïve membership — BUT, come a future Labour government inevitably under severe economic sabotage by the global markets and their creatures in the UK press and PLP, and, disastrously, a politically unsophisticated, ideologically unprepared and unmobilised mass membership will not be available to provide the backing «on the streets, in the workplaces, and in the communities» that that Labour government will desperately need to survive.

The government need to recognise that putting hard working civil and public servants on the dole at a time of economic uncertainty will only prolong the recession in the communities affected.»

One Nation Working Together is a broad coalition of movements for peace and justice that is coming together to march for: Jobs and Sustainable Economic Recovery, Funding of Community Needs Not Militarism, Civil Rights and a Renewable Energy Future.

«Unidad» means «united,» and people from a dozen Hispanic organizations will come together at this conference, along with a bipartisan group of state legislators, to discuss the needs, challenges and aspirations of the growing Hispanic community in New York and what can be done to increase their economic opportunities.»

He said the rebirth of downtown and a cleaner Onondaga Lake have been recent successful developments and the community needs to unite around more economic projects.

CEJ is a non-profit based in the city of Buffalo that unites labor and community - based organizations to win needed policy changes related to economic development, corporate accountability and workers» rights at the local and state level.

A former college drop - out, Baskin is conscious of the systemic challenges many women, people of color, and impoverished communities experience in attaining the education credentials needed for economic advancement.

What I found troubling is that we have a situation where community larders like this are needed, irrelevant of the tough economic times we are currently in.

The document outlines the Consortia's goals and objectives relative to housing, economic development, community development and homeless issues with specific attention given to the needs of low / moderate households residing in the Consortia communities.

Our programs and educators positively impact key issues linked to the critical social, economic, and environmental needs of our community.

We created the Business Stimulus Loan Fund at the ECIDA to help fill some of that gap, giving established local companies the financial support they need to grow and create economic opportunity in our community,» said Erie County Executive

«Those who will be hit hardest by the economic shock associated with the vote to leave the EU need a strong opposition, as do those communities who fear rising levels of intolerance, hatred and division.