Sentences with phrase «economic opportunities for our youth»

When the business, higher education, and K - 12 sectors align efforts, it drives greater educational and economic opportunity for all youths.

Prior to relocating to Chicago Felicia worked with not - for - profit organizations in St. Catharines and Toronto, Canada to enhance educational attainment, access to the arts and socio - economic opportunities for youth.

Not exact matches

With increasing youth populations, rapid economic growth and a rising middle class, emerging markets (EM) hold considerable potential for investment opportunities.

The stores aim to boost local economic development through the creation of new jobs and by partnering with women - and minority - owned businesses and local nonprofits to provide job skills training opportunities for youth in the community.

Bringing NICA to Oregon will provide opportunities for youth to build strong body, mind and character through cycling as well as strong economic benefits to the communities that embrace the power of interscholastic cycling.

After being involved with many different youth athletic programs for the past several years, I have had the opportunity to observe youth leagues that are on opposite poles of the economic and social spectrum.

Mr. Speaker, the 2018 - 2021 Budget is informed by the President's Coordinated Programme for Economic and Social Development Policies which aims at creating a conducive environment for the private sector to thrive, propel growth and create employment opportunies, especially for the youth.In this regard, Government's policy objectives for the medium term will aim at: • Stabilizing the economy and setting it on a path of sustained, diversified and resilient growth; • Optimizing the key sources of growth in the economy on sustainable basis; • Enhancing a competitive and enabling business environment for private sector - led growth; • Formalizing the informal sector; • Building a strong and resilient economy able to withstand internal and external shocks; • Promoting agro-industrial enterprises as the basis for the «One District, One Factory» initiative; and • Creating entrepreneurial and employment opportunities, especially for the youth.

As a torchbearer of Africa's Political emancipation, the Ghana Beyond Aid vision resonates within Ghana and catching up with other African countries as the only sustainable means of reaching our goals of economic emancipation as a continent by using internal resources to create the needed infrastructural development and jobs opportunity for the teeming unemployed graduate youth.

Ghana, President Akufo - Addo stated, has the opportunity to become a regional centre for light manufacturing for a market of some 350 million people in the ECOWAS Community, projected to reach 500 million by 2030, «by weaving together our numerous natural resources, like food produce, bauxite, iron ore, oil and gas, with our talents and energy, to turn our nation into an economic powerhouse in West Africa, generating full employment for our teeming youth.»

Jesusegun Alagbe Akwa Ibom State Governor, Mr. Udom Emmanuel, has called on the people of the state to partner him in the task of installing an enduring economic legacy that will open up employment opportunities for the youths and engender sustainable development.

Some of us, in our misguided elitism, thought that Nigerian youths deserved quality, challenging jobs and opportunities that would create a pathway for upward socio - economic mobility.

To combat the supply costs of traditional retail outlets, SHE partnered with a variety of youth, education, and community healthcare organizations that have established workers in the field to sell the banana pads to the villages they visit, which in turn creates an economic opportunity for those workers who often can not make a livable wage from government funding alone.

We are dedicated to creating an environment that provides equitable opportunities for youth in the classroom and beyond — giving children from all socio - economic backgrounds the opportunity for success.

Through extensive study in the areas of next generation learning, social and emotional learning, wellness, urban planning, Hip - Hop culture, Chicago history, the opportunity gaps that exist among marginalized students, economic mobility, arts education, and the at - risk communities on Chicago's South Side, Art in Motion has a solid research foundation upon which to build an innovative middle and high school that has the potential to change the narrative for many Southside youth.

Cross-System Collaboration to Serve Disconnected Youth with Suzanne Lynn, Deputy Commissioner for Community Development, Department of Youth and Community Development (DYCD); Kristin Morse, Director of Evaluation, Center for Economic Opportunity; and Peter Kleinbard, Youth Development Institute This panel provided information

(District of Columbia) In an effort to increase economic and educational opportunities for Native American youth, federal officials are looking to unify resources available to often underserved communities with bipartisan support.

Our intention with this legislative brief is to offer a roadmap for Connecticut's children, based on four policy priorities: family economic security, inclusive, high - quality early care and education, youth opportunity and fiscal reform.

A graduate of the University of Virginia, Sara is a 2016 Stevie Award Winner for «Female Innovator of the Year;» a Global Shaper with the World Economic Forum; an American Express Ashoka Emerging Innovator; a Cordes Fellow with the Opportunity Collaboration; a Peace X Peace 2012 Women, Power, & Peace Award Winner (Generation Peace Award); the only U.S. recipient of the Youth Leader Award in the Americas by the Inter-American Development Bank Annual Board of Governors Meeting; an Ashoka Activating Empathy Award Winner; a three - time Beyond Sport Award Finalist; named a «Woman Entrepreneur» by World Resources Institute New Ventures Mexico; a Creative Community Fellow with National Arts Strategies; a StartingBloc Fellow; a Finalist Nominee Social Entrepreneur / Innovator for the Women's Information Network 18th Annual Young Women of Achievement Award; 1 of 3 Artists Transforming the World by the Arts and Healing Network; Global Good Fund Fellow; honored among The Jewish Week NY's «36 Under 36»; and a Susan Schiffer Stautberg Leadership Fellow.

Other organizations signed on to the compact include: AASA, the School Superintendents Association; Alliance for Quality Education; The Albert Shanker Institute; American Youth Policy Forum; Center for Teaching Quality; Coalition for Community Schools; Committee for Economic Development; Education Law Center; League of United Latin American Citizens; Institute for Educational Leadership; National Association of Bilingual Educators; National Association of Secondary School Principals; National Education Association; Opportunity to Learn; Partnership for 21st Century Skills; and Southeast Asia Resource Action Center.

Due to effects of multigenerational poverty, limited educational and economic opportunities, high levels of drug use and trade, and pervasive community violence, urban youth in Baltimore and many US cities are at increased risk for exposure to a variety of stresses, including early life stress, recurrent and chronic stress, and exposure to significant and / or recurrent traumas.

Increased job and economic opportunities for residents would provide an alternative to the street lifestyle, and economically stable neighbors could serve as mentors, role models, and supportive coparents to local youths.

Economic Development, Employment and Training: Increasing Indigenous individual and community pride and confidence through greater economic participation with relevant training for organisational governance, youth employment opportunities, supportive mentoring for Indigenous employees with service providers, maximising CDEP benefits and increasing social Economic Development, Employment and Training: Increasing Indigenous individual and community pride and confidence through greater economic participation with relevant training for organisational governance, youth employment opportunities, supportive mentoring for Indigenous employees with service providers, maximising CDEP benefits and increasing social economic participation with relevant training for organisational governance, youth employment opportunities, supportive mentoring for Indigenous employees with service providers, maximising CDEP benefits and increasing social capital.

We are dedicated to creating an environment that provides equitable opportunities for youth in the classroom and beyond — giving children from all socio - economic backgrounds the opportunity for success.