Sentences with phrase «effecting change in your community»

Zuckerberg encouraged the graduates to find a purpose in life that was greater than themselves to effect change in their communities.

Typically, churches attempt to effect change in their communities (charity, feeding the poor, winning converts etc).

Visit thredUP.com/thrive4mothers to read more about some inspiring women who are effecting change in their communities.

Once authentic learning experiences are provided for students, we see an opportunity for students to become empowered to effect change in their communities and the world around them, just as S. Rindt challenged.

We also invite you to consider the next steps for effecting change in your community or organization.

Throughout North America, thousands of engaged citizens are organizing NWEI discussion courses and effecting change in their communities.

Knowing how to wield influence in a positive manner can make a difference in every arena of your life — whether you're trying to effect change in your community, communicate with your teenage children, or grow your business.

Not exact matches

This award recognizes a woman who has demonstrated a positive and tangible impact or effected change in the Greater Vancouver community through her dedication and leadership.

But while the scientific community is in consensus about climate change, its effects on insurance aren't so clear, despite the soaring cost damage.

Such a decision may be overwhelming in its emotional effect and may change radically the currents of one's vocational, domestic, and community relations.

This week, we talk with Teresa Goines about Old School Cafe, how it's making a difference in the lives of young people and to actually effect change in local communities.

While modifying an external behavior is useful, it isn't necessarily transformational, whereas changing one's inner being for the good, can result in multiple external changes across the range of one's life, and thus, in every sphere of influence a person has (including in ones» community), and the effect is usually more permanent.

New food and beverage products that assume consumer health can find marketplace opportunities, and effect real change in overall community health

«Our missions are very similar, to work with farmers and communities in an effort to protect the natural environment and help mitigate the effects of climate change on a global scale.

We are proud to support the following leaders who do great work in their communities and strive to effect social change.

«The Art of Yoga Project (AYP) has a mission to lead teen girls in the California juvenile justice system toward accountability to self, others and community by providing practical tools to effect behavioral change.»

Here she shares thoughts on the role of social media and the natural foods community in effecting change in food policy.

I could clearly tell that it was not just me that felt that way, in fact the PR team and the members from Johnsons and Johnsons were clearly in awe by the changes we have effected in our community.

As individuals, by working in our communities, and by supporting climate policy, we can effect dramatic positive change at the community level.

By bringing a big global problem to a local and more manageable scale, we can gain insight on the effects of climate change in our community.

We, at API, often talk about the ripple effect we can create by the little changes each of us makes in our families and in our communities.

And finally, a full solution will need to effect a change in individual attitudes towards their relationship with society, in particular encouraging individuals» development into independently - thinking proactive members of their communities.

President Muhammadu Buhari has reiterated the need for sustained financial, technical and capacity building support from the international community to mitigate the adverse effects of climate change in the country.

«New Yorkers know too well the devastation caused by climate change, and in order to slow the effects of extreme weather and build our communities to be stronger and more resilient, we must make significant investments in renewable energy,» Cuomo said.

If you are interested in lobbying local elected officials for policy changes that effect our neighborhood (congestion pricing, affordable housing, public school improvements), getting involved in the local community board, or participating in our club's efforts to elect progressive judges, this is the committee for you.

Although initiatives such as ECO and Green Deal have helped dampen the effect, resulting in positive change in lives and communities, their direct and indirect effect on health implication has not been fully understood.

For many of the people Community Links works with in Newham, it is the combined effects of different reforms, rather than any one individual change, which make situations unmanageable.

Alhaji Rashid Adam who is also the General Manager of Apsonic Motors said, he is going to empower Nasara Coordinators across the country to enable them effect positive change in their communities.

At the ceremony, Buhari stressed the need for sustained financial, technical and capacity building from the international community to mitigate the effects of climate change in the country.

Mark's Initiatives for a Smart Economy, released in June 2013, and his Initiatives 2.0 version released in June 2017 provide evolving blueprints for comprehensive, innovative economic development across Erie County, with county departments acting either as the lead agency or working with community partners to effect change.

As the effects of global warming become more evident, disaster planners and community activists are beginning to acknowledge that class disparities will come with a changing climate here in the United States, just as it will in developing countries.

Changes in infrastructure and land use had little effect on the poverty in surrounding communities.

They separated out the effect of beds from other factors that reduced transmission, such as behaviour change, community engagement, improved case finding and increase in safe burials.

«If one lives in Canada's north or in our coastal communities, or really in any community that is subject to extreme weather conditions, and the resulting floods, droughts, and wildfires, the effects of climate change itself, can not be denied.

McDowell foresees two groups working in the organization: «one that is effecting advocacy and communication between junior scientists and the rest of the community; and another that is working with data about the system and driving evidence - based policy changes.»

At the close of the Fourth International Polar Year, we take stock of the ecological consequences of recent climate change in the Arctic, focusing on effects at population, community, and ecosystem scales.

In addition, the community's experience with the recent decrease in the rate at which NIH can pay individual's salaries, from Executive Level I of the Federal Executive Pay Scale ($ 199,700) in FY2011 to Executive Level II ($ 179,700) in FY2012, may provide useful information about the effects of changes in salary supporIn addition, the community's experience with the recent decrease in the rate at which NIH can pay individual's salaries, from Executive Level I of the Federal Executive Pay Scale ($ 199,700) in FY2011 to Executive Level II ($ 179,700) in FY2012, may provide useful information about the effects of changes in salary supporin the rate at which NIH can pay individual's salaries, from Executive Level I of the Federal Executive Pay Scale ($ 199,700) in FY2011 to Executive Level II ($ 179,700) in FY2012, may provide useful information about the effects of changes in salary supporin FY2011 to Executive Level II ($ 179,700) in FY2012, may provide useful information about the effects of changes in salary supporin FY2012, may provide useful information about the effects of changes in salary supporin salary support.

In contrast to reefs across the globe, which have suffered severe and continuing damage due to the combined effects of climate change and local disturbances, the researchers found that the coral communities on most of the reefs they looked at had recovered rapidly from this major «bleaching» event.

Beehives were donated to poor households in the communities for them to improve their livelihoods given the lack of alternative income generating activities and the adverse effects of climate change on their traditional agricultural production.

There is concern in the scientific community that forest fires may set in motion a vicious cycle, where the burning of forests releases more carbon into the atmosphere, thus aggravating the effects of climate change.

Highly motivated people openly cast doubt on well - established evidence — the theory of evolution, the human effects on climate change, the value of vaccines and other findings that have achieved an overwhelming consensus in the scientific community.

Researchers learned that even as few as five lessons from a community - based dating violence prevention program can effect changes in student attitudes and behaviors.

Changes in that signature can indicate how an environmental threat — such as the gradual effects of climate change or increasing levels of human noise pollution — disrupt animal communities.

The researchers are also exploring whether there are any non-target effects by measuring changes in the bat skin microbiome (both fungal and bacterial communities).

Such offices shall engage in cooperative research, development, and demonstration projects with the academic community, State Climate Offices, Regional Climate Offices, and other users and stakeholders on climate products, technologies, models, and other tools to improve understanding and forecasting of regional and local climate variability and change and the effects on economic activities, natural resources, and water availability, and other effects on communities, to facilitate development of regional and local adaptation plans to respond to climate variability and change, and any other needed research identified by the Under Secretary or the Advisory Committee.

You are in charge of a group of volunteers looking to improve postdoctoral training and effect policy change for your larger community.

This expertise is needed to deal with climate issues in the North Central US, where changes in temperature and precipitation could have significant effects on streams, forests, agricultural lands, and mountain ecosystems, in addition to the fish, wildlife, and human communities supported by these environments.

Such priorities include: 1) establishing an ocean carbon chemistry baseline; 2) establishing ecological baselines; 3) determining species / habitat / community sensitivity to ocean acidification; 4) projecting changes in seawater carbonate chemistry; and 5) identifying potentially synergistic effects of multiple stressors.

The AAS joins the AGU in calling for continued peer - reviewed climate research to inform climate - related policy decisions, to provide a basis for mitigating the harmful effects of global change, and to help communities adapt and become resilient to extreme climatic events.

I've investigated the consequences of human activities on ecological communities and processes — from the effects of cleaning habits on the bacterial diversity in our homes to the consequences of land - use change on stream ecosystem function.