Sentences with phrase «effort by sponsoring»

NWEI is creating a new discussion course on simplicity, and intentional living and we invite you to partner with us in this effort by sponsoring a session or page of the course.

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On the broadest social level, the ostensible «free market» lobbying effort sponsored by banks to shift the property tax onto labor and industry has become a campaign against government itself.

The effort is part of Facebook's reaction to the 2016 U.S. presidential election, when Russian - sponsored actors attempted to intervene by posting ads — as well as using fake users, accounts and groups.

Indian children suffering with birth defects compete in a 25 Meters sprint event during a «Special Olympics» held by the survivors of the deadly 1984 Bhopal gas leak in an effort to shame Olympic sponsor Dow Chemical Co. on the eve of the London Games in Bhopal, India, Thursday, July 26, 2012.

In January, a poll commissioned by the Catholic Campaign for Human Development, the antipoverty effort sponsored by U.S. Catholic bishops, showed that 29 percent of those surveyed believe that lack of education is a principal cause of poverty.

Similar efforts have been launched in recent months against Blake Mycoskie, founder of TOMS shoes, for speaking at a Focus on the Family event; and Howard Schultz, CEO of Starbucks, for agreeing to appear at a leadership conference sponsored by another Christian group, the Willow Creek Association.

It means that voluntary efforts other than those sponsored by the churches themselves must shoulder most of the responsibility for helping the needy.

Evangelical and fundamentalist mission agencies have grown in proportion, while mainline bodies have focused more on assisting indigenous ministries, supplying social services, lobbying for social justice through political channels, and even turning the cultural conduit around by sponsoring reverse missionary programs.14 Viewed from only the American context, it appears that mainstream Protestantism has suffered a serious decline in its missionary efforts.

Scale is a key component of this venture — Moringa's efforts are part of Nicaragua's 2.7 million hectare contribution to the Initiative 20 × 20, sponsored by World Resource Institute (WRI), whose objective is to restore 20 million hectares of forests in Latin America.

This post is sponsored by Glad in effort to save good food from going bad.

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Sponsors are enticed by what Wallace brings as a spokesman, and RPM is hoping it can parlay that interest into increased funding, something the organization has lacked and hindered any sustained rebuilding efforts.

Backed by corporate sponsors, Starlings is a grassroots effort to popularize volleyball in areas where funding and tradition are in short supply.

Virginia Tech is participating in a new, landmark $ 30 million national effort sponsored by the National Collegiate Athletic Association and the U.S. Department of Defense to combat concussions among college athletes and active service military personnel.

But a bill legalizing the combat sport was passed Wednesday by the State Senate, thanks in part to the efforts of lead sponsor State Sen. Kevin Parker, who has been known for getting into a few altercations of his own over the years.

Their efforts include a bill sponsored by Democratic assemblywoman Aileen Gunther and Republican state senator Betty Little.

It was legislation sponsored by Sen. Klein in June in the State Senate that allowed for New York City's speed limit, in line with Mayor Bill de Blasio's Vision Zero plan, to be lowered to 25 miles per hour in an effort to prevent fatalities.

The effort is being sponsored by a broad - based coalition.

The sessions are sponsored by the federal Small Business Administration (SBA) in an effort to help our nation's military veterans succeed in the business world.

That legislation, which is sponsored by Majority Leader Catherine Borgia, an Ossining Democrat, aims to stem the tide of recent efforts by the U.S. Immigration and Customs Enforcement, ICE, and Customs and Border Protection, CBP, to detain and transfer an individual for immigration and investigation purposes.

The event is sponsored by Education Reform Now, a group that has ties to Taveras: the New York - based 501 (c) 3 nonprofit is helping support the national Mayors for Educational Excellence Tour, which is meant to highlight new educational efforts in four specific U.S. cities.

BY PAUL SCHINDLER With just two days remaining until the State Legislature in Albany adjourns its 2014 session, the lead Senate sponsor of a bill that would ban mental health professionals from engaging in «sexual orientation change efforts» with minors remains hopeful that the measure could win approval.

Another bill, sponsored by Council Member Corey Johnson, would require EDC to report on its efforts to recover funds from any third party that received financial assistance but failed to live up to an economic development agreement.

H.R. 1060, the Young Farmer Success Act, is a bipartisan bill sponsored by Thompson, Rep. Joe Courtney (D - CT) and Rep. John Faso (R - NY) in an effort to preserve America's agricultural economy and the security of its national food supply.

Empire State Development Executive Vice President of Innovation and Broadband Jeffrey Nordhaus offered an update on recent efforts last Monday at an event sponsored by The Town of Johnsburg Community Development Corporation in North Creek.

And, in an effort to reverse decades of discrimination against blacks and Latinos, Mr. Cuomo pushed the government - sponsored banks, Fannie Mae and Freddie Mac, to buy more home loans taken out by poor and working - class borrowers.

The forum, which was to be sponsored by the Progressive Agenda Committee, a group founded by de Blasio and First Lady Chirlane McCray, was an effort to inject the issue of income inequality into the presidential elections.

A resolution sponsored by Rockland County Legislator Ilan Schoenberger will call upon the Federal Emergency Management Agency (FEMA) to expedite the release of Advisory Base Flood Elevations (ABFEs) for Rockland County that will provide up - to - date information that Rockland property owners and municipalities can utilize to support and formulate reconstruction plans and efforts in light of the devastation caused along the Hudson shoreline by Hurricane Sandy.

The bill, sponsored by council members Margaret Chin and Brad Lander, is not the first effort to attempt to cut back on the bag.

This article discusses the efforts of the Committee on Human Rights (CHR) sponsored jointly by the National Academy of Sciences, the National Academy of Engineering, and the Institute of Medicine.

The drilling effort began at the beginning of April and is sponsored by the International Ocean Discovery Program (IODP).

The meeting — hosted by the Howard Hughes Medical Institute (HHMI) here, and sponsored by HHMI; ASAPbio, a group that promotes the use of life sciences preprints; and the London - based Wellcome Trust — drew more than 100 participants interested in catalyzing efforts to improve the vetting of manuscripts and exploring ways to open up what many called an excessively opaque and slow system of peer review.

Through the Advanced Scientific Computing Research Leadership Computing Challenge program, Thornton's team was awarded 85 million compute hours to improve the Accelerated Climate Modeling for Energy (ACME) effort, a project sponsored by Earth System Modeling program within DOE's Office of Biological and Environmental Research.

Fifteen months ago, academic climate scientists expressed worries that a new climate model sponsored by the U.S. Department of Energy (DOE) was going to harm existing modeling efforts, siphoning off talent and funding when federally funded science is short on both.

The new work was inspired by the so - called ALS Prediction Prize, a joint effort by the ALS - focused nonprofit Prize4Life and Dialogue for Reverse Engineering Assessments and Methods (DREAM), a computational biology project whose sponsors include IBM and Columbia University.

Individual investigators who participate in the sponsored project (s) are not directly compensated by the sponsor, but may receive salary or other support from the institution to support their effort on the project (s).

Sponsors: Research supported by the U.S. Department of Energy's Office of Science, Basic Energy Sciences (atomic force microscopy studies), the Pacific Northwest National Laboratory Laboratory Directed Research and Development effort (peptoid synthesis), and the China Scholarship Council (FJ).

The effort is sponsored by a Department of Defense (DoD) Multidisciplinary University Research Initiative (MURI) through the Air Force Office of Sponsored Research (AFOSR).

By sponsoring and democratizing research efforts through crowdfunding and engaging the public in thoughtful dialogue, we aim to accelerate the achievement of this important humanitarian goal for all mankind.

Since joining PNNL in 1985, he has focused his research efforts in subsurface microbiology and biogeochemistry in research sponsored by the Department of Energy's Office of Biological and Environmental Research, part of the Office of Science.

Sponsors: M.D.B. was supported by Materials Synthesis and Simulation Across Scales (MS3) Initiative at Pacific Northwest National Laboratory, funded by the Laboratory Directed Research and Development effort.

This initiative, today led by an Alliance, including science, donors, sponsors and users, is a unique co-design effort to organize and define the science on global environmental change over the coming decades.

In an effort to further exploit the potential of Pexa - Vec to activate the immune system to fight cancer, as seen in McDonald's preclinical data, SillaJen recently announced a new clinical trial in collaboration with New York - based Regeneron Inc. to test Pexa - Vec and REGN2810, a PD - 1 checkpoint inhibitor, in combination against renal cell carcinoma, and recently signed a sponsored research agreement with UCSF to enable joint support of parallel preclinical experiments by McDonald's team.

The findings, which were released here last week during the annual meeting of the American Educational Research Association, are part of a larger research effort sponsored by the National Science Foundation to explore how the organization of schools and classrooms affects student achievement.

In many cases, this opposition reflects the mistaken impression that the Common Core State Standards Initiative was a federal effort, sponsored by President Obama rather by the states» governors and education officials.

Today, American Education Week, sponsored by the U.S. Department of Education and 12 national organizations, continues that effort by providing opportunities for strengthening the spirit of community within schools and developing partnerships between schools and local communities.

23 - 26 — Education reform: National conference on Kentucky's education - reform efforts, sponsored by the Kentucky Department of Education, the Prichard Committee for Academic Excellence, and the Partnership for Kentucky School Reform, to be held in Lexington, Ky..

Clearly, religious organizations have long sponsored missionary and humanitarian efforts in the developing world in ways far more extensive than educators have done.So often these have been inspired by women, making me wonder why concern for global poverty has become a gendered activity.In their important book, Half the Sky (2009), (required reading for Ghana participants), authors Nicholas Kristof and Sheryl Wu Dunn argue that the lack of global attention to the plight of women is the greatest, challenge in the world today.

Only in recent years have we seen serious, broad - scale efforts at cooperation, such as the charter / district compacts now sponsored in 21 cities by the Bill & Melinda Gates Foundation.