Sentences with phrase «efforts local citizens»

This also efforts local citizens associations that fight to keep the beaches pristine.

Not exact matches

The Republican lawmaker has been feuding with local media over his seven - year efforts to repeal Indiana laws that require citizens to have a permit to carry a handgun.

The high - flying helium balloons will look to provide LTE cellular reception to the citizens and local governments of Puerto Rico, to improve the coordination of relief and restoration efforts and to reestablish communication within the island and the outside world.

The Justice Department is making efforts to notify COINTELPRO victims, and under the Freedom of Information Act citizens may succeed in finding out about intelligence activity directed against them (a local ACLU office can help).

A systematic effort to encourage church members to become involved in the activities of the local Mental Health Association, a citizens group which engages in educational and preventive programs on all three levels.

Citizens who try to promote public - works projects through their local or federal governments find that their efforts are crowded out by pork - barrel projects benefiting powerful corporations.

Currently, the Citizens Budget Commission (CBC) prepares the most comprehensive view of state and local economic development efforts statewide; however, the usefulness of this presentation is limited because it is based mostly on available data published for past years.1 A UEDB should be part of the Executive and Enacted budgets and should include prospective information showing the costs of all economic development programs for the coming fiscal year.2 To capture the full scope of economic development costs, a UEDB should bring together tax expenditures and spending at state agencies and authorities, as well as the value of discounted power offered by the New York Power Authority.

He acknowledged the efforts of county and local officials, the members of the New Paltz Citizens Bridge Advisory Committee involved in the design and planning process that began 18 months ago, and the hard work of the members of the Ulster County Department of Public Works.

«It also allows us more freedom to engage local citizen scientists in the effort to save the species around them.»

The Brooklyn mapping effort represents the intersection of two growing trends: mapping fresh food markets in U.S. cities, and private citizens creating online maps of local features in their neighborhoods.

Communicate to citizens and particular stakeholders, including local communities, youth, governments, civil society, and the private sector, about the value of snow leopards and their ecosystem, and sustain the effort by celebrating 23 October 23 each year as the International Snow Leopard Day with presentation of an annual International Snow Leopard Conservation Award, and 2015 as the International Year of the Snow Leopard.

Jolted by the scale of the catastrophe unleashed by Hurricane Harvey, local leaders appealed to citizens to join in the rescue effort — and they've responded in droves.

Abstract: This article highlights the effort of citizens working together to strengthen their fight to save five of their local schools from closure.

The Association has called on Congress to support the efforts of states and local education agencies to increase student engagement and lower dropout rates using research - based approaches that ensure high school graduates become productive citizens.

It is ironic, to say the least, that Malloy and Pryor would begin the education reform effort by stomping on Connecticut's historic dedication to ensuring local citizens run local schools.

PBE deepens personalized and project - based learning, providing a way to connect these efforts to students» local community and environment for engaging learning that leads to more engaged citizens.

PBE is also a natural complement to Personalized and Project - Based Learning, providing a way to connect these efforts to students» local environment for engaging learning that leads to more engaged citizens.

, providing a way to connect these efforts to students» local community and environment for engaging learning that leads to more engaged citizens.

When the final reports were filed in Bridgeport, the corporate education reform industry and its supporters spent more than $ 560,000, a state record, in their effort to take away the right of local citizens to elect their own board of education.

Their legislative agenda also includes taking away local citizen control of public schools and supporting the Malloy administration's effort to punish school districts in which more than 5 percent of the parents opt their children out of the unfair, inappropriate and discriminatory Smarter Balanced Assessment Consortium (SBAC) testing scheme.

«Such efforts take not only effective school administration, leadership, focus and persistence, but also engagement of citizens and local businesses.

We also have increased citizen participation on all fronts, including engaging the public on departmental policy and regulations and in local transportation decision - making through our Ladders of Opportunity efforts and initiatives such as the Every Place Counts challenge.

Identifying Future Trends Due to campaigns by local governments advising citizens to take all animal - safety precautions and efforts by shelters to prevent the return of adopted pets into the system, public conscientiousness is driving the demand for innovative identification options.

Reducing Brevard County's abandoned / community cat population takes efforts from many organizations, including other grassroots animal welfare organizations, county animal services and law enforcement, local businesses, and citizens like yourself!

We can help municipalities create a local cat strategy, and provide examples of cat - positive, bird - positive communications strategies to encourage their citizens to participate in a local effort to improve cat and bird welfare.

We started in 1975 from the efforts of three local citizens, and ever since, it's been our members, volunteers, and supporters who make it possible for us to continue.

She was also instrumental in getting farmers, restaurant owners, farmers markets, consumers and citizens together to talk about and take action around creating more local, sustainable food options in Jefferson County during a Menu for the Future community organizing push a few years ago, which served as an example for other groups in the US, with Cleveland, Ohio and Vermont replicating her efforts.

The spit had been a quarry and gravel - loading pier and, after years of efforts by local citizens, land - preservation groups and state government, now is simply a place to walk a dog and enjoy thickening, albeit viny, woods and extraordinary views of the Hudson Highlands.

5 Gyres lead students in citizen science and educational efforts during two Summer Camp Programs, reaching over 50 students directly and close to 600 people (parents, staff and the local community) indirectly.

Earth Day Network's End Plastic Pollution campaign includes four major components: • Leading a grassroots movement to support the adoption of a global framework to regulate plastic pollution; • Educating, mobilizing and activating citizens across the globe to demand that governments and corporations control and clean up plastic pollution; • Educating people worldwide to take personal responsibility for plastic pollution by choosing to reject, reduce, reuse and recycle plastics, and • Promoting local government regulatory and other efforts to tackle plastic pollution.

The Goldman Prize views «grassroots» leaders as those involved in local efforts, where positive change is created through community or citizen participation in the issues that affect them.

In its ongoing effort to work with communities to achieve balanced economic growth, in 2010 Scenic Hudson published Revitalizing Hudson Riverfronts, a comprehensive guide intended to help local officials, planners, developers and concerned citizens realize the full potential of their shorelines.

An important part of Justice Stevens» legacy will be his recognition that the Constitution permits, and in many circumstances demands, protection of efforts — whether by Congress or a local school district — to promote inclusion of all citizens in every facet of our nation's political, social, and cultural life.

The KIDS COUNT Network is a national and state - by - state effort to track that status of children in the U.S. by providing policymakers and citizens with benchmarks of child well - being, KIDS COUNT seeks to enrich local, state, and national discussions concerning ways to secure better futures for all children.

In an effort to address both of these challenges, a broad coalition of citizens, local government, and housing groups worked together to bring new life and new homeowners to the tarnished, century - old Head of Montford neighborhood.

In an effort to address both a deterioration of once - grand historic neighborhoods and a lack of affordable housing, a broad coalition of citizens, local government, and housing groups worked together to bring new life and new homeowners to the tarnished, century - old Head of Montford neighborhood in Asheville.