Sentences with phrase «engaging the public around»

The puppy mills team educates and engages the public around the pervasiveness of puppy mills and advocates for legislation and other policies to eliminate substandard breeding operations.

Volunteers help ensure the success of pro-reproductive health elected officials, advance reproductive health legislation, and educate and engage the public around Planned Parenthood services and our political work.

Not exact matches

«Twitter is the most direct way to engage with the candidates and issues of this election and to participate in the live, public conversation around its key events,» said Adam Sharp, Twitter's head of news, government, and elections, in a statement.

I also made clear that while I won't be participating in the Forum, BlackRock will continue to engage on issues of public policy with governments at all levels and around the world.

So it is deliciously ironic that on this very public and glorious day of Jesus» ministry, a day when he will be welcomed into Jerusalem with joyous hosannas, they find themselves engaged in a most unromantic form of ministry, mucking around a stable, looking suspiciously like horse thieves, and trying to wrestle an untamed and no doubt balky animal toward the olive groves.

Fortunately for me, Obama and the people around him - folks like Pete Rouse, Valerie Jarrett, Denis McDonough, Melody Barnes, Michael Strautmanis, and Chris Lu - valued results more than reputation, and saw the need to engage people of faith in the public square.

Furthermore, some of these men are known to engage in public disputes around theology — often on their blogs — which this passage clearly condemns.

The resignation of Davies after his late - night amble around Clapham Common apparently caused as progressive a figure as Blair to worry that «we could get away with Ron as a one - off aberration, but if the public start to think the whole cabinet is engaging in gay sex we could have a bit of a political problem».

But if you aspire to forms of life in common constellated around public things, in affectively charged ways that are both pleasurable and sometimes infuriating, built around finding, promoting and building shared public objects, engaged in some common cause, but not disciplined into oppressive forms of normalisation, then agonistic politics is very optimistic.

The defendant, from in or around March 2008 to in or around October 2013, in the County of Monroe, acting in concert with others known and unknown to the Grand Jury, knowingly and intentionally entered into and engaged in and continued to engage in a contract, agreement, arrangement, and combination in unreasonable restraint of combination and the free exercise of activity in the conduct of business, trade, and commerce, specifically, to restrain competition in the bidding process of Monroe County for the Public Safety Contract, by means of bid rigging.

Though he openly disagrees with the comedians opinions, Edwards believes anything that engages the public in debate around issues in current affairs can only be a good thing.

12:28 - Brown seizes on an other question about the banks to go on about how Obama will shortly engage in public investment, as will he, and it's «unfortunate the Conservative party is isolated around the world».

Businesses need to engage in the public debate around their key issues.

They're still around, though their registration to engage in lobbying activities in 2013 hasn't posted on the website of the Joint Commission on Public Ethics.

During this Colloquium, members of the 2018 - 2019 cohort of AAAS Leshner Public Engagement Fellows will share the ways that they have engaged audiences around food and water security and how they have used those interactions to spur innovations in their own research.

Perhaps students could spend their first semester in small groups, meeting all day every day with a single professor to engage deeply in a topic that relates to the world around them, like gentrification, social class in America, or public health.

The larger public that engages in the K — 12 education debate could shrink dramatically, to just partisans engaged in the war of ideas around schooling.

Council members frequently present the science and its implications to national, state, and community leaders, and engage with the media to help inform the public policy discourse around child and family policy.

And even though European states» leaders struggle to manage and act responsibly towards the crisis, people from all around the world have shown compassion by asking the European leaders to take action and by offering their help to those who need it most.In the celebration day of volunteering, IWB and CRW come together to ask you to join us in raising public awareness on the current European refugee crisis and in mobilising and engaging governments and communities to take collective action against human suffering.

The Mind Trust and UNCF will host another in a series of «community conversations» designed to engage the local community in discussions around improving public education in Indianapolis.

MITUL engages in broad communication, education and advocacy around the role of teacher unions in defining and leading public education reform.

At CCE, we are doing our small part with our Massachusetts Personalized Learning Network, comprised of urban public in - district schools that are designed around 21st - century innovative principles such as competency - based progression, anytime / anywhere and engaged learning, personal learning pathways, and robust performance assessments.

In a statement, Emanuel said, «In the past, there has been too much uncertainty around changes to our schools: year after year, Chicago Public Schools did not do an adequate job of engaging communities in these critical decisions, and year after year students, families and communities were left wondering of what was to come.

Aurora Public Schools has taken steps to engage the community in discussions about school improvement, particularly around the development of the innovation zone.

INDIANAPOLIS — The Mind Trust and UNCF will host another in a series of «community conversations» designed to engage the local community in discussions around improving public education in Indianapolis.

Indianapolis — The Mind Trust and UNCF will host another in a series of «Community Conversations,» which engage the local community in discussions around improving public education in Indianapolis, next week.

In the Oval Office, with the teachers and others standing around him, Trump spoke about the teachers and engaged with a few of them (see video above), and briefly singled out the 2017 National Teacher of the Year, Sydney Chaffee, from Codman Academy Charter Public School in Dorchester, Mass..

State of Our Cities: Profiles of Education Performance Around the Nation provides comparable education data on more than 100 cities across the country and allows users to make comparisons at the state, national, and global level so that mayors, policymakers, and the public can engage more vigorously in education decision - making in their local communities.

MITUL also engages in broad communication, education and advocacy around the role of teacher unions in defining and leading public education reform.

November 2011: A Gates Foundation grant to the New Venture Fund — «to support efforts to better engage and mobilize public support for educational policy and advocacy goals, especially around common core standards and effective teaching reforms within and among the faith community and faith leaders.»

Ohio: Megan Kinsey, Principal, Ridge Middle School, Mentor Public Schools, OH Catalyst, a state - of - art observational classroom that Megan Kinsey helped co-found, contributes to her commitment as a lifelong learner because it allows her to engage in action research around new technologies and instructional strategies that can assist her in finding the best way to support the educators and learners in her building.

Making the public aware of this crises and engaging them in solving it is critical to turning the situation around.

In pursuit of the school's goal to advance the well - being of animals and people in California and around the globe, faculty, staff and students reach out in many ways to provide services to the community, promote veterinary medicine, make discoveries, and engage members of the public through volunteer opportunities, special events and other activities.

While the association's Pets Add Life (PAL) campaign, which was «designed to demonstrate the joys and benefits of pet ownership,» has been around for a few years now — running targeted television ads and sponsoring programs such as a children's poetry contest — it really seems to be hitting its stride by using digital media to engage the public.

«The popular Summer Stride reading program, themed around exploring parks and the outdoors, engaged more than 18,000 people in 2016, and 67 percent of them were young people — the next generation of park and public land supporters.

The four - day networking and learning industry event engages delegates from around the world in discussions on a range of industry topics, such as marketing and promotions, niche markets, industry trends, sustainable tourism, climate change, airline access, public - private partnership, and tourism policy choices for Africa.

GTEF engages public and private sector stakeholders from around the world in high - level exchanges on timely and thought - provoking subjects.

Games for Change runs public game design competitions to engage developers and help organizations and causes surface some of the best concepts from around the world.

In his 1993 essay, Meyer identified pedagogy as an area that artists were engaging with in the 1990s, and one sees it again today in efforts like the Public School, a free learning initiative operating in many cities, and the Bruce High Quality Foundation and its ambitious free art school, BHQFU, along with others that have started in recent years around the world.

Engaging and surreal, walking into what feels like such a private space in one of the most public environments in the art world, this stand has more detail than most artworks — worth a visit of its own, it would be worth the gallery creating this installation around the world.

The curatorial team, led by Paul M. Farber and Ken Lum, works closely with artists from Philadelphia and around the world to channel historical memory into civically - engaged contemporary public works.

Since 1974, Creative Time has produced over 350 groundbreaking public art projects that ignite the imagination, explore ideas that shape society, and engage millions of people around the globe.

January is eager to discuss questions around Public Engagement, socially - engaged art practice, artist residencies, and has a special interest in photography.

In addition to a long career of exhibition in traditional museums and galleries, he is a respected innovator and pioneer for his projects engaging with public space, which can now be found in over fourteen countries around the world.

gloATL's summer series Liquid Culture invited and engaged Atlantans for 14 - days of public dance around the city.

Organized by the ADAA, a nonprofit membership organization of art dealers from around the country, The Art Show offers collectors, arts professionals, and the public the opportunity to engage with artworks of the highest quality through intimately scaled and thoughtfully curated exhibitions that encourage close looking and active conversation with art experts.

«As home to one of the most comprehensive American art collections, we have an incredible opportunity to engage students and the public in ways that advance the national dialogue around American identity in context of the full sweep of U.S. history represented in our holdings.

She also co-curated the exhibition Fatal Love: South Asian American Contemporary Art Now, as well as coordinated two editions of Corona Plaza: Center of Everywhere, which commissioned eight artists to develop public art works that engage local residents on issues of neighborhood history and identity as well as tensions around its various transformations.

Organized by the ADAA, a nonprofit membership organization of art dealers from around the country, The Art Show offers collectors, arts professionals, and the public the opportunity to engage with artworks of the highest quality through intimately scaled and thoughtfully curated exhibitions that encourage close looking and active conversation with gallerists.

Bloomfield Hills, Mich., Sept. 13, 2016 — Cranbrook Academy of Art announces its [FALL] Lecture Series, bringing speakers from around the world to campus to share insights and engage in conversations with Academy students and the general public.