Sentences with phrase «first organized effort»

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Coffin first caught the public eye when he helped organize and then led the effort to desegregate the interstate bus system with what came to be called «Freedom Rides.»

To overcome production constraints through collective research efforts, the first planning meeting of the Temperate Rice Research Consortium (TRRC) was organized by the International Rice Research Institute (IRRI) at Suwon, Korea, on 2 - 3 May 2007 with the participation of scientists from 12 temperate rice - growing countries.

«Although people donated to the parks in the past, this was the first organized collaborative effort.

The meeting, the first large - scale effort to address prostitution in Wicker Park, was organized by five neighborhood groups.

If your group is thinking about participating in Giving Tuesday, the effort first organized last year to create a national day of philanthropy on the Tuesday after Thanksgiving, you really need to know one thing: are these NEW donations or just early gifts of money your supporters were planning...

If your group is thinking about participating in Giving Tuesday, the effort first organized last year to create a national day of philanthropy on the Tuesday after Thanksgiving, you really need to know one thing: are these NEW donations or just early gifts of money your supporters were planning to make anyway?

For every county in the first four voting states of Iowa, New Hampshire, South Carolina and Nevada, the Cruz campaign has locked down county chairs in charge of not just lending their names to the campaign, but of spearheading outreach and organizing efforts.

Much of Sanders» organizing efforts last year focused on enrolling independents and young first - time voters as Democrats.

What is more interesting than the same battle that has been circulating since groups on Goodreads and a grassroots effort called Stop The Goodreads Bullies first began waging organized warfare on authors or reviewers is that Rice is no casual observer of the issue.

Under Rebecca's leadership, LifeLine also operates its own no - kill shelter, which focuses on animals with special medical or behavioral needs; Catlanta, the first and largest organized trap - neuter - return (TNR) program in Atlanta, which has sterlized and vaccinated more than 35,000 community cats; and Community LifeLine, an outreach effort that provides free vaccines and spay / neuter to thousands of pets belonging to low - income Atlantans.

Eight years of preparation went into crafting «WACK,» the first comprehensive effort to correct modern art history's shameful gender bias, focusing on work that emerged from the feminist art movement of 1965 through the 1980s and organized by theme.

Inspired by the organizing efforts of a group of black Southern lawyers known as the «Greenville movement,» George H. Woodson, one of the NBA's co-founders, organized the first convention of what was then called the «Iowa Colored Bar Association» in 1924.

In a first - time effort, organized by the Public Art Fund, the Biennial moves outdoors to Central Park.

As the clock ticks down to the first set of sales of work from the Berkshire Museum's collection at Sotheby's in New York, a group opposing the deaccessioning called Save the Art — Save the Museum, which has so far raised $ 15,000 for legal challenges and publicity efforts, is organizing public events to further its cause.

The first organized public effort to limit human effects on the biosphere of which I am aware came from Jacques Yves Costeau in the founding of the Costeau Society in 1974.

Tech start - up Collactive has thrown its hat into the rough - and - tumble world of social networking applications, and one of its first offerings, the Worldcoolers desktop, is designed to give people concerned about the climate crisis the means to connect with one another, organize their efforts, and reach out to the larger community.

According to the first of McKibben's twelve dispatches at Grist on the organizing effort, the simultaneous actions will be as diverse as the country itself:

Prior to forming her first consulting business in 1987, Susan worked in two national law firms where she assisted in organizing efforts in client and practice development, communications and public relations, governance and planning, attorney recruitment, performance evaluation and training and paralegal management.

• Initiated a token - line system that reduced waiting time by 10 % and resulted in establishing an organized queue system in the waiting area • Converted clients» data to a computerized system during the first six months of employment • Implemented a new software named «quick schedule» at the clinic that saved manual effort by generating automated follow up appointments and email reminders regarding the same via email to clients

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