Sentences with phrase «focus its efforts on expanding»

She joins us with an established background in Accounting and Marketing and primarily focuses her efforts on expanding and establishing brand partnerships.

A plan unveiled today by Great Public Schools Now identifies 10 low - income neighborhoods where the nonprofit will focus its efforts on expanding access to high - performing schools for kids close to where they live.

If we want a high degree of equality, more states should consider following Friedman's advice and focus efforts on expanding educational freedom and choice.

I think that Google experimented with publishing but is focusing its efforts on expanding the visibility of its ebook store online.

In addition to package game sales, the Company will focus its efforts on expanding digital download sales, which promise higher profitability, in order to diversify its profit structure.

Not exact matches

Exxon Mobil announced last month it would expand its efforts to capture emissions from its subsidary, XTO Energy, which focuses on U.S. shale drilling.

Our investment thesis highlighted consistent after - tax profit (NOPAT) growth, improving return on invested capital (ROIC), a focused effort to expand into higher margin segments, and a low PEBV ratio that implied immediate profit decline.

We think now is the right time to expand our efforts with a dedicated focus on international opportunities.

In a continued effort to expand the focus of my site's screens and hypothetical portfolios this article focuses on the S&P 500 Dividend Aristocrats.

From that initial focus on financial planning, we expanded our efforts to include holding brokers to a fiduciary standard when they hold themselves out as advisers or as providing financial planning, which had become quite common by the 1990s.

Our focus isn't on the sad faces, but on the orphanages that are doing a great job... and we work to help them expand their efforts and spread the good work they're already doing.

Originally facilitated by Ninkasi's own Local Distribution team, the brewery's local distribution arm, the expanded partnership will allow Ninkasi Local Distribution to focus its efforts on maintaining and growing Ninkasi's draft business at on - premise establishments — restaurants and bars throughout Eugene.

The report finds makes a list of recommendations for business, industry, professional bodies and government, namely: Construction businesses · Focus on better human resource management · Introduce and / or expand mentoring schemes · Boost investment in training · Develop talent from the trades as potential managers and professionals · Engage with the community and local education establishments Industry · Rally around social mobility as a collective theme · Promote better human resource management and support the effort of businesses · Promote and develop the UK as an international hub of construction excellence · Support diversity and schemes that widen access to management and the professions · Emphasise and spread understanding of the built environment's impact on social mobility Professional bodies and institutions · Drive the aspirations of Professions for Good for promoting social mobility and diversity · Support wider access to the professions and support those from less - privileged backgrounds · Promote and develop the UK as an international hub of construction excellence · Emphasise and spread understanding of the built environment's impact on social mobility · Provide greater routes for degree - level learning among those working within construction Government · Produce with urgency a plan to boost the UK as an international hub of construction excellence, as a core part of the Industrial Strategy · Provide greater funding to support the travel costs of apprentices · Support wider access to the professions and support those from less - privileged backgrounds · Place greater weight in project appraisal on the impact the built environment has on social mobility The report is being formally launched at an event in the House of Commons later today.

In addition to referencing his military career, efforts to expand broadband Internet access and work on the Farm Bill, Gibson's ad focuses heavily on constituent services.

Numerous federal agencies that historically have focused their minority recruitment and retention efforts on universities, including NSF, NIH, and the Department of Education, are now implementing or expanding programs to fortify science education at community colleges, to facilitate 2 - year students» transfer to universities, and to encourage those students to continue toward advanced degrees.

The GLIMS team's initial efforts focused on possible earthquake effects on Himalayan glaciers, but quickly expanded to searching for post-earthquake landslides.

Enhanced central communication, efforts to expand and diversify the leadership of the VPA (including committees focused on outreach, communication, and diversity), and the development of a VPA website in 2016, have helped make our organization more visible to postdocs on campus.

Consummate research professor at Stanford University has spent 20 years with a focus on plant - based nutrition but has recently expanded his efforts to studying food systems approach to improved diet quality and the link between social movements and improved diet change.

This effort will focus on convening, cultivating relationships, and communication, ultimately steering public policies and initiatives that significantly improve the quality of early learning environments as well as expand their reach.

«While we are disappointed, we are glad they are focused on deepening their efforts with existing Oakland public schools — increasing the number of schools served, expanding to additional grade levels, and offering a summer training,» said David Silver, director of education for Schaaf.

Recent efforts have focused on improving the quality of the assessment tasks and expanding response modes while simultaneously trying to maintain high levels of reliability and validity.

To give you a taste of what is coming in Part 2, the arguments can be summarized as: 1) Education does not lend itself to a single «best» approach, so the Gates effort to use science to discover best practices is unable to yield much productive fruit; 2) As a result, the Gates folks have mostly been falsely invoking science to advance practices and policies they prefer for which they have no scientific support; 3) Attempting to impose particular practices on the nation's education system is generating more political resistance than even the Gates Foundation can overcome, despite their focus on political influence and their devotion of significant resources to that effort; 4) The scale of the political effort required by the Gates strategy of imposing «best» practices is forcing Gates to expand its staffing to levels where it is being paralyzed by its own administrative bloat; and 5) The false invocation of science as a political tool to advance policies and practices not actually supported by scientific evidence is producing intellectual corruption among the staff and researchers associated with Gates, which will undermine their long - term credibility and influence.

San Diego Unified School District's superintendent presented increased and expanded efforts to reduce the achievement gap by focusing on early childhood education, English learners, and school discipline.

A former preschool teacher and school board member, Murray went on to address areas of the law that are not effective for many of our nation's students, suggesting greater efforts to close the achievement gap, especially among students in underserved communities; to reduce redundant and unnecessary testing; focus on preparing students for college and their career; ensure accountability; and also expand access to preschool programs.

«It's not necessarily new work, but it is certainly expanding work,» said Kim Cook, executive director of the National College Access Network, an organization that helps coordinate the efforts of groups focused on increasing college access.

Our TURN regions are expanding these efforts across the nation, focusing on the following goals:

The most - successful school reform efforts undertaken by philanthropists have not been ones that attempted to focus on school district bureaucracies, but on expanding opportunities for high - quality education for children and families.

About the choice to expand Flamboyan's efforts into college readiness and persistence, Stevenson added, «Most of our work to date has been focused on building the capacity of educators in elementary schools to help families support learning.

Expanding learning - time programs that focus with all good intentions on remediation and tutoring, but that extend traditional school structures into afterschool time, may experience weak attendance and missed opportunities because these efforts are too often disconnected from the rich learning lives of today's youth.

Certainly our advocacy efforts, nationally, as well as in New Jersey, have focused on expanding the role of the school psychologist.

Research has shown that if we do not provide a quality education in the early elementary years any gains made in pre-K are quickly lost, so I believe before we consider expanding our early childhood education we should first focus our efforts on addressing the shortcomings in our K - 12 system.

«Our efforts will significantly expand student access to high - quality career education programs in STEM fields, manufacturing and traditional trades, with a focus on underserved populations and communities,» James Peyser, Massachusetts secretary of education, said in the statement from the governor's office.

When it comes to efforts to expand charter schools, vouchers, and other forms of school choice, reformers tend to focus on three matters.

General Motors had considerable success with its Corvette Racing YouTube miniseries last year and so they're decided to expand the marketing effort to focus on Cadillac «s racing season for 2011.

With an expanded focus on both identifier services and development of the Books In Print ® database, Bowker expects to power more organizations» efforts to connect books with readers.

We are particularly eager to expand our work with companies focused on sustainability efforts and looking for creative lending solutions.

Businesses with opportunities to reduce costs and improve margins through internally focused efforts should be able to capitalize on operating leverage in an expanding economy or modestly grow earnings should sales remain flat.

In a continued effort to expand the focus of my site's screens and hypothetical portfolios this article focuses on the S&P 500 Dividend Aristocrats.

Although we still focus on large breed dogs, we have expanded our efforts to include pets of all shapes and sizes.

Though 2K Marin is currently focusing their collective efforts on the launch of BioShock 2, they haven't ruled out the possibility of fleshing out the submerged city of Rapture into a full fledged trilogy, as well as expanding into other media like movies, comics and novels.

The MEGABOOTH's current focus is on expanding community support efforts and addressing discoverability issues for indie games.

The efforts of the Council are actively focused on expanding the reach of the Wexner Center by cultivating new audiences and helping to build a broader base of community support.

Instead of mandating the use of helmets, it was argued that efforts should be focussed on preventing the collision (through strategies such as improved infrastructure and expanded public awareness and education programs)-- in other words, if one prevents the collision, helmets become unnecessary.

Surfrider Foundation's Board of Directors recently appointed Jim to serve on the board for a two - year term, during which he will focus on fundraising efforts and expanding the Foundation's relationships with tastemakers in the music industry.

But here's what the UNEP says rich and poor countries should focus on: Rich countries should spend their efforts to slash their use of fossil fuels to avert carbon emissions (rapidly rising nations such as China, India and Brazil should focus on this as well), while poorer nations should spend at least one percent of GDP on expanding access to clean water and improving sanitation for the poor.

«My EcoChallenge this year is a little different — I'm going to be focusing my efforts for the two week challenge on expanding my role in the «sharing economy» and fostering «collaborative consumption.»

In her new role as executive director of Volunteer Legal Services, Cortez — an attorney herself — will focus on expanding the organization to serve even more low - income clients in need of legal services through raising more money, improving outreach efforts, and expanding the staff to address the growing needs in Central Texas.

In jointly organizing this conference, the CAM and CANACO hope to expand the efforts of their existing «Youth Forum in Arbitration» programming, which focuses on the study and practice of arbitration in Mexico.

This hints at further efforts at expanding Tinder into more of social network for young singles, rather than an app whose sole focus is on creating relationships.

To expand on that idea, as we received numerous comments on our iPhone 7 review video after making that last comment, Apple is the last company to focus its efforts on building a premium phone with a smaller screen.