Sentences with phrase «focus our efforts on raising»

As California slashes billions from its higher education budget, the state's premier public business schools have quietly focused its efforts on raising private dollars.

McLaughlin said she knew from the beginning she would have less money than other candidates, remarking that during her time as Albany County Democratic Committee chairwoman she focused her efforts on raising funds for the party, but now those she helped haven't returned the favor.

Reach chairman Clive Lewis said: «We need to focus effort on raising the aspirations and achievement of black boys and young men to enable them to be more connected and engaged with wider society and more able to make an even greater contribution economically, culturally and politically to Britain.»

This allowed us to focus our efforts on raising support, and fundraising that would help us reach our goal.

Not exact matches

Mr. Tilson also led the effort to create ICV Partners, a national for - profit private equity fund focused on minority - owned and inner - city businesses that has raised nearly $ 500 million.

They are reflected in the growing internationalisation of the Australian economy, with a sharper focus on Asia; in greater competitiveness, including in manufactured exports; in genuine efforts to raise productivity through co-operative workplace negotiations; and in a general clamour for speedier micro-economic reforms.

Sodexo is committed to playing a role in achieving this goal and is redoubling our efforts to eliminate food waste at every client site we serve through programs that focus on raising awareness and influencing the behaviors of our customers and employees; continuously improving our back - of - house processes and upgrading equipment in the kitchen; measuring our impact; and sharing our expertise with our clients and external industry partners to drive fundamental change on the issue of food waste.

Each of these are actions designed to raise the salience of the social context at that moment and get players to focus on exerting additional effort based on the cue.

That effort reportedly will focus on raising one million dollars and target six New York GOP members: Reps. Lee Zeldin (Suffolk County), John Faso (Columbia County), Elise Stefanik (Essex County in the Adirondacks), Claudia Tenney (Oneida County), Tom Reed (Steuben County in the Southern Tier) and Chris Collins (Erie County).

The reform effort is focusing on two key priorities: Enacting Kavanagh's bill to repealing the «vacancy bonus» landlords receive in increased rents when tenants leave, and reforming the so - called «preferential rent» (AKA «bait - and - switch») provisions that allow landlords to raise rents dramatically after tenants are occupying an apartment.

Samuels focused primarily on his effort to reform the state Senate, noting he has pledged to raise $ 250,000 to oust scandal - scarred Senate Majority Leader Pedro Espada Jr. from office.

First, the system must engender opportunities for the researchers to focus their efforts on solving the problems raised by the organizations.

A plan to do this would unfold as follows: 1) Initial efforts would focus on developing infrastructure to raise mosquitoes for sterile male release.

So, according to the law of least effort: Your best bet is, not to focus on raising testosterone itself, but rather to manage your cortisol.

Leg days should be divided into one ME day focused heavily on posterior chain strengthening for balance purposes (deadlifts, Romanian deadlifts, good mornings, and glute - ham raises), and a dynamic effort day designed to improve explosive leg power, incorporating both plyometric movements (lunge hops, box jumps, jump squats) and more traditional speed / explosive movements (power cleans, speed squats, full cleans, split squats).

«Save the Savannah» focuses on the fund - raising associated with «African Cats» and their efforts to preserve lands in the Savannah.

In February, the school will be raising money for the American Heart Association; in March, efforts will benefit a local charity; and students will focus on the environment and recycling in April.

Falling short in its efforts to raise new capital to finance a proposed national chain of private, for - profit schools, the Edison Project has announced a scaled - back plan that will focus initially on managing public schools.

Imagine a national effort to improve the education of disadvantaged children that focuses extra funds on poorer schools, gives principals and teachers the authority to decide how best to help children, and encourages states to raise their academic standards and to hold accountable low - performing schools.

She says: «This government's costly reorganisation to force every school to become an academy, will remove even more money, time and effort away from where the focus in schools should be — on raising standards.

Most education reform efforts focus on what teachers are doing — professional development, new curricula, bonuses and incentives to raise scores, and so on.

In an effort to meet these challenges, a number of policy reforms have focused on raising student achievement.

Data - driven and research - based improvement efforts that focus on raising student achievement.

The idea around this effort is not to focus on what is lacking in a classroom — it's to pick something the teacher is already good at and raise it to the next level in a collaborative way.

In her role, Jennifer's research efforts focus on blended learning in alignment with her management of the Raising Blended Learners initiative.

The authors suggest that the literacy coach begin by connecting a new initiative to current practice to validate teachers» prior efforts, choose generative practices that raise important questions about teaching, establish teaching credentials by spending significant amounts of time teaching in the classroom, focus teacher training on student learning, use a repertoire of coaching strategies, and get into the habit of regularly videotaping and reviewing lessons and demonstrations.

Mr. Tilson also led the effort to create ICV Partners, a national for - profit private equity fund focused on minority - owned and inner - city businesses that has raised nearly $ 500 million.

Therefore, David recommends that you focus the majority of your efforts on the natural paths that result in the largest percentage of money raised.

Focusing existing fund - raising efforts on TAF is the obvious strategy here — so what new resources are required to increase AUM?

FOHCAS now manages all spay / neuter applications and surgical scheduling which allows HCPP to focus on essential fund - raising efforts.

Responsible breeders are individuals who have focused their efforts on one or a select few breeds and, through breeding, historical research and ongoing study, mentoring relationships, club memberships, showing, raising and training of these breeds, have become knowledgeable about their health, heritable defects, temperament and behaviour.

We are extremely grateful to our partners; the people / groups / organizations who have significantly contributed to our mission, whether through their ongoing community services focused on animal health and well - being, or through their extraordinary efforts to raise funds or needed item donations by sponsoring our events or promoting their own events with Friends for Life Animal Rescue benefiting.

Our efforts are focused on raising money to support HBGRR's operations through various grants, fundraisers and events.

The Houston BARC Foundation «s efforts are also focused on raising public awareness among all Houstonians about homeless and at - risk animals throughout our community.

In addition, it may be valuable for shelters to focus on raising the expectation of people planning to adopt a cat in terms of the effort required and the emotional benefits that can be gained.

During April, Aveda staff put up signs in their stores, they wear t - shirts, organize individual Walk for Water events, and have cut - a-thons — all focused on both raising awareness about clean water around the world and the one in seven people who do not have access to it, and raising money to support efforts to rectify that ratio.

Discussion focused on efforts being taken by the Netherlands to meet the country's commitments to the Paris Agreement and work being undertaken in consideration of further raising the level of ambition.

While most of our energy has been focused on carbon pricing, we've also been spearheading an effort to raise awareness around biochar and carbon sequestration.

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.

LWBC also focuses its efforts on holding conferences and lectures to raise awareness of the issues they address, and Paradis is a frequent speaker at these events.

As part of his effort to focus on raising money for Faraday, Jia told the news outlet that he has no plan to return to China in the short term.

«[For John], charity efforts can be as much about having fun as raising money, but at the same time, John put a focus on the bottom line,» Promo says.

Ironically, CREA's focus on raising us up through their various forms of advertising initiatives, is exactly the approach that has been taken by some industry members — whose success is really about their personal marketing efforts, as opposed to their real estate marketing efforts.

East was recognized for donating his time to many volunteer efforts and is especially focused on raising funds for cancer research.

She is responsible for the real estate business's day - to - day operations, with a particular focus on its investors, capital - raising and business development efforts across new investment products.