Sentences with phrase «focused communities along»

Loveridge's presentation, delivered in January, took a deep dive into the failures of the efforts of the World Bank and the Ford Foundation to create, from the bottom up, entire agriculturally - focused communities along the Pakistan border designed to, «look like the West.»

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Along with two other blogs, Parenting From the Heart and Twitchetts, we have created a weekly #PowerofPlay52 challenge that builds community and focuses on the undeniable power of play!

The tiered investment structure offers several packages that focus on marketing services for your business, increased interactions with consumers through community events, contributions to beautification projects along the local business corridors, and a direct connection to city departments that work with small businesses.

Business Council President and CEO Heather Briccetti, along with Capital Region - area officials, held a news conference today to push the benefits of expanding non-Indian gaming, focusing in particular on the claim that local communities will see more revenue and be able to lower property taxes.

Jenner's public transition from Bruce to Caitlyn — along with a new focus on gender fluidity in mainstream television programs, such as Transparent — has helped build awareness of the trans community.

«If we've found the magic juice,» explained Bruce Hendee, who bears the title of Fort Collins» chief sustainability officer, it has been connecting the city's biggest employer, Colorado State University, along with the business community — a growing assortment of companies including 10 breweries — to a community action plan that focuses on people, aggressive environmental goals and profit.

M2Gen, along with Moffitt and partnering community hospitals, has created a large, cancer - focused, biorepository linked to clinical and molecular data.

Community and workplace education, along with a family and friend focused approach to promote heart healthier families have become an encompassing strategy, as women remain the primary health care decision makers in their family domain.

There are films, plays, comedy shows, music events and a whole lot more at this community - focused location that gives plenty of reasons to come along and have some fun.

The dashboard shows mastery in subject areas and areas remaining in that subject along with areas for badges, goals, activity, focus visual, skills progress, with area for connection to community discussion, programs and coaches.

For U.S. educators, a successful peace education program focuses on helping children develop the skills they'll need to get along with others, solve conflicts in nonviolent ways, contribute positively to their communities, respect intergroup differences, and value diversity.

But de Blasio and education officials say that their plan will get results: The city will be embarking on a significant community schools push for the first time ever, with a focus on academic intervention strategies along with social services.

A poll released last week from Sacred Heart University's Institute of Public Policy proves what we've been saying about our state's public charter schools all along: locally, Connecticut's charter schools stand out for being community - centric and community - focused, resulting in strong local support for them.

Focus groups in each community of students, parents, educators, and community members, along with polling data and research evidence, led to the creation of a School Quality Measures Framework and subsequent online dashboard of the data that the community most wants to know about their schools.

«Many families in our community focus on day - to - day survival,» says Chris Spriggs, a high school English teacher in the Glenns Ferry School District located along the...

Along with the 100 families from the community who desperately sought a safer, higher - achieving middle school, we created a learning environment that was small and focused on meeting every student's needs.

A committee involving students, parents, and community members along with school staff should focus on schoolwide relationships, not only on student bullying.

In the Harvard study, the authors state «Somewhere along the way, it seems, we have lost our focus on what it means to be a part of a community.»

Recently Sega of America held a community event, and a limited number of Sega fans were invited along to play various games and have a focus group session.

Along with the $ 100,000 cash prize, the winner will unveil their «One Wish to Change the World» at the coming TED conference where the community will work on collaborative initiatives focusing on making the wish a reality.

The artist makes portraits of undocumented Latin American immigrants, and of other distinct communities, using the focused attention of observational painting to mark those who are socially unmarked in society, along with the apparently anonymous goods that constitute a transnational trade in quotidian objects such as flowers, garments, handcrafts and letters.

Found in the Kongo and Songye cultures, both of which historically produced figures intended to protect their communities, these power figures, often called nkisi or nkishi, along with other conceptually related sculptures from the Congo basin are the focus of the exhibition.

Formerly known as «Eco-Cell at St. John's,» the group has grown over the past five years to include a core group of 12 along with a wider involved community of 40 members who organize meetings, community events and maintain an email list focused on climate change and other environmental issues.

These plans focus on community and local ranger education, along with threat reduction measures.

Their ocean community ties include elements such as observing networks and platforms, along with the GOOS Regional Associations whose interests focus around observing networks in specific locations.

Getaway House is actually the first initiative of a project called Millennial Housing Lab, which, somewhat along the lines of what I wrote about yesterday, is trying to develop and realize «fresh housing ideas for a new generation,» focusing «on all sides of the housing experience: architecture, neighborhood design, financing, regulation and community - building.»

Its opponents — which include numerous anti-fracking groups and high - profile «intervenors» such as New York City Council Speaker Christine Quinn, Manhattan Borough President Scott Stringer, Gasland director Josh Fox, and actor - activist Mark Ruffalo — focus instead on the environmental and community impacts of fracking and the potentially disastrous effects of an accident, should it occur along the densely - populated end of the pipeline's route.

If the IPCC is unwilling to include a scientific discussion of renewable energy and «clean coal» claims, then they should stay out of policy decisions entirely and just focus on climate science, along with the rest of the climate science community.

Morgan Communities focuses on making sure that there is easy access to everything you need, along with truly creating a community among residents.

Dr. Aiyana Anderson and Dr. Michele Moreno locally own and operate the practice, and along with the rest of our team, they're focused on helping members of the Helotes community achieve the dental health and happiness they deserve.

• Demonstrated expertise in securing premises and performing patrolling duties, aimed at ensuring community and premises safety • Track record of monitoring surveillance equipment and following up on nefarious or suspicious activities • Focused on preventing losses and damages by «keeping an eye open» at all times and recording and following up on abnormal occurrences • Proficient in coordinating information security compliance activities and implementing security policies and procedures • Documented success in performing information security risk analysis aimed at deriving data for security processes • Demonstrated good judgement and problem - solving skills to deal with security issues of variable natures within standardized situations • Adept at physically controlling violent or unruly individuals along with the ability to subdue individuals after running in pursuit • Skilled in coordinating and implementing disaster recovery programs and managing security incident responses • Familiar with conducting armed stationary, foot and vehicle patrols, targeted at deterring criminal activity, misconduct and breach of community rules • Knowledge of initiating and monitoring informal investigations of security infractions and violations

These animations, along with another eight animations focussed on cultural identity and adults taking care of themselves, are intended to start conversations within communities about supporting the social and emotional wellbeing of Aboriginal children.

He is currently working on a research project, along with other leaders in the solution focused community, to define and explore the meaning and process of solution building.