Sentences with phrase «for change in our communities»

Volunteerism Be an agent for change in your community while growing skills to equip you for your career

We need to continue to rally for change in our communities.

A former teenage prostitute, Brenda defied the odds to become a powerful advocate for change in her community.

Email and the internet make it cheaper and easier than ever to reach out to others who want to help animals and to form an organization to push for change in your community.

Getting more solar ovens into more kitchens is an admirable goal, but the element of Solavore's mission that has perhaps the most potential for change is its positioning of the solar oven as a useful tool for change not only in individual homes, but also as an economic tool for change in communities.

However, it places special emphasis on the power and potential of girls and young women as catalysts for change in their communities.

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«Ending DACA would place severe economic strain on businesses around the country, putting them into the impossible and extremely costly position of having to fire productive employees for no other reason than an arbitrary change in federal policy, potentially resulting in backlash from other employees, or their broader community,» the report reads.

In response to the urgency, CI changed its mission with the hope that our efforts would become central and essential for our national, business and community partners.

University of Toronto «s Colleen Flood, the Canada Research Chair in Health Law and Policy, explains what's standing in the way of health care reform, and why the business community may be our best bet for bringing about change.

«Elections have consequences, and the consequences for our community have been dire, and if we do not change the balance of power, we question our ability to remain free in this country,» she said.

The Cubs have some of the very same challenges — to pull the broadest possible community into Wrigley Field, to change the surrounding neighborhood for the better, and to make the entire country sit up and take notice of what's happening in Chicago.

Republican Rep. Devin Nunes, the chairman of the House Intelligence Committee, inserted a last - minute «unmasking» provision that would change the intelligence community's process for identifying US citizens caught up in foreign surveillance.

In her community, where gun ownership is considered a fact of life and a point of pride, she's bravely taking a stand as one of the few voices advocating for change in her areIn her community, where gun ownership is considered a fact of life and a point of pride, she's bravely taking a stand as one of the few voices advocating for change in her arein her area.

«If Congress passed this bill that the American Bankers Association wants, how many community bank mortgages would be eligible for QM that aren't currently eligible... and how does that stack up against the number of mortgages held by Well Fargo, Citibank, JPMorgan and the other giants that would become eligible under this change in the rules?»

«They are sending signals to the business community that there would be much less regulation, which is a tremendous force in business for being first out of the gate when a major change is happening,» he said.

Start - ups brimming with ideas, industry leaders committed to facilitating change, and an ecosystem in which entrepreneurship can thrive are the key ingredients for a community of innovators.

A change in American Banker's size - based criteria for inclusion made New York Community ineligible for this year's survey, and thus unable to defend its title.

Public policy can help in the adjustment process by promoting flexibility in the economy and by reducing some of the costs of change for individuals and communities.

In addition to this training program, Starbucks will work with the community to leverage existing programs that help connect young people with internships, apprenticeships and jobs, and foster the type of dialogue and engagement needed for continued social change.

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I believe Starbucks will change the community for the better in several ways.

July 2013 marks another important change for The Rock Trading: it became a certified Limited Liability Company, registered in Malta and founded by Andrea Medri (CFO) and Davide Barbieri (CTO), two entrepreneurs well known in the Italian Bitcoin community.

These include: C$ 4.5 billion to support research, training, and infrastructure at universities and colleges; a Strategic Innovation Fund that will provide C$ 1.26 billion for business innovation in the aerospace and automotive sector; a Connect to Innovate Program that will invest C$ 500 million to bring high - speed Internet to remote and rural communities by 2021; and, C$ 70 million over six years to support agriculture innovation with a focus on climate change, and soil and water conservation.

The landscape has changed and, although most investors recognize it, it is probably time for us to rally the cleantech community together to formally usher in the future of cleantech for those who haven't looked under the hood in a while.

Even though the intellectual climate within the Reserve Bank and other economic policy agencies was already moving in favour of deregulation in the early 1970s, wider community acceptance of the case for change did not come until after the Government set up a broad - ranging inquiry, conducted by a group of independent experts.

Our support for Studio Y will help these youth foster social change, tackle complex problems and become leaders in their communities and in the province,» said The Hon. Teresa Piruzza, Minister of Children and Youth Services.

That change might not be of consequence for the Oscar Mayer plant's future in Madison, but it would help to ensure that we do not lose more major employers in Madison or other Wisconsin communities.

A non-profit company based in Madison, Wisconsin, Great Lakes has been in business since 1967 and pride themselves on giving back to their community, with a company slogan of «Doing what's right to change lives for the better».

Darin Kingston of d.light, whose profitable solar - powered LED lanterns simultaneously address poverty, education, air pollution / toxic fumes / health risks, energy savings, carbon footprint, and more Janine Benyus, biomimicry pioneer who finds models in the natural world for everything from extracting water from fog (as a desert beetle does) to construction materials (spider silk) to designing flood - resistant buildings by studying anthills in India's monsoon climate, and shows what's possible when you invite the planet to join your design thinking team Dean Cycon, whose coffee company has not only exclusively sold organic fairly traded gourmet coffee and cocoa beans since its founding in 1993, but has funded dozens of village - led community development projects in the lands where he sources his beans John Kremer, whose concept of exponential growth through «biological marketing,» just as a single kernel of corn grows into a plant bearing thousands of new kernels, could completely change your business strategy Amory Lovins of the Rocky Mountain Institute, who built a near - net - zero - energy luxury home back in 1983, and has developed a scientific, economically viable plan to get the entire economy off oil, coal, and nuclear and onto renewables — while keeping and even improving our high standard of living

There is a need for a massive re-think about how we build community, rural and urban communities that are resilient, healthy and work towards strengthening self - reliance in the face of climate change.

But we will continue to fight and advocate for change in solidarity with them, in our own community.

For all this, fans gave him the nickname «Bitcoin Jesus», a Biblical charge that seems to hold as much significance now, even as his standing in the community has changed.

As a result of this change since the scaling agreement many people in the community want to avoid conducting the upgrade in November for the 2 x part because they don't feel like there's really a need for it anymore because now people were doing these off block transactions and it's freed up all the space and people aren't having to add the tips and the fees if you will.

Ontario has successfully issued the largest green bond in Canadian history, raising $ 1 billion for infrastructure projects in communities across the province that will help reduce greenhouse gas emissions and fight climate change.

Saul Luciano Lliuya, a farmer who lives near Lake Palcacocha in the Peruvian Andes, has sued Rheinisch - Westfälisches Elektrizitätswerk (RWE), a major German utility company, to pay for the impact of climate change on his community.

But «the timing of this recession coincides with a pretty significant cultural change,» Edin says: a fast - rising material threshold for marrying, but not for having children, in less affluent communities.

While I agree that the tax system should be fair and equitable for all, I am very concerned that the proposed changes will negatively impact hardworking small and medium - sized business owners, lawyers, accountants and physicians who play by the rules, create jobs in our community and are also raising young families in Riverbend.

The president's desire for wholesale change in U.S. trade policy has met with increasing resistance from congressional Republicans as well as the business community, normally a reliable GOP ally.

Manny sits on a number of advisory boards in the education and not - for - profit sectors, and is an active Advisor and Angel Investor in Vancouver's tech community, having invested in startups including Picatic, MyBestHelper, Change Heroes, ShareShed, Feeding Change, and GKup.

I believe in the power of Pure Barre because it is a catalyst for change - sending us out into our community refreshed and redefined.

The pipe dream of some in the Bitcoin community is to govern the system by having ordinary users vote for changes by adopting the corresponding full node software.

I was simply looking for a way to get in shape for my wedding, but I found a phenomenal technique, community, and business opportunity that has truly been life changing!

At the same time, the community should advocate for necessary change and self - regulate in areas where there are significant risks of public harm that have not been addressed by current law.

This includes designing policy programs to provide detailed information about the changing Chinese economy, to develop platforms for sharing experiences and expertise among investing firms, and to mobilize the knowledge bases of transnational immigrant communities in Canada.

«Across North America and around the world, companies in every sector are assessing the impact of U.S. tax changes and making decisions that will have lasting consequences for employees and the communities in which they live and work,» writes The Honourable John Manley, President and Chief Executive Officer of the Business Council.

i am an honored member in my community, I have changed children lives, I have changed adult lives for the better.

But emphasis on the personal responsibility of blacks takes the political pressure off those outside the black community, who also have a responsibility, as citizens of this republic, to be actively engaged in trying to change the structures that constrain the black poor in such a way that they can more effectively assume responsibility for themselves and exercise their inherent and morally required capacity to choose.

Community is vital to a healthy and vital Christian faith, for only in the presence of others do we learn, grow, change and bloom.

So when the Rhodes Scholar began studying for a Ph.D. in environmental studies at Oxford University, she paired the two to study the evangelical community's discussions of climate change.

Ann ensures that each Grace Case offers you not only fair - trade, artisan - crafted heirlooms that changes the worlds for so many of our sisters, but Ann also offers creative ideas and resources of how to use these heirlooms to continue to give grace forward in your own life, to your people, and your community — so you, as a GenEsther, get to be the gift, for such a time as now.