Sentences with phrase «for civic engagement in»

Ben is co-PI for a international study, led by Roderick Watts and funded by Atlantic Philanthropies, examining community - based youth organizing as a vehicle for civic engagement in South Africa, Ireland, and the United States.

Van Lamprou, who founded Dolce Vita Footwear, hopes to turn Clermont's Oak Terrace, the 19th century mansion that was the childhood home of Eleanor Roosevelt, into a space for civic engagement in the spirit of the former first lady.

The starting point for civic engagement in the existing political process is to support voting across the world.

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Mahan has ideas for other things employers can do over the course of the year to develop a culture of civic engagement in the office:

Zuckerberg said that Facebook could move far beyond its roots as a network for friends and families to communicate, suggesting that it can play a role in five areas, all of which he referred to as «communities,» ranging from strengthening traditional institutions, to providing help during and after crises, to boosting civic engagement.

Airbnb, in particular, has stressed its collection of hotel taxes in cities as proof of its generosity and civic engagement, even though it's simply doing something that regular bed and breakfasts — to say nothing of hotel chains — have done for decades.

You mentioned television as one of the reasons for the decline in civic engagement.

The most striking declines in civic engagement have been for church attendance among moderately educated Americans, as the figure below indicates.

Rather, civic engagement seems to have steadily increased for the first two - thirds of the century, stagnating and declining only in the last third.

With stunning consistency, virtually every indicator of civic engagement currently available shows the same pattern of increase followed by stagnation and decline — newspaper reading; TV news watching; attending political meetings; petition signing; running for public office; attending public meetings; serving as an officer or committee member in any local clubs or organizations; writing letters to the editor; participating in local meetings of national organizations; attending religious services; socializing informally with friends, relatives or neighbors; attending club meetings; joining unions; entertaining friends at home; participating in picnics; eating the evening meal with the whole family; going out to bars, nightclubs, discos or taverns; playing cards; sending greeting cards; attending parties; playing sports; donating money as a percentage of income; working on community projects; giving blood.

By focusing on formal membership in organizations such as the League of Women Voters, the Boy Scouts and the Elks, critics said, Putnam overlooked other, newer lands of civic engagement that have compensated for the decline in these particular organizations.

If Christians accept that God has ordained our democracy, we then desire to possess a character of civic engagement that reflects this fact, driving us to learn about our society and to consider in prayer the best course for our nation.

The smart and eloquent student who framed the whole TEA PARTY phenomenon for the audience was perfectly right that these people are a largely admirable example of democracy in action, of genuine «civic engagement» at the local level.

«Community service and civic engagement have always been a priority for me» said Carter Costello in a statement.

One critical component of this frenetic period of reform has been the absence of any explicit or managed process for civic engagement even though the Prime Minister's statement on the 19 September 2014 emphasized that «It is also important we have wider civic engagement about how to improve governance in our United Kingdom, including how to empower our great cities.

The recently published Future of England Survey 2014 provides evidence for this argument with its conclusion that people in England see a «democratic deficit» in the way they are governed («devo - anxiety»), and that one dimension of that deficit is a desire for civic engagement.

Bronx Borough President Ruben Diaz Jr. is kicking off the New Year by tackling an issue of tremendous importance in New York City — the need for greater civic engagement among New Yorkers.

This has been reflected in our consistently providing platforms for Labour - LibDem dialogue, seeking to foster engagement between party politics and civic pressure, and in co-hosting the left and liberty session at the Convention for Modern Liberty, and in being significantly engaged in debates about the pluralist reform of party politics, the broader political settlement and the new «movement politics» of a pluralist left.

Now in its eighth year, the civic engagement initiative was a collaboration between the Youth Bureau and The Center for Family Life and Recovery, Cornell Cooperative Extension, The Neighborhood Center, Thea Bowman House, John Bosco House, Utica Safe Schools / Underground Café, Dodge Pratt Northam Art & Community Center and The Salvation Army Utica Citadel to provide youth programing with the intent of introducing lessons of community service through volunteerism.

In line with the administration's tradition of inclusive governance and civic engagement, the Lagos State Government on Thursday, March 15 announced the downward review of the amended Land Use Charge Law 2018 to 50 % for commercial property as well as other LUC waivers that will give economic succour to owners of property and taxpayers in Lagos StatIn line with the administration's tradition of inclusive governance and civic engagement, the Lagos State Government on Thursday, March 15 announced the downward review of the amended Land Use Charge Law 2018 to 50 % for commercial property as well as other LUC waivers that will give economic succour to owners of property and taxpayers in Lagos Statin Lagos State.

For her opponents to use her time as a National Urban Fellow, an honor for women and people of color in public service, as a warped rationale to challenge her civic engagement and right to serve in public office is shameful.&raqFor her opponents to use her time as a National Urban Fellow, an honor for women and people of color in public service, as a warped rationale to challenge her civic engagement and right to serve in public office is shameful.&raqfor women and people of color in public service, as a warped rationale to challenge her civic engagement and right to serve in public office is shameful.»

«Having the ability to participate in elections would create a lot more civic engagement and, on a political level, I don't think communities like the community that I represent, which is 68 percent immigrant, would ever be able to be ignored again by anybody running for major citywide office in New York City.»

FAFV is an inclusive, non-partisan civic engagement program designed to encourage high school girls, grades 9 - 12, to actively participate in the political process and begin to imagine themselves as candidates for elected office sometime in their future.

At the University of Connecticut's Nancy A. Humphreys Institute for Political Social Work, we believe that social workers and nonprofit agencies play an important role in bipartisan voter registration and civic engagement.

Established in 2002 by the Town of Tonawanda Commission for Conservation of the Environment, the annual Ken - Ton Garden Tour was the first suburban gardening event of its kind in Erie County and has since grown into one of the County's biggest and most successful examples of environmental civic engagement.

Council Member Melissa Mark - Viverito said, «In our district, participatory budgeting has led to new civic engagement and new ideas for how to improve our neighborhoods.

«The developmental skill, executive function, and engagement in classroom - based play are not only important for being «school - ready,» but also may be unique pathways to becoming «civic ready» for children growing up in the context of poverty in America.»

The findings, published in Applied Developmental Science, look at extracurricular activities as precursors to civic engagement, the building blocks for a healthy democracy.

Writer Mooney and marine scientist Kirshenbaum argue persuasively for scientists to step up engagement with the public, in order to dispel misinformation and foster meaningful civic participation in decisions about issues such as nuclear power, climate change, and public health.

ESAL was designed to give people more information about ways to be involved and to build a community of people interested in local civic engagement for sharing and discussing ideas.

The Washington Center for Internships and Academic Seminars (TWC), for example, provides students from around the world with hands - on work experience in the nation's capital combined with an academic curriculum, civic engagement work and leadership development.

For example, Youth Climate Action Now is a civic engagement project in which students advocate for local environmental policies, such as reducing carbon emissions at the city levFor example, Youth Climate Action Now is a civic engagement project in which students advocate for local environmental policies, such as reducing carbon emissions at the city levfor local environmental policies, such as reducing carbon emissions at the city level.

Civics often takes a backseat in schools, but educators say the Marjory Stoneman Douglas students - turned - activists are setting a powerful model for civic engagement.

Considering the current state of our democracy (with partisan politics resulting in policy gridlock), it is concerning that the civic mission of public schools is so neglected, particularly given the lack of civic knowledge of our youth (evidenced by their poor performance on the 2010 NAEP in Civics)-- and low civic engagement (for example, just 41.2 percent of youth — voters age 18 - 24 — turned out for the 2012 presidential election).

The panelists share the belief that youth civic engagement is essential for a successful democratic society and that it is an issue that has been neglected in recent decades.

It's no substitute for deep engagement in civics and citizenship.

Joseph Kahne, dean of the School of Education at Mills College, in Oakland, California, and director of the school's Civic Engagement Research Group, just completed a survey for the Pew Internet and American Life Project that analyzes the link between teens» gaming behavior and their civic engagement offline.

In the final pages, the straight - shooting Montgomery lapses into calls for more multidisciplinary research, funding for research on the new media, and thinking about how we might use new media to promote political and civic engagement.

In addition to assessing student achievement, the NAP - CC sample test cycle includes a survey, conducted for ACARA by staff from the Australian Council for Educational Research (ACER), measuring students» perceptions of citizenship, attitudes towards civic - related issues, and their civic engagement.

This study explores the ways in which emerging Hispanic - Serving Institutions, or those postsecondary institutions that enroll between 15 % and 24 % Latina / o college students, contribute to civic engagement for diverse college students.

Increasingly, courts are defining the constitutional standard for education in terms of the skills and knowledge students need for effective civic engagement.

candidates Brian Barnes and Dorian Burton were named finalists by Echoing Green for the Black Male Achievement Fellowship for their work in public service and civic engagement through TandemED, a nonprofit that helps equip communities to self - design educational content that will instill young black men with purpose and increase their academic achievement.

In both cases, my central hypothesis is that the stronger the school's civic climate, as measured by the strength of a school's communal belief in voting, the greater the degree of electoral engagement for any of the school's individual students, regardless of their own personal sense of civic dutIn both cases, my central hypothesis is that the stronger the school's civic climate, as measured by the strength of a school's communal belief in voting, the greater the degree of electoral engagement for any of the school's individual students, regardless of their own personal sense of civic dutin voting, the greater the degree of electoral engagement for any of the school's individual students, regardless of their own personal sense of civic duty.

A much more promising line of inquiry is to ask how experience in a school community inculcates an appreciation for the value of civic engagement.

And since the home is also a critical factor in a person's civic development, I control for three measures of the engagement level of the student's parents as of 1965, including whether the parents voted in the 1964 presidential election.

In these service projects these students were gaining and demonstrating important competencies for life, for work and for civic engagement: compassion, empathy, imagination, complex thinking, the capacity to understand social challenges, the skills to identify a point of entry to address them, and the courage, commitment and skills to implicate themselves and to collaborate across several dimensions of difference in constructing a solutioIn these service projects these students were gaining and demonstrating important competencies for life, for work and for civic engagement: compassion, empathy, imagination, complex thinking, the capacity to understand social challenges, the skills to identify a point of entry to address them, and the courage, commitment and skills to implicate themselves and to collaborate across several dimensions of difference in constructing a solutioin constructing a solution.

In testing whether adolescents attending schools with a strong civic climate were more likely to envision themselves as active citizens, I control for differences in a wide variety of individual and contextual factors that could also affect anticipated engagemenIn testing whether adolescents attending schools with a strong civic climate were more likely to envision themselves as active citizens, I control for differences in a wide variety of individual and contextual factors that could also affect anticipated engagemenin a wide variety of individual and contextual factors that could also affect anticipated engagement.

Youth advocacy and civic engagement is especially powerful for vulnerable populations, such as youth who are homeless, in foster care, or justice - involved, who can draw upon their own experiences to impact change.

Studying the Holocaust and human behavior allows students to wrestle with profound moral questions raised by this history while fostering their skills in ethical and moral reasoning, critical analysis, empathy, and civic engagement — all of which are critical habits of mind for sustaining democracy.

In my second year at Harlem Prep Middle, I began to see a need for additional leadership at my campus and decided to apply to Leader U. DP's emphasis on top - notch professional development and a mission rooted in civic engagement left no doubt that this was the leader training program for mIn my second year at Harlem Prep Middle, I began to see a need for additional leadership at my campus and decided to apply to Leader U. DP's emphasis on top - notch professional development and a mission rooted in civic engagement left no doubt that this was the leader training program for min civic engagement left no doubt that this was the leader training program for me.