Sentences with phrase «for civic institutions»

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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.
As such, the institution of marriage is a foundation of a just political order and the nursery of civic virtue, as spouses exercise mutual responsibility for raising their children.
«Although organized religion is the primary civic institution in America that promotes good behavior for its members, it is not the only one.
They are commercially run civic institutions that seek to support growth and innovation in their local areas, not maximise profits for shareholders.
Most interesting, despite placing counter-extremism duties on civic institutions, the law leaves remaining questions about the extent to which Prevent is a real priority for the Home Office.
But there is also some evidence for a policy success story for the institutions of civic Britishness developed in the Blair period.
Our vision: A growing economy and a vibrant private sector throughout the Empire State, creating new opportunities for an informed and engaged citizenry grounded in strong local communities and civic institutions.
It is true that republicans also stress that for these institutions to be non-dominating they must be supplemented by a sense of civic virtue in their citizens.
The Fund aids the Brooklyn communities and organizations impacted by Hurricane Sandy and will provide direct support for need identified by local Brooklyn nonprofit service providers, the small business community and borough civic institutions.
Conservatives have always resisted such gross rationalization of society, however, and insisted that local knowledge channeled by evolved social institutions — from families and civic and fraternal groups to traditional religious establishments, charitable enterprises, private companies, and complex markets — will make for better material outcomes and a better common life.
If there is potential for that kind of damage to schools, there is potential for that kind of damage to every other civic institution.
The challenge for our diverse, pluralistic and democratic society — a challenge that, as ever, falls most heavily on schools, the civic institutions with the broadest reach in American life — is to blunt the sense that we are, in fact, coming apart.
When asked about their trust in civic institutions, the highest levels were reported for the police (90 per cent in Year 6 and 75 per cent in Year 10) and law courts (80 per cent in Year 6 and 70 per cent in Year 10).
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 colleInstitutions, or those postsecondary institutions that enroll between 15 % and 24 % Latina / o college students, contribute to civic engagement for diverse colleinstitutions that enroll between 15 % and 24 % Latina / o college students, contribute to civic engagement for diverse college students.
They also must prepare students for a civic life in which they will have to work with fellow citizens of very different views to develop policies and institutions that can advance shared goals of peace, prosperity, and democratic deliberation.
It includes 15 school districts with a total of 230,000 students, and dozens of higher education institutions, business and civic partners.Steve Dackin, superintendent of school and community partnerships at Columbus State Community College, which leads the Compact, notes the benefits of pathways approaches for both students and employers.
This is a plan for destroying the essential civic institution and community anchor of public education.
Join over 200 world - renowned art and cultural influencers from more than 20 countries, including museum directors, gallerists, curators, auction houses, collectors, entrepreneurs, investors, financial institutions, lawyers, artists, architects, designers, urban planners, government officials and tourism organizations, as well as corporate and civic leaders at Art for Tomorrow.
Partners for Sacred Places, founded in 1989, works to build the civic value of historic sacred places and the capacity of congregations to better serve their communities as anchor institutions, helping to shape vibrant, creative communities.
The «useful museum» is a civic institution that promotes art as a tool for social change and is created by the sum of the actions of its users.
After its leery, 1990s adolescence as a rhinestone in New Labour's crown of «Cool Britannia», the Turner Prize has matured into a respected institution and intermittent mobile vehicle for arts based civic regeneration.
Since 1993, Regine Basha has been curating innovative exhibitions for public institutions, civic spaces, magazines and private galleries nationally and internationally.
For Freedoms believes that art and artists, like other civic institutions and citizens, have an important role in shaping our society.
The artist's vision for change originates in a desire to contest the very organizing principles of modernism around which such ideologies (and civic institutions) formed.
Yesterday's spunky start - ups have become today's tax - evading megacorporations — and are now the ominous new model for our universities, museums, and civic institutions.
HARTFORD — Much of the Wadsworth Atheneum, Hartford's great civic museum, is closed for renovations this summer as the institution prepares for its grand reopening in September after a major refurbishment.
Celebrated for its frank industrial aesthetic (in structure and materials) marked by its unique free - spanning architecture, The Pompidou Centre (full name: «Centre National d'Art et de Culture Georges Pompidou»)- designed by Renzo Piano and Richard Rogers, and built 1971 - 77 - is a civic cultural institution which stands in the Beaubourg area of the 4th arrondissement of Paris, near Les Halles.
In 1989, NCMA became a private not - for - profit institution and since then has been governed and funded by a private board of trustees which includes many of Long Island's most prominent business, civic and social leaders.
From the scale of a single parcel, to a city district, to an urban corridor, Onion Flats has collaborated with developers, civic organizations, and institutions to refine a vision for the future.
«Although organized religion is the primary civic institution in America that promotes good behavior for its members, it is not the only one.
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