Sentences with phrase «for cultural organizations in»

After years of uncertainty for cultural organizations in Erie County, it seems as if a new era of stability has arrived.

Also at 9:45 a.m., NYC Councilmembers Jimmy Van Bramer and Steven Matteo and members of the cultural community rally for increased funding for cultural organizations in the FY 2017 budget, City Hall steps, Manhattan.

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«To get the full change to happen, we probably need not only greater representation of women, but we need to see also a cultural shift in organizations that really places greater value on gender equity in the workplace, and makes it more legitimate and acceptable for women to lend a helping hand to other women in the work place.»

The company does all the recruiting, interviewing, paperwork and cultural preparation for the ESL instructors who will, in turn, be placed with client organizations.

Key findings for the North American (U.S. and Canada) workforce surveyed in the study include: • 51 % of employees are not happy at work • 45 % of employees trust their company's leadership • 61 % of employees don't know their company's mission • 57 % of employees are not motivated by their company's mission • 60 % of employees don't know their company's vision • 57 % of employees don't feel recognized for their progress at work • 61 % of employees don't know their organization's cultural values • 50 % of employees don't expect to be with their organization a year from now

It's still new territory for organizations of all stripes in lots of ways, and making flexible options work may take a different approach that's supported at the top levels and is open to cultural change within the organizational structure.

CIA has been in the book business for several decades: before 1967 it «sponsored, subsidized or produced over 1,000 books,» many of which were put out by CIA - backed cultural organizations whose subsidy was «more often than not» unknown to the writer.

Inasmuch as the sociologist of religion is confronted with the necessity of accounting for apparently identical or similar patterns in religious behavior, ideas, and forms of organizations on different cultural levels, he is interested in a constructive solution of the apparent dilemma.

I get it that this is a coming out of the «theological closet» initiative for the American Atheist organization intended to reach like - minded individuals in concentrated cultural and religious neighborhoods.

After World War II, the military headquarters recognized the need for some guide to the religious groups in Japan and asked the Religious and Cultural Division of the Civil Information and Education Section to prepare a concise description of Japanese religious organizations for the guidance of occupation personnel.

The foreign debt continues to be an issue and new voices have began to sound the need to look for ways to face it; (ii) At the national level two questions are concentrating increasing attention: one is the reassessment of the necessary role of the state to correct the distortions of a runaway market (currently discussed in Europe and in the discussions about the role the initiatives of «an active state has played in the economic development of Asian countries); the other is the need for a «participative democracy over against a purely representative formal democracy: in this sense the need to strengthen civil society with its intermediate organizations becomes an important concern; (iii) the struggle for collective and personal identity in a society in which forced immigration, dehumanizing conditions in urban marginal situations, and foreign cultural aggression and massification in many forms produce a degrading type of poverty where communal, family and personal identity are eroded and even destroyed.

In an ambitious project to assess the correctness of Talcott Parsons» theory of evolutionary universals, Gary Buck accumulated masses of data for 115 contemporary nation - states from every part of the world.7 He developed elaborate indices (as of 1960 wherever possible) of the ten variables Parsons discussed: (1) communication, (2) kinship organization, (3) religion, (4) technology, (5) stratification, (6) cultural legitimation, (7) bureaucratic organization, (8) money and market complex, (9) generalized universalistic norms, and (10) democratic association.8 Information was taken from such sources as the United Nations Statistical Yearbook, the Yearbook of Labor Statistics, and UNESCO's World Survey of Education.

The range of concrete materials with which the conference deals is suggested by the titles of the five sections into which the delegates were divided for simultaneous sessions of intensive discussion: «The Church and the Community» (meaning by «community» what the Germans mean by Volk, society in its larger units viewed with reference to its cultural and racial coherence rather than its political organization); «Church and State»; «The Church and the Economic Order»; «Church, Community and State in Relation to Education»; «The Universal Church and the World of Nations.»

This may seem like an unremarkable turn of events, but according to Grant Castleberry of the Council on Biblical Manhood and Womanhood (flagship organization for the complementarianism movement, which advocates hierarchal gender roles in the home, church, and society), it represents a severe «cultural capitulation» which, «instead of helping guide children towards embracing who they actually are, blurs reality,» «confuses them,» and «drags them through the dark labyrinths» of their parents» gender - based delusions.

Breastfeed Chicago www.breastfeedchicago.wordpress.com A mom - powered organization established to support mothers in breastfeeding, works to build a cohesive and sustainable support network for breastfeeding mothers through the connection of resources, cultural normalization, and institutional advocacy.

For another 1,500 young people, there will be a variety of afternoon and evening activities, with the Park District opening its facilities and the community organizations running the programs - bringing recreational, educational and cultural opportunities to some areas poorly served or neglected in the past.

- Women Chefs of Chicago, an organization of prominent local chefs, will prepare a buffet dinner for the second annual Bag Hunger Auction, at 5:30 p.m. Thursday at the Chicago Cultural Center, 78 E. Washington St.. In addition, attendees will bid on a variety of «bagged» donated goods and services.

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• Assumptions about different cultural groups and how they impact breastfeeding support • Shoshone and Arapaho tribal breastfeeding traditions shared through oral folklore • Barriers to decreasing health disparities in infant mortality for African Americans • Effects of inflammation and trauma on health disparities that result in higher rates of infant mortality among minority populations • Barriers to breastfeeding experienced by Black mothers and how lactation consultants can support them more effectively • Social support and breastfeeding self - efficacy among Black mothers • Decreasing pregnancy, birth, and lactation health disparities in the urban core • Positive changes in breastfeeding rates within the African American community • Grassroots breastfeeding organizations serving African American mothers

Governor Deval Patrick will announce more than $ 5 million in new grants for cultural organizations Tuesday, July 17 at Mass Audubon's Broadmoor Wildlife Sanctuary.

LINCOLN, MA — Governor Deval Patrick will announce more than $ 5 million in new grants for cultural organizations Tuesday, July 17 at Mass Audubon's Broadmoor Wildlife Sanctuary, including $ 185,000 for the Natick sanctuary's Saltonstall Nature Center.

Everyone, as a member of society, has the right to social security and is entitled to realization, through national effort and international co-operation and in accordance with the organization and resources of each State, of the economic, social and cultural rights indispensable for his dignity and the free development of his personality.

CODA is an independent political organization that mobilizes residents, activists, and neighborhood groups — anyonewho wants to join in struggling for political, economic and cultural power for the community and an end to discrimination based on class, race, gender, age, disability, religion, or sexual orientation.

• a modest 1.2 % increase in funding for arts and cultural organizations, the sixth consecutive year with a proposed funding increase for these groups;

«This is an opportunity for all cultural organizations to appeal to the county, especially those groups that may not have known about the funding opportunity or haven't applied in the past.»

«Our budget amendments not only protected vital services but reinvested in the community, allocating funds for youth organizations, service groups, library and culturals.»

The City should provide planning and community organizing resources to organizations such as the Chinatown Working Group, which has brought together many of Chinatown's diverse stakeholders, in order to allow them to undertake a community - based process for meeting Chinatown's traffic concerns and related planning issues, with cultural and linguistic sensitivity to the area's unique character.

«The process used to allocate funding for cultural organizations has been criticized in the past and to ensure that all eligible applicants are considered, the county executive is revising its application process.

Uk» omu Igala, the umbrella organization for all socio - cultural groups in Kogi East, has condemned in the strongest terms the invasion and mayhem on the Kogi State House of Assembly Complex in Lokoja on Tuesday, August 1, 2017 by suspected political thugs.

Members of the New York City Council have joined together with cultural institutions and advocates to petition Mayor Bill de Blasio to increase by $ 40 million the funding for cultural programming and organizations in the upcoming city budget.

From colleges to cultural groups and nonprofits that run foreclosure prevention programs, organizations pleaded their cases for a share of Borough President Helen Marshall's discretionary funds in the city budget last week.

The City Council also plans to provide millions more in restorations, including additional funding for community groups and cultural organizations, school custodians and senior centers.

Borough President Katz and Assembly Member Markey hosted the press conference in their capacities as co-chairs of the World's Fair Anniversary Committee, an umbrella group that includes elected officials, the City's Parks Department, NYC & Company, the Queens Tourism Council and the participating cultural organizations that have worked for the past six months to organize and coordinate a fun, exciting and hopefully memorable series of events to celebrate the anniversaries.

The Village Independent Democrats join the hundred or more organizations (including the Downtown Independent Democrats, the Lower Manhattan Democrats, and the New York Neighbors for American Values) in supporting the construction of an Islamic Cultural Center at 51 Park Place in downtown Manhattan.

Erie County's 2015 budget, proposed last month by County Executive Mark Poloncarz and approved with minor amendments by the legislature in one of the least contentious budget processes in memory, includes about a 1.4 percent increase in funding for local cultural organizations.

The Coalition has created new human rights resources for science and engineering associations, tools for human rights organizations that seek to incorporate science and technology in their work, increased awareness of the opportunities for scientists and engineers to contribute to human rights, and advanced international discussions regarding the significance of the right to enjoy the benefits of scientific progress and its applications, as guaranteed in Article 15 of the International Covenant on Economic, Social and Cultural Rights.

This international organization, established in 1999 by Rafael Capurro and now managed by the Center for Arts and Media Karlsruhe, provides an international cultural and intercultural platform with more than 280 members) for exchanging information about research and teaching in information ethics and news about IE activities.

They are following a strategy called «first aid for cultural heritage,» developed by an intergovernmental organization in Italy and first applied after the 2010 earthquake in Haiti.

Trust for Mutual Understanding The Trust for Mutual Understanding awards grants to American nonprofit organizations to support the international travel component of cultural and environmental exchanges conducted in partnership with institutions and individuals in Russia and Central and Eastern Europe.

LaVeist was recognized for his ability to examine health disparities from a broad perspective; the innovative design of his study, «Exploring Health Disparities in Integrated Communities», which controls for confounding socioeconomic and environmental factors; and his work creating the Cultural Competency Organizational Assessment — 360, a tool for assessing the cultural competency of health care organiCultural Competency Organizational Assessment — 360, a tool for assessing the cultural competency of health care organicultural competency of health care organizations.

Shy ladies can opt for a Rain Drop Foundation is a non-profit organization established in Houston, TX in 2000 solely for educational and cultural purposes.

BC Hockey is a not - for - profit organization and member branch of Hockey Canada in charge of governing amateur hockey at all levels in British Columbia and British Columbia's incredible system of provincial parks protect internationally significant ecological and cultural values, and offers experiences as

The Whistler Film Festival Society (WFFS) is a cultural charitable organization dedicated to furthering the art of film by providing programs that focus on the discovery, development and promotion of new talent culminating with a must attend festival for artists, the industry and audiences in Whistler.

PARK CITY, UT — Sundance Institute and Mahindra Group today announced a multifaceted agreement that showcases the commitment to and support of independent cinema around the world both by the Mahindra Group, one of the largest companies in India known throughout the world for its commitment to excellence and to social responsibility, and of the nonprofit Sundance Institute, one of the world's leading cultural organizations

But it's a distinct advantage for any organization if an LMS does have features that allow users to consume training content and participate in cultural communication and learning.

As one of the organizations backing bilingual education, for example, the New York State Association for Bilingual Education maintains it is important to foster «the awareness and appreciation of biculturalism and bilingualism as an integral part of cultural pluralism in our society.»

American membership in the United Nations Educational, Scientific, and Cultural Organization, they say, will lead to richer collaborations between education researchers in the United States and other countries, more straightforward participation of the United States in UNESCO's agenda, and more opportunities for American educators to land jobs with the international organization.

Governments, civil society, religious and cultural organizations, development organizations should develop global education framework for their countries and equally develop national action plan / strategies for its implementation especially in schools, local communities, religious and, cultural centres.

«It's a lot harder to cut a program in seventy - five schools than a program in three schools,» says Gina Jacquart Thorsen, vice president of research and program development for Big Thought, the nonprofit organization that coordinates ArtsPartners and Thriving Minds, an expanded initiative to infuse creative learning into the curriculum, after - school and out - of - school programs, libraries, and neighborhood cultural centers.

He also has extensive non-profit organization experience having served as executive director, program director and trainer for Operation Understanding DC (OUDC), a non-profit organization that specializes in cultural education, leadership development, and interfaith dialogue programming for African - American and Jewish high school students.