Sentences with phrase «form local groups»

You can as a group decide to meet during the conference to connect, and possibly form local groups back home where you can share your passion and support each other.

Not exact matches

In Northeast Ohio, this came in the form of universities, local groups and foundations getting involved, providing resources like mentorship, business plan competitions and student - lead investment funds.

The Canadian Mining Association could form a similar partnership with Canadian banks, providing training on sustainable practices to Burmese natural resource firms while leveraging the trillions of dollars raised on the TSX for projects that give environmental groups and local residents a say.

The group contacted 12 restaurants and asked if they were interested in forming an alliance that would get local advertising and PR on a pro-bono basis.

The state has its own investment fund, the Missouri Technology Corporation, which invests in local businesses; the fund, together with newly formed private investment groups, have helped the state emerge as a regional leader in startup financing.

Nexstar's strategic combination with Media General brings together two powerhouse, local media companies to form Nexstar Media Group, the largest TV station operator in the country.

Initial group of AAII Local Chapters is formed with chapters in Boston, Chicago, Cincinnati, Los Angeles, Miami, Milwaukee, New York, San Francisco and Tampa.

Also, if your religious community is more racially isolated than your local area, encourage it to form faith partnerships with racially different faith groups.

While congregations and other types of society possess obviously different intentions, they nevertheless work through analogous forms of culture in which a local church might recognize its deeper solidarity with other human groups.

Each year, the WACC, which provides funding for communication development worldwide on behalf of churches throughout the world, is channeling less of its funds into large shortwave services and large publishing houses, and more into the development of small printing presses, the production of audiocassettes, local drama and music groups, and the use of communication forms indigeneous to the village life, such as story telling, puppets and mime.

While ministry focuses on communities and their outreach, special respect is to be accorded to the ministry that forms lines of communication among local groups.

Working in groups in western Europe, North America, and to a lesser extent elsewhere, the study team produced and encouraged many papers and books on the problem of the local church.7 Naming as its focus the Missionary Structure of the Congregation, the study proposed that radically different forms of Christian assembly and witness be fostered within the secular context.

The internet revolution of the mid-1990s, the mushrooming of partnerships and of informal transnational governance networks (grouping multibillion dollar foundations, like - minded politicians, NGOs, representatives of the world of finance, enterprises, academics...), globalisation under all its forms and the decentralisation and regionalisation strategy of the UN effectively brought the global agenda to the regional, national and local levels.

The local church or a group of churches may move into various forms of action that from the purist position may seem problematic, but at a given moment these may be actions of enormous importance in giving dignity and opportunity to the people of the various congregations and their neighbors.

And whatever «form» of church one attends (small group, house, small local body, mega-church) has some form of leadership (some good, some not - sThe biblical issue isn't, in my opinion, about whether women can teach in a church — it is the issue of qualifications for elders.

In the latter state, after the large Western International Conference on Economic Dislocation last fall, a statewide coalition of eight local groups was formed.

Another local congregation is presently acting as catalyst for a community services workshop to assist churches and public - service groups in planning how to use electronic media, especially the «public access» channel of the newly formed cable system in the area.

Six cities were selected as training centers where community resources were explored, clergymen and other professionals were enrolled, a local committee was formed to plan the curriculum, and a group organized for continuing education.

People seem less inclined these days to commit themselves to local forms of community — voluntary associations, church groups — that tradititionally have formed the fabric of our culture.

Pil Andina was formed after Peruvian business Gloria Group Inc. acquired milk plants in Bolivia and gathered over 6,000 small, local producers to form the country's largest milk supplier.

The group formed out of what was originally Banks (Barbados) Breweries Limited founded in 1959 as a venture between Peter A'guiar (who had earlier started Banks Guyana) and local investors.

We'd love you to form groups in your local community to campaign on our behalf, but individuals can take part too.

Through a nonprofit group, Diaper Free Baby (www.diaperfreebaby.org), 77 local groups have formed in 35 states to encourage the practice.

Residents who belong to the group Citizens for Better Communities, which was formed to muster local support and to lobby government to prevent the land from becoming a gravel pit, were also on hand to thank Hoffman and members of the park board for their actions.

Lee, along with a few moms she met at a local drop - in centre, formed a stroller - walking group.

Please complete this form so we can put you in touch with a leader at this local MOPS group.

Since the group formed, others have joined, including a local physician specializing in treating children with severe allergies and asthma, three parents and two more school nurses.

* NOTE: While not required for becoming an API Parenting Educator, advantages of becoming an API Leader would be the ability to form and facilitate local support group meetings, network with API Leaders all over the world, share meeting ideas, receive continued support and information from API and the Leaders Forum.

In 2014, the city and county joined with six nonprofit groups to form a Commission on Local Government Modernization, or Consensus, a 19 - member panel that is studying ways to streamline local governLocal Government Modernization, or Consensus, a 19 - member panel that is studying ways to streamline local governlocal government.

Those groups formed a coalition this year with the goal of stripping away mandates in order to comply with the 2 percent cap on local property tax levy increases.

It closed in the mid-1990s and was in the dark for more than 30 years until a local group — spearheaded by Mrs. Rosemary Cappozalo — formed a non-profit to save it from being torn down and reopened it in 2004, according to the website.

The Commission on Local Government Modernization - or Consensus, for short - was formed three years ago by six nonprofit civic groups with support from the city and county.

The New Stadium Working Group, formed two years ago, that includes state and local political leaders who will consider a new home for the Buffalo Bills, has not met since April 2014 — right after team owner Ralph Wilson's death.

Though county and state officials have been driving hard to prevent the approval of the plant, the strongest opposition came from local environmental groups such as Riverkeeper and the Rockland Water Coalition, which was formed from a collection of smaller organizations to fight desalination.

In exchange for taking its parkland, soaking up taxpayer dollars (in the form of subsidies and tax breaks) and bringing more traffic congestion and parking woes to the area, the Yankees (and the city which backed the project) promised to provide local jobs, quickly restore parkland and give back money to community groups and programs on annual basis.

By Sean Ryan A Milwaukee alderman is defending the city's preference for local bidders against criticism from Milwaukee 7, a group formed to promote regional cooperation.

To promote change, May said she formed True Blue NY - 53, a local group that opposes Valesky.

Balter, 41, of Syracuse, has jumped into the public spotlight this year as an organizer for the CNY Solidarity Coalition, a local coalition of grassroots groups that formed after Donald Trump won the presidential election.

She is a strong supporter of Free Schools and worked with local parents to form a «Parents Voice» group [37] to set up the Bristol Free School, which, in 2011, became one of the first Free Schools to open.

The starting point for this discussion is Consensus CNY, the commission on local government modernization that was formed two years ago by the city of Syracuse, Onondaga County and some non-profit groups.

[24] The majority party is Residents for Uttlesford (R4U), formed by local residents» groups.

Teachout is one of a handful of area politicians who are hoping that the energy of Sanders «political revolution» will reverberate over time and down the ballot as grass roots groups that formed to support the Vermont senator's unexpectedly strong primary run turn their attention to local political contests — and the machinery of the Democratic Party itself.

Those who want to back the project online can add their comments to the «Suggest Improvements» map on the Parks Department website or by filling out this form created by Parks4Us, a local parks advocacy group, which links directly to the city's site.

He said: «Sadiq has worked with faith groups, trade unions, local organisation and people of every kind to challenge injustice, fight all forms of discrimination, resolutely promote understanding and co-operation.

Conservative councillors won an overall majority in the council and formed a majority administration, Labour councillors form the second - largest grouping and UKIP's win of a seat was its single gain nationally in the 2017 local election cycle which saw all 145 of its other candidates standing in the election lose their seats.

I would bring a strong environmental approach to the board, looking to form a coalition with nearby municipalities and local environmental groups to clean up the Esopus Creek.

Now the Citizen Advisory Panels for the Adirondack and Catskill parks, conservation groups and local governments have formed the «Forever Taxable» Coalition to oppose the plan.

JAMESTOWN - A group of local photographers and illustrators will present «People, In All Their Forms» at the James Prendergast Library Art Gallery from today through Nov. 23.

In 2004, in a process that hewed much more closely to the traditional plot line, the approximately 125 postdocs at the University of Connecticut Health Center in Farmington formed the nation's first postdoc union, becoming a unit of University Health Professionals, otherwise known as Local 3837 of the American Federation of Teachers, which had already organized a number of groups on the campus.

Westin has won the endorsement of 314 Action, a nonprofit group formed in 2016 with the goal of getting more scientists and engineers elected to local, state, and national offices.