Sentences with phrase «from civic groups»

That involvement has paid off in many ways, said Noles, whose school has been on the receiving end of monetary donations from civic groups that are populated mostly by retired people in his community.

The 19 April announcement unleashed a torrent of criticism from civic groups and experts.

Pushing through such a plan would no doubt be hard — as former mayor Michael Bloomberg discovered when his own congestion pricing proposal, despite broad support from civic groups, crashed and burned in Albany in 2008.

The plans were met with fierce criticism from civic groups, community boards and borough presidents who felt they either undid specific neighborhood protections or did not include deep enough affordability to help the New Yorkers who need it most.

Not exact matches

In a letter sent to Amazon CEO Jeff Bezos on Tuesday, leaders at 73 civic groups from cities across the U.S. made some demands on the e-commerce giant.

Three facets of today's U.S. civic discourse would worry the Framers, said Eisgruber: «mistrust of institutions,» which they considered crucial to forming a republic; the «geographic sorting» that finds people of like - minded views grouping together rather than being more evenly distributed throughout the country; and the rise of technologies (read: Facebook) that are keeping people from reading facts and views that give them proper «civic understanding.»

The Constitution could not take for granted that its citizens would all be motivated by civic virtue and so its concern was as much to protect individuals and groups from abuse at the hands of the government and their fellow citizens as it was to involve all its citizens in genuine participation.

Interwoven with familial, civic, devotional, and secular configurations that are structurally different from the local church, other religious groupings offer alternative patterns of collective reverence and incidentally suggest other ways by which Christianity might conceivably have spread among peoples.

At the Park District meeting, civic groups opposed to the plan and residents who live across from the proposed museum site raised previous concerns that the structure would go against long - standing court rulings that restrict such construction in Grant Park.

The Bridging Gowanus community planning process was convened by the local elected officials representing the Gowanus area, organized together with community leaders from resident, civic, environmental, business, arts and housing groups, and facilitated by the Pratt Center for Community Development.

Leaders from more than a dozen eastern Queens civic groups met in Bellerose last week, demanding their communities be united by the state task force that will redraw the area's legislative lines for the coming decade.

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.

Newberry said more resources from foundations and other funders would enable civic and advocacy groups to do more work in the community.

«Diversity Plaza is a result of tremendous community effort, from the intensive transportation planning sessions that developed it, to the efforts of the local merchants and civic groups that are now sustaining it,» said Andy Wiley - Schwartz, an assistant commissioner at the DOT.

In addition to the cuts, Bloomberg announced several new local initiatives, ranging from new grants for civic groups to waving fines for any restaurant that receives an «A» grade.

ALBANY — The decision by the administration of Gov. Andrew M. Cuomo to choose a campaign contributor to the governor for a $ 50 million development contract at Republic Airport in Farmingdale has generated opposition from a rival bidder, local civic groups and state Sen. Phil Boyle, who represents the district.

Support from civic leaders is not in short supply, Flushing Chamber of Commerce's President Myra Herce Baird, and Paul Vallone, a member of CB 7 and President of the Clinton Democratic Club enthusiastically endorsed the group's objective.

«We want to have a very swift and aggressive response, not only from the police department but from civic and community groups, to catch this person.

The legislation, signed by Gov. Andrew Cuomo in August, received support from the Police Athletic League, civics education group Generation Citizen and the Association of Teachers of Social Studies.

Salem Station became a target in the late 1990s, when environmental, health and civic groups launched a campaign to force Massachusetts to clean up what they called the «Filthy Five» — a group of coal - and oil - fired power plants built before 1977 and grandfathered under the Clean Air Act from meeting new air pollution standards.

She is determined to nurture «from the inside» a project of civil rights education, but her Guarani - speaking high - school students resist her civics lessons - and she quickly learns that gaining their trust won't be an easy task.These subtly illuminating encounters reverberate in the aftermath of the central event of the film - a harrowing sexual assault by a group of young men.

With three months left in Thomas W. Payzant's decade - long tenure as superintendent of the Boston schools, those charged with finding a successor are getting an earful from scholars, community groups, and civic leaders as they consider how much of a change agent the district needs.

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.

Marshall's Garden Club received seeds from California State University at Fresno, local businesses and civic organizations donated money and materials, and church groups and the Boy Scouts provided labor.

After garnering support from the superintendent, students began a massive outreach to civic leaders, school principals, and community groups in four nearby towns.

CPAG is the host organisation for the Campaign to End Child Poverty coalition, which has members from across civil society including children's charities, faith groups, unions and other civic sector organisations, united in their campaigning for public and political commitment to ensure the goal of ending child poverty by 2020 is met.

It was the product of IEL's School Leadership for the 21st Century initiative, which raised public awareness about the critical problems facing education leadership by engaging partners from education, government, business, civic groups, and other organizations.

Schools are significant sites where children from diverse ethnic and social groups learn to interact, adopt civic identities, and acquire intercultural skills that are essential to good citizenship.

The study, made possible by a gift from the Richard and Susan Smith Family Foundation, found that teachers who participated in a Facing History seminar and received coaching and support showed significantly greater self - efficacy for creating engaging classrooms and promoting academic skills and civic learning than control group teachers.

By teaching civics in tandem with experiential learning, YES Prep teachers, more often than traditional public or private school teachers, were «very confident» that their students learned «[t] o be tolerant of people and groups who are different from themselves,» «[t] o understand concepts such as federalism, separation of powers, and checks and balances,» and «[t] o develop habits of community service such as volunteering and raising money for causes,» according to 2010 American Enterprise Institute Program on American Citizenship survey.30 As a charter network serving low - income students, its service - centered mission serves both the students and their communities.

A recent report from a prominent group of business and civic leaders called the Coalition for the Future of Detroit Schoolchildren anticipated a possible role for the mayor.

As in previous years, enthusiastic staff from the civic - minded Warren Henry Auto Group got together over the last weekend of February to participate in the Tour de Broward.

From there, a civic - minded group of people sprung up to combat this dismal percentage.

About 95 parade entries, made up of a multitude of schools, civic groups and social clubs, will don the theme of «Inside Santa's Workshop,» as they travel the 1 - mile parade route on Jefferson Avenue from Del Rio Road to Overland Drive.

Teaching thousands of children from pre - school to college level OBOL»S Humane Education Learning Program (HELP) including youth and civic groups

Therapetics relies heavily on private contributions from individuals, area businesses, churches and civic groups.

Last April over 2,000 volunteers from our extraordinary community — including over 50 civic, school and corporate groups — rallied and rolled up their sleeves to restore our spectacular national parklands at the Golden Gate.

Trailing Lula was a chorus of jeers from world environmentalists and civic groups, such as Conservation International, the Brazilian labor organization CUT, and even the United Nations Environment Program.

Some climate policy analysts said that, even if the U.S. government withdraws from the Paris climate agreement, the rest of the world could work with big states like California and New York, as well businesses and civic groups that are interested in advancing climate protection policies.

DIY Tech + DIY Civic Engagement Projects selected to be featured in a street exposition last weekend — described as a «one - day explosion of DIY tech meets DIY civic engagement meets SF art scene» — ranged from Clip + Slide, a kit that converts stairs into musical slides, to the DIY Traffic Counter, a simple device that allows individuals or community groups to measure automobile or bicycle traffic on a given street.

A group of 125 students at several top - ranked law schools has issued a «Statement of Principles for a Renewed Legal Profession,» arising from their concern about «billable hour escalation and its impact on personal and civic life.»

Remember to include people from volunteer organizations, prior jobs, civic or religious groups, and business associations, and ask for details in their recommendations that speak directly to your skills, strengths and accomplishments.

A group of civic leaders from some of the Edge Cities — a term coined a decade ago to denote cities built at the far fringes of development around major cities — met in Schaumburg, Ill., to discuss possible solutions to the problems these cities face.