Sentences with phrase «from more community»

This is a middle school that can benefit from more community involvement.

Lloyd Alter, managing editor of environmental blog TreeHugger and owner of a small home himself, agrees that these are issues but argues the small - home lifestyle could benefit from a more community - oriented perspective.

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King also interrogated the concept of allyship, challenging the «white liberal who is more devoted to «order» than to justice, who prefers tranquility to equality» in his 1967 book, Where Do We Go From Here: Chaos or Community?.

The report is part of a larger study, funded by $ 150,000 from Citi Community Development, to learn more about the challenges and needs of female entrepreneurs.

Not only can stories help to build a community (that becomes a source of more stories), but storytelling is also a proven technique that allows your audience to see how they can benefit from your product or service without you blatantly selling.

«Write to Play» heralded Playworld's first - ever social media giveaway, and the results are impressive: Not only did its Facebook fan base increase from 600 to more than 9,000 during the two months the contest ran, but as finalists rallied to gain community support for their campaigns, many local news outlets reported on their efforts, earning Playworld significant free publicity in the process.

«The fact that his audience stretched out past teenagers and the hiphop community showed us that he's got a great mainstream appeal (pop culture females ranging from teenagers to alumni), but he also appeals to more niche hop hop communities like Trap Rap.»

«Recently we've gotten feedback from our community that public content — posts from businesses, brands and media — is crowding out the personal moments that lead us to connect more with each other,» Zuckerberg said in a post announcing the changes.

A focus on quality, local products can help a small business succeed as communities are becoming more and more adamant about buying from small, local businesses.

Vancouver's burgeoning technology community may aspire to become a nexus of money and talent akin to Silicon Valley, but it's making an ever more deliberate effort to distinguish itself from the Bay Area's uncaring «tech bro» culture.

Although Breaux Capital faces steep competition in the personal finance sector — including from apps such as Mint, which sold to Intuit in 2009 and now counts more than 20 million customers — CTO Quarles says he's convinced that his community, by virtue of being by and for black men, is unique.

It will still hold forum discussions, co-produce special sections in USA Today and put more stores in minority communities as part of the Race Together initiative, according to a company memo from Schultz.

Likewise, there's good reason to think the goal of «protecting our community from abuse and hatred» is a non-starter as long as «our community» means a user base of more than two billion people.

It's a marketplace handcuffed by certificate - of - need laws that limit the number of MRI centers and hospital beds in communities, granting providers regional monopolies, and preventing insurers from clinching discounts by offering to send patients to the providers willing to lower their rates in exchange for more business.

«Through this collaboration with the cancer community's leading clinical and pathology experts, thousands of more patients can potentially benefit from the world's growing body of knowledge about this disease,» said IBM Research and Cognitive Solutions senior vice president John Kelly in a statement.

Halligan, who attended the conference, noted that what differentiates Inc. 500 5000 companies from the rest of the small business community is also something more intangible.

«Broad rules, such as those imposed by SB4, that push local law enforcement to take a more active role in immigration enforcement will further strain the relationship between local law enforcement and these diverse communities,» police chiefs from several major Texas cities wrote in a letter last week.

So the possibility remains, Carle said, that the Russians used the meeting with Kushner to distract the intelligence community and the public from potentially more incriminating relationships between the campaign and Moscow.

Some have suggested that small community banks may be the first to step up to the plate because the revenue from marijuana businesses would be more significant for them.

Not only will you reach a whole new audience of shoppers, but these customers can also give you glowing merchant reviews within that community, which will persuade even more shoppers to buy from you.

As Fortune reports here for the first time, Dell's deals reflect a decade or more of meticulous planning, as well as some vital, long - lasting relationships — formed with a serendipitous boost from a Hawaiian vacation community.

Other new steps outlined by the administration include an online policy challenge to encourage entrepreneurs to offer new ideas to foster innovation, educational programs and commitments from more than 100 community colleges to promote entrepreneurship.

And while white entrepreneurs of means are more likely to start a business with financial help from friends and family, generations of poverty in minority communities shuts the door on this prospect.

In addition to masterminds, members can also benefit from juntos — local community networking events — yearly DCBKK events and more.

«We've gone from a world of isolated communities to one global community and we are more better off for it,» he told the audience.

And their business has apparently turned into a community favorite, with more than 60 percent of new customers coming from referrals.

Developing an effective content creation machine requires a team effort, from getting team members involved in research and creation, to reaching out to guest contributors and getting community feedback on themes they want to learn more about.

In South Orange, I think there was a feeling that the community was fairly disconnected from government and there was a desire to bring someone in from the outside who is able to look at the challenges that face our municipality from a new perspective and bring people in more as part of that process.

The poll results suggest that people want more officers conducting background checks; they want the same standards applied to those who buy a gun from a person at a gun show or online or at a physical store; they want to remove the background check work - around of buying a gun through a trust or corporation; and they want the feds to do a better job of notifying local law enforcement when people in their communities who are prohibited from purchasing a gun attempt to buy one.

That was down slightly from 24 percent in the previous three months, when the World Cup helped drive traffic to the service, and remains well behind Facebook's Inc's community of more than a billion people.

A look at some of the more hopeful signals from the world of commercial lending, community banks, credit unions and venture backers

Not to mention, an MBA from UT Austin comes with a network of more than 92,000 McCombs School of Business alumni around the world, bonding graduates to a lifelong community.

Like any method of marketing to your customers, the more time you spend honing your skills, the more interaction you will illicit from your community.

We brainstormed ways for our art programs to become more inclusive so we could serve these audiences more effectively, and decided to recruit board members from these communities.

«We are far enough from Vancouver and the mountains to get much more sun, but close enough that commuting into work isn't an issue,» says Myron, who has lived in the community for more than two decades.

The community forum on Workpop has a 95 percent response rate, with many resumes receiving feedback from more than one person.

In many indigenous cultures I have learned about, community members who want more resources than they can personally use are viewed as suffering from some kind of mental illness.

The folks in and around the Duluth metro area know how to rock the vote — more than 70 % of residents 18 and older turn out on Tuesdays to cast a ballot, according to data from the American Community Survey.

In the immediate aftermath, more than a dozen local businesses are reeling from the events, and trying to find meaningful ways to support the community.

«If you look at more current information, you will see that these data points are not demonstrative of our current network, community impact, and both the direct and indirect job creation near fulfillment centers,» a company representative said previously, adding that «Amazon's investments led to the creation of 200,000 additional non-Amazon jobs, ranging from construction jobs to healthcare industry positions.»

Many hope that this new version of Windows will be a sharp departure from Windows 8, which was intended more for tablets than desktops and was not well - received by the tech community.

It was more of a collaborative effort rather than me trying to do it and working with the gaming community to help evolve it from the original idea,» Mullin says.

After observing that students become 26 percent more likely to eat vegetables served in the nearly 350 schools where Musk's Learning Gardens allowed students to grow their own produce, Musk was satisfied, and the project attracted interest from other underserved communities and donors.

-- Ashley Hunter, president of HMRiskGroup, Austin, Texas Community Banks «The representative at the big bank we used to finance the purchase of a new building said he would see about getting us more business referrals, but four years later, we haven't had a single referral from him.

Today HighWired.com is the world's largest online community of high schools, with more than 10,000 from 50 states and 65 countries.

Rodale Inc. is among the companies that provide community gardens in their roundup of wellness services — a far cry from the more traditional programs, like free health exams and discounted gym memberships.

He argues that everyone uses money for different purposes — from facilitating adventure to serving their community to supporting their family — yet most financial planning assumes clients have one of two possible goals: preparing for retirement or accumulating more possessions.

The community bank share of total assets fell 6 % from the second quarter of 2006 to the second quarter of 2010, and by more than 12 % in the following period through the second quarter of 2014.

We typically think about people coming from business to occupy positions in the administration that have a particular oversight or much more direct daily interaction with the business community itself.

«But recently we've gotten feedback from our community that public content — posts from businesses, brands and media — is crowding out the personal moments that lead us to connect more with each other.