Sentences with phrase «from out of their community»

Each individual want to meet a partner who comes from his or her own ethnicity however, some people seek a partner from out of their community.

Not exact matches

With help from Citi Community Development, Village Capital recently hosted three pitch competitions, each designed to show venture capitalists and other investors that they really are missing out by not investing in women and people of color.

They're doing it through dozens of workshops held in community centers, libraries, YMCA's, and municipal buildings, where anywhere from 40 to 60 women (and sometimes a few men) work their way through a two - hour curriculum that teaches them how to figure out how much they should be paid, how to make their case to an employer, and how to gracefully exit a negotiation that might not be going well.

Priced out from buying a home in Toronto, they settled on Ajax, a bedroom community east of the city.

San Francisco — based Airbnb, a sort of hotel booking site for couch surfers, allows people who have extra space (like a spare room, guest house or sofa) to rent it out to travellers looking for a place to stay; «trust scores,» guest reviews and support from Airbnb staff give the site a sense of community that's missing from competitors Craigslist or Kijiji.

It was actually faster to take out a home - equity loan from her community bank, which she used to purchase an adjacent building to expand her business, than it was to go through the extended process of getting a commercial loan.

Brittany Hodak, co-founder of ZinePak, doesn't believe in a flat - out rejection of capitalism altogether, but rather an adoption of a «conscious capitalism» model, in which businesses commit themselves to giving back to the community at large in addition to benefitting from financial gains.

Actually, when I first started getting into the New York entrepreneurial community, it was because I started getting out of my school's network and moving away from my school.

The law, known as Senate Bill 4, is slated to take effect Sept. 1, but has been challenged in court by rights organizations and localities that say the law infringes on local governments» constitutional rights, and will sow fear through immigrant communities by dissuading people from reporting crimes or testifying as witnesses out of fear they will be deported.

Born out of N ot For Sale, a non-profit with the mission to eradicate modern - day slavery around the world, the organization built REBBL as a self - sustaining business that would source ingredients from the Peruvian Amazon to improve the local community.

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.

As Schilling points out, Einstein once noted: «My passionate sense of social justice and social responsibility has always contrasted oddly with my pronounced freedom from the need for direct contact with other human beings and human communities.

A steady stream of people from the community walk into the office and fill out applications.

If you need to build out a community of 500 people with very specific goals like Daniel Tunkelang from LinkedIn strategies part 1, perhaps open networking is not necessary for you.

It said Russia was responsible for carrying out cyberattacks against the US, disseminating hacked emails stolen from the Democratic National Committee, and launching a social media disinformation campaign — findings that mostly echo parts of the US intelligence community's assessment of Russia's interference in the 2016 election.

For their team, the post-launch plan includes everything from sending out regular email blasts to notify community members of hot new products to making sure they have enough sellers in the pipeline to keep buyers interested.

In addition to all of the free support from the community, there's also premium support available from a variety of developers, so if you run into an issue you really can't figure out on your own, you can always hire someone to help.

To find out, we interviewed several coworking space founders and community managers, and surveyed several hundred workers from dozens of coworking spaces around the U.S..

Second, meaning may also come from working in a culture where it is the norm to help each other out, and there are many opportunities to do so; the variety of workers in the space means that coworkers have unique skill sets that they can provide to other community members.

Smith points to the threats the pipeline poses to British Columbia's tourism industry, rising floodwaters in Bangladesh and the Maldives, drought in sub-Saharan Africa and Mexico, the homes that will be lost in future forest fires, respiratory health impacts in communities from Vancouver to Kamloops and Quesnel, and future hurricanes in the Caribbean and Gulf states as climate impacts that are left out of the narrative about the project.

«I've had a lot of people who reached out from the Philadelphia community who are interested in investing.»

This is not a bad thing in some respects — rich communities have legitimate need for attention from the state, too — but the aid we can get this way is out of proportion to the needs.

Most recently his work caught the eye of Forbes and was featured in an article entitled, The 12 - Year - Old Entrepreneur That Will Take Global Tech & The World By Storm Ian works closely with Dream Hustle Code, to help level the playing field for kids from communities that have traditionally been left out of the tech industry.

A program designed to keep troubled students in school and out of jail kept police from identifying Nikolas Cruz as a threat to the community when they had the chance, according to the attorney for one of Cruz's victims.

This is just a taste of more things to come from the collaborative and tight - knit Canadian community as we build out more products for the world,» added Weinberg.

Nobody from the FIRE community figured out who I am, and nobody from my personal circle of friends or relatives figured out that I'm big ERN.

CoinJanitor works by selecting specific coins that have failed or are functionally dead; contacting creators and community members; buying their coins out with the CoinJanitor token allowing them to transfer their value into the markets; burning the coins it bought from these community members and manually decommissioning the blockchains of those dead or failed coins afterwards.

As British Columbians priced out of Metro Vancouver migrate elsewhere in the province, communities from Vancouver Island, to the Okanagan, to the Kootenays are experiencing escalating house prices and severe rental shortages.

However, our experience shows that donations drop significantly within a few days after a disaster, even though most of the efforts to recover from serious flooding and rebuild homes, lives and a community can stretch out for months or even years.

Now from the perspective of a brand owner, why on earth would anyone go on and build a huge community if he ultimately has to pay to be able to reach out to his followers?

Not his gay personality, but the way he was excluded from community then written out of two denominations» history.

Dr Glen Reynolds, from the Catholic Archdiocese of Aberdeen, told Premier's News Hour: «It's shocked the entire community, not just in Aberdeen but in Scotland and throughout the UK, because it's so out of the ordinary.

Also, re: your point about Muslims being true Americans and patriots, this book also spells out what local police and FBI agents say, that the level of cooperation from the muslim community in rooting out extremists in their midst is exactly zero.

According to the prelate, the church attack has caused alarm among the local community, as the mainly Christian south of Nigeria has not suffered from the terror attacks carried out in the north by Boko Haram.

When the U.S. Muslim community sounds out LOUD and CLEAR, without equivocation, and immediately against all forms of terrorism, including all aggressive religious intolerance for human rights, women's right, children, equal protection under the law, the respect for other religions to coexist, the right to free speech, and the ability to separate church from state, IF THEY FINALLY DO THAT AND LOUDLY, then we will begin to feel comfortable that they are truly embracing American ideals and here to join us, not to oppose, defy, or undermine what we hold dear.

I began to notice areas I felt some pressure to conform: sometimes I feel an unspoken pressure from the institution and individuals within it to adhere to a preset systemization of belief and morality; sometimes I allow a comment left on my blog or criticism from other bloggers to intimidate me into conformity; sometimes I feel afraid to let what I really believe to leak out of my mouth; sometimes I allow criticism of the way I oversee our community, or criticism of our community itself, to frighten me into silence, passivity and paralysis.

I think there's an interesting point of comparison here between the Fundamentalist Mormon's request for the government to «stay out of our lives» regarding how marriage is defined, and the similar request coming from the gay community.

These pastors «float» the idea of killing gays and then claim to back away from the idea — but what they are REALLY doing is PLANTING the idea — and they will sit back while the crazies in their communities try to carry this out.

In the tense atmosphere of the city council meeting the night of the vote, Presbyterian minister Paul Miller acknowledged that emotions were running high but told the overflow crowd he spoke from «deep pastoral concern»; he then read a prepared statement signed by 18 members of the clergy who decried «the recent efforts to single out a given group... and to seek to castigate them as being unworthy and unfit to belong to our community.»

And whilst I understand concerns surrounding institutionalisation of the church we can't get away from the fact for a community to function effectively requires structure, strategy and systems as well as values and vision to carry out its purpose's.

So we learned about generations of indigenous children who had been removed from their homes, their parents, their communities, and their families to be placed in government - sponsored religious schools beginning officially in 1880 so the «Indian» could be educated out of them.

Around Agatha's moral axis revolve, frequently in erratic orbit, the members of Staggerford's closely knit Catholic community: French Lopat, the Vietnam vet who scratches out a living as a fake Indian for the tourist trade; Lillian, Agatha's best friend, who gets her news from supermarket tabloids; Imogene, Lillian's daughter, a liar and backstabber; Sister Judith, a New Age nun who imagines the Creation as God laying a giant egg.

Yet, out of such a beautiful, farcical facade, faith and community can be created, like gold from straw.

If everything we do from the first awakening breath of our day until we close our eyes at night doesn't reek of love; if our theology, doctrine, missional statements and creeds are born out of a need to «convert» rather than a deep and innate need to love those around us (aka, our neighbors), than all we have become is an annoyance and a disgrace to the communities around us, (clanging cymbals, anyone?)

This hasn't meant that deep relationships haven't happened in the church as David points out, but it has set up in many communities for a number of these complex reasons where friendships become utilitarian — from leadership on down — the fruit becomes that the friendships exist for the church.

The philosopher does not set out to show how the world appears from the perspective of a community of faith, and to some degree, he can free himself from such perspectives.

The «humility» that is usually (but not always) present in 12 - Step Program communities comes from «bottoming - out», coming to the end of one's psychological / social resources while experiencing life's challenges.

Quite often a great investment of energy must be made just to decide who is responsible for what — who does the dishes and takes out the trash — and to deal with all the human interrelationship problems that can sometimes just be endured from 9 to 5 but which must be resolved if we are to be in community together.

This is for everyone who stayed home from church yesterday — for every mom of a special needs kid, every survivor of sexual assault, every black or brown body in a predominantly white community, every son or daughter of an immigrant, every defender of the marginalized who just couldn't bring yourself to stand and sing «Great Is Thy Faithfulness» alongside the people you feel sold you out this week, the Christians who supported Donald Trump.

We must get out of the pews, and step down from the pulpit, and learn Scripture together by discussing what it says with one another, and putting it into practice in our communities.