Sentences with phrase «from urban neighborhoods»

Wood From the Hood was born with a simple idea: Reclaim discarded trees from urban neighborhoods to create beautiful, high - quality hardwoods.

By providing innovative ecological education programs to young people from our urban neighborhoods, the Center hopes to spark positive environmental change for today and tomorrow.

Sip your way along the Ventura County Wine Trail, where you'll find nearly 20 wineries and tasting rooms in settings ranging from urban neighborhoods to the bucolic Ojai Valley.

Cofounder and CEO: Nick Gleason, age 33 Business: Web developer with the mission of recruiting and hiring its workforce from urban neighborhoods; CitySoft does no training but does team up with tech - training centers to develop training standards.

Ward's dramatic sculptural installations are composed of material that was systematically collected from his urban neighborhood.

Ward's dramatic sculptural installations are composed of systematically collected material from his urban neighborhood.

Using systematically collected material from his urban neighborhood, Nari Ward creates dramatic sculptural installations that explore issues surrounding race, poverty, and consumer culture.

Nari Ward's (b. 1963, St. Andrew, Jamaica) dramatic sculptural installations are composed of systematically collected material from his urban neighborhood.

Not exact matches

Hence: barely sweetened iced tea and totally biodegradable tea bags (Honest Tea Inc.); garden, home, and pet products made from recycled or organic materials (WorldWise Inc.); organic, shade - grown coffee with a guaranteed base price for growers (Sustainable Harvest Inc.); Web development using urban workers (CitySoft Inc.); nonsexist, nonviolent toys (Wild Planet Toys Inc.); revitalized communities and neighborhoods (Village Real Estate Services); and recycled paper products (New Leaf Paper LLC).

A pilot project designed for a dense urban environment, the building - specific service complements Starbucks broad portfolio of stores — from immersive coffee bars, to the familiar neighborhood store.

The Anacostia Community Museum offers visitors a chance to explore the history and culture of urban neighborhoods from Washington, D.C. to South America and other places across the globe.

One small example of this in our neighborhood is the urban farm one of my friends and mentors started to provide jobs to «returning citizens»: It required the city to help give away land and clear vacant property and some startup capital from a local farming company, but it is based on the church's understanding of the needs of the people and explicitly tied to the concept that faithful believers can help disciple and encourage people who have been incarcerated for harming others, walking them through the transformative process.

The funding would come from money the Department of Housing and Urban Development allocated to help rebuild the neighborhood after the 9/11 attacks.

While some urban churches choose to be fortresses within the city, this glassy church refuses to shut out its urban neighborhood, or to be shut out from it.

And while the strains of the post-Conciliar years (which were also years of tremendous demographic transformation on the American urban / suburban landscape) have tested that claim as never before, there remain, in this, the sesquicentennial year of the erection of the diocese, many impressive signs of vitality in a local church that has been distinguished for its rich ethnic diversity, its identification of parish and neighborhood, its impressive clerical and lay leadership, its self - conscious social and political liberalism, and its sense of itself as the «lead diocese» in matters ranging from liturgical renewal to Christian social action.

«Hyatt Union Square New York is located in downtown Manhattan's central Union Square neighborhood, and every detail of the hotel — from the design, to the amenities and dining options — is focused on enticing today's sophisticated urban travelers, and complementing the community's dynamic atmosphere and energetic spirit» said Chris Holbrook, Hyatt Union Square New York General Manger.

I thought about all of the vegan friendly restaurants I had read about, the history of the city itself, the architecture from neighborhood to neighborhood, the abundance of parks and murals that weave throughout the urban landscape, and of course, my favorite peoples who lived in Philadelphia that we were headed to see.

Located at the site of the abandoned Bloomingdale railway line, the elevated «urban oasis» runs along Bloomingdale Ave. (1800 N), from Ridgeway Ave. (3750 W) on the west to Ashland Ave (1600 W) on the east, through the Bucktown, Wicker Park, Humboldt Park, and Logan Square neighborhoods.

Planners envision a linear urban park that runs from North Ashland Avenue west to three blocks past Central Park Avenue, connecting the trendy Bucktown and Wicker Park neighborhoods with the more working - class residential areas of Logan Square and Humboldt Park.

However, Quinn and her supporters insist she has been a presence in the neighborhood since her first years on the job, supporting local projects from urban farms and anti-graffiti efforts to new HIV testing centers and the La Marqueta business incubator.

«We are enjoying a starring role in Hollywood's featured films and successful television programs because of our incredible and diverse locations — from beautiful parks and shorelines, to historic Main Streets, charming neighborhoods and bustling urban sites.

In many urban neighborhoods the most convenient places to shop are corner stores, such as the bodega down the street from the Bronx farmers market.

White flight does not end when residents move from poor urban neighborhoods to the suburbs.

What I also realize because of the background that many students, inner city students or even urban students, like the Hopi reservation or any other, they come from heavily compromised backgrounds, family backgrounds; either it's drugs in the neighborhood or family or single parent homes whatever.

Initiated in 2005, the study follows 560 families from four disadvantaged urban areas who are at high risk for asthma to uncover potential risk factors that contribute to increased asthma rate in children growing up in impoverished neighborhoods.

A young African American from a white neighborhood gets a look at the reality of urban life.

Cropsey (Unrated) Urban legend documentary shot by a couple of first - time filmmakers from Staten Island determined to find out whether there's any truth to the haunting rumor circulated during their childhood that an escapee from a nearby insane asylum had been responsible for the mysterious disappearance of five kids from their neighborhood.

She directed a documentary - narrative hybrid short film Uprooting From the City about the urban transformation and gentrification of the Romani neighborhoods in the first pilot location in Istanbul.

All black and Latino students don't come from low - income, urban neighborhoods.

At a time when squatter neighborhoods were regarded as the biggest obstacle before urban development by the urban elite in Turkey, and residents of squatter houses and thus the urban working class were regarded as «backward» villagers, workers from both Hasköy and Güzeltepe earned respectability due to their working class identities.

The location is deliberately removed from the Catlin Gabel campus and located in an urban neighborhood that is rapidly gentrifying.

The fact that most of it comes from urban schools in low - income neighborhoods leaves most audiences astonished.

In my years teaching in urban public schools, I saw many students experience extreme stress from living in poverty and also in gang - affiliated neighborhoods.

But if the spillover effects of urban charter schools on district schools are confined to relatively small neighborhoods, then findings from prior analyses may well be underestimates.

There currently are 99 KIPP schools in 20 states and Washington, D.C., serving 26,000 students from low - income rural and urban neighborhoods.

For instance, data from the U.S. Department of Education's National Household Education Surveys Program reveal that parents who are the least likely to say they moved to their current neighborhood specifically to gain access to the local schools are typically black, poor, have lower levels of educational attainment, or live outside of an urban area.

The student population at the heart of this book is composed of urban youth from impoverished neighborhoods, many of whom are African American or Latino.

The effects of urban poverty on educational outcomes: evidence from a randomized experiment What can we learn about neighborhood effects from the Moving to Opportunity experiment

While gentrification has been a concern for urban cities for over 50 years, the manifestations of gentrification have become more complex and widespread in the past two decades, as gentrification has expanded from downtowns to neighborhoods across cities.

With the unleashing of their imaginations and mentorship from the National Organization of Minority Architects, four teams from Kids Rethink New Orleans Schools, Sci Academy and Urban League College Track spent the last year analyzing the needs of various neighborhoods around the city and then developing architectural plans designed to meet those needs.

Middle - class black families benefited most from the Brown ruling because it gave them the opportunity to move to white neighborhoods and put their children in better schools, said Baum, a professor in the urban studies and planning program at the University of Maryland, College Park.

Not as Good as You Think: The Myth of the Middle Class School is a documentary that shatters the myth that «good» schools located in «nice» neighborhoods are shielded from the education crisis that pervades schools in poor, urban areas.

These incentives might include additional per - pupil funding for each transfer student, construction funds to make more space available, funds to recruit and employ on - site advocates and mentors to ensure the social comfort and the pedagogic progress of these students, and funds to underwrite their transportation by the same convenient means that wealthy people use to transport their children to private schools — not by circuitous and exhausting bus routes, but rather by point - to - point travel, typically in small vans, from one specific urban neighborhood to one specific school or district.

Career is home to a rich variety of inner city and urban students from all of New Haven's neighborhoods and surrounding towns.

Increase the number of proven, high - performing public charter schools by recruiting charter management organizations and leaders from across the country who have demonstrated a proven record of success educating children and teens in economically challenged urban neighborhoods.

His talk about «edu - localism» connects with his usual arguments about how improved transit infrastructure in urban settings makes everything better — he wants kids to be able to easily commute across town to access better schools that might be far from the neighborhoods they live in.

From talking with people who do urban core outreach in Kansas City, they say that most of the people they run across aquired their pet when a friend or relative could no longer take care of it, or they found it running loose in their neighborhood.

Re-homing of hundreds of needy cats and kittens every year from our urban, suburban, and rural neighborhoods.

They utilize a wide range of habitat from grasslands to deserts to forests and more recently, urban parks and neighborhoods.

The Urban Wine Trail and its tasting rooms are concentrated in a couple of neighborhoods extending from upper State Street to the beach, with a few additional tasting rooms in satellite neighborhoods.