Sentences with phrase «from volunteer efforts»

Sutton Spirit fundraising activities hosted by her office to support various community organizations have also benefitted from her volunteer efforts.

The sense of fulfillment Harrison gains from her volunteer efforts drives her to encourage others around her to do the same.

It can come from volunteer efforts, transferable skills you've garnered working in other industries earlier in your career, your education, and so on.

Not exact matches

Every year, REI donates to many national conservation efforts, but the company also roles up its sleeves and enlists volunteers from the REO coop members, customers, and employees to build trails, clean beaches, and restore habitats.

Volunteers from all around the world join us in our efforts toward putting families back in homes and kids back in schools in Kathmandu, Sindhupalchowk, and Nuwakot.

«We are thrilled to receive this donation from Norwegian Cruise Line Holdings Ltd. and to work in partnership with All Hands Volunteers with their hurricane relief efforts in the Caribbean islands and the Florida Keys,» said Petra Nemcova, Founder of Happy Hearts Fund.

Disaster recovery volunteers have also included players, coaches and staff from the NFL St. Louis Rams, who helped with cleanup efforts in Joplin.

But God ordered his world in such a way that his own work within that world takes place not least through one of his creatures in particular, namely, the human beings who reflect his image... He has enlisted us to act as his stewards in the project of creation... So the objection about us trying to build God's kingdom by our own efforts, though it seems humble and pious, can actually be a way of hiding from responsibility, of keeping one's head well down when the boss is looking for volunteers...» (207).

To make its efforts possible, OBR is fueled by donations of food, BBQ rigs and volunteer support from restaurateurs and pit masters.

The support that we have seen from the volunteers has been great and the campaign impact would not have been as good if it was not for all their efforts.»

In addition to cash and product donations contributed to regional feeding programs, employees from The Kraft Heinz Company lead volunteer efforts year - round to ensure these local communities have ready access to fresh, healthy and affordable food.

As part of IFA's Franchising Gives Back effort, the IFA Women's Franchise Network Atlanta Chapter recently volunteered at the Atlanta Community Food Bank on Nov. 4 from 1 to 4 p.m. Volunteers from Shane's Rib Shack, We Sell Restaurants, Any Lab Test Now, Adfinitely and Loud & Clear PR helped the non-profit organization inspect, sort and package food for those in need.

Though I have performed several volunteer efforts from being a «Big Sister» to working in organic farms, to food banks to troubled teenagers, senior citizens, abused kids, arts etc but I had never built a playground.

Very simply, they silo their engagements into information buckets: they run a field campaign independent from their communications effort, which is separate from fundraising, social media, digital advertising and volunteer management.

Over the weekend, Cuomo announced a second phase in the recovery effort in which construction workers and volunteers from CUNY and SUNY will rebuild homes in remote areas.

Take the 2008 Obama campaign as an example — the kernel was assembled from early 2007 onwards, with staffers plotting strategy and tactics, technologists developing the tools and infrastructures for an extensive, nation - wide effort, and organizers connecting with the multitudes of willing volunteers who helped power Obama to victory in both the primary and the general election.

«Through an entirely volunteer grass - roots effort, Scott Stringer collected more than 100,000 signatures from every neighborhood across this city — more than any other candidate running for office this year,» the statement said.

The board's case against Mark - Viverito centered on the acceptance of «volunteer efforts» from The Advance Group's president Scott Levenson, who volunteered to work for Mark - Viverito in 2013, according to a disposition document obtained by POLITICO.

Roth added, «If the efforts, results and positive comments from our youth volunteers are any indication, Oneida County residents will be benefitting from the wonderful life lessons our youth learn at our Oneida County youth serving agencies for years to come.»

According to Casale, this effort brought together volunteers from across the state — Democrats, Republicans and independents; teachers, students and parents — all united in their opposition to the controversial new standards.

«Our volunteer base was drained from petition efforts in June and July and a lot of them signed petitions, so it was tricky.

Glaser spoke about the «Labor for Your Neighbor» events held over the long weekend, in which about 1,000 volunteers from around the state — including an Olympic bobsled team — pitched in on the recovery effort.

««Through an entirely volunteer grassroots effort, Scott Stringer collected more than 100,000 signatures from every neighborhood across this City — more than any other candidate running for office this year.»

Twenty employees and volunteers from the state Department of Environmental Conservation went to Northern California to assist with wildfire efforts, Gov. Andrew Cuomo announced.

Picente added, «Our Oneida County senior citizens, who no longer can physically do the work or financially afford to have the work done for them, have benefitted tremendously from this initiative and its volunteers efforts.

NYSUT Executive Vice President Andrew Pallotta said the union's endorsement will result in financial contributions and volunteer efforts from local members.

«The de Blasio campaign has made about half a million phone calls so far, and held nearly 1,000 campaign events — ranging from volunteer meetings, voter registration efforts, canvasses and phone banks,» said spokesman Dan Levitan.

From managing national campaigns to organizing issue advocacy messages through thousands of volunteer contacts, Lincoln Strategy Group uses grassroots efforts to successfully achieve results.

While we did fall short of our goal to rally enough volunteers and supporters to our state legislative races to help our candidates win, we did do well enough to garner praise from the media for our candidates and their efforts.

Aside from raising the millions of dollars needed for campaign advertising in one of the nation's most expensive television markets, Bharara, as an independent, would need to pull together a statewide organization of paid staff and volunteers that could compete with get - out - the - vote efforts run by the Democratic and Republican Parties, particularly in a year when they'll be running gubernatorial campaigns.

The fire was discovered at about 1:15 p.m. on Thursday behind Nice Pak Products along Greenbush Road and firefighting efforts soon scaled up to become a regional effort that included volunteers from throughout Rockland County and received aid from fighters from Westchester, Bergen and West Point.

Additionally, the agency would continue efforts to advance precision medicine and cancer genomics in support of the Million Veteran Program (MVP), which aims to collect blood samples and health information from one million veteran volunteers to study how genes affect health.

Thanks to the Internet, amateur volunteers known as «citizen scientists» can readily donate their time and effort to science — in fields ranging from medicine to zoology to astrophysics.

After all, it is typically an anonymous, volunteer effort for which scientists receive nothing more than thanks from journal editors and the good feeling of contributing to the scientific community.

Including the new logbooks, the Old Weather effort has scanned more than 500,000 handwritten pages from historic ship logs, and Old Weather volunteers have so far transcribed almost 3 million historical weather records for use in climate and environmental research.

Volunteers from all over Germany participated in these efforts.

Yet, many long - running volunteer efforts did not originate with the specific purpose of understanding the consequences of global climate change, and as a result, most of these projects were not designed to foster communication of scientific findings back to project participants; this is particularly true for studies using data from online repositories.

Our report was a community effort — we received input from a large number of exoplanet scientists who volunteered their time and expertise to explore what the future should bring.

Kyle McManus, AgriLife Extension 4 - H youth development agent in nearby Nueces County, said more than 120 4 - H youth and more than 50 adult 4 - H program volunteers from that county also helped with efforts in hard - hit communities, including those in Refugio County.

Henrico, VA About Blog Cat Adoption and Rescue Efforts, is an all volunteer, non-profit 501 (c)(3) organization dedicated to the rehabilitation, care & adoption of cats & kittens rescued from euthanizing animal shelters in the Richmond, VA Frequency about 1 post per week.

From February 18 to 26, 24 HGSE students from the Teacher Education Program (TEP) traveled to New Orleans to volunteer their time, energy, effort, and heart in rebuilding the schoFrom February 18 to 26, 24 HGSE students from the Teacher Education Program (TEP) traveled to New Orleans to volunteer their time, energy, effort, and heart in rebuilding the schofrom the Teacher Education Program (TEP) traveled to New Orleans to volunteer their time, energy, effort, and heart in rebuilding the schools.

Today, the program has trained thousands of student volunteers in 11 states who make up a growing effort that relies on kids from third grade up to track, input data, and reporting it.

We have become conscious more recently of the urgent need to redouble our efforts to engage volunteers from elsewhere, international teachers and practitioners to improve the chances of getting enthusiasm for the arts more generally.»

Several volunteers from the STARS campaign were involved in «Operation Starry Night», travelling over 100 miles in an effort to ensure that every child in every school received his or her own unique star.

While some districts may be able to identify new resources, including volunteers, from the school, neighborhood, or the business community, much can be accomplished by leveraging existing efforts to fulfill the needs of the program.

You might then ask for volunteers from your learners to spend some time with your L&D team designing the content, giving them an opportunity to get stuck into it and put in a substantial amount of effort.

Our organization evolved from a small group of parent volunteers who happened to also be credentialed educators; dedicating their time, expertise and licensure to charter schools in an effort to assist charter schools in maintaining special education compliance as well as fulfilling parent volunteer hours required by those Charter Schools.

• $ 3,000 from the Victoria Rotary Club for elementary school roof repairs • $ 5,000 in gifts from the Victoria Rotary Club to three district schools • Supplies and resources from Southwest ISD • Goods and supplies from the Harlandale Motorcycle Club • School supplies from the students of Kenmore Middle School of Arlington, Virginia • A truckload of supplies from students at Austin ISD's Brentwood Elementary • Supplies and school items from Brownsville ISD and the Habitat for Humanity of the Rio Grande Valley, personally delivered by State Senator Eddie Lucio Jr. (D - Brownsville) and volunteers • Food and supplies from students at Allen ISD's Ford Middle School, which Victoria ISD's O'Connor Elementary School used to host a «Parking Lot Picnic» for the community • Essential items and letters of encouragement from the Chris - tian School of Parker, Colorado, which partnered with the Victo - ria ISD Special Education Department in the effort • Free care for children of Victoria ISD employees donated by The Boys & Girls Clubs of Victoria, which also provided buses to and from the district's high schools • Approximately 1,000 meals for neighborhood families from staff and faculty members of Victoria ISD's Shields Elementary School • $ 1,000 in supplies and essential items provided by the Jordan Murray Project, created by Sealy High School student Jordan Murray to help schools affected by Harvey • 72 bags of athletic equipment delivered by Texas Comptroller Glenn Hegar and State Representative Geanie W. Morrison (R - Victoria)

We have 17 confirmed volunteer drivers from Tulsa, Oklahoma City, McAlester, Watts, Ft. Gibson, and point's in - between that are giving of their time (2 days for Denver trip) to this effort.

Many of these children have been placed in stable, loving homes through the efforts of volunteers from the community who make up the Judicial Citizen Review Board.