Sentences with phrase «from volunteering projects»

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People who are building careers are the ones who take the assignments that everyone else shies away from as a way to gain valuable experience and a new perspective, like the engineer who volunteers to work on a finance project to learn more about that side of the business.

Mega said Verily is also taking a long view, but expects that its Project Baseline, which involves collecting detailed health - related data from 10,000 study volunteers will produce some «new biology» — that is new insights into biology — in the next five years.

Join one of our projects and experience the incredible camaraderie that comes from working side by side with fellow volunteers and local community members to help those affected by natural disasters to get back on their feet.

The day kicked off with a warm welcome from DPS Regional Vice President Brad Allbee and Alderman Murphy, who thanked DPS for providing the financial and volunteer resources to make such an important project possible.

I came from Spain to volunteer @ the Seton Portage Farm and Trail Project near Lillooet, BC.

«And the thousands of volunteers in our country who will give up their time to make someone else's Christmas that little bit better: from faith inspired projects like the Churches Together initiative in my own constituency - to aid workers helping those in war - torn parts of the world.

The number of volunteers involved in church community projects has risen by nearly 60 % in the past four years, according to a new survey from Christian charity Jubilee +.

Several of the students from the Oberlin project have subsequently chosen mental health careers as a result of their experiences as volunteers.

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).

Church volunteers will benefit from training in the necessary skills in order to effectively run a Cinnamon affiliated project.

College students can start or join a Campus Kitchen project where volunteers pick up unused food from campus dining providers and local food banks.

Drawing on research published by the Cinnamon Network, the figure is calculated from 9,028 social action projects, 4,535 paid staff activities, 74,544 volunteer roles, 2,212,491 paid staff hours and 9,012,457 volunteer hours.

Another program, the Campus Kitchen Project, recruits volunteer college students to recycle food from their dining halls, prepare meals and distribute them to various hunger relief agencies.

This free tool helps volunteers coordinate groups, schedules, signups, and reminders for everything from school activities to charitable drives, service projects, and mentoring sessions.

There are many activities you can volunteer to do from home, such as calling other parents, collecting materials for projects, or assembling books.

Advocacy A volunteer shares the personal highlights from a special project supporting children with debilitating and terminal health conditions, as well as their parents.

The morning of volunteer projects will take place Saturday, April 30 at 14 Mass Audubon sanctuaries, from the Cape and Islands to the Berkshires, the North Shore, and the South Coast.

BTS Volunteers also assist with Project «STUFF,» the ongoing process where we «sort, toss, unpack, find, and file» everything from program kits to closets to donated recyclables.

With local officials from school board on up now hearing from internet - organized constituents, and with cadres of veteran Obama volunteer commandos dug in across the country post-election, we may see an explosion of email, online video, social networking outreach and all of the other tools of electronic advocacy in the coming months — but this time turned on the projects in the stimulus bill, not on electing a candidate.

It was largely comprised of staffers from the AG's office, enthusiastic volunteers and a number of veterans of Cuomo I — in other words, the administration of former Gov. Mario Cuomo, who was, of course, on hand to hear his son declare con - con — his father's pet project — to be a major agenda item.

«These volunteers already abide by a stringent code of conduct, which requires recusal from any project that poses a conflict of interest,» said Greg Biryla, the group's executive director.

Thirty nesting boxes were put up in 2008 by staff and volunteers from BASC's Green Shoots North Wales project and the North Wales Wildlife Trust.

Then, from December to March, over 280 volunteers worked to refine and prioritize project proposals that would go on the ballots in their respective districts.

Council Member David Greenfield said, «Participatory budgeting gives residents the chance to have a direct and real say in the future of their community, so I am pleased that so many people from Borough Park, Midwood and Bensonhurst took the time to volunteer as a budget delegate or voted last week for their favorite projects.

The mayor whose hometown team loses will have to wear the jersey of the winning team during a volunteer service project assembling care packages for members of the armed services from the winning city.

Following on from earlier pilot projects we have been training pastoral support volunteers and in 2016 hired our first full time Head of Pastoral Support to increase the availability of such care.

It is led by Conservative MPs and, since its foundation, hundreds of volunteers - from students to Ministers of State - have participated, with many choosing to return to the project.

The people of Rwanda - from Ministers through to the widows and orphans of the genocide befriended by our volunteers - embraced Project Umubano.

Join the New York Restoration Project (NYPR) on Sat., Jul. 25th, from 8:30 — 11 a.m. for a community clean - up opportunity, which is open to all volunteers and families of all skill level and experience.

Varner has collaborated with two Pika Watch volunteers to initiate a new research project, drawing them into the process of conducting science from start to finish.

Refer broader, longer - term research questions or needs for additional input from other scientific fields back to AAAS staff so they can identify a longer - term partner or team of volunteers for the project from the On - call Scientists roster.

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On graduation she did a «gap year,» spending the first part in a «Work America» volunteer research project in Lubbock, Texas, helping to design a part of a particle detector for the Stanford Linear Collider (SLAC), and spending the rest of the year touring the U.S., hitching rides all the way from Mexico to Alaska.

For a project called Eclipse Mob, Nelson and her colleagues will use volunteers around the United States to gather data on how the ionosphere responds when the sun is briefly blocked from the largest land area ever.

But by gathering images from over 1,000 trained volunteers and from members of the public snapping pics with smartphones across the country, the MegaMovie project will capture the full 90 - minute duration of the solar eclipse as it crosses the continental United States.

Last week, Google announced its latest foray into health care — an ambitious project to collect vast amounts of health data from 10,000 volunteers.

Volunteers for the Galaxy Zoo project have classified a million images from the Sloan Digital Sky Survey, leading to about 20 scientific publications and one genuine enigma: a peculiar green intergalactic blob.

She found the blob as she was classifying galaxy shapes from astronomical images as part of the online Galaxy Zoo project, which aims to harness the power of volunteers to answer cosmological questions.

ScienceInsider discussed the new venture with Church, founder of the nonprofit Personal Genome Project (PGP), which since 2005 has gathered publicly shared genomic and health data from around 10,000 volunteers.

The organization grew from the original Galaxy Zoo project and now hosts dozens of projects which allow volunteers to participate in scientific research.

The researchers recruited a subset of 461 volunteers from the PhenoGenetic Project of African American, East Asian American, or European American ancestry.

NIH also announced a plan to work with federally funded community health centers to find cohort volunteers from underserved groups; an ethics review board for the cohort study; and a pilot project to work with companies on apps for allowing people to share their data for research.

«This would be a disaster,» says Ekwoge Abwe, who oversees the Ebo Forest Research Project with the help of village volunteers and funding from San Diego Zoo Global, the U.S. Fish and Wildlife Service and other groups.

It's case after case of that and right now there are thousands and thousands of people from the professional level to the amateur and volunteer level who have projects that they are working on to protect birds, save birds, to grow more birds and so there's a million ways to get involved.

The project relies on volunteer researchers like Moon, from graduate students to those with decades of experience, who sign up to fact - check mainstream media stories that claim to be based on science.

Another is the UC Berkeley Space Sciences Lab's Stardust@home project (stardustathome.ssl.berkeley.edu), which has recruited about 30,000 volunteers to scour, via the Internet, microscope images of interstellar dust particles collected from the tail of a comet that may hold clues to how the solar system formed.

New Delhi: Six young volunteers, including three women, engaged with WWF - India carrying out field monitoring for the All India Tiger Estimation Project in Chirang Forest Division of Western Assam have gone missing, presumably abducted, from an area near Ultapani on the afternoon of Sunday 06 February 2011.

Then a locust swarm swept through the village she was working in as a Peace Corps volunteer in Africa, and in a few hours it stripped the bark and leaves from hundreds of seedlings she was growing for her forestry project and gobbled almost everything else green in the area.

That changed in late 2009, when researchers at the Nathan S. Kline Institute for Psychiatric Research in Orangeburg, New York, released resting - state functional MRI (fMRI) data into the NITRC from more than 1,200 volunteers, collected for the 1000 Functional Connectomes Project (FCP).