Sentences with phrase «gave local efforts»

The delays also gave local efforts to ban fracking time to get traction in towns like Dryden; today Martens claimed those legal hurdles were greatly reducing the acreage available for fracking.

The Pennsylvania SPCA is pleased to partner with honeygrow locations throughout Pennsylvania and New Jersey on Monday, April 30, 2018 as part of their Giving Local efforts.

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To give one example, Climate Mayors is a group of U.S. mayors committed to working with one another to boost local efforts to cut greenhouse gas emissions and support aims for «binding federal and global - level policymaking.»

Employees are committed to bringing confidence to others, and come together to support company giving efforts, both globally and within our local community.

Local giving efforts include back - to - school drives for backpacks, assembling bagged lunches for local shelters, winter coat and glove drives, and support for cancer patients and their famiLocal giving efforts include back - to - school drives for backpacks, assembling bagged lunches for local shelters, winter coat and glove drives, and support for cancer patients and their familocal shelters, winter coat and glove drives, and support for cancer patients and their families.

To give your local business the best chance of ranking for local search queries, focus most of your SEO efforts on keeping everything about your site locally - focused.

In addition to bettering our local communities and supporting numerous organizations through our Spirit to Serve efforts, Marriott Vacations Worldwide is also committed to social responsibility through corporate financial contributions, fundraising efforts and in - kind giving.

Manafort's last consulting assignment in Ukraine ended less than six months before he started working for the Trump campaign: He spent at least a month in Ukraine advising the Opposition Bloc ahead of local elections in October 2015... In [July], Manafort made a previously reported effort to patch his soured relationship with [Russian oligarch] Oleg Deripaska,... [and] offered to give private briefings about the campaign to Deripaska.

Global Giving: A charity crowdfunding site that is attempting to raise $ 2 million to be used exclusively for local relief and recovery efforts.

Denominations have responded by increasing their efforts to link Christian commitment to local church and denominational support, but also by developing all - church offerings, planned giving and special capital campaigns.

Positive Wine Industry Survey Results, but PR Efforts Still Needed: Survey results released by Sonoma State's Wine Business Institute last week ran contrary to the impression given by several recent stories about the wine industry clashing with locals about vineyard and winery development

Let your children see you giving generously — whether that's opening your home up to those in need, serving in a local soup kitchen, going on a missions trip, giving to a charity near and dear to your heart, or sacrificing time and effort to help someone who is struggling.

It's not too hard to imagine a future where your local stores are forced to close their doors as more manufacturers move to give Amazon exclusive retail rights in an effort to «protect» their intellectual property.

Give it a really good effort, and seek out help from local babywearing groups.

Give back in the schools: We also provide STEM workshop in French free of charge to locals schools and happily donate weeks at camp to local schools» fair and fundraising efforts.

The Dashboard aims to give supporters information about local efforts and let people see how their efforts compare with those of other volunteers.

Cuomo, meanwhile, touted on Wednesday the regional economic development plans, which he framed as an effort to give more control to local officials, even as the awards themselves are determined by the state.

The UK parties have also made efforts to give their Welsh branches a local identity, including by embracing bilingualism on their campaign literature and promoting Welsh speakers to their front benches.

I'd give our local officials an A for effort on this one, despite a belated start, but a D - minus for effectiveness.

«As the chair of the Senate Education Committee, Senator Oppenheimer should be leading efforts to reform the state school aid formula so districts do not have to endure billions in cuts any given year and can operate within the confines of a local property tax cap,» said Cohen.

Hein is an interesting one to watch, given that he's calling on the state to pick up the local share of costs from damage, a move that's received a lukewarm from response so far from the governor (Cuomo has said he's doing everything he can to get federal aid, but everyone's going to have to pitch in on the effort).

«So we thought for that reason, in our effort to ensure that every Nigerian is given the opportunity to register, we should approach the Air Force to assist the Independent National Electoral Commission (INEC) in respect of these five local government areas, to airlift and deploy our personnel and equipment for the purpose of this very important exercise, in the interest of our democracy and service of our fatherland.»

At the NEC meeting, MP Ian Lavery, the party's election coordinator, gave a presentation about the party's local election campaign effort, saying the slogan would be: «Standing up for you.»

Just as departments invite faculty members to come in and give talks on technical subjects, departments should develop a lecture series aimed specifically at addressing how best to reach the local community, what outreach efforts work, and how to carry them out.

It does so through regulations spelled out in the Clean Water Act, which include providing tax incentives for selling or giving wetlands to land trusts or other conservation groups, via cooperative efforts with state and local entities, and by acquiring wetlands outright to add acreage to public lands systems.

«Given all that is known about preventing heart disease, it is critical that public health communities work with local communities to support efforts to improve heart health,» said public health researcher Mark Ommerborn, lead author of the study.

Yet I know that the global health community and all of those who continue to combat this disease — from the WHO to local health workers — will not falter and will not give up their efforts to eradicate polio.

Scientists know that tapping into local expertise is key to conservation efforts aimed at protecting biodiversity — but researchers rarely give credit to these local experts.

For us, our plan is to promote and flood Rosa's Fresh Pizza in Philadelphia (who have had some recent press coverage including being on the Ellen Show for their efforts to give slices of pizza to the homeless of the local community) with thousands of conference goers to help support their efforts to feed the homeless of Philly.

It would also recruit new charter supporters at the state and local policy level, especially since many governors, legislators, and local activists who gave birth to the charter effort have since moved on to other endeavors.

A state judge's threat to close some of North Carolina's lowest - performing high schools is prompting angry reactions among local education leaders, while also spurring state efforts to give the schools promised technical help.

The consensus appears to be that these higher levels of performance have less to do with policy than with everything else: the «ecosystem» of reform in a given place (usually a city) and its network of «human - capital providers,» expert charter - management organizations, leadership - development programs, school - incubator efforts, local funders and civic leaders, etc. — in other words, what conservatives like to call «civil society»: the space between the government and the individual (in this case, between government and individual schools).

Mr. Unz, who earlier said he would not fund a ballot campaign here unless there was significant local support, said he is now prepared to give money to the effort, though he expects local contributions.

In an effort to give more control to local school districts, the state Legislature passed sweeping changes to public education, many of which affected teachers directly.

These efforts take time; however, given the latest rampage over Smarter Balance and Common Core, and the efforts of many, including this blog, administrators from the state to the local levels acquiesced to parent pressure and opted their children out of the insanity forced on children every spring.

«Given the massive amount of money funneled from the pro-school privatization lobby to Republican legislators, l am afraid that we will see yet another effort to decimate our local public schools and allow unaccountable private voucher schools to play by a substandard set of rules.»

«This school is a testament to the joint effort of the district and the local association, who put the resources into giving teachers the opportunity to really show what we can do when we have an authentic voice in how a school is designed and run,» said Nazareno.

The committee stalled desegregation efforts by giving local school districts control over student assignments at particular schools, blocking African - Americans from attending all - white public schools.

For credit recovery, each of the six local district superintendents was given the freedom to craft their own plan using a number of options, part of a decentralization effort that was put into place by former Superintendent Ramon Cortines.

Given the influence of state legislation on local reforms and on national efforts, these battlegrounds will loom larger in school reform discussions.

Given the inherently local nature of grow - your - own efforts, it would be a game - changer if governors, state legislatures, local and regional businesses, and chambers of commerce were to rally around this approach and make it a priority.

For their efforts, the Los Angeles Youth Advisory Board of PACER's National Bullying Prevention Center voted to give MAPS a «Faces of Change» award and the school gave them their medals and certificates at an assembly attended by the school community and local officials.

Local school improvement planning efforts are set to begin this upcoming fall and will have serious implications for those schools defined as «underperforming» under a given state's accountability system.

He advocated increasing investments in education, helping to pass Proposition 30 in 2012 and leading the effort to give local school districts more flexibility to make spending decisions.

, first published in 1993, was inspired by his young daughter's efforts to raise funds for a local homeless shelter, and it received the Christopher Award, given to books that «affirm the highest values of the human spirit.»

Given her prior efforts at T. Rowe Price, it was a bit of a «welcome home» for a local w...

Given her prior efforts at T. Rowe Price, it was a bit of a «welcome home» for a local woman who has excelled.

In an effort to encourage overall fund development for local nonprofit agencies by including planned gifts alongside annual fundraising and capital campaigns, TCF launched the Planned Giving Partnership (PGP) in November 2008.

It's a massive joint effort between Animal Control, the Humane Society, the Animal Adoption & Rescue Foundation and other local rescue groups — aimed at better coordinating all agencies involved and giving thousands more dogs and cats a second chance.

Guest blog by Karel Minor While it seems like the focus in the effort to combat animal cruelty would be at the State legislative level, local elections give animal advocates a chance to make a difference in this off year election.