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She will be presenting on One Region Forward, how citizens can get engaged and involved and what the goal of the initiative in Western New York is.

Moreover, situating technology PD in local school contexts allow teachers to learn about technology hardware and software available to them, as well as to fulfill instructional goals of the initiatives in their specific districts (Kopcha, 2012; Mouza, 2011).

One goal of the initiative in Nashville is to increase pet amenities such as dog runs or grooming services in residential areas.

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Elizabeth Gore is the entrepreneur in residence at Dell, where she drives initiatives that support Dell's goals around helping small and medium businesses scale and prosper, fueling the expansion of global entrepreneurship, thereby creating jobs that will drive the world economy.

The House and Senate Small Business Committees should assign staffers to benchmark what has been done to reduce the regulatory burden in other countries, with the goal of copying the best initiatives enacted elsewhere.

Over 2,500 initiatives and innovations have been honoured by the AEF since its inception in 1992 (they receive over 100 nominations every year), raising public awareness of environmental preservation as a necessary goal alongside economic growth and natural resource development.

Lisa Jackson, Apple's VP of environment, policy and social initiatives, said on stage at an Apple press event that the company has reached the 100 % renewable energy goal in 23 countries.

Together with his physician wife, Priscilla Chan, he has become one of the world's most ambitious philanthropists, most recently pledging $ 3 billion to an initiative with an audacious goal: to cure, prevent, or make manageable all diseases in their children's lifetime.

In April 2012 he launched a Kickstarter campaign that became the platform's best - funded fashion initiative, with more than 5,500 backers pledging nearly $ 300,000 (on an initial goal of just $ 30,000).

Our target is to double the number of gallons sold through our closed - loop initiative in 2018 as compared with the prior year, and we are on track to hit that goal.

Under his watch, Tennessee adopted the Drive to 55 initiative in 2013, which set the goal of awarding 55 % of the working - age population post-secondary degrees or certificates by 2025.

The initiative, known as Yasuní - ITT, failed to raise the necessary funds as northern Annex 1 countries balked at contributing to keeping fossil fuels in the ground — a strategy that is now a scientific imperative if the world is to meet its declared goal of avoiding a 2 °C rise in temperature.

The goal of the first - of - its - kind initiative, nicknamed «The Beachhead, SoCal in NorCal,» is to lock down venture cash from Silicon Valley investors.

In addition, the party has pledged other key health - related initiatives, such as limiting the commercialization of genetically modified crops; developing national goals for pre-natal care; reducing cigarette smoking through education and taxes; and promoting healthy eating and physical activity.

’25 Bloch believed that «the ultimate, enduring insight of Marx is that truth does not exist for its own sake but implies emancipation, and an interpretation of the world which has the transformation of the world as its goal and meaning, providing a key in theory and leverage in practice».26 Drawing on this tradition Moltmann writes that unless truth «contains initiative for the transformation of the world, it becomes a myth of the existing world.

Grindmaster - Cecilware's goals are to reduce its use of natural resources and its production of solid waste, maintain recycling initiatives in every area of operation, and continue research and engineering initiatives to create energy efficiency and sustainability in all product lines.

Shechtman, with 34 years of experience in the gourmet food, gifting and branding world, says a goal of the company is to facilitate a «rebirth of a regional [Hebert] brand into a national presence,» and she says the combined skills of the companies and her management team, as well as some new initiatives, will make that happen.

And with our latest initiative — Balance Calories — we are working toward a common goal of reducing beverage calories in the American diet by 20 percent by 2025.»

Both Nutrition Keys and the beverage industry's Clear on Calories initiatives are part of a broad effort to support First Lady Michelle Obama's goal to end childhood obesity in a generation.

«Many initiatives Metcash is proposing threaten the independent character of our business and risk to undermine our long term goals,» the retailers said in the letter, a copy of which was leaked to The Australian Financial Review.

«The customer comes first in our business, and this voluntary industry initiative provides shoppers with clear, easily understood date label information, so our customers can be confident in the product's quality and safety,» said Joe Colalillo, president of ShopRite of Hunterdon County, Inc. and chairman and CEO of Wakefern Food Corp. «Food retailers and manufacturers are working towards the common goal of bringing consistency and greater clarity in product date label messaging.

Work in conjunction with the Director of Marketing and Leadership Team to communicate and develop initiatives related to Marketing Strategies to sync and support our distributor partners efforts related to their MBO, PFP and distributor goals.

Called Return and Earn this is the NSW Government's initiative to help meet the Premier's goal of reducing the volume of litter in NSW by 40 % by 2020.

Taking note of his initiatives, The Boston Globe recently reported on Rincione's activities, stating, «The goal is to cook up a concept that can be easily sold to franchisees and in turn drive millennials through the doors.»

«I'm proud to be part of the Champions initiatives effort to raise awareness on sustainable development goal 12.3 and the reduction of global food loss and food waste in 2030.»

Playing in front of their fans, Burnley immediately took an attacking initiative as they were keen on grabbing an early goal.

Playing in front of their home crowd, Roma immediately took the attacking initiative as they tried to score an early goal.

Furthermore, we've recently launched a reforestation initiative with the goal of planting 60,000 / year in 2020.

In her article, Ragalie stressed the whole - child approach to health that is reinforced by the values of the learning connection: «With American children spending more than 2,000 hours in school each year, it's clear that in - school wellness initiatives (e.g., Fuel Up to Play 60) and alternate school breakfast programs, can be an engine for positive change to help achieve wellness goals, including being a part of the solution to overcome food insecurity.&raquIn her article, Ragalie stressed the whole - child approach to health that is reinforced by the values of the learning connection: «With American children spending more than 2,000 hours in school each year, it's clear that in - school wellness initiatives (e.g., Fuel Up to Play 60) and alternate school breakfast programs, can be an engine for positive change to help achieve wellness goals, including being a part of the solution to overcome food insecurity.&raquin school each year, it's clear that in - school wellness initiatives (e.g., Fuel Up to Play 60) and alternate school breakfast programs, can be an engine for positive change to help achieve wellness goals, including being a part of the solution to overcome food insecurity.&raquin - school wellness initiatives (e.g., Fuel Up to Play 60) and alternate school breakfast programs, can be an engine for positive change to help achieve wellness goals, including being a part of the solution to overcome food insecurity.»

The goal of our ecoliteracy and sustainability initiatives are to empower students with the knowledge, confidence, and ethical foundation to meet the challenges they will face in modern society with depth, imagination, and purpose.

The school district's efforts to buy better quality ingredients from local businesses fit in well with the city of Austin's Good Food Purchasing program, an initiative to harness the buying power of big institutions to benefit the local economy and support the city's sustainability goals.

June 2017 - This WHO and UNICEF report details the country leadership and actions that are taking forward the goals and recommendations set out in the Every Newborn Action Plan — an initiative contributing towards the goals of the Global Strategy for Women's, Children's and Adolescents» Health for Every Woman Every Child.

To achieve these goals the members of the DOR are engaged in several initiatives:

As a part of the Healthy People 2020 initiative, the national goal is to increase the proportion of mothers who breastfeed their babies in the early postpartum period to 81.9 percent by the year 2020.

The Commission could further this goal by three means: conducting and publishing research into what initiatives are successful at increasing political participation; advising public bodies and institutions regarding how to better democratise their functioning; and critically, by providing resources and capacity - building to facilitate local, civil society - led initiatives that aim to increase broad - based levels of participation or deliberation in political decision - making.

Mohammed said the initiative was aimed at partnering with government in accelerating access to water and sanitation for all people in the state, as it commenced the mission of achieving sustainable development goals (SDG - 6) by 2030.

They also point to initiatives here in New York, like the successful passage of on - bill financing, a major goal of the left - leaning Working Families Party which was touted by former President Bill Clinton during a trip to Albany last month.

Mimiko, who added that the establishment of the University of Medical Sciences would sustain some of the initiatives in the health sector, called for the collective effort of all and sundry as this would go a long way in achieving a common goal.

One of the De Blasio administration's core initiatives is its Housing New York plan, created in 2014 with the goal of adding or preserving 200,000 affordable units for New Yorkers by 2022.

«The goal of START - UP NY — the game - changing initiative passed with overwhelming bipartisan support last year — is to create new jobs, attract new businesses, and encourage current companies to expand, which is why we are investing the resources necessary to get the word out to companies in New York State and across the country,» Conwall said.

She said this would help the country to not only provide reliable energy for Ghanaians, but would also help in its goal of becoming a net exporter of energy in the sub-region, under the West Africa Power Pool initiative, which would further sustain Ghana's economic growth.

The goal of the «Reclaim Our Water» initiative is to encourage homeowners to replace old systems that contribute to nitrogen pollution in local waters.

The goal of spreading the initiative, Molinaro said during a presentation in Seneca Falls last month, isn't to promote his county or himself.

On the local level our goal is to keep them alive and connect them with resources — at the state level my goal would be to support that local initiative while working on long - term fixes including in - patient service funding, policy pertaining to the amount and flow of opioids while supporting law enforcement in their fight to keep it from trafficking and sales in our communities.»

The plan, titled Initiatives for a Smart Economy 2.0 — Focus on Inclusion, shares the goal of its predecessor — to identify those sectors of the regional economy Erie County can most influence and to further identify, in the form of individual initiatives, what specifically Erie County will do to propel those sectoInitiatives for a Smart Economy 2.0 — Focus on Inclusion, shares the goal of its predecessor — to identify those sectors of the regional economy Erie County can most influence and to further identify, in the form of individual initiatives, what specifically Erie County will do to propel those sectoinitiatives, what specifically Erie County will do to propel those sectors forward.

Recently, I announced the single most important initiative of my administration and what should be the single most important goal for all Long Islanders: curbing decades of nitrogen pollution we have been inflicting on our ground and surface waters here in Suffolk County.

«Unless we clear the decks of clutter, stop trying to implement scores of initiatives that are distracting us from these hugely important goals, even if we don't fail we will not get anywhere near; not in this parliamentary lifetime anyway,» Mr Brookes said.

«Early Detection the Goal of Free Home Inspections» Nearly one hundred inner - city children living «at risk» for lead poisoning can be detected each year as a result of an new initiative which expands free home inspections and educational services in target areas of the City of Utica, Oneida County Executive Antony J.... Read more

The goal of this initiative is to reduce the number of children in care and achieve permanency for each child, whether through reunification, adoption, or long - term guardianship.

BUFFALO, N.Y. — Mayor Byron Brown is proposing several major initiatives in his 2018 capital budget with the goal of improving the overall physical needs across the city.