It seems this ugly brouhaha over the Junior League of Kingston's «Peacock Project,» the eminently applaudable feel -
good community effort last year to replace aging playground equipment in Kingston's Forsyth Park last year, just gets worser and worser.
Not exact matches
«It is something that benefits our company and
community,» she said, explaining that many of the company's associates are veterans or are part of a military family and these
efforts make associates feel
good about the company for which they work.
A
community is
well worth the
effort you put into it.
Our
efforts are leading to a
better quality of life for people with Medicare, families, individuals, military service personnel, and
communities at large.
It calls its vision «Stand For Something
Good,» a link to the company's purported
efforts to integrate with local
communities.
Over the last five years, the organization has worked with some of the most
well - known international relief
efforts, such as Medic Mobile and Save the Children, helping them to add Bitcoin to their donation streams and running fundraising campaigns aimed at people in the Bitcoin
community.
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.
The Polish virtual currency and blockchain
community has compiled a set of
best practices in an
effort to create unified standards with the aim of allowing this burgeoning technology to reach its full potential.
Whether our Matching Gifts program, Speaker Series, Nonprofit Board Placement
effort, or Pro Bono Impact Investment Projects, we offer a suite of programs to our employees to help them
better access and support
community organizations.
The organization also hosted events with Uber's Chief Advisor David Plouffe in September 2015 (listen to audio) and October 2016 (listen to audio) as
well as an event with the Vancouver Taxi Association in June 2016 (listen to audio), in an
effort to
better inform the regional business
community about the evolving ride - for - hire industry.
As an atheist, I prefer Catholicism to evangelical / fundamentalism, the Catholic church while having some rough spots with science, arts, and literature in the past has made strong
efforts to co-exist with the science / educated
community (they were some of the
best scientists, writers, artists, etc).
The cause for this wishful hope in institutions quickly appears: «In an increasingly globalized society, the common
good and the
effort to obtain it can not fail to assume the dimensions of the whole human family, that is to say, the
community of peoples and nations.»
The acute sufferings of that time brought to a head the misgivings about God's providence in history which had been aroused by long - continued misfortunes and disappointments; for these sufferings not only fell upon a people which had made sincere and persistent
efforts to observe the law of God in its corporate life, but they fell most heavily upon the
best members of the
community.
Ridiculing Obama's
efforts to engage the international
community, Huckabee said, «There was once a time when our foreign policy was, «Walk softly and carry a big stick»... Our new policy is, walk softly and carry a great big olive branch, or maybe even a bag of Stay Puft marshmallows so that when we build around the campfire we can sing «Kumbaya» and have a lovely time holding arms and talking about how
well we're getting on.»
The letter from the Council (which consists of forty representatives of the region's Roman Catholic, Eastern Orthodox, mainline Protestant, and Jewish
communities) warned that the SBC's
efforts, «however
well - intentioned,» might
well «disrupt the pattern of peaceful interfaith relations in our
community and unwittingly abet the designs of those who seek to provoke hate crimes by fomenting faith - based prejudice.»
The roots of this distinction lie in Augustine's thought: the service of private ends by private persons manifests cupiditas — wrongly directed, self - centered love or motivation — while
efforts by those at the head of
communities to serve the
good of those
communities show the effect of a concern for justice informed by caritas, rightly directed love.
Here is a practical plan by which a church can exert its maximum influence on a
community's
efforts to provide
better treatment for the mentally ill.
The
effort of the hand represents the setting forth of
good conduct as example for the Islamic
community and others.
As a result, some of the
best recent
efforts in Christian education have been in adult education — programs that enrich adult
communities in which there are children, not
communities of children in which there happen to be a few adults.
He never actually uses «
community» as a significant analytical category, but he constantly refers to collectivities of one sort or another in his
effort to substantiate what he takes to be the only defensible understanding of knowledge (what is warrantably assertible by us) and truth (whatever is
good for us to believe).
A center is needed to ensure that the fruits of these
efforts are
better coordinated and communicated to the faith
communities so that they have a real impact on a dangerous and divided world.
This may take some
effort and doing, but could be
well worth the
effort as they have contacts with vast networks in your
community.
Money raised will support
efforts to reach people fleeing Myanmar as
well as their host
communities in Bangladesh.
The
best combined
effort of state and local governments, businesses, foundations, religious and other charitable institutions to support
community development is no substitute for a renewed federal commitment to housing.
In the interest of following the recommendation that any such
effort ought to be kept as concrete as possible, it would be important and fruitful to ask whether there is some one dominant assumption within the school as a
community about (a) how the Christian thing is
best construed and (b) how one
best goes about «understanding» God.
«We are a
community infused in food that works
better when we pool our
efforts and effectively, «share our strength,»» she adds.
Efforts include but are not limited to: developing and implementing marine habitat protection and restoration strategies, conducting ongoing coral reef research, training individuals in marine ecosystem research and management, as
well as animal husbandry, the rescue, rehabilitation and release of marine wildlife including sea turtles, manatees and dolphins, creating programs to heighten public awareness of the ocean and its inhabitants and delivering marine education programs to
communities and schools.
Also helping drive awareness of the brand as
well as goodwill in the
community is the company's charitable
efforts.
Additional
efforts to further the mission of Simply Organic are funded by an annual grant program called the Simply Organic Giving Fund that supports training and
community projects for organic farmers where our spices are grown, as
well as a variety of organizations and events that study, support and promote organic agriculture.
Despite the opportunity lost with the cancellation of the forum, AFSA and the VFMA will continue our
efforts to engage regulators in a constructive dialogue of how they might work within the existing regulatory framework to
best support and enable the producers and
communities who are building local, transparent and fair food systems.
Making the conscious
effort to buy locally sourced ingredients that have been humanely and ethically treated not only helps your
community, but also makes you feel
better mentally and physically.
Grants for
Good Every day, DPS employees give back to the
communities where they live and work, and DPS wants to celebrate and reward those
efforts.
Summarizing these challenges in his opening address to the conference, Dr Matthew Morell, Director General of the International Rice Research Institute (IRRI), reminded delegates of the
efforts of the international research
community to develop innovative climate - smart
best practice packages for rice smallholders.
He continues to spend much of his spare time with the barbecue
community, while making
efforts to help serve the common
good in the inner city of Chicago and similar projects.
Among these are the chain's iconic brand logo, its eye - catching, streamlined design, a brand positioning designed to capitalize on its family - friendly appeal while retaining its longstanding sports fan base, a regularly refreshed menu and ongoing series of limited - time offers, a commitment to featuring the most popular beer brands as
well as select craft brews at the bar, familiarity among visitors to Rehoboth Beach, Del., and Ocean City, Md., and ongoing youth sports sponsorships, fundraising activities program and other
community outreach
efforts.
While my
efforts to persuade the Board of Selectmen, the town manager, and the Rec Department director to allocate permits in a more equitable fashion, and to use their power to make sure that the programs using town - owned facilities met minimum standards for inclusiveness and safety, fell on deaf ears (we ended up being forced to use for our home games a dusty field the high school had essentially abandoned), I returned to a discussion of the «power of the venue permit» 10 years later in my 2006 book, Home Team Advantage: The Critical Role of Mothers in Youth Sports, where I suggested that one of the
best ways for youth sports parents to improve the safety of privately - run sports programs in their
communities was to lobby their elected officials to utilize that power to «reform youth sports by exercising public oversight over the use of taxpayer - funded fields, diamonds, tracks, pools, and courts, [and] deny permits to programs that fail to abide by a [youth sports] charter» covering such topics as background checks, and codes of conduct for coaches, players, and parents.
JO's failure to mention their support was not only deceiving to his viewers, but also seemed a little disrespectful of the
efforts the Orfalea family has made towards making sure the students of their
community are
well nourished, as if the scratch cooking program just sprang up one day like a mushroom after the rain.
We are coordinating
efforts in Puerto Rico as
well, and we are prepared to respond to the needs of additional
communities impacted by the storms once it is safe to do so.
«UNICEF strives to create an environment that enables the
best choices in infant and young child feeding practices by supporting the breastfeeding and complementary feeding
efforts of partner countries and our NGO colleagues at three levels: improving national regulation and oversight, enhancing the knowledge and skills of health personnel, and increasing success in the
community by providing support for each new mother to make the
best choices in feeding her children».
Meanwhile, in connection with the event, the Food Revolution
Community has renewed its
effort to gather over one million supporters for Jamie's petition seeking
better school food for, and the teaching of home cooking skills to, children.
Regardless of how long I personally choose to continue, I will forever be an advocate of breastfeeding and do my
best to support programs and
efforts that help to educate and inform our
community and beyond — all with the goal of normalizing it.
Several Cary homeowners and members of the Citizens for a
Better Community, an activist group, told the board that they still back the
effort to acquire the property and preserve it as open space.
includes a mind blowing number of initiatives that address intersections with schools, child care, cities, towns and counties, Indian Country, and faith
communities, as
well as
efforts to connect kids with salad bars at school, outdoor initiatives, parks, museum and gardens, reading, and chefs.
Volunteering at an animal shelter, participating in
community clean - up
efforts, or fundraising for a
good cause can help your teen feel more responsible — which will encourage him to behave more responsibly.
Community - based support groups, organizations, and programs, as
well as the
efforts of peer counselors, expand on the support that women obtain in the hospital and provide a continuity of care that can help extend the duration of breastfeeding.»
In an
effort to solve that challenge, the Szalays partnered with HUMAN Healthy Vending — the nation's leading franchisor of healthy vending machine businesses — to ensure that their family, as
well as the greater Memphis
community, has convenient access to healthful foods and beverages, including allergy - and diabetic - friendly options.
In
effort to do this we try our
best to create a supportive open and welcoming
community on our public and private Facebook pages and groups.
KID founders Linda Ginzel and Boaz Keysar were honored by Lurie Children's Hospital with this inaugural award because they «embody the values of Hope and Courage as
well, and their
efforts are building stronger
communities and safer, healthier environments for children.»
We offer a comprehensive program, as
well as a wide variety of support materials and a web — based professional
community to support your
efforts and educational needs as an instructor.
Now that the rules are finalized, she said the USDA will continue its
efforts to educate parents,
communities and school staff about
better nutritional food choices.