Sentences with phrase «grassroots community»

The family - owned theatre closed in 2006, but a grassroots community movement reopened it the following year as a non-profit venue.

From guide dogs to counselling programs, shelter assistance and mental health awareness, 53 local grassroots community agencies in the Edmonton area benefited from donations made by the Realtors Community Foundation Big Give.

Establish a network of contacts with grassroots community leaders, practitioners, non - profits / advocates and individuals;

This sincere grassroots community response recognises the deeper significance of Bringing Them Home.

Worked in a team environment to promote grassroots community awareness by organizing health and wellness activities

Bitcoin is an open source project run by a grassroots community.

However, it's too soon to say ADA if could be driven by a purely grassroots community.

Global politics, technological developments, new investment products and grassroots community governance all influenced bitcoin prices in 2017.

There is, however, an exciting grassroots community and useful...

Zcash is being developed by a startup, not a strictly grassroots community like its rival monero.

The company also supports LISC, the Local Initiatives Support Corporation, which organizes grassroots community redevelopment programs around the country.

A former teacher, Simmons is the founder of the JEMS Progressive Community Organization and the Caribbean Youth Environment Network (CYEN); both grassroots community development and environmental management organizations that educate and motivate young people to protect the natural resources of the Caribbean.

This time, he takes a global look at how grassroots community efforts may provide a blueprint for systemic, cultural change.

Our courses are taught by experts in the field and focus on a wide range of topics from social justice issues to urban planting techniques and grassroots community organizing.

«The Transition Movement is comprised of vibrant, grassroots community initiatives that seek to build community resilience in the face of such challenges as peak oil, climate change and the economic crisis.

Mike Ewall is the founder and director of Energy Justice Network, a national support network for grassroots community groups fighting dirty energy and waste industry facilities such as coal power plants, ethanol plants, natural gas facilities, landfills and incinerators of every sort.

This Summit is for grassroots community leaders to gather, train, network, share, and build together.

He is the founding chair of the Beijing Energy Network, a grassroots community for energy professionals in Beijing that he initiated in 2008 as a Fulbright Scholar in China.

The company is young, idealistic and works on grassroots community projects with a co - operative, collaborative and sustainable ethos.

This unique collaborative initiative between Queens College Art Department (CUNY: City University of New York) and the Queens Museum of Art — integrates social, tactical, immaterial, and interventionist art forms in tandem with the museum's ongoing, in - depth activities in socially - based art and grassroots community engagement under the expert guidance of a group of artists, administrators, educators engaged with local issues specific to Queens.

Both are interested in system design, have grassroots community backgrounds; both appreciate well - crafted game design, mechanics and both understand that games are only as fun as the people you can play with and talk to.

The collaboration helps to foster connections with the international game development community as well as organise grassroots community events via the IGDA Switzerland Chapter.

The nonjudgmental approach is a hallmark of the HSUS Pets for Life program, a grassroots community outreach initiative that brings pet wellness information and resources to underserved neighborhoods.

Pets for Life is a grassroots community outreach program that provides access to pet care information, resources, and veterinary services in underserved communities.

This grassroots community outreach program helps bring baseball — America's favorite pastime — together with America's favorite brand — Chevrolet.

Families Empowered continued its history of grassroots community organization by bringing along a charter bus of supporters from San Antonio, Texas.

Widely respected by grassroots community members and internationally renowned leaders, his charismatic and compelling voice is an inspiration.

Community Learning Exchanges (CLEs) offer grassroots community leaders working on community change opportunities to share challenges and solutions through local, regional and national events.

Establish a network of contacts with grassroots community leaders, practitioners, non - profits / advocates and individuals;

In that capacity, she assisted multi-racial grassroots community organizations, lawyers, and public officials throughout the country with addressing policing, education, voting rights, and affordable housing issues.

Innovate Public Schools» staff bring more than 40 years of professional experience in grassroots community organizing, with significant demonstrated success in building long - term reform efforts led by low - income parent leaders in California.

*** Christine Rodriguez is a Youth Power Project member of Make the Road New York, the largest grassroots community organization in New York offering services and organizing the immigrant community, and a member of the Mayor's Leadership Team on School Climate and Discipline.

Morgan comes to the executive office at IPA with vast experience in business, education, policy - making, and grassroots community mobilization.

Grassroots community organization Empower DC plans to sue the District over Chancellor Kaya Henderson's school - closure plan, saying that the closures disproportionately affect black students.

For too long, the relationship between grassroots community groups and teachers unions has been characterized by acrimony or distance.

A. Grassroots community organizing has been long used as a tool for disadvantaged people to gain power to affect the practice of institutions in political and social life.

I've known her and I've watched her and its clear that whether as a civil rights attorney working on gender discrimination cases or a grassroots community organizer, Jenifer has demonstrated time and again her ability and her interest and her willingness and her energy in building diverse coalitions to tackle community problems and to lead.

Constantinides is a grassroots community organizer, political leader, husband and father who has lived in Astoria his whole life.

In both the UK and US, the rightwing is behind on what is now being dubbed the «digital ground war» — what we used to refer to quaintly as «door - knocking» and «pavement pounding» has morphed into grassroots community organising via the methods of social media.

This system already exists in New York City, and it has enabled dozens of grassroots community advocates - including librarians, teachers and tenant leaders - to challenge corporate - backed candidates and win election to city office.

I suggested in my Tweet that this is the sort of grassroots community engagement local CLPs across the country should be emulating.

The group was joined by more than 100 grassroots community activists as they blocked off the State Street entrance of the Capitol Building in Albany.

Opponents of the project say they have the support of over 30 grassroots community and environmental organizations (attached list) and a petition with over 1300 signatures which they will deliver to Governor Cuomo, who banned fracking last month based on public health concerns.

«The time is ripe to re-energize grassroots community leaders and to inspire a new generation of leaders to help us move the Bronx forward,» Ramos said in the release.

At 11:15 a.m., legal organizations, family members and grassroots community groups present a letter to NYPD Inspector General, Philip Eure, demanding a probe into the department's anti-gang methods, including how people end up on «gang» databases, City Hall steps, Manhattan.

With a keen focus on entrepreneurialism, CDF is leveraging its national reach into tens of thousands of grassroots community groups to a wider audience for the benefit of communities.

Her primary issue areas included low - income access to health care, environmental justice, criminal justice and grassroots community organizing.

With her background in grassroots community organization, she is energized to support new birth professionals on their own course for success.

Paula makes a living as a trainer for grassroots community organizations and as a pre-natal dance instructor.

That is why HMN is dedicated to facilitating grassroots community - building throughout the nation, offering moms the opportunity to create local chapters where they can connect and find friendship and resources that are so necessary for successful parenting.