Sentences with phrase «groups with community members»

Researchers conducted a census of shelter animal intake in the two states and held focus groups with community members to understand perceptions, motivations and barriers relating to spay / neuter.

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Produced in partnership with Entrepreneur Media, the two - day HackON invited local small companies to submit their biggest business challenge and let a group of area business and community members help find (or «hack») a feasible solution.

At their core, Mastermind Groups are a sacred community founded on trust, as members openly discuss accomplishments, struggles, and financial matters with one another.

«Agents provide community health education through regular community health talks, especially leveraging connections with local community groups, schools, places of worship, and support from local leaders and council members.»

NEXUS's objective is to enable members to achieve higher returns with less risk than typical angel groups by combining Florida's community resources, including our vast university systems, with the business acumen of NEXUS members and partners.

Chief Executive Group is the leading community for business leaders worldwide, publishes Chief Executive magazine (since 1977), ChiefExecutive.net, Corporate Board Member magazine and BoardMember.com, as well as conferences and roundtables that enable CEOs to discuss key subjects and share their experiences with their peers.

Name: Kelly Blackett Title: Executive Vice President, Human Resources and Corporate Communications Areas of responsibility: Human resources, learning and development, corporate communications Years with CWB Financial Group: 3 Career history: 17 years with General Electric in Canada holding a series of progressively responsible human resources leadership roles at GE Capital and GE Corporate, supporting businesses within Canada as well as globally Education: Bachelor of Commerce with Distinction from the University of Alberta Community involvement: Sits on the Board of Trustees for the Stollery Children's Hospital Foundation, member of the MacEwan Business School Advisory Board, and past mentor with MORE, a program providing cross-business mentorship to female leaders in Edmonton's business Community involvement: Sits on the Board of Trustees for the Stollery Children's Hospital Foundation, member of the MacEwan Business School Advisory Board, and past mentor with MORE, a program providing cross-business mentorship to female leaders in Edmonton's business communitycommunity

Name: Chris Fowler, MA Title: President and Chief Executive Officer Areas of responsibility: Executive management, strategy Years with CWB Financial Group: 27 Career history: Has served at CWB in roles with increasing responsibility since 1991, including, commercial account management (1991 - 1995), credit risk (1995 - 2008), and joined the executive team in 2008 as Executive Vice President, Banking, and then President and Chief Operating Officer Education: Master of Arts Degree in Economics from the University of British Columbia Community involvement: Trustee for the University Hospital Foundation (University of Alberta), Member of the Canadian Bankers Association's Executive Council, director with the Art Gallery of Alberta's board of directors, and campaign cabinet member with the United Way of Alberta Capital Member of the Canadian Bankers Association's Executive Council, director with the Art Gallery of Alberta's board of directors, and campaign cabinet member with the United Way of Alberta Capital member with the United Way of Alberta Capital Region

The interview format used by the Oliner team had over 450 items and consisted of six main parts: a) characteristics of the family household in which respondents lived in their early years, including relationships among family members; b) parental education, occupation, politics, and religiosity, as well as parental values, attitudes, and disciplinary approaches; c) respondent's childhood and adolescent years - education, religiosity, and friendship patterns, as well as self - described personality characteristics; d) the five - year period just prior to the war — marital status, occupation, work colleagues, politics, religiosity, sense of community, and psychological closeness to various groups of people; if married, similar questions were asked about the spouse; e) the immediate prewar and war years, including employment, attitudes toward Nazis, whether Jews lived in the neighborhood, and awareness of Nazi intentions toward Jews; all were asked to describe their wartime lives and activities, whom they helped, and organizations they belonged to; f) the years after the war, including the present — relations with children and personal and community — helping activities in the last year; this section included forty - two personality items comprising four psychological scales.

Sunday morning, a weeknight for small group, regular service on a ministry team, occasional church projects and retreats... Add the expectation to be friends and find community with other church members beyond the organized settings, and I have little time left for my neighbors.

While many quickly growing churches deal with growth by starting new ministries to handle the influx of new members, Warehouse 242 leaders decided to focus on doing three things well: small groups, the Sunday worship service and community outreach.

If you're not able to create that type of community with your existing friends, look for meet - ups or groups where you can work toward that with others as support; or consider asking a close family member or friend to check in with you for accountability.

This isolation can be remedied by federation of the communities with each other, for federation makes up for the smallness of communal groups by enabling members to pass from one settlement to another and by allowing the groups to complement and help each other.

When a group of parents in a community of faith work together to educate their children in the life of faith, this gives members of each family something in common with other families.

Caring groups can meet regularly to share, to create community with one another, to discuss how members are doing in their own struggles to be faithful, to make sure that each one takes the questions of faith seriously.

First of all it has to be said that, even if a real understanding should be impossible, a good acquaintance with the teachings and practices of a religious group already marks a great step beyond the prejudices born of ignorance which have so frequently tended to poison the relations between members of different religious communities.

Support group members educate their communities, generate income with gardening and soap making projects, and often serve as Care Providers themselves.

Local churches should participate with other community groups in establishing panels for review and evaluation of movies playing at local theatres, and in helping communicate any resulting viewpoints to church members and others in the community.

The group displayed many of the Californian Jesus Movement's marks, experimenting unsuccessfully with community living, but also encouraging members to commit to local churches.

In some cases, such as in a community planning body, this influence — initiated perhaps by several members of a core group may well be overt, The church will openly advocate certain measures with regard to zoning or relocation through its representatives.

Bishop Azariah of Dornakal, in theologically justifying the rejection of the reserved minority communal electorate offered by Britain to the Christian community in India, spoke of how the acceptance of it would be «a direct blow to the nature of the church of Christ» at two points — one, it would force the church to function «like a religious sect, a community which seeks self - protection for the sake of its own loaves and fishes» which would prevent the fruitful exercise of the calling of the church to permeate the entire society across boundaries of caste, class, language and race, a calling which can be fulfilled only through its members living alongside fellow - Indians sharing in public life with a concern for Christian principles in it; and two, it would put the church's evangelistic programme in a bad light as «a direct move to transfer so many thousands of voters from the Hindu group to the Indian Christian group» (recorded by John Webster, Dalit Christians - A History).

In the late 1980s there were, for example, in Bangladesh 1200 indigent grassroots movements, in Brazil 100,000 Christian communities with three million members committed to land reform and the elimination of poverty, and in Indonesia 600 independent groups working on environmental protection (Durning 1989).

His church, the 1,000 - member Riverfront Baptist Church, partners with many groups, including the Fellowship, the moderate - led state conventions and the Willow Creek Association (created by Bill Hybels's Willow Creek Community Church outside Chicago), to provide resources for evangelism and spiritual growth.

The Hospitality Group operates with a clear focus on guests, team members, market performance and the community.

An important component of each monitoring and evaluation plan involves the establishment of effective partnerships in environmental water delivery, including with environmental water managers, land and catchment managers, local environmental water management groups and community members.

We are very grateful for the expertise, advice, feedback and support provided by our delivery partners, environmental water holders, members of the scientific community, regional advisory groups who invite us to participate in their processes, and the many landowners who work with us to plan, manage and monitor the use of environmental water in the Basin.

Growing up with parents who were actively trying to preserve our rural community and create a collaborative group of farmers, environmentalists, government agencies, and community members influenced me.

No one in the developing world wants to depend on Western aid, so much buzz in the halls and breakout rooms in Chicago was about programs that have come up with their own revenue streams — groups such as Grupo Desportivo de Manica in Mozambique, a soccer club turned community hub that is building Futeco Park, three pitches girdled by 1,500 trees flush with mangos, lychees, oranges, avocados, guavas and papayas, which members will harvest and sell to fund the club's activities.

Lundgren pointed out that the Potters will operate similar to a minor league team with ticket sales, promotions, a kids club, group outings and more which means the athletes, fans and community members will all enjoy the benefits of this type of organization.

Nashville, TN — June, 2014 — Attachment Parenting International (API), a non-profit global network of parenting support groups with more than 60 locations around the world, announces its newest Board of Directors member, mother, author and major contributing member of the social work community, Karen Walant.

Nashville, TN — May, 2014 — Attachment Parenting International (API), a non-profit global network of parenting support groups with more than 70 locations around the world, announces its newest Board of Directors member, community leader and advocate for children and families, Margaret Feierabend.

The group should meet regularly with each other and perhaps quarterly with the school district leader, explains lead author Elizabeth Budd, M.P.H. Tapping into existing committees and resources (like the Parent Teacher Association, physical education teachers, and parents and community members with pertinent knowledge or skills) for help also can be key.

Each class cohort enjoys a private Facebook Group where members can build community, connect with each other and myself, receive additional links and information, ask questions between classes and share birth stories and tales of parenting.

One mother, a member of The Leaky Boob Community group admin team, shares her family's journey with food allergies and how it has changed them.

Group members receive personal coaching and problem - solve with each other to create a community of support that extends beyond the weekly meetings.

I just found your blog via the local parents email list (3000 parents in silicon valley) and shared it with my POIG (pediatric obesity interest group) email list of MDs, med students, PhDs, RDs and some community members in the SF Bay Area.

Since then, the group has grown to 27 households, purchased 42 acres of the farm, become a development LLC working with a project manager, the design / build team of GO Logic, and grown to a community of 27 equity members with a list of others waiting to join.

«We try to work all the angles: digital media, newspaper, radio, word - of - mouth, flyers, presentations and collaborations with other groups — community members will eventually receive the info, one way or another.»

She was the founding ED of a major mentoring agency; transformed and reorganized underperforming agencies into dynamic organizations with new programs and funding resources to meet community needs, and she successfully led diverse groups of board members, volunteers, staff and community groups to achieve goals through strategic thinking and effective communication.

High - intensity strategies engaged men directly during home or health visits by forming men's groups and by working with male community leaders or members to promote EBF.

Talk to family members, friends, neighbors, and community groups to see if they can help with cooking, cleaning, and shopping after the birth.

The IFE Core Group is an international community of practice around infant and young child feeding in emergencies (IYCF - E) that functions as an interagency collaboration, with members including the likes of UNICEF, ENN (Emergency Nutrition Network), Save the Children, International Rescue Committee, etc..

Mrs. Brown, who was born in Chicago, was a member of Make Today Count, a support group for cancer patients at Northwest Community Hospital, Arlington Heights, and a hammer dulcimer performer with several musical groups.

In a well - functioning group, the group cohesion is evident and all members socialize with each other; as one nurse put it, «you could see how a group community is created, and the parents are enjoying each other's company».

In addition, the strategic plan incorporates new initiatives identified through a series of focus groups with staff, Board members, and community representatives that were conducted as part of the strategic planning process:

With the right support, refugees will be enthusiastic volunteers in their new communities, and members of sports clubs and community groups.

Committee Members work with community groups, residents, and city agencies to monitor public safety and quality of life issues.

Get together with colleagues, friends, family, members of your church or community group, for a Tarts for Troops party — asking for donations in exchange for your tarts.

This will include social events and happy hours for members and guests all along the 73rd Assembly District, co-sponsored events with like - minded civic and community groups as well as the hosting of events that delve deeply into issues that the community is concerned about.

We establish alliances with other organizations as well as mobilize members of our group to persuade current officials to address community concerns and broader issues that impact the well - being of our citizens and environment.