Sentences with phrase «growing is a community effort»

As growing is a community effort rather than an individual endeavor, I'd like to invite you to stay connected with me.

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City planners are even pondering a temporary Chicago - style shoreline ferris wheel as a tourist attraction — all in an effort to continue to grow this community's «fun factor» says Montemayor.

«They don't have the money to support us, and the pressure to continue [growing coca] is fierce,» a community leader in the isolated southwest municipality of Tumaco — a global hub for coca — said in late 2016, after a deadly clash between state security forces and farmers protesting efforts to destroy their coca.

The success we've experienced in 2014 in working with the existing industry was matched by grassroots efforts in our growing developer community.

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.

From large multinational corporations to small, community - based cooperatives, we involve businesses and consumers worldwide in our efforts to bring responsibly produced goods and services to a global marketplace where the demand for sustainability is growing steadily.

By drinking shade - grown and bird friendly certified coffee every morning, you are supporting these coffee farmers, the efforts of the ABA and BirdNote, and the countless birds they are protecting through community outreach and conservation.

Chale Wote Festival is a collective effort of many people ranging from artists, musicians, community activists, writers, designers and students, all working together to sustain and grow West Africa's largest street art festival.

Environmental justice is a growing effort to address a dangerous divide: Minority and low - income communities tend to encounter far greater environmental risks and far less protection than more affluent, white communities.

And there is evidence such an effort would find a receptive, already growing audience in some communities.

During the evening, the team highlighted the GM's work to support communities across the Sahel in climate resilient development, as part of the Great Green Wall initiative and its efforts to scale up the Great Green Wall Initiative, to jointly «Grow a World Wonder», since the Great Green Wall is part of the solution to many global challenges, including food security, conflict prevention and environmental migration.

Launched in Boston a decade ago, the City Year program continues to be one of the best efforts in the nation aimed at providing young people with hands - on opportunities to engage in community - service work — and to grow and learn in the process.

With a silly name, zero budget, no history in Baltimore, and very few personal connections to the educational community, I expected this to be a small effort that would slowly grow over time, much like the slow, steady growth of a mustache,» shared Saha.

As more charter schools open and as more Californians become aware of the great new options that charter schools are creating for communities across the state, we see a growing recognition that the charter school movement is becoming one of the most important reform efforts to have happened in many years,» said Jed Wallace, president and CEO, California Charter Schools Association (CCSA).

She grew up in Seattle when social justice issues made regular headlines and her family was part of activist efforts through the faith community to re-settle Hmong and Vietnamese refugees in the 1970s.

CCSA has launched the «Oakland Campaign: Telling the Charter School Story» on our website that is chock full of resources for your school ranging from how to grow community engagement to improving advocacy efforts with the school district.

Anticipating the needs of a growing metropolitan area was among the service learning goals that gained Meridian its designation as a Service Learning Leader School by the Corporation for National and Community Service, a federal agency that promotes and funds volunteer efforts.

It also includes recommendations developed by roundtable participants about what is needed to ensure that community schools can collect and use data to inform their practice, to demonstrate their impact, and generate the support necessary to grow and sustain their efforts.

This allows us to target our philanthropic efforts toward growing new schools and regions while also ensuring that our educational models for our existing children and communities are not at risk of waning philanthropic support over the long - term.

The saying means that in order for a child to grow up to be the best they can be, it takes the combined effort of everyone in that child's «circle of influence», or in other words, their community.

City planners are even pondering a temporary Chicago - style shoreline ferris wheel as a tourist attraction — all in an effort to continue to grow this community's «fun factor» says Montemayor.

Photography tips and tricks are featured in an effort to help readers improve their own travel photography and grow a community of travel minded photographers.

As part of ongoing efforts to continue growing the user base of Battleswarm: Field of Honor, Reality Gap is also joining forces with the Xfire online gaming community and plans to distribute the Xfire client with all Battleswarm downloads.

The result of our efforts has now been seen by over 10 million players worldwide and we are looking forward to sharing even more content updates and community support to further grow and reward our loyal fan base.»

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Katia Santibanex recently spent a month in residency at Casa Wabi: «Casa Wabi, founded in October by Bosco Sodi, a Brooklyn - based Mexican artist, is part retreat, part community arts program — an effort, Mr. Sodi said, to give something back to the country where he grew up.

As part of the Rail's ongoing effort to bring resources and historical awareness to the current dialogue in our ever - growing art community, I wrote an article several issues ago about The Club, and was able to interview Philip Pavia — the sculptor and organizer of The Club and publisher of It Is magazine.

This situation is what leads a growing call for a much broader energy quest, from the laboratory to the light socket, that starts with the «no brainers» delineated by many studies, particularly a McKinsey analysis of ways to cut energy waste, but also includes a direct, increased and sustained American investment in pushing the frontiers of knowledge on energy — and boosting efforts, from the classroom to the boardroom, to build the community of technological, financial and social innovators necessary to drive the needed change.

As I grew older, I travelled across and beyond Turtle Island, the indigenous name for what we now call North America, quickly discovering that youth across the globe are constantly leading movements and efforts to create loving communities and different worlds.

Keep an eye on it as it will be following the efforts surrounding the Appleseed House and the community efforts that «grow» around it.

With cultural differences between the three communities and important marine resources growing more and more scarce, early community meetings were contentious, but eventually even those that opposed earlier conservation efforts came to realize that if they lost the hawksbill, they would lose everything that was important to them including their food, income and culture.

In her interview, she talked about her family, her efforts to be a leader in the Florida legal community, and what she has learned about growing into the best legal professional she can be.

Instead, she and others have joined a community of patent - protectionist businesses in an effort to ward off what they say is a growing problem.

«Vitalik's efforts in the past year to grow the global community should be evident at Devcon2.

My goal is to build a strong community, to grow both inward and outward, beginning with consideration and respect for natural resources, (including cleaning up our beaches, waterways, of which should be thoroughly tested and quality restored, and more astringent control on littering and contamination) Children should be at the forefront in terms of importance and inclusion in restoration efforts, to enable them to gain kno...

The project will build on current state efforts and partnerships to improve the developmental health of young children and family well - being in high - need neighborhoods through Florida MIECHV, Florida Help Me Grow, local Early Learning Coalitions and Early Head Start, Title V, federal and state Healthy Start, community residents and funders.

He described workshops being run by Lismore Aboriginal Health — Gurgun Bulahnggelah — as part of a growing effort in the state to address high levels of often un-managed chronic pain in Aboriginal communities.

Because pediatricians have nearly universal, relatively frequent and recurring contact with young children and their families, they are uniquely well positioned to have an impact on developmental outcomes through anticipatory guidance at well - child visits, early developmental screening, practice - based developmental interventions, community linkage and referral programs, and advocacy for broader social change to support child development.40 — 44 This study reinforces the potential benefits of practice - based programs that support parenting and the home learning environment, such as «Reach Out and Read» and «Healthy Steps for Young Children,» 16,45,46 as well as community - based programs that help guide families through systems of care for developmental support, like Help Me Grow.47 Efforts to connect pediatric practices with home visitor and early care and education providers may provide referral opportunities for promoting early brain development.48 — 52

They are going to grow up in a community and start its healing process, its doing it on its own terms, its facing its own histories, and with this extraordinary effort by all, is going to face a much better future.

Volunteering Works is designed to help new and growing community service efforts grow by providing seed money and expert mentoring.