Sentences with phrase «help families in the city»

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Like every entrepreneur, I'm pulled in way too many directions, and I often feel like a puppet on somebody else's string, jockeying my time between family obligations, helping the entrepreneurs I've invested in, filming Shark Tank, and flying to motivational speeches in multiple cities.

Her backstory of growing up in an African - American family of 10 children in inner - city Detroit is remarkably aligned with the foundation's mission of helping kids and families succeed in some of the poorest corners of the U.S. Among other things, under Tabron's leadership at Kellogg, the foundation has doubled down on its prescient — and bold — racial equity work.

«Every dollar put into helping more people in Miami participate in our city's economic opportunities is an investment in our future and these funds will go to community organizations that are helping families and small business owners get ahead and build a path to prosperity,» Guillermo Castillo, market leader and head of commercial banking for Chase in South Florida, said in a statement.

Mantry donates 1 % of profits to City Harvest, helping rescue over 20 tons of food and redistributing it to families in need of good, fresh food.

By purchasing assets (single - family homes) with declining prices (see: 2008 - 2010) en masse, Blackstone helped put a floor under the housing market, especially in some of the hardest hit cities.

It is the central force in his life, slicing across family, football and community, carrying him to the top of his profession and to an iconic status in a still - wounded city that he has helped lift from despair.

In our city, the Family Services Centre runs a program called «Worriers to Warriors» which I put both my girls in and which helped immenselIn our city, the Family Services Centre runs a program called «Worriers to Warriors» which I put both my girls in and which helped immenselin and which helped immensely.

Our members have helped move forward paid Family Leave policies in cities, counties and states across the nation, have helped pass affordable childcare policies in red and blue states alike, have also helped advance sick day policies in over a dozen cities and states across the nation, as well.

To help ensure that all kids in the community have a chance to participate in its wide variety of sports programs, the City of Henderson has a Financial Assistance Program where those kids from lower income families can receive scholarships to participate.

If you were lucky to be in a city, you may have been helped by a licensed midwife (European cities started educating and registering midwives around the fifteenth century); if you were in the rural outback, you may have had an uneducated but experienced midwife or a female family friend.

Adoptions From The Heart, the East Coast's leading private adoption agency, has contract social workers in the Manhattan area of New York City to help families with a home study for international or our domestic adoption program.

Whether you're a birth mother looking to place your child for adoption or a family seeking an adoption agency in Oklahoma City, we can help you develop an adoption plan and complete all the steps you'll need.

We will showcase some neighborhood businesses offering cool items in our Marketplace and organizations that help make Redmond a great family city!

And right now, we have an opportunity to act here in this city, so we're acting with every tool we have to help working families.

When he announced the endorsement, the union's president, Bruce Both, said Meng had «pledged her support for our Union's effort to hold Walmart accountable for reckless corporate policies that effect the worker families, small business owners, and women that live in the 6th Congressional,» adding: «Our Union believes that Grace will help unify an ethnically diverse community around the most pressing issue facing our Unions membership: keeping New York City Walmart free.»

«Rather than sending the bill to working families, and subway and bus riders already feeling the pressure of rising fares and bad service, we are asking the wealthiest in our city to chip in a little extra to help move our transit system into the 21st century,» de Blasio, who is running for re-election, said in an emailed statement Monday.

«Rather than sending the bill to working families and subway and bus riders already feeling the pressure of rising fares and bad service, we are asking the wealthiest in our city to chip in a little extra to help move or transit system into the 21st century,» de Blasio said in a statement.

Ryan's office said he also successfully pressed to get $ 2 million for a statewide program that provides services to refugees and their families, a portion of which will go for services in Buffalo that could draw more refugees to the city that have helped with revitalization efforts in areas such as Grant Street, his office said.

To serve these hungry families, the food bank is partnering with cities and towns to help fight hunger in our own neighborhoods.

In February, Data and Field Services settled a lawsuit brought by Randy M. Mastro, a former deputy mayor who is now an election lawyer, that alleged that the Working Families Party had unfairly helped Deborah Rose, the winning candidate in a Staten Island City Council racIn February, Data and Field Services settled a lawsuit brought by Randy M. Mastro, a former deputy mayor who is now an election lawyer, that alleged that the Working Families Party had unfairly helped Deborah Rose, the winning candidate in a Staten Island City Council racin a Staten Island City Council race.

«Every New Yorker, regardless of immigration status, deserves the opportunity to build a stable, healthy life in our city, and this expansion will help countless families get the healthcare access they deserve.»

«As a native New Yorker, I know how important libraries are for families across our city, and I'm honored to now be in a position to help make them work even better for Queens» Mr. Koerner said.

Additionally, the state awarded $ 300,000 to three providers to establish «Family Support Navigator» programs to help families in New York City and Long Island that are struggling with addiction to navigate insurance and treatment systems.

A yearslong investigation into the Working Families Party, the influential left - leaning group that helped fuel the rise of Mayor Bill de Blasio, has resulted in the indictments of two former aides to a Staten Island city councilwoman.

► The city will help move 500 homeless families out of shelters into stable, affordable housing through the Living in Communities voucher program.

«Cities RISE is yet another important step forward as we work to help New York families recover from the housing crisis,» Schneiderman said in a press release.

A spokesman for Zac Goldsmith hit back, telling Politics.co.uk: «Khan experimented with Corbyn and helped elect a Labour leadership who want a new tax on family heirlooms, including jewellery — if he is allowed to experiment with London from City Hall he represents a threat to the economic security of every family in our City.»

Aiming to boost the growth of charter schools in cities nationwide, the Walton Family Foundation plans to announce a $ 250 million initiative today to help charters build and expand their sites.

One of the homeless shelters run by Housing Enterprise for Less Privileged (HELP), founded by Cuomo in 1986, racked up 31 critical incidents last year — the most of any of the so - called Tier 2 family shelters in the city, according to a review of internal records by the Daily News.

«I believe that the policies he has put in place have uplifted and helped millions of families in this city so I support that legacy in continuing that work.

Howe hooked up with COR after former Syracuse Mayor Tom Young, who is close to the Cuomo family suggested on election night in 2010 that he could help the developers get state assistance with projects they wanted to do, including redevelopment of the city's Inner Harbor area.

Two veteran Democrats are challenging Mr. de Blasio in the primary: Tony Avella, a state senator from Queens who has challenged the mayor's approach to homelessness and fought for a Staten Island family trying to keep a large pig as a pet; and Sal Albanese, an Italian - born lawyer and former City Councilman from southwestern Brooklyn who, in his third mayoral run, has argued for a new tax on nonprimary residences — a «pied - à - terre» tax — to help fund affordable housing.

«In this part of the city there are more poor than ever, more families are in trouble, more and more people who need help but can't find it.&raquIn this part of the city there are more poor than ever, more families are in trouble, more and more people who need help but can't find it.&raquin trouble, more and more people who need help but can't find it.»

Expanding the SCHE / DHE program will go a long way in helping New Yorkers on a fixed income continue to live close to their families in the city that they helped build.

Rose Pierre - Louis, commissioner of the Mayor's Office to Combat Domestic Violence, said the city already implemented several services to help victims — including starting the city's first anti-stalking initiative last year — and the opening of the Family Justice Center will put them all in one spot.

She still remembers the struggles her parents faced as day laborers in New York City... But a new investment by the New York City Council might help improve the quality of life of day laborers and their families.

The most comprehensive affordable housing plan in the City's history and largest municipal housing plan in the nation, its goal is to create and preserve 200,000 units of affordable housing for very low - and middle income families to help address New York City's affordability crisis.

But he lashed out at the governor's proposal to slash funding for state programs aimed at helping struggling families remain in their apartments, a paring back that would apply only to New York City.

Primary challenger Jose Cruz, a former Monroe County Legislator and city council member, says he wants to use his experience in Albany to allow municipalities to decide how best to educate their children, help small businesses grow and work with families who have loved ones with developmental disabilities.

Despite pressure from the Working Families Party — which de Blasio helped form in 1998 — the Brennan Center and others, Albany has refused to follow the city's folly.

In a packed auditorium, an angry crowd pushed back on the city's plan to open a homeless shelter for 132 families at 267 Rogers Ave. in Crown Heights, demanding to know how much the project will cost and whether it will help solve, as Assemblywoman Diana Richardson put it, the area's «housing crisis.&raquIn a packed auditorium, an angry crowd pushed back on the city's plan to open a homeless shelter for 132 families at 267 Rogers Ave. in Crown Heights, demanding to know how much the project will cost and whether it will help solve, as Assemblywoman Diana Richardson put it, the area's «housing crisis.&raquin Crown Heights, demanding to know how much the project will cost and whether it will help solve, as Assemblywoman Diana Richardson put it, the area's «housing crisis.»

«It's rewarding to work with Habitat for Humanity New York City and help create an environment where hard working families can thrive in the city and build upon their futures,» said Sharmi Sobhan, Executive Director, Community Development Banking, ChCity and help create an environment where hard working families can thrive in the city and build upon their futures,» said Sharmi Sobhan, Executive Director, Community Development Banking, Chcity and build upon their futures,» said Sharmi Sobhan, Executive Director, Community Development Banking, Chase.

The City of Lackawanna is home to many families who are struggling financially and having a safe place to live is an important step in helping them,» said Legislator Dixon.

We have to do a lot better, and we have the ability to tax those in our city who have done very well and get that help to our children and to our families,» he said.

And the new supportive housing facility, Quinn said, will help move more families out of the city's shelter system — 70 percent of the people in the shelter system are families with children, something she says «most people don't realize.»

He helped thousands of families in New York City and elsewhere in the state secure free prekindergarten, a triumph.

De Blasio added that he would like a «family - based model» to play a larger part in solving the city's homeless crisis, with financial resources given to relatives to help homeless individuals.

Of the significance of labor leaders standing side by side with the new mayor at the press conference at an early learning center in East Harlem, UFT President Michael Mulgrew said, «This is labor saying we are here to help all of the families of New York City.»

On Monday, Mayor Bill de Blasio announced that the Mayor's Fund to Advance New York City has raised $ 120,000 in pledges through the Fallen Heroes Relief Effort, money that will also go toward helping the officers» families.

Civic - minded residents interested in playing a larger role in the governance of the city, helping to ensure the delivery of municipal services and serving Queens families and neighborhoods are encouraged to apply.»