Sentences with phrase «help impacted communities»

As part of the transition to a clean energy future, the American Lung Association supports providing assistance to retrain coal industry workers and to help impacted communities transition to other economic opportunities.

«The issues that must be addressed include: grid reliability, electricity costs, toxic emissions and related air pollution, attracting major investors for new energy sources and helping the impacted communities,» said Jerry Kremer, the chairman of New York Affordable Reliable Electricity Alliance.

«Realtors ® work tirelessly to help their clients achieve the American Dream of homeownership,» said National Association of Realtors ® President Chris Polychron, executive broker of 1st Choice Realty in Hot Springs, Ark. «The Volunteering Works program provides an opportunity for Realtors ® who serve their communities through volunteer work to engage in one - on - one relationships with mentors who will help them impact their communities in even greater ways.»

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When I see other people walk by trash or drop cigarettes in the middle of the street, I can't help but think that they're marginalizing their agency and the impact they can make in their community by just implementing one mundane action.

Helping out in your community is a chance for you to see the impact that being an entrepreneur can have.

The resulting data will help shape the details of the program, and «allow us to focus resources on where the greatest impact will be,» says Bob Annibale, Global Director of Community Development at Citigroup.

While the International Mobility Program will certainly help a few American companies to «park» their foreign employees in Canada during this tumultuous time, it's the broader policy changes that will tangibly impact the tech community at home, as well as foreigners seeking a safe and stimulating place to innovate.

As chairman of Puma, Jochen is pioneering an environmental profit - and - loss reporting tool that helps companies assess the impact their products are having on our planet and our communities, and lets customers know which products are sustainable.

As a leader, you are best able to help the members of your team connect what they do to the impact it has on customers and communities.

Experts say that's because millennials may be more interested than older generations in societal impact — and agrihoods are designed to help them do good for the environment and their community.

«Women — from executives to engineers to driver partners — have helped build Uber into the company it is today,» she tells Inc. «We're proud of the culture we're creating here and the positive impact we're having on communities around the world.»

In addition to helping startups launch, grow and scale, the MaRS community is dedicated to cross-disciplinary convergence, commercialization of discoveries and driving ideas to impact.

By building a community of amazing entrepreneurs and investors, we hope to help more amazing companies succeed and see them shape, transform, and impact the world around us.

To help meet the challenges of the changing climate, the Climate Resilience Toolkit allows users to find resources and frameworks to understand and address climate issues that impact people and their communities.

As we have done in eight other disaster - impacted communities, SBP stays to rebuild for years to help residents recover.

We strongly believe that SVX represents a logical continuity to our Impact8 coaching program and will help members of our community develop their projects, their organization and ultimately, increase their impact», added Pascal Grenier, Director, Esplanade Montreal.

2016.05.06 RBC provides $ 2 million in support of families and communities impacted by wildfires and economic downturn in Alberta Today, RBC announced a donation of $ 2 million to support families and communities affected by the wildfires and the recent economic downturn in Alberta, as part of its longstanding history of helping Canadians...

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 Esplanade, its ecosystem and its community offer space and services that help social innovators develop their projects and increase their impact.

PNC's focus on operating with integrity drives the company to help customers achieve their goals while also strengthening its communities, reducing its environmental impact and empowering employees to grow.

Sediment resources on the OCS are leased to local communities or federal agencies to help them restore shorelines or wetlands in an effort to address chronic erosion, sea level rise, impacts from major storms, or to protect valuable infrastructure and habitat.

Using a Lean Startup Methodology tailored for communities of color, DID excels at 1) finding Black and Latina women entrepreneurs with high growth companies and game changing ideas, 2) connecting them to an unmatched network of investors, mentors, and influencers, 3) developing their start - up toolkit and leadership skills, and 4) supporting their entrepreneurship journey from the build phase to exit with the goal of helping create companies that have a strong positive impact on the economic health of their local communities.

Brooms, saw blades, sports drinks, and a whole lot more is going to All Hands and Hearts - an organization dedicated to helping communities impacted by natural disasters

«The ASPCA is pleased to be in a position where we can assist animal shelters in Florida by helping move homeless cats and dogs out of impacted communities to free up much - needed space for owned pets displaced by the storm,» said Dick Green, senior director of Disaster Response for ASPCA Field Investigations and Response.

Whether it be because you work with children, pass by a homeless individual every day, or have witnessed the impact of cholera and unsafe sanitation on a community, we all have something that triggers a desire to help.

«We're hoping this will impact everyone — that it will shed a little bit of light on the special needs community and help more individuals with special needs be accepted and not limited,» Lucas» father, Jason Warren, said.

Its strategy of selling high value coconut products will help increase profit margins for farmers which in turn will provide a direct positive impact on their finances and their communities as a whole.

«The Greenhouse Gas tool will further help the wine community understand how and which operations impact air quality and help managers develop strategies for reducing emissions.»

Investment in infrastructure that will reduce our impact on the environment while improving the efficiency of our operations helps our company produce more for less impact on the environment and communities.

As a certified B Corporation, RUNA purchases guayusa at a Fairtrade price to help drive a positive impact for its farmers, communities, and environment.

ACEs Connection is a social network that accelerates the global movement toward recognizing the impact of adverse childhood experiences in shaping adult behavior and health, and reforming all communities and institutions — from schools to prisons to hospitals and churches — to help heal and develop resilience rather than to continue to traumatize already traumatized people.

Along with our family of more than 300 diaper banks throughout the country, NDBN is also providing expert guidance to individuals and communities asking how to help the children and families impacted by hurricanes Harvey and Irma.

It's clear that the key to positively impacting a community is to first address the family, to get to the heart of the matter — the parent - child attachment relationship — in order to both prevent high ACE scores and to help our children develop resilience.

When a parent volunteers their time to help a youth sports league or team, they are impacting the lives of children throughout the community.

She helped found the University of Georgia chapter of Camp Kesem, a LIVESTRONG Community Impact Project recipient, in 2011 and served as Co-Director for the three subsequent years.

This partnership is an incredible collaborative resource that will help us deliver more mission moments to more people with greater impact, both onsite and in our communities.»

I think that this community should do more to help families through what can be an extremely difficult situation when AP really does impact the family's sex life.

This toolkit is designed to help school nurses communicate with impact, in order to better serve as educators and advocates for school and community health, and raise...

Donations to the Junior League of Durham and Orange Counties» Annual Fund provide unrestricted funds to the JLDOC's operating budget, enabling our League to maximize its impact in the community and help kids develop to their full potential.

That was an awesome challenge, but she worked to raise the visibility of the SN program to help people how they can make an impact in their communities.»

The UK's leading fuel poverty charity National Energy Action (NEA), which is this week launching its Warm Homes Campaign with energy company E.ON, will be publishing a report illustrating «The Many Faces of Fuel Poverty», showing the range of people that are impacted by living in cold homes, and offering strong practical information at a community and neighbourhood level on where households can get advice and help, including how to access grants for free home insulation, reduced energy tariffs and special payments.

We help society by running buses and trains in a safe, socially and environmentally responsible way Together with industry partners we ensure the safety and wellbeing of passengers and our people improve energy efficiency and reduce costs All making a positive impact on the communities we serve

Public Advocate Letitia James said Tuesday that legalizing recreational marijuana for adults would help achieve critical criminal justice reforms, and the increase in tax revenue could be funneled to education and support programs in communities that have been negatively and disproportionately impacted by its prohibition.

The Broome County Urban League will be hosting a gala to celebrate 50 years of impact and helping our community to earn, learn and live a better life.

This policy, aimed at reducing reoffending by helping prisoners to resettle into the community, has been dismissed by both the chief inspectors of prisons and probation as being so ineffective that, if it was removed tomorrow, «the impact on the resettlement of prisoners would be negligible».

Financial help has come for disaster - impacted central New Yorkers: Thursday morning, Governor Andrew Cuomo appeared at Herkimer County Community College, where he announced that the state had issued more than 12 - hundred checks totaling around $ 13.6 million in flood relief to victims in Oneida, Herkimer, Madison, Montgomery and Niagara counties.

«It will have a significant economic impact by providing job opportunities at thriving businesses right in our own communities and help a new generation of New Yorkers achieve their academic and professional goals.»

«While some of your work may be national in scope,» said the first lady in her opening remarks, «ultimately your most powerful impact is local... For example, The New York Botanical Garden started the Bronx Green - Up revitalization program, and they helped plant hundreds of school and community gardens in struggling neighborhoods so that families could grow their own fresh produce.»

A charity fund created by the Yankees, which was which supposed to distribute almost $ 40 million in cash grants and sports equipment, along with 600,000 baseball tickets, to community organizations in the Bronx — home of its stadium — over four decades, has not actually helped those most impacted by the stadium's construction.

«The creation of this new task force will help ensure potential impacts on the local community will be minimized and that an open dialogue is maintained throughout this transition process.»