Sentences with phrase «helped spearhead efforts»

I helped spearhead the efforts to raise money for the trip.

Hochul said to her, «Thank you for accepting the call to serve once again when the governor asked you help spearhead this effort.»

«Eighty percent of Americans get their information from print, television, film, and electronic media,» said Deborah Leveranz, the director of education for the Southwest Alternate Media Project, which helped spearhead the effort.

By Melissa Figueira Policy Associate Several years ago, Advance Illinois helped spearhead an effort to revamp the way the Illinois Report Card displayed data about the state's 2 million public school students.

Several years ago, Advance Illinois helped spearhead an effort to revamp the way the Illinois Report Card displayed data about the state's 2 million public school students.

The United Kingdom charity helped spearhead the effort with the U.S. Centers for Disease Control and Prevention.

At EA, Schappert helped spearhead the effort to boost the company's digital business through games for mobile devices, as well as social games on Facebook.

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Johnson, who is «very bullish» on the future of cryptocurrency, has spearheaded research efforts in crypto at both Jump Trading and Jump Capital to help understand the nascent market.

As chair of the Council of Canadian Innovators, Balsillie is spearheading an effort to shape public policy to help companies scale globally.

To help spearhead that effort, Caplan tapped Mitch Grossbach, who had been an executive at a customer relationship management software company called Interface Software, to head a new digital division.

Strider, who helped spearhead Democratic faith outreach in 2006 and 2008 - when he directed that work for Hillary Clinton's presidential campaign - said the party put substantially fewer resources and effort into faith - based strategy work this year than in any election since 2004.

Where needed community treatment resources are lacking, the clergyman and his lay leaders should help to spearhead efforts to provide them.

Students of the era helped organize the Student Volunteer Movement, under the initial sponsorship of Dwight L. Moody, and spearheaded the massive American foreign missionary efforts that reached their peak around World War I. Administrations also often encouraged Protestant denominational campus groups as well as their Catholic and Jewish counterparts.

Democratic Congressman Steve Israel of Long Island is helping spearhead his party's effort to recapture control of the U.S. House of Representatives next year.

In addition, Rechnitz kicked in the maximum $ 102,300 toward a failed effort, spearheaded by the mayor, to help Democrats win control of the state Senate in 2014.

Responding to the country's critical need for STEM teachers, and for teaching that supports students all the way to graduation and employment in ever - expanding STEM fields, education researchers and practitioners have fought hard to build effective approaches, and AAAS has helped to spearhead those efforts, said Rush Holt, AAAS CEO and executive publisher of the Science family of journals.

A team from the UNC School of Social Work will use the $ 75,000 award to spearhead an effort to help caregivers qualify for and receive financial resources and community support commensurate to adoptive parents.

«This funding will help provide important new opportunities to translate basic discoveries and leading - edge technologies from UC San Diego's research laboratories into needed therapies for patients — an effort being spearheaded by our new Drug Discovery Institute,» said Palmer Taylor, PhD, associate vice chancellor for Health Sciences and dean of the Skaggs School of Pharmacy and Pharmaceutical Sciences.

Alongside him (left) is Charles Dance as Commander Alastair Denniston, a fellow decrypter, who helped Turing spearhead Britain's efforts to break the Nazi code.

Spearheading the effort is game - maker cum turncoat for the resistance Plutarch Heavensbee (Philip Seymour Hoffman, in his penultimate performance) and President Alma Coin (Julianne Moore, new to the series), attempting to create a wedge through the use of propaganda pieces with the help of a film crew (headed by Natalie Dormer) looking to unite the districts behind Katniss, the titular Mockingjay.

Bill Lucia of EdVoice, a Sacramento - based educational advocacy group that helped spearhead opposition efforts, said the bill had started out with good intentions.

That's why Hickey, a former Park City school board member who is still active in education efforts, is spearheading an effort to raise $ 20,000 this spring to help undocumented students apply for the Deferred Action for Childhood Arrivals (DACA) program.

But adding play back into kindergarten after years of focusing on test scores is not always easy for teachers and principals, says Eva Phillips, the district's Ready Schools coordinator, who has helped Oates spearhead the effort.

The CCEE is spearheading a statewide effort in partnership with the California Department of Education to address «systems coherency,» i.e. helping districts develop clear, consistent structures so that each and every student receives a high - quality education.

I wanted someone to help spearhead the marketing effort as well.

In September 2016, ED announced that a coalition of organizations is spearheading efforts to match students impacted by school closures with experienced financial aid and academic advisors across the country to help navigate the options available.

In 2006, Jason formed the non-profit organization, Oak Cliff Transit Authority, to revive the Dallas streetcar system, and later spearheaded the city's effort in garnering a $ 23 Million dollar TIGER stimulus grant from the FTA to help reintroduce a modern streetcar system to Dallas.

«It has been frustrating to watch our friends at Tufts gain a meeting with their executive vice president right away, but have the Harvard administration ignore our requests and the overwhelming student vote,» said Alli Welton, a sophomore at Harvard, who is helping to spearhead the school's divestment effort.

To make amends, Waxman now chairs Mighty Earth, a global environmental organization that is spearheading efforts to kill the environmental monster he helped launch.

The chapter is spearheading Rising Waters, a collaborative planning effort that is helping Hudson River estuary communities adapt to climate change.

To help spearhead a lot of that, there's been a lot of grassroots efforts within Yahoo! — there's a group called the Green Team who have spontaneously gotten together and have come up with a lot of these ideas — but we're always looking for other ideas from outside people, or inside people, on ways that as a corporation, we can reduce our footprint.

While everyone on the committee deserves credit, special recognition goes to Reid Trautz for his subject - matter knowledge and for coordinating with AILA, Aaron Street and Sam Glover of Lawyerist.com for helping to set up a WordPress website, Catherine Sanders Reach of the Chicago Bar Association for technical support, Dan Lear of Avvo for helping to compile immigration law resources, and Ed Walters of Fastcase, who not only was instrumental in spearheading the effort, but also provided immigration case summaries and links.

Spearheaded school fundraising effort for help the homeless charity event, successfully raising $ 1500.

He's been a director for a little over a year, and in that time — besides helping to spearhead professional development and educational and informational workshops for his electorate — he's been involved in various charitable fund - raising efforts.