Sentences with phrase «helping community citizens»

One final benefit that libraries offer is the opportunity to become community publishers, helping community citizens to publish their works and bring their voices out while providing visibility, «working hand in hand with a larger publishing community.»

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A comprehensive, ongoing community relations program — including event sponsorship — can help virtually any organization achieve visibility as a good community citizen.

With the help of Georgia businesses, communities, our economic development partners and citizens, we are a state committed to creating quality job and investment opportunities at every corner.

Lakewood will be a value to the community in the aftermath of this storm in helping our fellow citizens rebuild their lives.»

Many persons who are not likely to join groups in churches and schools may do so if they're made available in family counseling agencies» mental health services, youth organizations, business and industry, fraternal groups, self - help groups (such as A.A., P.W.P., Alanon, etc.), and in the many organizations devoted to special needs of the handicapped, ex-prisoners, ex-patients, unwed parents, minority groups of all kinds, senior citizens, community action groups, ethnic organizations.

A halfway house for emotionally disturbed teenagers, tutoring programs for educationally deprived youngsters, a community service program for senior citizens, and a hot - line link with a substance abuse clinic, become, in Landry's sermons, ready references to ways in which Christ intervenes in the corporate life of downtown Metro City, to help translate the powers of death into the vitalities of new life.

Above all, it helped to draw the Christian community out of its isolation and to identify Christians as responsible citizens of the new Democratic Republic.1

«Whether through sponsoring local high school activities, being an active supporter of the county 4 - H program, educating youth through the dozens of tours given at the mill each year, providing flour for various service organizations» fundraisers, helping at the area health fair or providing equipment for the volunteer fire department, we believe that a healthy community builds strong, productive citizens.»

We will help them to be good citizens of the game and community, healthy and fit, while fostering inclusive, sustainable, healthy, safe and enjoyable youth sports participation and optimal athletic performance and achievement.

NYSHSI further urges all youth sports stakeholders to provide a positive and healthy environment for our kids to enjoy sports — that is, have fun, learn sports skills and the rules of the game, and develop as capable and confident young athletes at any level of athletic success in a way that will help them to be good citizens of the game and community, healthy and fit, and performing well in all domains of life.

The Addison Park District Board of Commissioners has agreed to accept a loan from the village to help pay for $ 700,000 senior citizens addition at Community Park, 120 E. Oak St.. The interest - free loan of $ 87,500 from the village would be repaid in 15 years.

ADDISON — The Addison Park District Board of Commissioners has agreed to accept a loan from the village to help pay for $ 700,000 senior citizens addition at Community Park, 120 E. Oak St.

In addition to providing sustained environmental education, Mass Audubon helps support community organizations in conducting service learning and citizen science projects around critical environmental issues.

As a good corporate citizen, it's our job to identify local needs, bring resources to the table and help our community partners create sustainable change.

You can become one of our citizen scientists by helping to document the presence of Baltimore orioles in your neighborhood or community.

Lastly, as a citizen, I want push for change on the national level, re-prioritizing how we help the parents of young children and making sure our public educational institutions are strong enough to resist the efforts to fragment communities into haves and have - nots.

A host of local experiments are also underway including the «Scallywags» parent - run nursery in Bethnal Green, the «Holy Cross Community Trust» day - care service in Camden, and «Southwark Circle» which helps older citizens and their families through social networks that enable people to share their time, skills and expertise.

«We've reduced our network charges, which form part of domestic customers» bills from their chosen electricity supplier, by 14.3 %, funded a Citizens Advice Bureau fuel debt advice service and helped kick - start a number of projects through our # 50,000 community energy seed fund which we are launching this week for the second year running.

I'm grateful to Mayor de Blasio for supporting our efforts in the Senate to raise the SCHE and DHE income limits and keep our senior citizen neighbors in the communities they helped to build.»

The Governor's proposal will help at - risk youth find positive opportunities in their communities, while also providing citizens who enter the criminal justice system the opportunity to rehabilitate, return home, and contribute to their communities.

As a City Council Member Madeline helped make the East Bronx a better place, and was a champion for the creation of a new golf course at Ferry Point Park and a fighter for the needs of senior citizens and youth throughout the community.

· Young Citizens (Lewisham, London) Founded by six year 7 pupils in Prendergast Ladywell Fields College, Young Citizens connects young people concerned about violence and crime with the individuals and organisations who can help, with the aim of improving the safety of the Lewisham community and the lives of those within it.

«Helping senior citizens maintain their homes is an investment in our communities,» Picente said.

We remain committed to helping them become citizens as they raise families, become entrepreneurs, start small businesses, and pursue new lives in communities throughout our state.»

Through social media, she has created a large network of successful business people as well as private citizens to raise thousands of dollars to help their community.

In closing, Ombudsman - Alert would like to express his gratitude to the many active citizens in our community, including individuals such as Orrin Getz, as well as to our Bi-Partisan elected officials, who helped to ensure this important victory for our Rockland commuters.

«I worked closely together to open a free legal clinic, which has helped hundreds of tenants in this community, many of them senior citizens, remain in their homes.

«This educational seminar is an effort to better educate senior citizens in the community and share strategies that will help make retirement savings last,» Legislator Rath said.

The Older American Awards recognize senior citizens and senior - related organizations for their efforts helping one another and the community.

«We need to do all that we can, in Buffalo and Western New York, to continue to open our hearts and open our wallets to help the people who are here, in our community now, our fellow American citizens,» Brown said.

Located in the heart of the nation's capital, the Program on Science in the Public Interest promotes direct dialogue with the government, industry, and the community on critical scientific issues and helps to develop the next generation of citizen scientists.

By playing Digital Fishers, citizen scientists help researchers gather data from video, and unveil the mechanisms shaping the animal communities inhabiting the deep.

Helping the rest of the world and seeing ourselves as citizens embedded in a planetary community is not a new phenomenon nor is it one that we should ignore.

«By generating in situ data with the help of citizen scientists, we envision the app serving supplementary data to scientists as they model mosquito population outbreaks,» says Rusty Low of the Institute for Global Environmental Strategies, «And equally important is the ability of the app to act as an enabling tool for citizen scientists who want to reduce disease risk in their communities.»

The overall purpose is to help young people gain better knowledge and understanding of their rights as EU citizens and to: enable young people to engage with an issue which will be foremost in the news for at least the next twelve months, and possibly longer; understand the choices facing the UK government, other EU governments and the EU institutions, on this issue; think critically about the issue of citizens» rights in the context of Brexit, coming to their own opinion about the best way forward, and gaining a better understanding of the impact upon themselves and their communities.

We need to recommit to the civic mission of our schools and universities, so they help students gain the knowledge and the dispositions that make democracy work — in the acts of ordinary citizens, in how we relate to one another, in how we collaborate, and in how we take responsibility to improve the communities of which we are a part.

Bringing outsiders into this space helps them learn about the role of a school in a community and makes it easier for them to understand the collective duty all citizens have to support their school system.

Genius Hour is a nearly unprecedented opportunity for teachers to guide students in how to be effective learners and citizens, by helping them connect what they do in school to the broader community.

The other is a term we may be familiar with called, «life cycle management», which when planned effectively can offer cost savings, reduce resource burdens and eliminate waste costs, helping to ensure schools contribute to sustainability and recycling initiatives as good community citizens.

Civic groups, community service organizations, and senior citizen groups have been called upon to help recruit volunteers.

... We know that these programs not only help children succeed academically, they also help children learn new skills, develop an understanding of the importance of getting involved in their communities and become good citizens.»

Starbucks and OFN Launch «Create Jobs for USA» (Hanover, MD, November 7, 2011) Starbucks Coffee Company is teaming up with Opportunity Finance Network ® (OFN) to help create and preserve jobs in America through the «Create Jobs for USA Fund,» a new philanthropic initiative that pools donations from Starbucks customers and concerned citizens into a nationwide fund for community business lending.

Through short video overviews and supplemental resources, CPE analysts will provide exclusive insights for school boards that can be used at the board table, by district leadership teams, or with community groups to help citizens understand public education issues.

According to the piece, public employee union leaders and community organizations gathered in Washington, D.C. in 2014 and came up with a 3 - point plan: use the bargaining process as a way to challenge the relationships between government and the private - sector; work with community allies to create new, shared goals that help advance both worker and citizen power; and recognize militancy and collective action will likely be necessary if workers and citizens are to reduce inequality and strengthen democracy.

This is a lesson our teachers, school leaders, and school operators must embrace in order to help all children gain the proper civics and history education they need to be the leaders and citizens their communities need them to be, as well as to continue bending the arc of the nation's history towards progress.

The program's objective is to help schools in Lebanon to evolve and become a part of the increasingly rising Green communities and to empower the future generations to become environmentally responsible citizens, all whilst being progressively rewarded for these school achievements, and commitment to protecting the environment.

State Farm believes all children deserve access to a quality education that will allow them to reach their greatest potential, help them become good community citizens, and prepare them for the workforce.

Each snapshot also has initial ideas for how families, educators, and communities can make targeted and innovative improvements to support the whole child and help students become productive adults and engaged citizens.

This, in turn, will help our communities by creating better citizens and fully utilizing the talents gifted individuals have.

The habits of behavior found in a reflective classroom community — attentive listening to diverse viewpoints, voicing clear ideas, and raising relevant questions — not only help students deeply understand historical content, but also require them to practice skills essential for their role as engaged citizens.