Sentences with phrase «impact in communities where»

Both guests provided examples of how effectively using pro bono skills, both individually and collectively, can make a significant impact in the communities where we live and work.

Studies suggest that the initiative has a bigger impact in communities where women had a lower baseline education level than in areas where women are more educated.

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In a world where our lives are now confined behind a screen and interaction with our neighbors seems to have become more irregular, we need to look at how companies like Amazon and other online services have impacted our communities.

We also recognize our projects have a long - term presence in the communities where they are sited, and we seek to have a consistently positive impact in these communities.

Each June, Franklin Templeton celebrates Involved Impact Days, our global dedicated month of volunteering where employees around the world put in an extra effort to participate in community service projects.

«We are honored to serve as a place where these American heroes can continue to impact their community in a positive way.»

«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.

Grindmaster - Cecilware has committed to being a responsible company in ways ranging from minimizing its impact on the environment to preserving a corporate culture that expresses its commitment to its employees and the communities where it operates.

«This means operating appropriately and responsibly in many ways, from minimizing our impact on the environment to preserving a culture that expresses our commitment and support to our employees, their families and the communities where we live and operate.»

Thanks to the Robert W. Wilson Innovation Fund, the Rainforest Alliance undertakes efforts across the globe that expand our scope of impact by delivering greater value to our stakeholders and creating more substantial benefits in the ecosystems and communities where we work.

We have 150,000 employees in 70 countries who are committed to feeding the world in a responsible way, reducing environmental impact and improving the communities where we live and work.

Unbeknown to the majority of farmers, feed manufacturers and compounders, the production of these oils can have a devastating impact not just on the climate and environment, but on economic stability and communities in the areas where palm oil is grown.

I'm excited to see him in a new environment, as weird as it will be, and I'm glad it's his hometown, where he can be active in the community and make an impact.

Brittani loved volunteering as a part of Camp Kesem where she was able to apply concepts she had studied in the classroom and make an impact in the community.

The report highlights the impact a precarious job market has on a community in Manchester where people have few options but to move in and out of low - paid jobs — or completely fail to find any work at all.

I watched in Birmingham 40 years ago the full horror of the then «Immigration Debate» as it impacted on the Asian community in Birmingham where I lived and the impact on the white working class in the trade unions where I was active.

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.

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.

«We strongly believe that allowing commercial gaming interests to operate in the areas of Western New York where the Seneca Nation has gaming exclusivity will undermine the economic stability of the region, and actually result in a net negative impact on the people and communities of Western New York,» Porter said.

In Norwood and Bedford Park — where every other business seems to be a deli or grocery, the impact was huge to residents and visitors to those communities, surprised to see their favorite stores closed.

«Pre-K has the highest impact for kids from low - income communities, kids of color, so in the very districts that probably can't afford it is exactly where we need it.»

Supporters of Fort Drum say they expect up to 3,000 people at the hearing at Jefferson Community College in Watertown, where residents will be able to give testimony about the impact of potential cutbacks.

«Adopting an R - SEA planning process is a way of building consensus around where, when, and in what form development is appropriate as opposed to our current processes that ask communities — social and ecological — to bear the long - term impacts of new development,» said Cheryl Chetkiewicz, Associate Conservation Scientist with WCS Canada.

Work is now being finalized on a much larger project around the Volcanoes National Park in northern Rwanda, made famousby the film Gorillas in the Mist, where McGuinness is assessing the impacts of mountain gorilla, buffalo and golden monkey on the conservation of this park and the development of surrounding human communities.

One of the most common insecticides used in the battle against the Aedes aegypti mosquito has no measurable impact when applied in communities where the mosquito has built up resistance to it, a study led by Emory University finds.

Arsenic in groundwater is a problem in many countries, including parts of the United States, but it is widespread in Southeast Asia, where its impact on poor communities has been described as the largest mass poisoning in history.

Through the ALS Canada Research Program, we fund peer - reviewed research grants, foster collaboration and build capacity within Canada's ALS research community, and participate in new areas of research where we are well - positioned to have an impact.

This interface impacts areas as diverse as prolonging lithium - ion battery life, designing catalytic reactions that can convert biomass to biofuels, and extracellular electron transfer in microbial communities where bacteria catalyze electrode surfaces and shuttle electrons externally, as in a microbial fuel cell.

The work my colleagues and I are doing in TB research and development has tremendous impact on the ground, in communities where people need it most.

He joined the Australian Commonwealth Scientific and Industrial Research Organisation in 1983, where he has undertaken research on topics ranging from the ecology of larval fish and deep - sea communities to development of proxies in biogenic carbonates and impacts of climate change on marine populations.

Education Secretary Justine Greening responded by saying that «no country in the world» has managed to «crack the issue of social mobility yet» and argued that «grammars can have potentially a transformational impact in some of the most deprived communities where we want to see the biggest changes».

«We delve into cultural competencies and discover the impact that culturally responsive teaching can bring to a community,» explains Carla Smith, the teacher academy coordinator for Renton High School in Renton, Washington, a 10 - year - old RWT site where over two - thirds of the student population is black, Asian, or Latino.

Being introduced to this community confirmed that there was more I could be doing with my life and the Ed School was the place where I could shape a career that would have a larger and more direct impact in higher education.

It is my firm belief that children who live in communities where their lives do not matter to the police, politicians, or members of their own community will fall victim to traumatic circumstances that will have a tremendous impact on them for the rest of their lives.

These agreements have been a basis for increasing student enrolments in education and in increasing attendance rates, where both the Indigenous community and the school take actions to achieve improvements and monitor their joint impact over time.

Although she enrolled in the Higher Education Program (HEP) to explore more fully the undergraduate admissions field in which she worked, she is finishing her year with a deep understanding of where she can truly make an impact: working with Native American students and communities.

Before joining Public Impact, Mr. Field was a regional director for the KIPP Foundation, where he provided coaching support to KIPP executive directors, coordinated internal and external resources, and provided quality oversight to ensure that KIPP regions are prepared to open and sustain high - performing schools in their communities.

Imagine the impact where that foundation is not established at home nor in the community.

And we go where others don't — to struggling schools in the Mississippi Delta, to booming university cities in China, to isolated villages in the Bering Sea, to community colleges in Appalachia, to inner - city schools in Detroit — to find stories that will have an impact on the future of American schooling.

As with parental education, family income may have a direct impact on a child's academic outcomes, or variations in achievement could simply be a function of the school the child attends: parents with greater financial resources can identify communities with higher - quality schools and choose more - expensive neighborhoods — the very places where good schools are likely to be.

The most rigorous and comprehensive research on vouchers finds that they negatively affect student achievement, but the impact of a nationwide voucher initiative would be particularly devastating in rural communities and small towns where there are not enough students to sustain multiple schools at each grade span.

The day after the election, here at the Impact Hub (the co-working space where Educate78 is based), the founders spontaneously organized a community conversation that culminated in each person talking with someone they didn't already know to ask, «What do you need and how can I help?»

«The provision of choice, and the publication of data on school performance, has sometimes had little impact, especially in districts where reform lacks adequate local ownership, community and wider civic involvement, and parent engagement,» Bruno Manno notes.

For example, the community meeting where APS families impacted by the innovation zone could give feedback on drafts of the innovation plans did not see a large number of community members or families in attendance.

Furthermore, schools with large percentages of newly hired teachers, often in the lowest - income communities where students need the most support, would be the most severely impacted.

At the NYC Leadership Academy, we believe in meeting districts where they are, supporting them in having the hard conversations about the existence and impact of personal and systemic racism on students, and then helping them develop strategies for making and maintaining change that will work for their communities.

Since opening in 2009, Brooklyn Prospect has been dedicated to building and growing learning communities where excellent teachers prepare diverse student bodies to have a positive impact on society and a lifelong passion for learning.

It is in these communities where both private and public investments can make a significant impact on educational inequities, and in the lives of children who otherwise wouldn't have access to critical summer and after school resources.

Where I see this playing out is that if you have too many charters or options that aren't public having a negative impact on the education system as a whole, you may start seeing challenges in these communities saying that the state is failing to provide children with a system of public education, or that the options provided aren't of sufficient quality to satisfy the state's obligation to provide a public education.

I love that KIPP Indy is embedded in a community where there is a need for me and where teachers can have a big impact.