Sentences with phrase «impact initiative focused»

JV: We are part of the national Active Schools collective - impact initiative focused on promoting physical activity and healthy school environments.

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Outgoing CEO Schultz, who for many investors is closely tied with Starbucks» identity, will be executive chairman and focus on the brand's Reserve roasteries around the world, its Reserve retail store format and social impact initiatives for the company.

Melltoo co-founder Sharene Lee highlights the startup's growth, its new initiative focusing on social impact, and her advice on entrepreneurship.

Our initiatives are focused where we believe we can have the greatest impact: building job skills, expanding small businesses, revitalizing neighborhoods, and promoting financial health.

By expanding the focus of the SBIC program, the initiative encouraged investors to look at early stage companies and impact investing.

Their focus on overcoming disease, improving education, and lobbying for climate change initiatives is having a powerful impact.

«By combining HuffPost with AOL's network of sites, thriving video initiative, local focus, and international reach, we know we'll be creating a company that can have an enormous impact, reaching a global audience on every imaginable platform,» she writes.

But, in order to make an impact that extends massive employers like Apple, JPMorgan, Amazon, and Berkshire Hathaway, it'll take new initiatives that don't just focus on cutting a few costs.

This allows them to focus on the activities and initiatives that will have the greatest, positive impact on the organization as a whole.

The company also has an employee - driven volunteering platform, Beedie Cares, which focuses on «small dollar, big impact» initiatives supporting children, seniors, and families in our community.

We typically focus on initiatives and activities that can have the greatest impact given the specific nature of our operations, such as our wind and solar farms to generate electricity and our frustration - free packaging initiatives, but we also have innumerable large and small initiatives underway at any point in time, as we seek to constantly invent across the company.

On March 3 and 4, NMSDC launched IMPACT 2015, a two - day event hosted by Time Warner Inc. featuring knowledge sharing, networking, updates on exciting new initiatives and a focus on our NMSDC certified women business -LSB-...]

• Source our iconic ingredients sustainably; • Improve the livelihoods of small farmers who grow McCormick's iconic herbs and spices; • Champion equality for women and people of color through supplier diversity programs, educational programs and employee focused initiatives; • Reduce the company's environmental impact by lowering our carbon footprint, decreasing water use, reducing solid waste and developing sustainable packaging innovations.

This includes Corporate Social Investment, whereby the group promotes the development of learners through three academies which offer holistic, full - year programmes centred around sport, art and education; Entrepreneur Development which focuses on skills - based entrepreneurial development through its Tsogo Sun Book a Guesthouse and Supplier Development programmes; and Environmental Education, committed to initiatives that reduce the impact the business has on the environment.

In India — where the Maggi Noodles controversy continues to rage — and the law forbids promotion of any products for babies under 2 years, Nestlé is boasting about its new Maternity Protection Policy, describing its Start Healthy Stay Healthy campaign as «a science - based educational initiative by Nestlé which, in partnership with doctors, focuses on the lifelong impact of breastfeeding and the first 1,000 days of life.»

Panels focused on current efforts to tackle climate change, ranging from local environmental initiatives to the global Paris climate agreement, as well as how divestment from fossil fuels can be a tool for climate justice and curbing the impacts of climate change.

Michael McAfee, president of PolicyLink, has led the effort to make President Obama's Promise Neighborhoods initiative a reality in communities across the U.S. Please join the Education Redesign Lab (ERL) and cities participating in ERL's By All Means initiative for McAfee's keynote speech on May 18, 2017 at 11:15 a.m.. His talk, entitled «Equity and Collective Impact in Systems Change,» will focus on the work of the Promise Neighborhood Institute to build stronger systems of educational support and opportunity for children.

The RIDES initiative is building upon prior work in ways that can increase the impact we have on the sector by focusing on practices: How people learn, customize, use, and assess the impacts of systemic approaches to integration in their settings.

The tools and methods for assessing and designing initiatives to impact school culture and climate, with consideration for policies and sustainability, is the focus for the remaining weeks.

The Education Trust West recently released a report, Black Minds Matter, that lays out the troubling impact, on students and their future, if «the California Department of Education [continues to] lack an office, initiative or committee focused on African American achievement or the achievement gap, more generally.»

Moving into the position as Instructional Resource and Professional Development Director, Morris designed and delivered training for the organization's staff and members focusing on educational initiatives impacting it's 100,000 plus members.

It prepares district and school administrators and / or leadership teams to: • Make data actionable and competency - based • Use data to bring coherence across improvement initiatives & maximize their impact • Build a system - wide culture of data - literacy and student - focused teaching and learning • Create capacity to collect evidence needed to validate successful implementation and gauge impact on achievement Leaders will learn what it takes to initiate, support, and sustain the meaningful and productive use of data throughout an organization — with an emphasis on how to support teachers» use of data.

We have also conducted implementation and impact studies of school reform initiatives focusing on math achievement in k - 12 schools funded by the U.S. Department of Education.

Launched in 2011, Project Leadership and Investment for Transformation, or L.I.F.T., is a five - year initiative in nine low - performing schools in Charlotte, North Carolina.35 The project focuses on innovative strategies to provide students with extended learning time and increased access to technology while supporting community engagement and excellent teaching.36 Project L.I.F.T. worked with Public Impact — a nonprofit organization that works with school districts to create innovative school models — to design hybrid teacher - leader roles that «extend the reach» of high - performing teachers to more students.37 These «multi-classroom leaders» continue to teach while leading teams of teachers and assuming responsibility for the learning of all students taught by their team.38 For this advanced role, teachers earn supplements of up to $ 23,000 annually, funded sustainably by reallocating funds within current budgets.39

Dr. McAfee has led the effort to make the Promise Neighborhoods initiative a reality in communities across the U.S.. His talk, entitled «Equity and Collective Impact in Systems Change,» focuses on the work of the Promise Neighborhood Institute to build stronger systems of educational support and opportunity for children.

In the category of Creating Quality Educational Opportunities Focus St. Louis Award recognizes organizations, individuals, and initiatives that have made a significant impact on St. Louis.

We continue to focus on our global impact with international initiatives like HarperCollins Mexico, Thomas Nelson Brasil, and others including working with many international publishing partners around the world.

Since its launch in 2013, the Sharpen Your Financial Focus (Sharpen) initiative of the National Foundation for Credit Counseling (NFCC) has impacted the lives of more than 60,000 American consumers, helping them identify and resolve immediate financial concerns, gain a deeper understanding of financial literacy and debt management, and move toward long - term financial stability.

While we don't want to give it all away yet, the program will encompass a variety of initiatives: Bodhi Surf School's own community, impact - reduction, and educational efforts; support of multiple non-profit organizations that focus on a variety of issues within our community; and the connection of visitors with opportunities to contribute their time, energy, and money to ongoing projects and campaigns during and / or after their time here.

The two - day TMW conference is a leading creative impact event focusing on music, new economy, civic initiative, gender politics, better cities and design thinking.

As with all the XX initiatives the decision focused on maximising its impact and Leeds Art Gallery will particularly benefit due to its strong connection to a number of academic institutions in the region and its sound interest in working towards gender balance in both the collection and program.

Also included in this larger figure is $ 86 million to support clean energy regulatory actions that focus on energy efficiency; $ 48 million to develop transportation sector regulations and next - generation clean transportation initiatives; $ 58 million for projects that improve our understanding of climate change impacts; and $ 25 million to advance Canada's engagement in international negotiations and support the Canada-U.S. Clean Energy Dialogue.

She also manages the activities of the Make an Impact initiative, an employee - focused energy efficiency partnership between C2ES and corporate and community partners.

Adam Markham directs UCS's special initiative on climate impacts and works with a broad array of stakeholders to focus the attention of policy makers and others on local climate impacts and the need for effective resilience strategies and policy solutions.

Betsy Taylor «s consulting practice focuses on high - impact, catalytic initiatives to address climate change and promote a su...

Other sessions will focus on public - private support for EU directives, energy efficiency benefits, plug load potential, transportation, finance, global cooling initiatives and scaling impact through the SEforALL Energy Efficiency Accelerator platform.

And in making this plan happen, the rich countries must take the lead: Focusing Just on the Economy is Short - Sighted The report says that efforts to revive the world economy alone are essential «unless new policy initiatives also address other global challenges — reducing carbon dependency, protecting ecosystems and water resources, alleviating poverty — their impact on averting future crises will be short - lived.»

The second initiative by Clif Bar focuses on educating the public on renewable energy to offset their own impact on global warming.

The firm's industry - leading initiatives focused on the hiring, advancement, retention, and promotion of female attorneys was recently recognized with the Chambers USA 2017 Women in Law Awards for «Outstanding Firm in Advancing Gender Diversity and Inclusion» and the Diversity & Flexibility Alliance's 2017 Flex Impact Award.

This added support allows executives to maintain a focus on important day - to - day operations, which may otherwise be impacted during periods involving strategic initiatives.

Today, while continuing the work of Time Banking, Edgar Cahn has embarked on a civil rights initiative to address racial disparity by proposing to shift the focus from past to future by formally giving officials a future choice between continuing with present practices that often result in racially disparate impact, with validated, less expensive and replicable alternatives.

However, the overarching takeaway is universal to other law firm marketing initiatives: Focus on a smaller group of clients, using tactics that achieve the greatest impact and positive outcome.

The Victim Focus initiative, which has been tested for the last year under the umbrella of the Victims» Advocate Scheme pilots, will introduce prosecutors to families to produce impact statements.

It's easy to see how a reversal of a key climate focused initiative would have adverse effects on Apple's bottom line, in addition to all of the clear negative impact on the, you know, environment.

If you are looking for a seasoned Hotel Operations Leader who will make an immediate and positive impact upon operations, security and communication initiatives, staff development and mentoring initiatives as well as focusing on the bottom - line budget requirements, please contact me as I would like to explore the opportunity.

If you are looking for a seasoned Operations Leader who will make an immediate and positive impact upon operations, security and communication initiatives, staff development and mentoring initiatives as well as focusing on the bottom - line budget requirements, please contact me as I would like to explore the opportunity.

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