Sentences with phrase «impact our communities from»

«As an author and a community activist, I have made a living promoting change through various mediums, but this crisis has been very hard on those of us trying to positively impact our communities from outside of government.»

Earthjustice is protecting national air quality and defending impacted communities from toxic pollution because we all have a right to breathe clean, healthy air.

This unprecedented statement by social movements of climate - impacted communities from the global South as well as faith, labour, environmental, and anti-poverty groups representing tens of millions of people from around the world sets out the minimum needed from the Paris summit COP21.

Today ministers from around the world gathered at the UN General Assembly to discuss climate change received an unprecedented statement by Friends of the Earth and social movements of climate - impacted communities from the global South as well as faith, labour, environmental, and anti-poverty groups representing tens of millions of people from around the world.

The case may one day be an important precedent for climate - impacted communities from (for example) Bangladesh or Tuvalu seeking to enforce a debt in Canadian courts.

Join us for a bite to eat and learn how Heartland Family Service programs and services impact our community from John Jeanetta, Heartland Family Service President and CEO.

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The impact ultimately comes not just from which organizations receive funding but also the development of positive, lasting relationships between companies and their communities.

«Like many of our social impact initiatives, the innovation and inspiration comes from our partners who are volunteering in and contributing to their communities,» said John Kelly, senior vice president, Starbucks Global Responsibility, Community and Public Policy.

«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.»

«If you look at more current information, you will see that these data points are not demonstrative of our current network, community impact, and both the direct and indirect job creation near fulfillment centers,» a company representative said previously, adding that «Amazon's investments led to the creation of 200,000 additional non-Amazon jobs, ranging from construction jobs to healthcare industry positions.»

But it's clear from Zuckerberg that decisions will be weighed against the impact on Facebook's community — which arguably is the most valuable thing they have.

According to a poll from Business 2 Community, 43.5 % of businesses have a good qualitative sense of the impact, but not a quantitative impact.

«If Dodd - Frank was written exactly as it's written except there was no Consumer Financial Protection Bureau, no Title X of the law, community banks really wouldn't feel much of the impact from Dodd - Frank — it would be marginal at the most,» said Camden Fine, president and chief executive of the Independent Community Bankers ofcommunity banks really wouldn't feel much of the impact from Dodd - Frank — it would be marginal at the most,» said Camden Fine, president and chief executive of the Independent Community Bankers ofCommunity Bankers of America.

Schultz has long championed corporate social impact, but his high - profile push on the issue of race has some from both the business world and the black community wondering whether there's a limit to the growing trend of what's known as «CEO activism.»

from the Bitcoin world (which had a monumental impact on the community and signaled the «blowing up» point of this argument), he initiated the Bitcoin XT hard fork for the following reasons:

Kindra's keynote will provide concrete ideas on maximizing storytelling techniques to ensure that the customer intelligence you get from your insight community makes a bigger impact as you share it with your stakeholders and decision - makers.

SOCIAL IMPACT X DESIGN From health care and education to housing and environmental degradation, learn how design has been used by businesses, nonprofits, and entrepreneurs to create inclusive products, services, and strategic frameworks that solve «wicked» problems, identify sustainable solutions, and create even greater benefits for the communities they serve.

We both come from communities that have been directly impacted by gun violence.

Smith points to the threats the pipeline poses to British Columbia's tourism industry, rising floodwaters in Bangladesh and the Maldives, drought in sub-Saharan Africa and Mexico, the homes that will be lost in future forest fires, respiratory health impacts in communities from Vancouver to Kamloops and Quesnel, and future hurricanes in the Caribbean and Gulf states as climate impacts that are left out of the narrative about the project.

We're teaming up with @NAACP and these celebrities to send 17 buses of young people from communities impacted by gun violence around the country to the #MarchForOurLives in Washington D.C. tomorrow: https://t.co/7vbOJmqQkN @AMarch4OurLives pic.twitter.com/BJ 4uzPGlBs

Grounded in Boston Fed research, the Challenge encourages leaders from the public, private, and nonprofit sectors to advance proposals that tackle complex challenges facing smaller post-industrial cities and achieve large scale impact across communities.

As an example of our firm's commitment to citizenship and community engagement, Goldman Sachs Gives continued to expand its reach in 2017, through initiatives such as the second annual Analyst Impact Fund, a competition whereby teams of analysts from the firm vied to win a Goldman Sachs Gives grant to the nonprofit of their choice.

Our analysis demonstrates that the limited number of North Korean leaders and ruling elite with access to the internet are actively engaged in Western and popular social media, regularly read international news, use many of the same services such as video streaming and online gaming, and above all, are not disconnected from the world at large or the impact North Korea's actions have on the community of nations.

In order to partially mitigate the impact on the small business community, the government has also committed to reduce the small business tax rate by 40 % (from 2.5 % to 1.5 %) by 2017 - 18.

Join us on May 10th at Greentown Labs, the largest cleantech startup incubator in the U.S., to hear a variety of success stories and lessons learned, meet organizations at the forefront of impact investing, and see curated group of startups from the Greentown Labs community share how their innovations are impacting our clean energy future.

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.

From our beginnings, Starbucks has always, and remains committed to, using our scale to positively impact the communities we serve around the world.

These ministers, from across Canada, will be instrumental in guiding the direction of the Canadian economy and will make decisions that have a direct impact on the health and vitality of the Greater Vancouver business community.

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.

Below is an analysis of Budget 2017 Update from the Greater Vancouver Board of Trade, outlining some of the government's key announcements and the impact those decisions may have on our Members and our region's business community moving forward.

Freeing Main Street community banks from regulations designed for larger and riskier Wall Street financial firms will produce a positive economic impact while preserving the widespread benefits of local banking over the long - term.

Alison believes that diversity, a multi-disciplinary approach, and the lessons and principles learned from the past, will be crucial to the advancement of these newer technologies and thus in creating the communities, social, and economic impact we all desire.

It is also not uncommon for ICCR to invite other stakeholders to the conversation including representatives from NGOs and community groups as well as subject matter experts advocating on any given issue as a way to build bridges between companies and the communities impacted by their operations.

I argued that the humanity of the Crucified Jesus as the foretaste and criterion of being truly human, would be a much better and more understandable and acceptable Christian contribution to common inter-religious-ideological search for world community because the movements of renaissance in most religions and rethinking in most secular ideologies were the results of the impact of what we know of the life and death of the historical person of Jesus or of human values from it.

Byassee concludes: «But coming from a community that's been told for so long what they're allowed to say and not say has an impact on you.

Simmonds asked people to pray that the response is from worldwide community can mitigate the negative impact of the storm.

If Reno wants to dismiss the ethical dimension of this issue, he will have to convince me that what happens in a confined poultry house from start to finish — and its complete impact on land, chicken, farmer, eater, community — is ethically defensible, especially in the face of the viable and sensible alternatives offered by operations like my own.

Fair Trade really is a community effort and has a positive impact on the community where goods are coming from.

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.

The certification from the Rainforest Alliance shows that Caribou Coffee is concerned about how its business impacts the world on a global scale, but the company is just as focused on how it affects the communities in which its stores are located.

«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.»

Manage air quality from production facilities to minimize the impact on neighbors and the community.

It could only be achieved if there was no detrimental impact to the river communities from securing it and it had to come from willing sellers or state government projects.»

Ms Ruston told parliament on Tuesday they were not moving away from the 450gL target, but it was becoming increasingly obvious there were challenges in being able to deliver the water without having detrimental impacts on river communities.

Driving impact from field and forest to shelf, Rainforest Alliance expertise brings benefits on a global scale to farmers, foresters, communities, landscapes, businesses and brands.

With support from the Alliance, the companies will seek partnerships with local organizations and community leaders to increase the scope and impact of the initiative and drive change in the marketplace for the health and well - being of their communities.

In her paper, Liz Young from Local Harvest highlighted the positive impact such projects can have on farmers and local communities.

Nicholas Meat's new facilities will be designed to recover both energy and water from waste products generated on site and significantly reduce the impact of the beef and veal processing plant on the local community.

We must work to manage our direct impacts — those that result from NWNA's operations; and we must work in partnership with local communities, academics, not - for - profits and others to monitor our collective impacts, minimize and eliminate them and steward and sustain the resources on which we all depend.

Donating food can have a positive impact on many people, from your employees to the broader community.