Sentences with phrase «importance of local support»

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As a European entrepreneur, I've seen firsthand the importance of having great people who know our business inside and out working face - to - face with clients throughout the U.S. Customers respond most positively to local support and expertise.

With an emphasis on cooking and healthy eating, and the importance of purchasing and eating local food will support local food growers in the community and in the region, the Kitchener Market offers fun and educational opportunities for children and adults alike.

In my day job, I work with ASTRA, the American Speciality Toy Retailing Association, so I understand the importance of supporting local businesses.

Ask them to use their influence on the Local Authority to showcase the importance of breastfeeding to public health and safeguard their budget for health visiting and breastfeeding support.

Farm to school month celebrates the growing importance of farm - to - school programs in childhood nutrition, as well as a way to support farming, ranching, and local economies.

We can not stress enough the importance of supporting your local streets and stores.

«Main Street Ice Cream is a terrific example of why small, local businesses are critical to our communities, demonstrating the importance of supporting organizations and being an integral part of what makes our region great,» Legislator Dixon added.

The Chautauqua County Chamber of Commerce works to promote local business year - round because we see the importance of supporting our local business owners and workforce.

At 1:30 p.m., Assemblywoman Nicole Malliotakis, Third Avenue Merchants and local business owners host a press conference highlighting the importance of supporting local businesses, Bookmark Shoppe, 8415 3rd Ave., Brooklyn.

While supporting regional collaboration it clearly highlights the importance of local action in the drive for sustainable growth and recommends practical actions for planning and development.

3) The Hungarian Brain Research Program, initiated by the government in 2012, and launched in 2014, aims to support brain research projects in which Hungary has significant local expertise or traditions, and which are of considerable scientific, clinical or societal importance.

The Convention recognizes the importance of women in the implementation of the Convention, and identifies critical areas for their engagement: (i) awareness - raising, and participation in the design and implementation of programmes; (ii) decision - making processes that men and women adopt at the local level in the governance of development, implementation and review of regional and national action programmes (RAPs and NAPs); and (iii) capacity - building, education and public awareness, particularly at local level through the support of local organizations.

Kevin is a long - time Parkinson's advocate who travels his home state to speak at support groups, fundraisers and local community health fairs on the importance of taking action to advance the policy needs of people with Parkinson's and their loved ones.

Beyond expressing the importance of supporting our local foodsheds, I love Kingsolver's argument for eating sustainable, humanely raised meat which quelled my remaining guilt at the time for reverting to a carnivorous diet.

Through service learning, students discover the importance of supporting local songbird population because of their symbiotic relationship with humans.

Adelman says, however, that she has been met with a lot of local support for her research, and the importance of the work she is conducting is recognized.

However, given the importance of public - welfare and health spending indicated by my findings, and the large increase in state spending on Medicaid (an increase of more than $ 1,000 per capita since 1987 based on figures from the Centers for Medicare and Medicaid Services), it is safe to conclude that Medicaid has been the single biggest contributor to the decline in higher - education support at the state and local level.

By selecting two states that have near - universal support from school districts and state and local teachers» unions, and in touting that achievement in press briefings, the federal Education Department is telegraphing the importance of stakeholder buy - in.

Additionally, LSA maintains a litigation support fund to help local boards financially in cases of statewide importance.

Cohen points out that he's hearing more conversation about the importance of moving away from purely top - down, state - led policies to policies that support bottom - up solutions from local school systems.

Here and now, with local control funding and increasing recognition of the importance of educating the «whole child», we have enormous opportunities to ensure every child comes to school ready and able to learn, with the whole range of supports and opportunities they need and deserve.

Craig also noted the importance of supporting rural families in tackling particular challenges, such as transportation limitations, through connections with local organizations and other creative solutions.

I also discussed the importance of education schools partnering with local districts to meet school needs and support innovation — especially in the STEM areas: science, technology, engineering and math.

ESEA TITLE II, PART A Michelle Pierre - Farid, the Chief Academic Officer for the Cleveland Metropolitan School District, calls out the importance of using ESEA Title II - A funds at the state and local levels to support initiatives that bolster principal effectiveness.

Speaking in support of her proposal, Commissioner Donalds pointed to several references by speakers of the importance of local control of educational opportunities.

Partners for and our state Partners have collaborated to produce A District Guide to ESSA and the Importance of Stakeholder Engagement — a guide to support districts and schools as they participate in state - level decision - making, and begin to prepare for what comes next at the local level under ESSA.

And finally, we discovered that the importance of buy ‐ in by the school administration, and the support of a local champion, can not be understated.

In it's inaugural year, the Ruth Toor Grant for Strong Public School Libraries provides financial support to public school libraries that are interested in increasing local awareness regarding the importance of school libraries and certified school librarians.

The city showed the importance of working together to win the contest, rallying support from citizens, elected officials, animal lovers, pet professionals and animal welfare groups, local media outlets and others.

I do not mean to diminish the Menil's continued support for worthy causes or to discount the importance of its scholarly endeavors such as the Jasper Johns catalogue raisonné when I say that the more time passes, the more its international prestige eclipses its local significance.

In order to understand the potential importance of the effect, let's look at what it could do to our understanding of climate: 1) It will have zero effect on the global climate models, because a) the constraints on these models are derived from other sources b) the effect is known and there are methods for dealing the errors they introduce c) the effect they introduce is local, not global, so they can not be responsible for the signal / trend we see, but would at most introduce noise into that signal 2) It will not alter the conclusion that the climate is changing or even the degree to which it is changing because of c) above and because that conclusion is supported by multiple additional lines of evidence, all of which are consistent with the trends shown in the land stations.

One of the most striking conclusions was the importance of local institutions and social capital such as farming associations in initiating and supporting adaptations.

Located on the lands of the municipality of Saint - Robert - Bellarmin, in the RCM (Regional County Municipality) of Le Granit, administrative region of Estrie, the project exemplifies the importance of collaboration and support of local communities in the successful development and implementation of wind energy projects.

I write about the importance of buying ethical and sustainable products, supporting local businesses, minimizing waste, reducing meat, riding a bike instead of driving.

The magazine has teamed with restaurateurs in Atlanta, Athens & Palmetto to raise money for their Grow for Good campaign, which is a national initiative dedicated to raising awareness of sustainable agriculture and educating about the importance of supporting local farms.

Similarly in late June 2005, all Australian governments reaffirmed their commitment to «advance reconciliation and address the social and economic disadvantages experienced by many indigenous Australians» at the meeting of the Council of Australian Governments.38 This Communique © from COAG commits to indigenous participation at all levels; engagement with representative organisations; flexible approaches and adequate resources to support capacity at the local and regional levels.39 The Communique © also recognised the importance of a learning approach to service delivery and policy development.

Anderson talked about the importance of good evidence and evidence translation for Closing the Gap, saying his unit was looking to build investment in infrastructure to support regional and local decision making the provides «the granular data they need to make a decision».

Another panel member, Ben Schokman of the Human Rights Law Centre, reinforced the importance of supporting and empowering local communities to design and implement their own social programs for change, and gave some inspiring international case studies.

Its work includes building local capacity to provide fatherhood and relationship education, providing this education to fathers, increasing public awareness of the importance of father involvement, and promoting the fatherhood and relationship supports offered by DFCC members.75

In 2014, Thrive will continue to provide funding to the 10 Early Learning Regional Coalitions, which play an important role in coordinating and connecting resources and programs in their communities (including home visiting, WaKIDS Early Learning Collaboration and Early Achievers); getting information out to families about the importance of early learning; engaging harder to reach families and communities; and creating local advocates who take action to generate support for early learning at local and state levels.

The Partnership for Children (PFC) of Cumberland County was included in a «playbook» released by the White House as part of an effort to support state and local elected officials in conveying the importance of high quality early learning,...

The Partnership for Children (PFC) of Cumberland County was included in a «playbook» released by the White House as part of an effort to support state and local elected officials in conveying the importance of high quality early learning, and developing and expanding early education in their communities.

For example, the secretary of education can call attention to the importance of SECD, disseminate information about it, provide direct support to schools that implement it, and create incentives for states and local school districts to adopt policies and practices that support it.