Sentences with phrase «important social challenges»

Today we announced the ten artists and artist collectives selected for the 2016 Artist as Activist Fellowship — the Foundation's two - year grant program designed to support independent artists and artist collectives who tackle important social challenges through their creative practice.

The Robert Rauschenberg Foundation has selected the recipients of its 2016 Artist as Activist Fellowship — a two - year grant program designed to support US based artists and artist collectives tackling important social challenges through their creative practice.

Not exact matches

The project's launch featured a prominent ALS patient and research advocate: Pat Quinn, co-founder of the ALS Ice Bucket Challenge, an initially - derided social media stunt that went on to raise hundreds of millions of dollars for ALS research and may have spurred important new discoveries about the disease's genetic roots.

According to bestselling author Ben Angel, one of the biggest challenges in the new social media economy is how to create important content that stands out from pack — but, more importantly, content that will convert prospects into customers.

Inc.com's Lou Dubois talked with Torpey about how social media helped his campaign, why bringing technology to government is important and the biggest challenges of being a 23 - year - old mayor.

Those hard times and the city's challenges are what make the startup scene even more important — and not because startups will cure every social and economic issue the region faces.

It's true that the 235,826 immigrants Canada accepted last year represent important challenges in terms of their economic and social integration with the rest of the country.

Researching their social media platforms, learning more about the challenges they are facing and understanding the culture of the organization are important parts of showing that you care about the company and are the best candidate.

Yet if the most important development in that doctrine in Caritas in Veritate is a strong linkage of the life issues to Catholic social - justice concerns, then it is also true that the challenge of this particular encyclical falls more sharply on those who believe that Roe v. Wade was rightly decided, and remedied an injustice in prior American law.»

Thus, the central challenge posed by black theology is that neoclassical metaphysics consider the realities of oppression as among the most important, if not the most important of the relevant empirical facts to be used together with non-empirical principles for the illumination of value problems of personal and social life.

As important as it is to challenge Christian leaders when what they say is harmful or untrue, I'm realizing that in the context of social media, I may need to be more careful because I have more power than I think.

Amarjit Sahota, president of Organic Monitor (organizer of the Sustainable Foods Summit) quotes: «there is a growing realization that sustainable agriculture can play an important role in tackling the environmental and social challenges faced by the food industry.

It is impossible to say for sure, but a lot of Arsenal fans have been suggesting on social media that Cazorla is a hugely important player for us and that our challenge for the EPL title would have been much stronger had he not picked up that ankle injury in October.

Overall, our social stories have helped us to communicate with our toddler, have provided opportunities to repeat important messages when he's calm and listening, and have helped us navigate some of our parenting challenges.

PFC's goal is to help women and men find answers and get the support they need to make important medical decisions and address the medical, emotional, social and economic challenges infertility can present.

Another aspect that that makes me passionate is that this method fully includes the baby's perspective into the process, and the emphasis is on social interaction, happiness and comfort in this sometimes challenging, yet important position.

Britain leaving the EU does present some important challenges — both economic and social — that have splintered the British political, economic, cultural and ideological landscape.

That's important, but not a solution to the difficult challenge of funding social security disability payments.

This is important, as behavioural research has shown that (unconditional) intrinsic motivation often sustains helping behaviour in the long - term, whereas (conditional) extrinsic incentives only tend to work for as long as the social incentive is maintained — of which a 4 - week (summer) challenge is a prime example6.

The research highlights the important role that big data, including streams from social media and environmental sensors, could play in addressing health challenges, Ram said.

«Social interactions seem to impose important cognitive challenges that must be met by enhanced investment in certain brain regions,» he says.

«We think the group approach is important, because it creates social support for a group of men who have experienced shared challenges, and that can increase the chances of long - term behavior change,» Focht said.

DARPA's Transformational Convergence Technology Office (TCTO) created the Network Challenge to acknowledge this important moment in Internet history as well as to provide a test bed for better understanding the dynamics of social networking.

Transmedia storytelling — telling a single story across multiple media platforms — as a means to help students engage with challenging cultural issues of civic responsibility, diversity, and social justice can be an important tool in the classroom, especially in an age where students are finding it increasingly difficult to see over the wall between their school lives and their «real» lives.

Transmedia storytelling — telling a single story across multiple media platforms — as a means to help students engage with challenging cultural issues of civic responsibility, diversity, and social justice can be an important tool in the...

Although my overall goal is still the same, I have transformed the way in which I see how social entrepreneurship, behavioral science, and economic interventions play an important role in addressing some of Latin America's most pressing educational challenges.

Together, these skills allow children to attend to important information, avoid impulsive reactions, and navigate social challenges in their everyday lives.

In these service projects these students were gaining and demonstrating important competencies for life, for work and for civic engagement: compassion, empathy, imagination, complex thinking, the capacity to understand social challenges, the skills to identify a point of entry to address them, and the courage, commitment and skills to implicate themselves and to collaborate across several dimensions of difference in constructing a solution.

Social and emotional learning also equips students with the skills that today's employers consider important for the workforce of the future — communication, collaboration, cooperation, goal setting, problem solving, and persistence in the face of challenges.

Why, then, do the majority of district, state, and federal education policies prioritize annual assessment results over equally important factors, such as challenging and engaging curricula; strong social - emotional and physical health supports; moral and ethical development; and safe, supportive learning environments?

Many students struggle to learn challenging content area material across the curriculum (Ness, 2009), largely due to lack of student interest, even apathy, in important topics like experimental design in science, order of operations in mathematics, cultural and social change in social studies, and inferential thinking in language arts.

Throughout this rich dialog, preservice and in - service teachers from around the country, teaching in communities with different values, traditions, curricula, and students, wrestled together with one of the most important and challenging questions in social studies instruction.

In that flat world, what will differentiate outcomes is how motivated students are to undertake the work of learning; how well they tackle the inevitable barriers to achievement, including social and emotional challenges; and whether they move beyond the basics and engage in the higher - order learning that's increasingly important for college, careers, and life.

I believe ACER has a significant contribution to make to important education debates in the UK and other EU countries, in particular addressing the challenge of under - achievement of disadvantaged children and contributing to the UK government's national plan to improve social mobility through education: Unlocking Talent, Fulfilling Potential.

Educators overwhelmingly agree that an excellent education experience goes well beyond academic achievement to include equally important factors such as challenging and engaging curricula; strong social - emotional and physical health supports; moral and ethical development; and safe, supportive learning environments.

For those of us committed to helping children overcome learning challenges, the quest to teach social skills is particularly important.

In a social studies unit challenge focusing on the Constitution, students are asked to devise a compelling argument as to why voting is important.

There's publicity, advertising and of course social media, but before you invest your money and time, it is important to know the benefits and challenges of the three types of marketing options (commonly known as Owned, Paid and Earned media by us marketing geeks).

While Instagram is a super important social media platform, I'll also be sharing the daily challenge on Twitter and Facebook as well!

Moreno said that, Â «Belize faces today, important social and economical challenges, but also has enormous development potential.

In his early work he used art forms typical for the punk culture, such as graffiti and protests, challenging important social issues.

Various artists in this exhibit challenge the media's superficial treatment of important critical social issues by undertaking in - depth research.

Challenging the traditional fair layout, Maleki organized the floor in a playful, yet efficient way, outfitting the space in classic green astro turf to remind us of Istanbul's parks that used to play such an important role in the cultural and social life of the Ottoman Empire and the early days of the republic.

Fifteen experienced young people identified social political upheaval and climate shifts as the two most important challenges they'll face.

But it said that meeting that target is a complex social challenge, that energy is important to the global quality of life, and that the issues should not be tackled in court.

Children across the world can join the LEGO Planet Crew on LEGO.com (www.lego.com/planetcrew/), where they can learn through play about important environmental and social issues, and share their views on the responsibility issues they feel most passionate about.LEGO Life, the Group's social media platform (https://www.lego.com/life), which has more than one million users, is hosting a series of challenges during June and July to encourage children to build their vision of a sustainable future using LEGO bricks.

But their endurance and growth will be at the heart of some of this century's most important social and economic challenges.

This has important implications for financing future contracts, especially those which are capital intensive charities and social enterprises face some real challenges in participating in this new market, ie where new premises, equipment or vehicles are required.

West Coast Environmental Law also demonstrated a novel approach to public awareness building with their recent inaugural twitter moot, and I personally believe social media, despite its challenges, can and will play an important role in making the legal system more open over time.

But for a significant group of practitioners, the world is, if not their catchment area, then certainly territory that can provide clients or challenges for clients, and it's important from time to time to refresh an understanding of the reach of social technology.