Sentences with phrase «improving access to education»

Member groups focus primarily on improving access to education and healthcare, promoting human rights, securing safe and affordable housing, strengthening communities and creating change through the arts.

These repayment plans are not for everyone, according to Zakiya Smith, a strategy director at the Lumina Foundation, a nonprofit focused on improving access to education.

In recent years, the goal for children with disabilities has shifted from improving access to education to improving student performance.

Contributors and community members are provided with a network of people embracing the same passion for sharing and improving access to education.

In that vein, Cuomo announced the Middle Class Economic Recovery Act — a set of proposals aimed at creating jobs and infrastructure, improving access to education, and lowering the tax burden for the middle class.

Eldorado works closely with the local communities where it has mines and projects to create employment opportunities, improve access to education and healthcare, protect the environment and develop infrastructure.

The President said it was to improve access to education that his flagship community day senior high school (SHS) project was born.

Many global institutions working to improve access to education, such as the United Nations, the Organization for Economic Cooperation and Development and Education International agree that «teacher quality» is the critical element in whether or not an educational system succeeds.

Cornerstone started with a simple (but bold) idea — to improve access to education on a global basis through online learning.

Access to affordable and reliable energy is, of course, essential for sustainable development, poverty reduction, improved access to education and healthcare, and the promotion of public safety and stable government.

Break into Law begins with projects that improve access to education for young people, moving through to initiatives that provide an insight into and experience of our industry, directly linking into our firm's diversity priorities.

Michelle was a Principal Research Fellow at ACER where she founded and led Tender Bridge ™, a national social enterprise to improve the access to education - related funding for schools and LLEAP — Leading Learning in Education and Philanthropy, which investigates and documents models of philanthropic engagement in education.

Not exact matches

«We have dramatically increased access to school options for Newark families, provided grants directly to teachers at 37 schools, given 300,000 books to Newark students through the My Very Own Library program, and just recently, we committed to a $ 1 million initiative to improve early childhood education in Newark,» the foundation said in a statement to CNBC.

Gates established the Bill and Melinda Gates Foundation in 2000, a private philanthropic foundation dedicated to reducing poverty, enhancing health care, improving education opportunities, and providing access to technology worldwide.

During his 14 years in office, Chávez tightened his grip on PDVSA while simultaneously pursuing programs aimed at improving access to health, education and food for poor Venezuelans.

We are committed to improving student performance and increasing access to quality education so that children and adolescents around the globe have improved opportunities for success.

The thing is, we know how to turn these numbers around: better education, access to contraception, and improved and affordable prenatal and infant care.

Angela Glover Blackwell, Appointee for Member, President's Advisory Council on Faith - Based and Neighborhood Partnerships Angela Glover Blackwell is the Founder and Chief Executive Officer of Policy Link, a nonprofit organization that strives to advance economic and social equity, improving access and opportunity for all low - income people and communities of color, particularly in the areas of health, housing, transportation, education and infrastructure.

The other two focal points of Santa Sweets» CSR initiative are improving its employees» access to wellness care as well as education.

Benefits for approximately 1.5 million small - scale farmers and workers around the world include: • A fair price on products • Improved access to low - or no - interest loans • Technical assistance for building infrastructure • Communications systems • Collectively - owned transport & processing equipment • Better health care & education • Training & skill diversification

Jilly was instrumental in the creation and expansion of Healthy Neighborhoods, an extension of City Harvest's anti-hunger work designed to respond to the need for emergency food, improve access to fruits and vegetables for residents in low - income communities and provide nutrition education to inspire affordable, healthy meal choices.

And there are also many, many things we could be doing to encourage children's acceptance of healthier school meals: imposing meaningful restrictions on children's junk food advertising; requiring food education in schools — not just nutrition education, but offering kids a real understanding of our food system, and overtly inoculating them against the allure of hyper - processed and fast food; teaching all children basic cooking skills; getting more gardens into schools; encouraging restaurants to ditch the standard breaded - and - fried children's menu; imposing taxes on soda (and even junk food); improving food access; and so much more.

They continue to work together in Task Forces on strategic initiatives that will increase access to safe, respectful, affordable maternity care; improve inter-professional education; and enable patient - responsive and population - specific research on maternal choice, experience and outcomes related to birth place.

The AAP opposes the current bill in the U.S. House of Representatives, H.R. 5003, the Improving Child Nutrition and Education Act of 2016, because it would reduce access to free breakfast and lunch for children under the Community Eligibility Provision, endanger our child nutrition programs through a harmful 3 - state block grant program, weaken the evidence - based school nutrition standards, and fail to adequately invest in WIC, child care and summer feeding programs.

A family's access to a reliable supply of clean diapers reduces the risk of disease, improves the baby's health and comfort, and enables the baby's participation in early care and education programs.

As a politically active feminist and a mother myself, I believe her time and ability to command editorial space in The Wall Street Journal would be far better spent opining about things like the need for better family leave and health care policies, improved access to birth control and higher education and affordable child care for working mothers rather than whether Angelina Jolie plans to adopt again or how long my friends plan to breastfeed their babies.

We are Improving Birth by giving families access to evidenced - based childbirth education!

APMI provides educational programs in the local elementary and secondary schools, developed multilingual asthma educational materials used by providers and caregivers, provides comprehensive asthma home visits to improve self - management through assessment, education, and establishment of a plan towards environmental control of asthma triggers, and advocates for improved access to asthma related services.

In this role, Thornton has been responsible for improving the health and well - being of Americans by expanding access to nutritious, affordable food and providing dietary guidance, nutrition policy coordination, and nutrition education across USDA's 15 nutrition assistance programs.

HUMAN Everywhere's mission is to leverage the power of social entrepreneurship to improve the nation's collective health by increasing access to nutrition education and healthful foods while advocating for public policy that contributes to these goals.

Guest speaker at the 4 - 7 p.m. gathering will be Anita Walker, Executive Director of the Massachusetts Cultural Council, a state agency that promotes excellence, access, education, and diversity in the arts, humanities, and interpretive sciences across the Commonwealth to improve the quality of life for all Massachusetts residents.

Improving access to nutritionally adequate complementary foods — UNICEF provides caregiver nutrition education to improve complementary feeding.

The Project Development Objective is to increase access to senior secondary education in underserved districts and improve quality in low - performing senior high schools (SHSs) in Ghana.

SNP policies designed to «make life easier» for families include; flexible working, improved access to childcare, investment in education including small class sizes, first - time buyers» grants worth # 2,000 to help young buyers, abolishing the council tax, more police and protecting local health services.

Ditto the goals of ensuring universal access to primary education or to improve maternal health.

«Apart from proposing the sum of N2 billion for the provision of scholarships for critical areas of the State's manpower needs, we have also proposed to set aside another N2 billion to partner, encourage and support the development of private universities and improve access to tertiary education for Rivers indigenes in the State.»

Our people expect us to help fix the economy, provide jobs for the unemployed, improve access and quality of education, health care and generally give them hope.

Mr. Thompson said the City should focus on fighting obesity through other initiatives including improved health education, increasing access to healthy foods and improving recreation opportunities rather than by banning unhealthy options.

Enhancing Access / Reducing Barriers - Improving systems and processes to increase the ease, ability and opportunity to utilize those systems and services (e.g. education, safety, special needs, cultural and language sensitivity).

Meanwhile Clegg will hope that Lib Dems» primary concern - improving access to higher education, come what may - will trump their frustrations over the tuition fees U-turn.

Tony's stance on key issues such as job creation (bringing jobs back to the New York State), access to affordable and quality health care for all, improving the quality of education for students, and holding state officials accountable for how they spend taxpayers» money is aligned with the Coalition's point of views.

Speaking at an advocacy dialogue with traditional leaders in the region for the elimination of harmful social and cultural practices, Ms Amidu said research showed that quality education, improved sanitation, nutrition, maternal and child health, and access to water supply also recorded low rates.

New York Needs to Desegregate Housing in Order to Improve Schools Astorino Clearly Not A Supporter of Fair Housing for People of Color (White Plains, NY) Howie Hawkins, the Green Party candidate for Governor, said today that improving access to affordable housing was critical to improving education in New York State.

The brochure tells how education «unlocked doors» for Blake and how improving local schools will provide access to college and good jobs for young people.

The Excelsior Scholarship could help improve the perception of college affordability, which can itself be a barrier to access, and foster a college - going culture by giving parents and students hope that a postsecondary education is within reach.

The report proposes a series of policy recommendations to close the wage gap, including launching statewide public education campaigns on the breadth of career opportunities, salary negotiation and financial literacy, expanding access to child care and family leave, increasing career mentoring for young women and improving data and transparency on job titles, pay and benefits.

The establishment of the Community Day Senior High School would expand and improve access to secondary education as well as develop the quality and affordability of education in Ghana.

We have so far exhausted the accounts given by the president on the educational sector and it tells how the quality and access to education has improved massively under this government.

Termed the «New York Promise Agenda,» the broad - based proposals include criminal justice reform, voting access, women's rights protections, fighting homelessness, preventing faith - based discrimination, protecting the environment, and improving immigrants rights and access to education.

EDUCATION: Enhance and expand early childhood programming and improve access to food at school to ensure no student goes hungry.