Sentences with phrase «in civic service»

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Some technology companies working with city governments in places like to enable smarter civic services.

In the area of civic engagement, Jasper has been a Club 20 Board member (1985 - 2002, 2010 --RRB-, and he received the John Vanderhoof public service award in 200In the area of civic engagement, Jasper has been a Club 20 Board member (1985 - 2002, 2010 --RRB-, and he received the John Vanderhoof public service award in 200in 2003.

With stunning consistency, virtually every indicator of civic engagement currently available shows the same pattern of increase followed by stagnation and decline — newspaper reading; TV news watching; attending political meetings; petition signing; running for public office; attending public meetings; serving as an officer or committee member in any local clubs or organizations; writing letters to the editor; participating in local meetings of national organizations; attending religious services; socializing informally with friends, relatives or neighbors; attending club meetings; joining unions; entertaining friends at home; participating in picnics; eating the evening meal with the whole family; going out to bars, nightclubs, discos or taverns; playing cards; sending greeting cards; attending parties; playing sports; donating money as a percentage of income; working on community projects; giving blood.

They are strands that derive especially from family, civic, and religious bonds, and they are fundamental to a Christian understanding of the human person: marriage, generation, honest toil, and the service of eternity in humble self - offering.

Martin Luther, the first of the Reformers to formulate a radically new understanding of the Christian idea of vocation, argued that any kind of regular and legitimate work in the world — manual labor, parenting, civic activity — could be a vocation or a calling so long as the Christian did that workout of love for Cod in service to humankind.

Such civic - minded uses for the buildings hearken back to the first field houses, built in the early 1900s under the direction of parks Supt. Frank J. Foster.Foster was inspired by Chicago's first settlement house — large buildings where immigrants could go for shelter and social services — when he ordered the construction of the first 10 field houses, which opened in 1905, said Park District historian Julia Bachrach.

Services for Donald W. Heunisch, 59, an insurance executive and civic leader, will be held at 8 p.m. Tuesday in the chapel of the Lutheran Home, 800 W. Oakton St., Arlington Heights.

«Community service and civic engagement have always been a priority for me» said Carter Costello in a statement.

Meanwhile, who is providing community services and representing their interests at community and civic group meetings — and who is in charge of those people?

For Marquand, the 19th century was the great age of the public realm when Gladstone's reforms to the civil service enshrined an ethos of professionalism and public service and a civic pride and energy was unleashed across the country, as captured in the great civic architecture of northern cities.

Because of the kinds of things you talked about under the name of Fabianism, instead of democratic practices and accountability like popular participation and protests and other forms of civic or popular review, we've gone the route of professionalisation in the civil service and accountability via targets and standardisations and numbers, which enable what is often merely an appearance of accountability, and actually operate in a very different way from other more politicised forms of accountability.

«Borough presidents play an extremely important role in the civic life of each of our boroughs by providing an invaluable human interface between our constituents and our behemoth city service agencies,» Mr. Díaz said.

Democrat Paul Graziano with his silly haircut and a record of no community service nor business experience, and whose sole claim to fame was being Tony Avella's lap dog and pandering to the biggest weirdos in the civic world, lost the primary fair and square by coming in third place to victor Paul Vallone, Austin Shafran, and a near loss to John Duane.

Paul has a long history of service to this community in a plethora of leadership roles from civic activism to parish volunteerism.

With an annual budget of over $ 130 million, CPC is one of the largest Asian multi-social service non-profit in the U.S. Founded in 1965 by a few civic minded community activists as the first social service agency to serve Chinese - Americans in New York, CPC currently serves over 8,000 clients each day with over 50 programs in 30 locations throughout New York City.

Contractors, vendors, public workers, office seekers: «Their daily First Read newsletter, with the daily schedule (for government events in New York), is basically required reading for anyone with a stake in civic life,» David Galarza, communications specialist at the Civil Service Employees Association, a New York public - sector labor union, told me.

As you may know, the Act enables councils working in co-operation with their communities to get Government help to assist them in reversing the decline of local services, dealing with fuel poverty, protecting the environment and obtaining greater involvement in civic activity.

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Now in its eighth year, the civic engagement initiative was a collaboration between the Youth Bureau and The Center for Family Life and Recovery, Cornell Cooperative Extension, The Neighborhood Center, Thea Bowman House, John Bosco House, Utica Safe Schools / Underground Café, Dodge Pratt Northam Art & Community Center and The Salvation Army Utica Citadel to provide youth programing with the intent of introducing lessons of community service through volunteerism.

For her opponents to use her time as a National Urban Fellow, an honor for women and people of color in public service, as a warped rationale to challenge her civic engagement and right to serve in public office is shameful.»

«In the old days, we kept the services separate from the schools and we waited for things to get bad enough for people to bring kids to the civic center,» Mahoney said.

«The Bill is about living in a something - for - something society — public services in return for civic duty», she explained to a sparsely populated chamber.

In his capacity as district director, Rosenthal has been Lancman's primary liaison with community groups, civic associations and nonprofit organizations, while also assisting constituents with problems and coordinating events and services.

«Thanks to my seniority, I have also been able to deliver millions of dollars in benefits to senior centers, libraries, parks in our district as well as providing support year after year for local nonprofit civic and service organizations that deliver vital services to veterans, youth and social service organizations that help our neighbors in need.»

Miner, visiting scholar at New York University's Wagner Graduate School of Public Service, will speak about the importance of involvement in civic affairs, especially for young people.

The organizations and agencies listed in the Directory offer a wide variety of programs and services, including ESL and civics classes, citizenship assistance and legal advice, public benefits and health insurance access, employment training and job placement, youth activities and senior centers, and immigrant rights and civic engagement projects.

Those discussions made clear the need to have a convenient location in Queens» civic center where residents can go to find out about City services and programs.

During CHCI's paid summer and semester internships, promising Latino undergraduate students experience what it's like to work in a congressional office, while participating in weekly professional and leadership development and civic engagement through community service.

The program aims to build leadership skills, encourage political civic engagement, and foster a strong interest in public service careers.

This award, presented by the University of Chicago Biological Sciences Division and the Pritzker School of Medicine, recognizes alumni who have brought honor and distinction to the Division of Biological Sciences / Pritzker School of Medicine and to the University of Chicago by demonstrating outstanding leadership in and making significant contributions to the biological sciences or medicine through research, clinical care, health service administration, public and professional service, or civic duties.

Nine of ten principals in schools that offer service - learning say it has a positive impact on students» civic engagement, personal and social development, and school - community partnerships.

«The survey suggests that principals see a real value in service - learning's ability to underscore and enhance such key things as students» civic engagement and school - community relationships.»

Have students reflect often — before, during, and after the project — on what they are learning in terms of content and also in terms of empathy, respect, service, civic duty, and more.

Activities such as service learning, discussing current events in classrooms, discussing civic and political issues with one's parents, non-sports-related extracurricular pursuits, and living in a civically responsive neighborhood had a positive impact on students» commitments to civic participation.

For instance, service learning programs bring curricular activities outside of the classroom and into the local community, by encouraging students to engage in civic duty such as volunteering.

The study «Learn and Serve» evaluated service learning program at 17 middle and high schools in the United States, and found that students who participated in service learning improved acceptance of cultural diversity, service leadership, civic attitudes and volunteer behavior, and reduced engagement in risky behaviors.

David Gergen, professor of public service and director of the Center for Public Leadership at Harvard Kennedy School (HKS), further addressed the cross-sector question in his talk about his experience with public leadership and how effective leadership models in the corporate, nonprofit, and civic fields are beginning to look more and more alike.

Proponents — including President Clinton and former President Bush — say participating in community service builds character, teaches civic responsibility, opens doors to career possibilities, looks good on college applications and resumes, and often provides services for communities they otherwise might not have.

To see, I reviewed the new AP framework, comparing it with civics as I've come to know it; in my own life of public employment, service and engagement.

Given those challenges, pollsters / analysts Steve Farkas and Ann Duffett have delivered an invaluable service in their new study «High Schools, Civics, and Citizenship: What Social Studies Teachers Think and Do,» released today (Full disclosure: The study was commissioned and published by my shop at AEI).

Although neither candidate's K - 12 education platforms mentioned civics education, Hillary Clinton had taken citizenship into account, proposing executive commitments to promoting service, including a threefold increase in the number of...

Consider the challenge of deciding what experiences constitute «service learning» for high - school students in jurisdictions where this is now expected as part of a civics class or social studies curriculum.

Pollsters / analysts Steve Farkas and Ann Duffett have delivered an invaluable service in their new study «High Schools, Civics, and Citizenship: What Social Studies Teachers Think and Do.»

candidates Brian Barnes and Dorian Burton were named finalists by Echoing Green for the Black Male Achievement Fellowship for their work in public service and civic engagement through TandemED, a nonprofit that helps equip communities to self - design educational content that will instill young black men with purpose and increase their academic achievement.

Although neither candidate's K - 12 education platforms mentioned civics education, Hillary Clinton had taken citizenship into account, proposing executive commitments to promoting service, including a threefold increase in the number of Americorps service members.

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 solutioIn 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 solutioin constructing a solution.

Towards these ends, he engages his students by designing lessons that incorporate opportunities for students to engage critically in the material they are learning, and he models and encourages meaningful civic participation by designing service learning opportunities for all of his students.

Civic Enterprises is a social enterprise firm that works with corporations, nonprofits, foundations, universities and governments to develop innovative initiatives and public policies in the fields of education, national service, civic engagement, conservation, public health and more.

Service - learning is cited in all three models as one example of how student leadership can be cultivated to demonstrate prosocial / civic character.

In civics, scores suggest teaching factual content first, and then giving students opportunities to apply that content in the middle grades through more hands - on activities such as service learninIn civics, scores suggest teaching factual content first, and then giving students opportunities to apply that content in the middle grades through more hands - on activities such as service learninin the middle grades through more hands - on activities such as service learning.