Sentences with phrase «initiatives like project»

These groups are positioned to help advance local initiatives that connect people and forests, like support for the Boy Scouts in the U.S. or Girl Guides in Canada, Habitat for Humanity partnerships, and support for educational initiatives like Project Learning Tree.

In parallel with their these efforts, promising initiatives like the Project Unicorn pledge encourage school systems to increase demand for interoperability.

MacConaill noted that the results of Profile genomic testing are being used to further research within the institutions and are being shared more widely with initiatives like Project GENIE of the American Association for Cancer Research (AACR), which will help advance the field of precision medicine.

Saunders organizes national fitness initiatives like Project ACES each year, where millions of children exercise simultaneously each May.

Ambitious initiatives like Project Wing, which is trying to invent a drone that can deliver packages, is by definition a risky undertaking with no guarantee of success.

For example, as the quality of staff collaboration increases, would that affect the quality of teaching or staff commitment to a new initiative like project - based learning?

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Fink helped lead some of HPE's big technology projects like its muddled foray into cloud computing, and newer initiatives centered on open - source (in laymen's terms, free) technologies and the Linux operating system.

The managers were then grouped into small task forces around these goals where they worked directly with an executive to create solutions to these problems, which ranged from HR initiatives (resulting in things like new performance review methods and a new attendance system) to customer - level projects (such as a customer referral program).

«And the thousands of volunteers in our country who will give up their time to make someone else's Christmas that little bit better: from faith inspired projects like the Churches Together initiative in my own constituency - to aid workers helping those in war - torn parts of the world.

Best Reinvention of a Classic Winner: Ivo Peshev and Mikey Gallop from Flair Project Recognized for taking the initiative to make a classic drink, like a Gin & Tonic, their own.

She shared some creative ideas on how anti-hunger groups can help school nutrition programs through initiatives like school meal application campaigns and grant writing, and she punctuated her points with success stories from DC Hunger Solutions and DC public schools, Ohio's Children's Hunger Alliance, and Project Bread, among others.

SolarCity has promised to create 3,000 jobs in the region including 500 manufacturing positions, a number which has changed, like the companies and the industry, since the project was first announced as the anchor of the governor's Buffalo Billion initiative.

Incentives and policy instruments to encourage entrepreneurs and start - up companies, and promote projects like community energy initiatives, as evidence suggests that fresh thinking and innovation often comes from small organisations rather than the «big players».

I want to underscore the word «we» because it takes teamwork and regional collaboration to undertake transformational economic development initiatives like the Marcy NanoCenter project.

Its intent was to fund «projects that will improve communities within the State,» and a total of $ 14.8 million was requested for initiatives its first year like construction of a tennis court and the renovation of a theater.

While the Career Pathways approach has a place for successful CEO programs like WorkAdvance and Project Rise, the only CEO program highlighted in the OneNYC workforce development vision is the star CUNY ASAP initiative.

Researchers who want to participate in large - scale projects like CCG initiatives should look at government and academic laboratories.

Many have sustainability initiatives like buildings powered by wind and recycled water (Celgene), partnering with local Habitat for Humanity projects (Moderna), or volunteering at patient events like the National Veterans Wheelchair Games (BMS).

In many ways, these initiatives resemble «big science,» like the Human Genome Project, requiring extensive coordination among many scientists and subfields.»

The Hamilton Project is a broader ranged initiative that has been undertaken by Bob Rubin and several of his colleagues, who, like many of us, are distressed by many of the policies of the current administration that seem to be taking the country in a wrong direction.

With projects like a 10 - year «American Competitiveness» presidential initiative to double funding for basic research in the physical sciences and engineering, the U.S. government has begun to respond to the scientific community's concerns.

Like Drake, SETI@home is also a key part of the Breakthrough Listen initiative, and will be distributing some of the project's new data to its millions of volunteers.

This month, a privately funded project called Breakthrough Initiatives announced that it is partnering with the European Southern Observatory to use similar vortex technology to find and image a putative Earth - like planet in the nearby Alpha Centauri star system.

Even with ambitious projects like the Breakthrough Listen initiative, the search for extraterrestrial intelligence has come up empty...

Even with ambitious projects like the Breakthrough Listen initiative, the search for extraterrestrial intelligence has come up empty so far.

Project Blue is a new science initiative to capture the first photograph of a potential Earth - like planet orbiting another Sun - like star.

Gay follows research being done by organizations like Defense Advanced Research Projects Agency (DARPA) and President Obama's brain initiative.

Project Blue is a space initiative to find other Earth - like planets in the Alpha Centauri system by launching a special - purpose telescope that can identify «blue» planets that may have oceans and can support life.

Theta's advanced and flexible software platform supports the ALCF Data Science Program (ADSP), a new initiative targeted at big data problems, like Gursoy and Kasthuri's brain connectome project.

The private space telescope initiative Project Blue launched a new crowdfunding campaign Sept. 6 in a second attempt to raise money for its mission to directly image Earth - like exoplanets.

Mission Centaur is a nonprofit organization that fosters public and private collaboration through Project Blue, an initiative seeking to find and capture the first image of an Earth - like planet in our neighboring star system Alpha Centauri.

In an article published in Science magazine today, Daszak and a group of like - minded scientists described a new initiative, called the Virome project, that would identify and catalogue hundreds of thousands of yet - to - be-discovered viruses found in wild animals.

A new initiative called «Project Blue» aims to spy on our interstellar neighbor, Alpha Centauri, to capture an unprecedented visible - light image of any Earth - like planets that might orbit there.

You can donate money to initiatives that take carbon out of the environment — like tree plantings and renewable energy projects — to balance out the carbon you're putting into it with your daily routine.

With a commitment to build integrative healthcare up in underserved communities, and projects to make sure that patient - centered sustainable care becomes an integral part of primary healthcare through initiatives like the National Center for Integrative Primary Healthcare (NCIPH) we hope that one day all healthcare will be integrative healthcare.

This project is Radijojo's initiative for fair globalization and development; focussing on issues like child labour, children's rights, fair trade and gender.

Gillispie: The successes we've had in this project garnered a lot of positive press for our district because [game - based learning] is still fairly cutting edge compared to the status quo; also it has opened up a lot of doors for other game - based curriculum initiatives — like the district - wide Minecraft project.

And we're going through another round today, with initiatives such as «Reimagining Learning,» led by Stacey Childress and her team at the NewSchools Venture Fund; the Emerson Collective's XQ SuperSchool project; Marc Zuckerberg's efforts to «personalize learning»; and any number of technology - centric undertakings like Summit Public Schools, Carpe Diem charter schools, and K12 - operated virtual schools.

In addition, she started an outreach campaign with her local community to coordinate pilot projects — like an afterschool initiative to integrate SEL into makerspaces.

The VDOE would like to recognize outstanding schools and / or educators who have developed programs that have been designed to ensure students with disabilities, especially those with more significant academic and behavior needs, have access to inclusive education with their peers in general education settings through a new initiative called the «Inclusive Practice Partnership Project.»

I would like to receive information about the The TalentED Project and other UBS and / or TCASN initiatives, in accordance with the following Privacy Policy.

Facilitated collaborative group Design Challenges will address projects like school improvement plans and initiatives will get creative juices flowing.

Without the initiatives I've proposed others like them, the district is projected to levy about $ 13 million less than is allowed by the state.

While initiatives are still at work to increase global access to internet connection — such as programs like Google's Project Loon that literally plans to use high - altitude weather balloons floating over various regions around the world to provide internet access to places that otherwise wouldn't have it for decades — there's no point in having internet access if you can't afford a device to connect.

Private finance initiative (PFI) / public - private partnership (PPP) The private finance initiative (PFI) is a way of getting private sector involved in financing public sector projects like schools, hospitals and prisons.

Through efforts like Animal Care EXPO, Animal Sheltering magazine and The Shelter Pet Project, The HSUS works ceaselessly to help shelters reduce the need for euthanasia, all while striving to identify and address the root causes of pet homelessness through our puppy mill work, Pets for Life and other initiatives.

I'm hoping projects like Passport Party Project and Erick's non-profit initiative can help make a difference, slowly but surely...

With the ground - breaking performance ensemble at its core, ongoing initiatives like the Summer Leadership Institute (SLI), BOLD (Builders, Organizers & Leaders through Dance) and the developing Choreographic Center, UBW continues to affect the overall ecology of the arts by promoting artistic legacies; projecting the voices of the under - heard and people of color; bringing attention to and addressing issues of equity in the dance field and throughout the United States; and by providing platforms and serving as a conduit for culturally and socially relevant experimental art makers.

In what seems like a new era, when Latin American artists might finally be gaining some of the prominence that they deserve in the written, exhibition and institutional histories alongside their European, US and indeed global contemporaries, it is perhaps to be hoped that some of the idiosyncratic, inventive and extraordinary nature of precursor projects and initiatives, and the personal commitment that they all entailed, can continue, as any new achievements are undoubtedly founded on those that preceded them.

Cherry & Lucic is an heir to past local contexts like Appendix project space, and, going even farther back, Grabner's own Oak Park garage initiative begun in 1997, the Suburban.