Sentences with phrase «inner city community»

The essays range from the practical («How Boomers, Churches, and Entrepreneurs Can Transform Society») to the inspirational («High - Tech Inner City Community Development,» about a for - profit venture that rose from the ashes of the 1967 Detroit riots).

As a first generation college student from a low - income inner city community, I feel a sense of responsibility for breaking the cycle of poverty in my family.

In my living simply days, I remember a time when I was living in an inner city community doing mission living on next to nothing and claiming housing benefit from the state.

The mission of Food for Good is to make nutritious foods more accessible in inner city communities.

The President cum chief revealed that okada business is mostly engaged by the youths of Zongo and inner city communities hence the need for the Zongo Minister to turned it into a motorcycle institute where the youth can be trained to ride professionally.

Targeting specific, marginalized subgroups for genotyping (for example, prisoners, native populations, inner city communities) and then treating individuals differentially based on their genetic susceptibility to active infection

He is currently the regional director for a non-profit organization called PLAYSMART, which focuses on bringing middle level students together from rural, suburban, and inner city communities to build leadership.

The NIA Foundation is the community based non-profit entity of our company servicing students in the inner city communities of Los Angeles, Inglewood and Oakland California.

The real estate industry, which already receives huge tax breaks as it gentrifies communities, also stands to benefit by promoting charter schools and helping them buy up property, or rent, in inner city communities.

It's a creative campaign where he tours 12 countries, creates 12 songs, and engages in 12 philanthropic ventures to help inner city communities.

They convey their message through imagery, text, symbolism, and to instill a sense of hope, and history, through creative expression which unfortunately in many inner city communities, is muffled and sometimes oppressed.

They convey their message through imagery, text, symbolism, and to instill a sense of hope, and history, through creative expression which unfortunately in many inner city communities, is muffled and sometimes oppressed.

They convey their message through imagery, text, symbolism, and to instill a sense of hope, and history, through creative expression which unfortunately in many inner city communities, is muffled and sometimes oppressed.

They convey their message through imagery, text, symbolism, and to instill a sense of hope, and history, through creative expression which unfortunately in many inner city communities, is muffled and sometimes oppressed.

Not exact matches

The 2012 Inner City 100 is packed full of innovative businesses such as Intelect (# 96) that are not only energizing their communities by generating dollars and jobs, but are growing at outstanding rates.

Each year, the Initiative for a Competitive Inner City (ICIC) compiles a list of the 100 fastest - growing inner city businesses in the U.S., recognizing the critical role they play in urban communities as both employers and community builInner City (ICIC) compiles a list of the 100 fastest - growing inner city businesses in the U.S., recognizing the critical role they play in urban communities as both employers and community buildCity (ICIC) compiles a list of the 100 fastest - growing inner city businesses in the U.S., recognizing the critical role they play in urban communities as both employers and community builinner city businesses in the U.S., recognizing the critical role they play in urban communities as both employers and community buildcity businesses in the U.S., recognizing the critical role they play in urban communities as both employers and community builders.

Certainly it's not to romanticize the poverty in the inner city or something, but a lot of people live in community not because they choose intentional community but because that's how they've had to survive.

Professor DiIulio again: «It is reasonable to suppose that by doubling or tripling the number of officers on regular duty in and around drug - infested, crime - torn neighborhoods, and by deploying them in accordance with the precepts of community policing, the streets and sidewalks of even the most blighted inner city could be made safe enough for children to play and adults to stroll.»

Churches in the inner city have been there for people when the government has disappointed them and other citizens fled for greener pastures in the suburbs; they continue to be a crucial part of organizing and ministering to needs in the community.

Any efforts at changing the culture of the inner city will have to intersect with the African - American churches here; learning from those who have weathered the last few decades and built institutions to serve the community.

In a recent nationwide survey, Professor Terry Moe found that 79 percent of inner - city poor people favored vouchers and 59 percent of whites in more advantaged communities favored them.

These inner - city workers understand the «victim mentality» and «entitlement mind - set» they encounter in the devastated communities where they live, but they do not let such attitudes go unchallenged, and they expect great things from their neighbors despite those neighbors» disadvantaged circumstances.

Several folks in the comment section argued that one can not seriously follow Jesus in the context of suburbia, and that true Christians will sell their belongings, move to the inner - city, and live in intentional community among the poor.

Health care for the poor, education in the inner city, job training for welfare mothers, discipline for criminally offending youths, improvement of community infrastructure and housing, nutrition for infants, drug treatment for recovering addicts» all of these things and more require the provision of public funds and are essential to the progress we seek.

Nevertheless, without exaggerating the extent of the decline of the work ethic among the poor, one should note that community leaders in the inner cities are themselves increasingly concerned about the dysfunctional behavior of the poor.

It has frequently been observed that the quality of life in inner - city communities is deteriorating at alarming rates, and that part of this deterioration is attributable to the erosion of moral and humane values.

In Jackson, Mississippi, a new community was birthed in a broken inner - city neighborhood.

The deterioration of neighborhoods in our inner cities, the decline of elemental safety — never mind education — in many of our schools, the burgeoning of jail populations (to the point that we have the highest percentage of incarcerated citizens of any country in the industrial world), the great strains on the family, the general slackening of discipline, which a consumerist and media - driven society relentlessly encourages, and a huge transfer of wealth In the 1980s and «90s (during this period, the upper 1 percent of Americans more than doubled its wealth, while the lowest 20 percent suffered an actual decline)-- all these changes signal a community at risk.

Shane is the visionary leader of The Simple Way, a faith community in inner city Philadelphia that has helped birth and connect radical faith communities around the world.

Realizing that strong inner - city neighborhoods are crucial to its regional economic and social health, Indianapolis shifted the focus of its redevelopment efforts from downtown to seven inner - city neighborhoods, and implemented a program to train community leaders and pay for neighborhood coordinators.

Urbanization has called forth two types of reaction in Protestantism: first, the church and the ministry have devised numerous means of reaching out to all kinds of people and groups in the cities; and second, attempts have been made to strengthen the inner fellowship of the local church, to bring about a genuine community in which each individual has a sense of being a member of the one body.

There are skills that we professionals possess that are of immense value to our communities, especially our inner - city communities, but we are grossly derelict in responding professionally to our communities if we do not take the lead in giving them an effective measure of control in their own destiny.

Social agencies, welfare groups, religious organizations, commercial concerns, all have marched into our communities — especially our inner - city communities — with preconceived notions of superimposing their structures upon a community, of afflicting a community with a structure that was developed in some think tank without consulting any significant forces within the community itself.

Rivers is doubtless a fine person with a vibrant ministry, but is his work at the Azusa Christian Community representative of inner - city churches?

But there are cultural differences in many black communities, especially in the inner city, that may account for the atrocious levels of violence.

(5) Inner - city urban ministry either as a one - year resident or one day a week for thirty weeks to mingle with the people wherever they are, to engage the power structure of the community, to explore the economic and political strategies of community planning, to discover the potentialities for a ministry to total needs of persons who are deprived or in stress.

As small towns, small firms, inner cities, in spite of and at times, in their own way, because of gentrification, decline, and suburban life styles become increasingly mobile, privatized, and fragmented, the loss of the sense of community is more acute.

Once again this year, Chicago Neighbors Unitedhttp: / / chicnu.org /, a community based organization which provides educational scholarships to inner city youth, is happy to be the beneficiary.

CNU is a non-profit, community based organization which provides educational scholarships to inner city youth residing in the 27th Ward of Chicago and assists with various neighborhood programs throughout the year.

He continues to spend much of his spare time with the barbecue community, while making efforts to help serve the common good in the inner city of Chicago and similar projects.

The JRW Little League was founded in 1971 by Joseph Haley, a teacher who, troubled by negative influences creeping into his South Side community, wanted to provide inner - city youths with a positive outlet.

Articles explore: the idea that violence should be thought of as a public health problem analogous to infectious disease; examine from a scientific perspective the impacts on children's social, emotional, and cognitive development of growing up in a violent community; share first - hand insights from children and caregivers; and explore various interventions, from the favelas of Recife, Brazil, to the inner cities of Chicago, Illinois, United States (US), and Glasgow, Scotland, which are offering a tangible sense of hope.

Kathy has worked as a midwife in a wide variety of settings, including inner city, high - risk hospitals, neighborhood health clinics, and community hospitals.

«I never intended to hurt the minority community who I spent years trying to help out of the cycle of poverty in our inner cities.

He added that provision of basic education to first step in empowerment by the Ministry would helps influence value in the community with the knowledge acquired assist to develop values and morals towards building a better Inner cities and Zongo Development.

He'd created a string of real estate corporations (including Emerge Construction, Emerge Real Properties, LLC, and Emerge Historic Residential Community I, II and III) and planned to focus on inner city development and renovating historic buildings into «affordable» housing

We have to go after constituencies and the inner city and the minority communities to talk about issues.

Minister Nominee for Zongo Development and Inner cities, Boniface Abubakar Siddique, has declared his resolve to establish a solid foundation for the transformation of Zongo communities by conscientizing the major stakeholders.

In less than a year we have implemented many of the action items in our health and human services plan, «Initiatives for a Strong Community,» as varied as bringing fresh foods and vegetables to inner city neighborhoods labeled «food deserts,» to completing a chronic neglect study and incorporating its findings into our child welfare response programs, to increasing participation in the SNAP program to reduce hunger.

«I never intended to hurt the minority community who I spent years trying to help out of the cycle of poverty in our inner cities,» Paladino said in a statement.