Sentences with phrase «into local community groups»

Smartly, iStar has also plowed money into local community groups to prop up Asbury Park's social infrastructure, like the local Boys and Girls Club run by Douglas Eagles.

Not exact matches

Since taking the reins of the group in 2010, he has transformed it from a local branch of al - Qaida into an independent transnational military force, positioning himself as perhaps the pre-eminent figure in the global jihadi community.

Most of the platform fees go to the pockets of a small group of wealthy owners instead of flowing back into the local communities.

In an ultimate story of small business savvy enacting huge community change, a group of female elders from the Wirlu - murra Aboriginal community in Roebourne have translated a market stall selling local artwork into joint venture mining contracts worth over $ 100 million.

Many local Christians fled their communities when the radical Islamic group took over large portions of Iraq and Syria, abandoning their homes — many of which were ransacked, fell into disrepair or destroyed.

Stout invites us into a vigorous local democracy in which kids play soccer and a diverse and dedicated group of neighbors team up to protect their community from the encroachment of a large, bureaucratic medical center.

In a Midwestern city of 50,000, a marriage counseling center begun by a group of clergymen and based in a local general hospital which furnished secretarial service, is to be incorporated into the new mental health center established in the community.

A decade later, a study of Episcopal churches by Wade Clark Roof showed that church people tend to be divided into two groups: the «locals» who prefer to live in small communities, get their satisfaction from relating closely to families and to friends, and belong to local groups; and the «cosmopolitans» who prefer living in large cities, get their satisfaction from dealing with ideas and international issues, and belong to large state or nationwide organizations.

Alternative plans to improve recycling rates being proposed by industry are 28 times less expensive and include significant funding to community groups and local governments to clean up litter hot spots, and more importantly, keep them clean into the future.

This type of advocacy can be taken into local hospitals, parenting groups, your local church or community ladies» groups, co-ops, and home school meetings, for some more examples.

As for the broad applicability, we're seeing it every day in the nonprofit world, as plenty of groups are learning to use their supporter lists for more than overnight fundraising and email advocacy — some are finding ways and providing tools to turn supporters into evangelists in whatever communities they're a part of (whether local or not).

We are all neighbors, regardless of political enrollment, who run into one another at the grocery store, watch our kids grow up in local schools, participate in local community groups, and enjoy the best our unique town has to offer.

Ordinary people — the family whose house is broken into, the community group whose premises are vandalized — could not contribute to setting local crime priorities or holding their police service to account.

Local governments, community organizations, not - for - profits and civic groups across Ulster County have been lining up behind the proposal to convert the former resort into a casino and spa, declining in the process to back a proposal to create a casino at Hudson Valley Resort in Kerhonkson.

The groups «want to ensure that a significant portion of state savings from staff attrition and facility closures is reinvested into local communities to boost nonprofit services.»

WHITE PLAINS, NY — Westchester County Executive Robert P. Astorino today joined a bipartisan group of elected officials and environmental leaders to announce that the county has entered into an official partnership with Sustainable Westchester, a consortium of local governments that facilitates green initiatives like Solarize Westchester, Community Choice Aggregation and the Municipal Solar Buyers Ggroup of elected officials and environmental leaders to announce that the county has entered into an official partnership with Sustainable Westchester, a consortium of local governments that facilitates green initiatives like Solarize Westchester, Community Choice Aggregation and the Municipal Solar Buyers GroupGroup.

HARLEM — State Attorney General Eric Schneiderman has launched an investigation into the West Harlem Local Development Corporation, the group charged with distributing $ 150 million in funds from Columbia University's community benefit agreement with West Harlem.

It will also include an investment of # 50 million in over 700 community sports projects with a focus on making it easier for local community and volunteer groups to improve and refurbish sports clubs or transform no - sporting venues into modern grass roots sport facilities.

A charter is the contract that the community group enters into with a local school district.

A broad coalition of more than 40 community and advocacy groups is jumping into LA Unified's prolonged spending debate, urging the board to allow individual schools, rather than centralized administrators, to decide how to spend the billions of dollars coming into the district from Gov. Jerry Brown «s Local Control Funding Formula program.

Are there local community or faith groups who can provide social interaction and guidance while settling into the new home?

David Silverberg and partner Terry Moshenberg have mined over 800 data sets to create the Hometrics Report — an address - specific research report that includes information grouped into seven categories and includes details on nuisance neighbours, reported crimes in the community, local school performance, and proximity to potential illegal activity, such as grow - ops, among others.

For Minnesota - based Chuck & Don's, this service comes in the form of donations of money and products to local pet - related charities, as well as «community rooms» that the company is building into its stores in order to host educational seminars and local pet group functions.

In addition to routinely bringing adoptable pets out into the community, we also work with local rescue groups and send our animals to Petsmart, 5722 Fairmont Parkway, Pasadena, TX 77505.

Working collaboratively with other animal shelters, rescue groups, and veterinarians — and with the support the local community — CAT has helped transform the Portland metro area into one of the safest communities in the nation for homeless cats.

People in group 5 have the highest susceptibility due to the length of travel, their intention behind travel to immerse themselves into local culture and the adventures they seek to learn the ins and outs of a community.

For those less interested in being continuously on the move as the «nomadic» lifestyle dictates, the agency have helped local community groups set up a series of cultural and homestay programs allowing you a rare insight into the local life and customs, including, for example, a trip that offers the chance to spend a week learning to train Kazakh eagles in Bayan Ulgii province.

The cultural scene is alive and well with crafts and artists galleries, community theater groups, and visitors love our local weekly newspaper which gives a glimpse into the bucolic life in the small town of Cambria.

Many eco tour groups promise a carbon neutral experience that puts tourists» dollars into the pockets of local communities, including aborigines, while aiming to educate travellers about the environment and the flora and fauna en route.

Phillips often works with printing in a collaborative manner, where she turns gallery spaces into workshops and invites participation from other artists, designers and local community groups.

Much like a historian or ethnographer, Fallah works with a diverse mix of local communities and groups to collect material evidence of their private and public lives and transform them into artworks.

With support from Croydon Council and Arts Council England, Turf's exhibitions and events will continue within Croydon Arts Store — a four - floor unit in the shopping centre transformed into an artist and community led arts space run collaboratively by a group of local arts organisations.

She often works collaboratively, transforming the gallery into a workshop and involving other artists, designers and local community groups.

We also work closely with our local community through an aspect of the programme called Communal Knowledge, and have developed strong, long - term relationships with local groups and individuals who we bring together to work in partnership with artists on specific projects and commissions which feed into the programme as a whole.

We are fortunate enough to be co-hosting the event with the NWEI Port Townsend Steering Committee, who has been actively organizing NWEI sustainability discussion groups for many years, most recently transforming the local food scene with over 30 Menu for the Future discussion course groups meeting — the groups involved local farmers, business owners, community stakeholders and food based organizations who are all working together to create a more sustainable local food supply (stay tuned for a future post delving into their work!)

What started as a small group interested in launching a Green Team has grown into a corporate - wide philosophy of community involvement, local economic success and conserving environmental resources.

Today, the group works with local governments and cities to see how they can incorporate the tiny house lifestyle into individual communities, helping them look at things like ordinances and strategic planning.

We talk to people involved in three Friends of the Earth groups, on the potential for community - owned and managed renewables in Denmark, on the perfect plan for transitioning Estonia away from dirty oil shale, and on how local resistance and perseverance has turned a small Czech town into an example of the just transition we need to move away from dirty fossil fuels.

• 350 Eurobodalla • 350 Melbourne • Act on Climate • Australian Religious Response to Climate Change (ARRCC) • Baby Boomers for Climate Change Action • Ballarat Climate Action • Bayside Climate Change Action Group • Beyond Zero Emissions • CACE — Community Action for the Climate Emergency • CANWin (Climate Action Now Wingecarribee) • cedamia • Centre for Climate Safety • Climate Action Canberra • Climate Action Hobart • Climate Action Monaro • Climate Action Moreland • Climate Change Australia (Hastings branch) • Climate Change Balmain - Rozelle • Climate Code Red • Coffs Coast Climate Action Group • Conservation Council SA • COREM (Community - Owned Renewable Energy Mullumbimby) • CORENA (Citizens Own Renewable Energy Network Australia) • Dandenong Ranges Renewable Energy Association • Darebin Climate Action Now • Eastern Climate Action Melbourne • Environment Centre NT • Future Environment Defenders (FED Up) • Geelong Sustainability • Groundswell Bass Coast • Healthy Futures • Householders» Options to Protect the Environment (HOPE) Inc • Journeys for Climate Justice • Lake Wollumboola Protection Association Inc • Lighter Footprints • LIVE (Locals Into Victoria's Environment) • Long Future Foundation • Market Forces • Nature Conservation Council of NSW • Parramatta Climate Action Network (ParraCAN) • Psychology for a Safe Climate • RSTI (Research and Strategy for Transition Initiation) • Save the Planet • Shoalhaven Transition Inc • St Andrews Uniting Church Fairfield • Stonnington Climate Action Network • Surf Coast Air Action • Sustainable Engineering Society • Transition Byron Shire • Transition East Geelong • Vote Climate • WATCH (Wodonga Albury Towards Climate Health) • Western Region Environment Centre • Yarra Climate Action Now • Zero Emissions Byron

So, here's the list of the organizations that are the key groups that are doing something: Plug In America, Electric Auto, with chapters all over the Bay Area; ElectricDrive.org, that's the trade association of the industry; the Sierra Club has gone big into plug - in cars, now; ProjectGetReady.org is the Rocky Mountain Institute, Amory Lovins» spinoff, that's about readiness in communities; and all your local utilities.

SYC has grown into a national youth environmental coalition with members in all regions of Canada, and local groups operating out of high schools, universities and communities.