Sentences with phrase «jobs initiative at»

Senator Jeff Klein presents award certificates to graduates of the «Call for Caddies» summer jobs initiative at the Throggs Neck Houses on August 22, 2015.

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Elizabeth Gore is the entrepreneur in residence at Dell, where she drives initiatives that support Dell's goals around helping small and medium businesses scale and prosper, fueling the expansion of global entrepreneurship, thereby creating jobs that will drive the world economy.

The claim: «Walmart announced it will create 10,000 jobs in the United States just this year because of our various plans and initiatives,» Trump said at a news conference on Feb. 16.

Microsoft, which launched the YouthSpark initiative at last year's CGI to create jobs, education and entrepreneurship opportunities for 300 million young people by 2015, returned with a private dinner for young participants and nonprofit partners to discuss the progress so far.

The job also puts Gore in charge of Dell's global policy initiatives, empowers her to advocate for pro-entrepreneur regulations and has enabled her to reconnect with former colleagues at the U.N. «I've lived and worked in the humanitarian world for my entire career,» she says.

Trump has already moved to roll back many Obama - era initiatives aimed at mitigating planet - warming emissions, claiming they will hold back economic growth and job creation.

«The initiative is projected to create at least 4,000 jobs over the next decade,» Gretzinger reported.

At the same time, this initiative will enhance St. Louis» already robust innovation and entrepreneurship community, attract top - level talent, educate university students and create jobs.

The two initiatives — changes to the Apprenticeship Job Creation Tax Credit and a permanent Home Renovation Tax Credit - were aimed at the business sector and expected to spur economic growth.

Adrian Dix and the New Democrats have an environmental plan that would reinvest in transit and climate change initiatives, create green jobs, and offer legislated protection for species at risk.

The B.C. New Democrats have proposed an environmental plan that would reinvest carbon tax revenue in transit and climate change initiatives, create green jobs, and offer legislated protection for species at risk.

Catholics in Alliance for the Common Good (CACG) was founded in 2005 by operatives from the John Kerry campaign who were then shuttling between work at the Catholic Campaign for Human Development, an initiative of the United States Conference of Catholic Bishops, and Democratic party jobs.

We do a great job at fostering creativity, empathy, and initiative.

Frustrated by the limited number of people he could help in his job at a nonprofit organization providing services for at - risk youth, Geoffrey Canada in 1999 founded a large - scale initiative eventually dubbed the Harlem Children's Zone.

It seems when they do anything that shows they are supporting this initiative, they have at times lost their jobs (really sad), so they have no choice but to follow the instructions that they are given, even if they feel differently.

«During his 25 - year tenure in the Senate, he has been a tireless advocate for initiatives aimed at spurring job growth and economic opportunity in every corner of New York, but particularly upstate which has been his lifelong home.

Cuomo announced $ 5.5 million in new state funding for after - school and job training initiatives aimed at preventing the MS - 13 gang from recruiting on Long Island.

Most of the jobs at the IBM hub — a $ 55 million part of the state's Buffalo Billion economic development initiative — aren't high - paying positions such as programmers or software developers or data analysts.

Now the two nonprofits are at the forefront of Cuomo's initiative to build job - creating technology clusters Upstate.

The initiative seeks to export the business model used to develop the nanotechnology sector in Albany, which has grown the past 12 years to include some 13,000 jobs at more than 60 companies and the development of the College of Nanoscale Science and Engineering of SUNY Albany into a world - class university program.

Launched YouWIN scheme for young entrepreneurs and Sure - P initiative aimed at helping graduates find jobs.

The state has quietly launched a major initiative to develop a series of economic development hubs in Buffalo aimed at attracting medical, energy and technology companies that would generate thousands of good - paying jobs.

MIDTOWN — Using the frustrations fueling the Occupy Wall Street protests as her rallying cry, City Council Speaker Christine Quinn announced a set of initiatives Tuesday aimed at boosting jobs by investing in technology.

Council Finance Chair Domenic Recchia, Jr. said his staff are already looking at ways to begin to implement some of the initiatives, including the job training component, as soon as the Fiscal Year 2014 budget, which Mayor Michael Bloomberg recently unveiled.

The money will fund the YMCA's YouthBuild initiative, which provides educational training and job skills to at - risk Queens youth.

Syracuse Mayor Stephanie Miner will replace Sherman Jewett, the Albany consultant who has been working part - time for the city at $ 175 per hour, with Carol Dwyer, who has been hired as director of mayoral initiatives — a three - day - a-week job.

Bob Bellafiore, a former Pataki administration official and regular participant on our weekly «Insiders» segment on «Capital Tonight» has landed a new job as vice president of Partner Services and Strategic Initiatives at National Heritage Academies, A Michigan - based public charter school organization.

The cost - cutting initiative eliminates jobs associated with the Air National Guard's 107th Airlift Wing, one of two units stationed at the base.

De Blasio, for his part, touted his various achievements at the city level, including his new $ 500 million life sciences initiative, his universal prekindergarten initiative, new programs the city has created to help young people get jobs in the film and TV industry, the city's rent freeze program and the fact that the city now gives residents who are being harassed by their landlords a lawyer for free if they can fight the case.

State officials had high hopes for a much smaller initiative — a visual effects training program at Daemen College, in partnership with a company promising to create new jobs in the fledgling industry in Buffalo.

At a press conference in July 2013, then Lieutenant Governor Robert Duffy said the initiative would «be a magnet for drawing these post-production companies and jobs up here to Buffalo and Western New York.»

In just six months of governance, President Nana Addo Dankwa Akufo - Addo's administration has unveiled commitments totaling over $ 2.5 billion to propel the establishment and revival of private sector led initiatives aimed at creating the much needed jobs for the teeming unemployed Ghanaians to kick start an industrial revolution.

The prosecution has demonstrated that Kelly in 2012 had at Howe's request secured a $ 90,000 - per - year «low show» job for Lisa Percoco, with a CPV education initiative.

A nano - tech initiative in Albany has grown in the past 12 years to include some 13 - thousand jobs at more than 60 companies.

The Nations Builders Corps was announced as a government initiative in the 2018 budget to provide 100,000 jobs to graduates at a cost of GHc 600 million.

Once heralded by the governor as a transformative way to bring down energy costs for consumers while increasing jobs at upstate power producers, the plan announced more than three years ago has produced little progress on a core initiative: a nearly $ 1 billion project to run AC transmission lines around Utica or the Catskills and down the Hudson Valley to meet downstate's growing power needs.

Speaking at the Aflao, Ho and Hohoe Central mosques, Dr. Bawumia the Akufo - Addo government has restored Teacher and Nursing trainee allowances and implementing Planting for Food and Jobs initiative to improve agric while creating jobs at the same time.

START - UP NY might be a misnomer: Gov. Andrew Cuomo's signature job - creation initiative isn't really aimed at start - up companies.

Cuomo has slated a number of green energy initiatives — a major hallmark in his tenure as governor — as potential replacements for the approximately 1,000 jobs that currently exist at the plant.

FreshDirect has already displayed their commitment to the Bronx by establishing hiring initiatives that have led to Bronx residents receiving jobs at their existing Queens facility.

Most hiring managers at life sciences companies recognize LinkedIn as a legitimate source of job candidates, and companies are increasingly using LinkedIn to search for future employees, says Ruby Gadelrab, leader of social media initiatives and head of marketing for international markets for the genomic analysis company Affymetrix in Santa Clara, California.

EAST HANOVER, N.J. January 18, 2017 — Kessler Foundation has awarded a two - year, $ 200,000 Signature Employment Grant to the Mayor's Fund to Advance New York City to launch NYC: AT WORK — an initiative to connect people with disabilities to meaningful, living - wage jobs across the city's five boroughs by working with the Mayor's Office for People with Disabilities (MOPD) to build partnerships and expand coalitions.

At Kessler Foundation, Senator Booker met with disability funding experts who detailed the successes achieved through the Foundation's support of novel disability employment and job training initiatives.

She was a divorced mom of three with few employment prospects who talked her way into a job at a law firm, began an investigation on her own initiative and played a key role in a pollution suit that cost Pacific Gas & Electric a $ 333 million settlement.

February 29, 2012 • Obama appointees at the U.S. Department of Agriculture say grants and loans supported by its Know Your Farmer initiative are a win - win that create new jobs and more locally produced food.

In relation to this, Brandon Alcorn, project manager for global initiatives at Penn, notes that students are «using it as a job - training tool rather than an educational tool,» which clearly illustrates their dominant purpose.

In January 2016, JPMorgan Chase & Co. launched New Skills for Youth, a $ 75 million, five - year initiative, aimed at strengthening career - focused education, starting in high school and ending with postsecondary degrees or credentials aligned with high - skill jobs.

These state grants are one part of the $ 75 million, five - year New Skills for Youth initiative developed by JPMorgan Chase & Co., in collaboration with the Council of Chief State School Officers (CCSSO), Advance CTE and Education Strategy Group, aimed at strengthening career - focused education starting in high school and ending with postsecondary degrees or credentials aligned with high - skill jobs.

Constant change in education policy has meant that teachers haven't been given the time to get to grips with one initiative properly before it is changed for another, in a way they are less «expert» at their jobs.

To probe these questions, The Wallace Foundation in 2011 launched a five - year, $ 75 million initiative to help six large districts build stronger principal pipelines by (1) creating clear job requirements detailing what principals and assistant principals must know and do, (2) ensuring high - quality training for aspiring leaders, (3) developing more selective hiring procedures, and (4) using well - crafted evaluations to identify the needs of principals and ongoing support to address them.79 Over the life of the initiative, it is expected that participating districts will have filled at least two - thirds of their principal slots with graduates of high - quality training programs - enough to enable independent researchers to gather meaningful evidence on whether and how better leadership can transform the academic fortunes of children.