Sentences with phrase «kind of community effort»

For a different kind of community effort — one involving teenagers and science that can benefit humankind — see the box at the left.

Not exact matches

Its effort to create community in the face of suspicion, its combination of idealism and despair, its testimony to the corruption of both oppressor and oppressed, and its tragic heroism in trying to actualize human values against impossible odds is a kind of microcosm of much of American history, but it would take a book to do it justice.

In the coming months, I researched this group in an effort to decipher their goals and what kind of effects they might have on the black community.

With County Executive Poloncarz's leadership and the strong support of Mayors Brown, Pilozzi, and Szymanski, our community demonstrated the kind of regional cooperation that will serve to make the land bank a success, and it's an effort that is being justly rewarded by New York State.»

While not always preventable, we know that communities can reduce these kind of health care events by investing in good health promotion efforts that focus on preventing falls and controlling the chronic diseases that often lead to critical health events and Erie County will take the lead in doing so.

After the ribbon cutting, Mr. de Blasio — whose first year in office was dominated by an effort to reform police - community relations after Garner's death and a subsequent City Hall feud with police union leadership — said he agreed some kind of national standard should be set.

With funding and in - kind support from the American Society for Cell Biology, Cancer Research UK, the Company of Biologists, eLife, EMBO, F1000, Hindawi, PLOS, and Wellcome, we have been able to hire a Community Manager, Dr. Anna Hatch, who will be dedicated to coordinating efforts.

It takes a ton of effort to raise this kind of money in our relatively small, but growing communities.

The Schott Foundation has been a champion in the philanthropic community of these efforts through financial contributions, as well as extensive in - kind support to the communications work and the strategic planning process.

Some successful community school efforts have pieced together cash and in - kind resources from each of the partners within a collaborative to cover the costs associated with coordination.

They have embraced the kind of solidarity mindset that stifle important efforts to transform America's criminal justice and public education systems that our children and communities need.

Blank concludes that if states choose the right kind of non-academic indicators to include in their plans, they will be encouraging educators to explore with families and their broader community how to address the challenges and build sustainable improvement efforts.

I saw the carrot, I saw the community, I saw the honest effort and I saw the sincerity of the users, but I didn't see any mechanism by which all those things could be focused through the lens of authority into the kind of intimate writing environment that I think authors need.

And it's just the kind of collaborative effort with community creative talent that San... Read More

And data from communities and countries that sterilize community dogs show the same results: a decline in the number of dog bites, with «officials point [ing] to a variety of factors: the obvious effect of sterilization on dog behavior, including behaviors associated with mating, reduced numbers of dogs and reduced home range of individual dogs resulting in fewer chance encounters with humans, an increased respect and thus kinder treatment towards dogs due to the positive role model of rescuers, and the impact of community education by rescuers that often accompanies these efforts.

Some of these include Furburbia pet adoption centers in malls (taking pets out of the shelter to the public); pet super adoptions (adopting hundreds of animals at a time over a weekend), the first coalition - based effort to end the killing; the Big Fix statewide mobile clinic, serving every nook and cranny of the state and cranking out more surgeries than any other mobile clinic of its kind (around 100,000 surgeries during its time); creative corporate partnerships, including Squatters Chasing Tail Ale and Hooters for Neuter; the first statewide community cat trap / neuter / return (TNR) programs; and the first dedicated shelter program to save pit bull terriers (the Pit Crew).

At least it was successful for us, for at it we realized that there was a clear need, one widely perceived within the NGO community, for a new kind of GDRs study, one designed to cast as much light as possible on the effort - sharing debate as we now know it.

From how I understand Easterbrook, the same kind of effort in the GCM community is significantly diluted relative to this standard.

The document «expressly laid out a budget and how to hire some scientists, to train them to speak about uncertainty and get out there in the mix,» since exploiting the media's tendancy towards balance of the «he said, she said» kind was central to the effort to foster the idea that the scientific community was divided on the impact of global warming.

Since that kind of overlaps a lot with the efforts we've been making to build the TBD Law community, we thought it would be fun to note how many of the TBD Law alumni are also alumni of the Fastcase 50 list.

This toolkit will provide you guidance in the kinds of questions you should examine depending on where you are in developing a continuous quality improvement system, the kinds of activities you may want to explore, a rich set of resources from communities that have launched a continuous quality improvement effort, and sage advice from those whom have led such efforts.