Sentences with phrase «large number of charities»

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He repeats his description of the ways bad charity (the Great Society) drove out good charity (religiously based groups): It reinterpreted the causes of poverty as exclusively material and environmental; its bureaucracy tried to reach ever - larger numbers of poor people with a decreasingly personal strategy for fighting poverty; it dismissed the role of volunteers in favor of professional social workers; and it removed the incentives for work, saving, and marriage.

Within both of these churches one can find large numbers of local congregations in which orthodox faith, sacramental integrity, sound preaching, and missions of charity live and flourish.

She also supervised the sending of large numbers of parcels to poor families, initiating a massive work of charity - today Foyer members send parcels to, among others, people in prison, with gifts of chocolate, soap, Bibles, rosaries, and religious literature.

Sands and The Lullaby Trust, the two largest baby loss charities operating across the UK, are considering whether merging to create one charity will offer greater potential to reduce the number of babies dying in the UK, and provide a lifeline to all families who have lost a baby both before, during and shortly after birth and during infancy.

We were lucky, the fact that my father was a doctor coupled to the charity of the Stix family of St Louis, Missouri, who had given bond for a large number of professional jews, we did get a visa to come to the United States and arrived in New York in January 1939.

One of Tocqueville's major insights was that Americans have benefited from popular participation in the large number of churches, charities, clubs, and voluntary associations in our country, as well as in state and local governments, which stand between the individual and the national government in Washington, D.C.

The EPI research, commissioned by the Ambition School Leadership charity, also reveals that one of the most vulnerable groups of pupils — those with special needs — do not make it into leading academy trusts in such large numbers.

Chicago bills itself as the nation's largest auto show, meaning in the number of car - prospecting attendees after press and charity days.

Canadian Tire Jumpstart Charities reached more than 206,000 kids in financial need last year — the largest number of kids we've ever helped in a single year.

Wings of Rescue, a donation based charity, flies large numbers of healthy, atrisk pets across long distances, from highintake shelters to safe, nokill shelters throughout the United States and Canada.

The number of underfunded animal shelters, cat charity houses, and feral cat feeding stations increased dramatically - all housing large numbers of, stressed felines that were often forced to lived in crowded, unsanitary conditions.

The best places to find free doghouse plans are from animal charities, specifically those that take in large numbers of dogs.

Equine charities receive a large number of calls every month from horse owners seeking alternative homes for...

-- Contributing $ 375,000 to a number of charities, notably America's Second Harvest, the largest US food bank, the Tom Joyner Foundation, which raise funds for minority students, and Canine Companions, a non-profit organization that trains assistance dogs for the disabled.

In our larger offices, Hartford, Boston, and Stamford, our women lawyers have hosted a number of networking events, such as wine tastings and a chocolate - making class, to which women contacts and clients from the area are invited; local nonprofit organizations are honored at these events and attendees bring in - kind donations to support the charities.

The delicate distinction is blurred by a large number of parent - teacher and fundraising charities devoted to supporting particular community schools.

Some charities will pick up donations from your home if you have a large number of items to give.

However, animal charities such as the RSPCA and Care for the Wild are finding that large numbers of abandoned hedgehogs are being handed in for care, many with missing quills or mite infestations.