Sentences with phrase «larger numbers of volunteers»

These types of reports (of which this is the second) can complement results from studies in much larger numbers of volunteers being generated by investigators based in European and African countries.

The local chapters are run by a large number of volunteers.

My book, Ground Wars: Personalized Communication in Political Campaigns, deals with how American political campaigns mobilize, organize, and target their field operations, using large numbers of volunteers and paid part - timer workers to contact voters at home at the door or over the phone.

His book, Ground Wars: Personalized Communication in Political Campaigns, deals with how American political campaigns mobilize, organize, and target their field operations, using large numbers of volunteers and paid part - timer workers to contact voters at home at the door or over the phone.

While political parties have become increasingly sophisticated organisations with a cadre of professional policy wonks, media managers and spin doctors, when it comes to fighting elections they remain heavily dependent on a large number of volunteers to knock on doors, deliver leaflets and make phone calls.

Over the past three months, she has introduced herself to voters outside of Yonkers, and they have embraced her candidacy, as evidenced by the large number of volunteers who have stepped forward to help her campaign — numbers unseen in any State Senate race before.

Other than a loan from my father - in - law (which I paid back in full some six months later), I wasn't helped by family members — but I did get a great deal of help from a large number of volunteers.

A large number of volunteers are involved in feeding, cleaning and socialization (FCS) in the Adoption Center.

The large number of volunteers in this sector means that the search for a paid position is even more intense.

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Looking at 100 large metro areas, the researchers analyzed public data across nine categories, including housing costs, income equality, Medicare enrollment, the numbers of hospitals and households with older adults, and volunteer rates for older adults.

«During my time in Bohol there was a large number of young volunteers who had shown up spontaneously, without much thought about it, and most had never had a significant volunteer experience previously.

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.

Time is a precious commodity on most campuses, yet large numbers of students volunteer their time to support worthy causes.

As a volunteer assistant, he recruited a large number of players on his father Jack's 2002 FCS championship Western Kentucky team.

Frontier Days is organized and run each year by the Arlington Heights Festival Committee, a large organization of volunteer citizens, with the cooperation of the Park District, the Village and a number of local businesses.

After all of that work for their candidate, recruiting volunteers, raising money, building a community of supporters, and spreading campaign news, a very large number of campaign web sites freeze on Election Day.

But Dilan also doled out $ 10,000 to Make the Road New York, whose staffers are volunteering in large numbers for the rival campaign of Jesus Gonzalez.

On January 7th at 22:30 UTC, the Great Internet Mersenne Prime Search (GIMPS) celebrated its 20th anniversary with the math discovery of the new largest known prime number, 274,207,281 - 1, having 22,338,618 digits, on a university computer volunteered by Curtis Cooper for the project.

The program's being school - based and run by volunteers gives it the potential of affecting a large number of children equitably without the need for substantial resources.»

Our report was a community effort — we received input from a large number of exoplanet scientists who volunteered their time and expertise to explore what the future should bring.

He has dedicated his public health career to service, volunteering and advocating for range of global, national and regional causes impacting on health, education, housing, among other societal issues and has mentored a large number of future public health professionals.

Thanks to the volunteers who are running weather@home on their personal computer, a large number of present and future drought events in the UK are being created within the project «MaRIUS» (Managing the Risks, Impacts and Uncertainties of drought and water Scarcity).

While genetics play a large role in your heart disease risk factors, Dr. Suzanne Steinbaum, D.O., a preventive cardiologist from New York and a national Go Red For Women volunteer, says keeping track of your numbers always helps.

EW: You obviously had a large number of dedicated volunteers at P.S. 87.

«The large number of parents and other volunteers who work in our school each day help to create a true feeling of «family» in our school.»

To help these stories reach a larger part of the community, a number of Wattpadders are volunteering their time to translate stories, Although available in over 50 languages, 77 % of its content is written in English.

With the large number of amazing Coco's Heart volunteers, donors and interested adopters, we would love everyone to know that we appreciate your passion and your help to keep Coco's Heart Dog Rescue the amazing organization that it is!

Together with a large number of dedicated volunteers and donors, we are working toward our dream that no adoptable animal is euthanized in our community.

While we take every precaution to protect our staff and volunteers, the risk of contracting minor infections (i.e. Ringworm), is present in all animal shelters and facilities with a large number of animals.

During Kitten Season, raising orphaned kittens on a large scale has long been considered a job better left to small - scale rescue groups, or achieved in small numbers by dedicated foster volunteers.1 The expansion of feline foster programs and, more notably, the establishment of kitten nurseries to address Kitten Season, are changing the situation for the better.

Over the years as the rescue grew larger with volunteers, the number of animals being saved from year to year also grew, and the rescue was formed into 501 (c) 3 nonprofit (GuideStar Verified) and changed its name to «Last Chance at Life All Breed Rescue & Adoptions.»

Training staff, interns, and volunteers is a key part of THL's strategy of helping to grow the animal advocacy movement by increasing the number of committed, trained, animal advocates.189 THL has large and structured volunteer, intern, and campus outreach programs designed in part to help participants become better advocates ready for positions of greater responsibility.190, 191 THL also tries to promote professional development among staff through structured training for managers and opportunities to attend relevant conferences and trainings.192 THL tells us that they try to promote from within as much as possible, and we have observed this in several cases.193 In our conversations with staff, we heard that while staff, interns, and volunteers all have opportunities for training and skill development, such opportunities tend to be much less structured for staff and more reliant on the staff member to take the initiative, which may lead to less overall growth.194

Through the help of the staff and a large group of volunteers, we provide a number of programs to enhance animal well - being and improve adoptability.

VHS cares for a large number of animals in a small amount of space with a small number of staff and volunteers.

A much larger number of people continue to volunteer to bring their animals into facilities, often with some screening process and training organized by local groups.

We hope that volunteers will be able to spend some of their time socializing during each shift, but due to the large number of animals we are often responsible for, that is not always the case.

She and her volunteers also undertook training in veterinary and trapping aspects of TNR — trap, neuter and release — to tackle the large numbers of street and feral cats in Lithuania.

Animal Welfare groups and volunteers are attempting to change that point of view by educating owners and potential owners about the lifelong commitment involved in adopting an animal, how to be a responsible pet owner, about the large number of adoptable animals available at shelters, and about the often poor condition of pet shop pets.

Over the course of the next few years, Watts inspected a large number of stations, and recruited a team of more than 650 volunteers through his Surface Stations website to inspect the rest.