Sentences with phrase «largest local efforts»

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In the next year, they hope to host the largest food packing event in the world: an effort that would take place in a local stadium and last a full week.

Our efforts represent the single largest block of community support in the history of New Orleans, contributing more than 54,000 volunteer hours and investing more than $ 1 million in local projects like painting, landscaping, and building playgrounds.

In an effort to buoy small privately owned businesses in San Francisco and preserve the unique retail personality of the city, the Small Business Commission started a publicity campaign in 2004 to keep a larger share of retail dollars in the local economy, [6] and the Board of Supervisors has used the planning code to limit the neighborhoods where formula retail establishments can set up shop, [6] an effort affirmed by San Francisco voters.

We should remember that it was the limited effectiveness of church workers in the settlement house movement and other voluntary, local efforts in the 1880s that led to the large - scale government social programs of the 20th century.

The Churches of Christ have insisted on leaving missionary work to the initiative of the local church, and any joint efforts are typically coordinated by the elders of a large or particularly active congregation.

Highly Talented Chef Marina Kitchen is a popular destination for tourists and locals alike, due in large part to the efforts of award - winning chef Aron Schwartz.

Before opening her own firm, Bailey - Chapman held a number of public affairs and advocacy leadership positions including vice president of public affairs for Penn National Gaming, the country's second largest gaming company, where she oversaw a multi-state government affairs team and managed several local and statewide referenda campaign efforts.

Throughout the week, ILCA will highlight each of these themes to help you better understand the SDGs and learn how to connect your critical local efforts to these larger international goals.

But he's in charge of a large Western New York county, and he's also been promoting local GOP gubernatorial hopeful Carl Paladino's effort.

Kasper said the city's future plans may be effected by the «rapid pace of projects» related to revitalization efforts, noting that local lawmakers are hoping to do a lot of financial planning in advance to support city departments as the larger workload — along with other unknown impacts of the Downtown Revitalization Initiative (DRI)-- are levied onto their departments.

Beijing has closed the first of four large coal - fired power plants set to be de-commissioned as part of the city's efforts to cut air pollution, official news agency Xinhua reported on Wednesday, citing the local planning agency.

The research is part of a larger effort by Harvard and Columbia to provide local stakeholders with an effective tool to assess the public health costs from fires and guide policy decisions.

One New York City neighborhood's efforts to pool local renewable energy sources reflects a larger push toward decentralized power production and consumption

Essential resources include strong local research universities and medical schools, larger corporations with R&D organizations, and regional development efforts — partnerships that have a mutual interest in seeing biotechnology strengthen locally,» says Dibner.

By differentiating the financial gains of different conservation strategies — large but distant preserves versus small, local stands of trees — Karp thinks the study could provide a framework for introducing similar efforts in agricultural zones around the world.

Both the campaign and ongoing communication will continue to acknowledge the efforts of all involved in the education of children, while demonstrating MTA's unique points of difference, including 220 - local staff, in - house customer service team and the largest educational resource field force — who visit schools and early childhood centres across Australia and New Zealand every day.

The president of Washington's largest teachers» union said the effort had one other positive result: fruitful collaboration between the governor, the Legislature, parents, other education advocacy groups, local school districts and the Washington Education Association, representing teachers.

That quick work was part of a larger cooperative effort with the local public - housing authority, which district leaders credit for a drop in student - mobility rates.

There is currently a concerted effort by several charter leaders to recruit teachers with local roots, particularly black educators, in large part because those teachers are more likely to stick around for the long haul.

Before United Way, Liz spent 7 years in various volunteer leadership positions in theUK including founding her own not - for - profit organization, being chairperson of the largest branch of the National Childbirth Trust, acting as the lead member of the Epperstone Village Planning Council, being chair of the local village pre-school as well as leading fundraising and planning efforts to build two tennis courts and playground facilities in her village.

With lawmakers duking it out over whether or not to eliminate a large number of teacher aides in elementary classrooms, it's hard to imagine that the state and local school districts will be able to keep school turnaround efforts going into the future.

It will require more than a few local efforts like the one in Milwaukee to make the American school system more inclusive and fair; it will require a much larger cultural shift and an about - face from government at all levels.

Given the influence of state legislation on local reforms and on national efforts, these battlegrounds will loom larger in school reform discussions.

WestEd is a leader in moving research into practice by conducting research and development (R&D) programs, projects, and evaluations; by providing training and technical assistance; and by working with national, regional, state, and local policymakers and practitioners to carry out large - scale school improvement and innovative change efforts.

In our schools over the course of the school year, students and staff also engage in projects, small and large, that contribute to local and international charitable efforts.

WestEd has been a leader in moving research into practice by conducting research and development (R&D) programs, projects, and evaluations; by providing training and technical assistance; and by working with policymakers and practitioners at state and local levels to carry out large - scale school improvement and innovative change efforts.

We are a proud participant in the Chrysler Environmental Leadership Award program, in large part because of our participation with local recycling efforts, and the Project Greenway program.

He attributes his recent shift in momentum to the efforts of the American Bookseller Association, and readers realizing that independent bookstores offer a different selection than their larger corporate counterparts — especially when it comes to local authors.

You get a real estate agent; you drive down streets; you check out local schools and talk to neighbours — all in an effort to truly understand whether or not the single, largest purchase you're about to make is actually right for you.

ADLA is a member of the Humane Legislative Coalition of Arizona (HCLA) *, an alliance of local animal advocacy organizations that represents the Arizona animal community's largest effort to date to protect our state's animals.

The National Capital Cat Show is a big supporter of rescue efforts and invites local shelters, rescue groups and animal awareness organizations to the show, and each time, these wonderful groups find forever homes for a large number of kittens and cats.

If you are looking to raise brine shrimp as a food source for your fish it is easier and less expensive to buy live or frozen adult brine shrimp from your local fish store as you can not raise enough shrimp in a small aquarium to make the effort worthwhile, but if you want to do it as an experiment or learning experience, you can start with a tank of 10 gallons or larger and limit the amount of shrimp nauplii you use as a starter.

While called National Adoption «Weekend,» the adoption efforts span the week with the majority of the pets, about 22,272, adopted between Friday and Sunday when many stores host large parking lot tent - events with their local adoption partners to connect adoptable pets with their forever families.

«This is Palm Beach County's largest one - day adoption event,» said Rich Anderson, CEO and Executive Director of Peggy Adams Animal Rescue League, «On this day, the local animal rescue community comes together, united in our efforts to save the lives of homeless animals in Palm Beach County.

In Nusa Lembongan, a small island southeast of Bali, local communities have been quietly nurturing their mangroves, not only as part of a larger effort to preserve coastal resources, but also as a way to develop ecotourism on the island.

The options include everything from cozy local bed and breakfasts that feel like home but require no effort to large national or international hotel chains that will have familiar services.

Stumbling its way through political deals and compromises among politicians guided by local interests and large entrenched industries, in an environment where most detractors erroneously proclaim profound economic gloom and doom in an effort to frighten the public into submission, the legislation somehow made it past the House.

Yesterday, our local Emergency Operations Center hosted a multi-agency table top exercise as part of an overall planning effort for response and recovery for a large earthquake.

Ignace Schops was awarded the Prize in 2008 for his efforts to raise more than $ 90 million by bringing together private industry, regional governments, and local stakeholders to establish Belgium's first national park, protecting one of the largest open green spaces in the country.

The greatest value of all these efforts is in producing global and coherent data synthesis products of known quality, and in informing the society at large about local, regional and global patterns in various water properties and hence ecosystem dynamics.

But now, thanks to the efforts of local conservationists, the river's making a comeback as more and more folks are discovering that, even in the concrete jungle, there's still a bit of real nature to be found.After decades of weepily weaving through the middle of the second largest city in America, unkempt and ignored, the Los Angeles river is once again being celebrated and revitalized as a setting for water recreation.

Our banking and finance experience in the region ranges from advising shareholders in one of the largest deals in the history of the Dominican Republic's financial sector and acting as local counsel on the issuance of billions of dollars of secured notes, to providing representation of banks in syndicated loan and complex loan restructuring efforts, to offering legal advice on financial issues for the implementation of mobile payments systems in the region.

Evidence of this could be found, for example, in the large amount of materials posted on the Commission's website (videotaped presentations, webinar, written submissions,...) and the Commission's efforts to facilitate a large number of what it termed «grassroots meetings,» which the Commission described as «local conversations [to] create new avenues for access to justice for all and open doors to new career opportunities for current and future lawyers.»

We are confident that our technology and relationships with key local companies, Hashed and GOPAX, will help aelf form a larger presence in one of the world's largest markets, and play a key role in the country's effort to adopt blockchain.»

As our society evolves into a new form of community where there is a larger focus on local efforts, major companies are starting to take note of this trend as well.

Initiated vendor recruiting efforts with large Fortune 500 companies and other qualified prospects on a local, regional, national and global basis.

• Coordinated effort between Development, QA, Production, DR, System, DBA, Production - support, Network Administration, Applications group and vendors for project completion ahead of schedule under budget • Incorporated new technologies with legacy systems to improve performance and reduce cost • Experienced in incorporating leading open source tools: nagios, mysql, tomcat, apache, wikis, etc. • Performed broad range of UNIX Systems, Net - Working and SAN Administration tasks for large financial and networking clients such as HSBC Bank USA, Deutsche Bank, Citi Group, ISO.com, GE Corporate Treasury, Globeop Financial Services, LLC., Sothebys.com, Church Pension Group, and Verizon Partners Solutions • Provided project leadership for managing technical resources, client / server issues, vendors, senior management reviews and hands - on technical expertise • Designed and deployed iPlanet Web / Directory server Architecture for the purpose of authentication and Widows 2000 active Directory compatibility • Prepared estimates and diagrams for the new secured Development Environment comprised of Cisco routers, local directors, hubs, Sun servers, firewalls for deployment, staging and production • Developed one to one disaster recovery using Bourne Shell scripting for Reuters» Kondor 3.0 on Solaris 8 • Minimized website down time through careful monitoring of Sotheby's Web Vision to Amazon by using FTP servers to manage high volume uploads which optimized online trading functionalities • Directed installation, configuration, and security of multiple online global auction sites • Automated operations, disk space monitoring, and backups using Bourne and Korn Shell scripting • Developed standard operating procedure for IP multi-pathing, Emulex LPFC, HBAs, EMC Power path, Navisphere, and installed JASS on new built servers

Special Agent, Criminal Investigator AFOSI Detachment 611 — Osan AB, ROK (8/2003 — 8/2004) • Held integral role in the handling of 40 + criminal, fraud, and CI investigations, the largest caseload for AFOSI / Pacific Air Force Command, bringing unit to the highest pro-active rate in 8 years • Collaborated with the Department of Homeland Security and Customs Division in an international fraud case, the first joint effort between these departments and the result of mutual interest coordination avenues between numerous entities • Protected valuable DOD resources and assets by conducting major counterintelligence, criminal, and fraud investigations, including close support through crime scene searches, evidence preservation, and laboratory analysis requests • Testified in court - martials, interviewed key witnesses, and performed interrogations of persons suspected of committing major violations of the Uniform Code of Military Justice • Managed and utilized human informants to detect illegal activities as well as conducting undercover investigations • Investigated AFOSI applicant backgrounds to determine suitability for positions in department, also serving as a point of contact for counterintelligence, anti-terrorism, and local criminal awareness briefings on base

Before United Way, Liz spent 7 years in various volunteer leadership positions in theUK including founding her own not - for - profit organization, being chairperson of the largest branch of the National Childbirth Trust, acting as the lead member of the Epperstone Village Planning Council, being chair of the local village pre-school as well as leading fundraising and planning efforts to build two tennis courts and playground facilities in her village.

Such institutional and individual changes would lessen the need for the demanding parenting efforts described here and might allow local parents to become more active members of the larger community.