Sentences with phrase «led by neighborhood»

Led by neighborhood volunteers, oral histories and artistic communities are archived in our interactive online map.

In addition, the developer will enter into a homeownership investment agreement with Neighborhood Housing Services of Niagara Falls, Inc., a housing renovation agency led by a neighborhood resident board.

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The startup has since expanded to other neighborhoods in Los Angeles County and San Diego, and on Tuesday it announced it had raised $ 15 million in venture - capital funding led by Craft Ventures to support its expansion throughout the US.

Dr. Tiffany Knipe is the founder of Washington Market Pediatrics, a new neighborhood practice that offers parenting groups led by former Soho Parenting therapist Colleen Campo, LMHC.

The funding will be administered by the Community Preservation Corporation, a leading not - for - profit affordable housing and neighborhood revitalization organization.

The blueprint, developed by the Western New York Regional Economic Development Council, led by man - for - all - seasons Howard Zemsky, includes three other priorities: promoting entrepreneurs, training and placing employees with the jobs of the future that many companies are finding difficult to hire today, and revitalizing impoverished neighborhoods in Buffalo.

Opponents led by one neighborhood council even sued him, claiming unsuccessfully that the plan was illegal and would hurt the city's quality of life.

The following day, led by community organizer Yetta Kurland and others, over 100 volunteers transported the materials to community organizer Jacques Leandre who then distributed the goods to desperately underserved areas in the Far Rockaway section of Queens — neighborhoods that still had no electricity and very limited access to resources.

In the second of a two - part series, Investigative Post reports on limited progress being made by local government officials to address lead poisoning in low - income neighborhoods on the city's East and West Side.

Rockland County D.A.: Narcotics business linked to Puerto Rico BY BILL DEMAREST HAVERSTRAW — Tips from local residents fed up with open - air drug dealing in their neighborhood led to an investigation that has broken an alleged family - run cocaine ring that used the barbershop «Fine Line» as its base of operations, according to Rockland County District -LSB-...]

The commission would also look into the segregation in New York cities by housing costs, which he said leads to underperforming schools in low - income neighborhoods.

The neighborhood canvassing led by the Buffalo chapter of «Showing Up for Racial Justice» is part of the «Fire Howard» campaign that has been heating up since spring.

Michael D. Rodriguez, a Latino progressive from Commissioner Jesus «Chuy» Garcia's neighborhood and committeeman of the 22nd ward, was elected as executive vice chair of the Cook County Democratic Party; a post previously held by Cook County Board President Toni Preckwinkle, who just rose as the first African - American and woman elected to lead the Democratic party in the county.

The stereotype - shattering nature of the opioid drug crisis, both in Erie County and nationwide, has not gone unnoticed by activists in the black community who remember when the crack epidemic swept through low - income, urban neighborhoods in the 1980s and early»90s, leading to a spike in violent crime and homicides.

The quality of the neighborhood where a child grows up has a significant impact on the number of problem behaviors they display during elementary and teenage years, a study led by Johns Hopkins Bloomberg School of Public Health researchers suggests.

The center provides warnings that give a range of possible surge heights across local regions, but the new insights could lead to models that can predict flooding more specifically, «neighborhood by neighborhood» Orton hopes.

In today's issue of Nature, a team led by Garik Israelian of the Instituto de Astrofisica de Canarias in Spain's Canary Islands surveyed 46 stars in our galactic neighborhood that host planets, along with 116 stars where so far no planets have been detected.

There may be a large number of undetected bright, substellar objects similar to giant exoplanets in our own solar neighborhood, according to new work from a team led by Carnegie's Jonathan Gagné and including researchers from the Institute for Research on Exoplanets (iREx) at Université de Montréal.

Now, a study led by Professor Harry Wang of William & Mary's Virginia Institute of Marine Science demonstrates the ability to predict a hurricane's storm tide at the level of individual neighborhoods and streets — a much finer scale than current operational methods.

By exploring the habitable planets around the stars closest to the Sun Project EDEN aims the search for life in the solar neighborhood and leads to the discovery of planets that are close enough to be studied in details.

The project, led by principal investigator George Ricker, a senior research scientist at MKI, will use an array of wide - field cameras to perform an all - sky survey to discover transiting exoplanets, ranging from Earth - sized planets to gas giants, in orbit around the brightest stars in the sun's neighborhood.

The project, led by principal investigator George Ricker, a senior research scientist at the MIT Kavli Institute for Astrophysics and Space Research (MKI) will use an array of wide - field cameras to perform an all - sky survey to discover transiting exoplanets, ranging from Earth - sized planets to gas giants, in orbit around the brightest stars in the sun's neighborhood.

A new study led by an undergraduate at the University of California, Santa Cruz, predicts for the first time where such mergers are likely to occur in the local galactic neighborhood.

Created by Double Fine's lead animator, Tasha Harris, the game follows the adventure of a group of young friends who must rid their neighborhood of monsters using only their wits, their bravery, and their home - made costumes.

This wild concept of chaos reigning in a suburban neighborhood has its edge reduced by its incomplete image of characters, an aspect that affected Get Him to the Greek in the past, and has made for slower moments in other Stoller films (on the other hand, when characters were solid like in Forgetting Sarah Marshall, they lead to a great introduction for a bare - all Jason Segel).

There's way too much cool going on in this pic as it features the core of the cast walking down a neighborhood sidewalk lead by the one and only Simon Pegg.

Up - and - coming actor Bill Skarsgard will play the lead role in It, New Line Cinema's Andy Muschietti - directed adaptation of the Stephen King bestseller about neighborhood pals who are haunted by the murderous clown Pennywise.

But just as they thought they'd reclaimed the neighborhood and were safe to sell, they learn that the new occupants next door are a hard — partying, out - of - control sorority, led by Shelby (Chloe Grace Moretz).

Battle for Brooklyn (Unrated) Eminent domain documentary about the seven - year legal fight led by resident David Goldstein against real estate developers determined to flatten his Prospect Heights neighborhood in order to build a stadium for the NBA's New Jersey Nets.

The lead character, played by writer - director Robert Townsand, is a mild - mannered teacher who gains superpowers, becomes the titular hero, and saves his neighborhood from a gang (and despair).

The return to resegregated neighborhood elementary schools in Oklahoma City, after 13 years of busing for integration, has not led to the gains in achievement, parent involvement, and equity the school district had claimed, according to a report released today by researchers at the Harvard Graduate School of Education.

As for the youth in Güzeltepe, their display of their rage on the street at small demonstrations deemed marginal by neighborhood residents and their subsequent retreats leads not only to the marginalization of youth in the eyes of the neighborhood, but also results in harsh prosecutions, jail sentences, or youth being wounded or even killed [21] by police bullets, since such demonstrations take place in a neighborhood under constant police surveillance.

In short, in the 1990s, in working class neighborhoods with leftist backgrounds, the cruising white Renault cars [used by plainclothes cops], disappearing people, unresolved assassinations, incidents like those at Gazi and 1 Mayıs neighborhoods in 1995 where shots were fired at residents resulting in deaths, led to a renewed blow on the rekindling hope for the future.

Saying they support «diversity by choice,» members of a task force led by three local mayors are urging the Wake County, N.C., school district to abandon a student - assignment plan that aims for economic integration and adopt a neighborhood - schools approach instead.

Michael McAfee, president of PolicyLink, has led the effort to make President Obama's Promise Neighborhoods initiative a reality in communities across the U.S. Please join the Education Redesign Lab (ERL) and cities participating in ERL's By All Means initiative for McAfee's keynote speech on May 18, 2017 at 11:15 a.m.. His talk, entitled «Equity and Collective Impact in Systems Change,» will focus on the work of the Promise Neighborhood Institute to build stronger systems of educational support and opportunity for children.

School Overview: Charles R. Drew Charter School opened in 2000 as Atlanta's first charter school and is an integral part of holistic neighborhood revitalization led by the East Lake Foundation.

We do this by recruiting and developing talented, innovative educators, launching high quality schools with the conditions for success and engaging neighborhoods and communities to help lead education innovation.

A new report by a coalition of organizations lead by the United Way found that it's harder for parents and guardians in low - income neighborhoods to obtain school information, get answers to their questions and access parent resources, than it...

Instead, state control and grossly inadequate state funding have led to dozens of neighborhood school closures, deep cuts in programs and services in District schools, and the disenfranchisement of families, whose concerns about their children's education were ignored by the SRC.

City schools CEO Gregory Thornton has faced backlash over staffing issues this year, following the departure of high - profile principals — including the principals who led schools in neighborhoods affected by the Freddie Gray unrest — and school layoffs that included the depletion of a surplus pool of teachers.

CCSD offers a diverse, expanding portfolio of options — including neighborhood, charter, magnet, IB (international baccalaureate), and Montessori schools — and is divided into elementary and early, middle, and secondary Learning Communities, each led by an associate superintendent.

Still, in these budget crunched times, citizens have been dismayed that the board, led by former Superintendent Larry Nyland, would reject a quarter of a million dollars for democracy education across all neighborhoods and schools in Seattle.

By Dr. Deborah Walker: Several years ago I attended a meeting in Washington, D.C. for Promise Neighborhoods awardees along with our partners and project leads from Berea College.

Although one can find heroic exceptions here and there (generally in schools led by extraordinary, beat - the - odds and damn - the - torpedoes principals), far too many public schools in tough neighborhoods and poor communities fail to get beyond the challenges of discipline, truancy, turnover of both students and staff, the ever - present risk of drop - outs, students» lack of basic skills, and such fundamental human needs as feeding breakfast to kids who come to school with empty stomachs.

Brinig: As we discuss in our book, the loss of Catholic schools is a «triple whammy» for our cities: When Catholic schools close, (1) poor kids lose schools with a track record of educating disadvantaged children at a time when they need them more desperately than ever; (2) poor neighborhoods that are already overwhelmed by disorder and crime lose critical and stabilizing community institutions — institutions that our research suggests suppress crime and disorder; and, (3) middle - class families must look elsewhere for educational options for their kids, leading many to migrate to suburbs with high - performing public schools.

That neighborhood initiative, led by founder Geoffrey Canada, is best known for bringing charter schools to Harlem.

And these realities, along with the memories among black families, who remember how integration led to continued decline of the schools within their own neighborhoods, has made charters a more - attractive option than the kind of integration schemes supported by Century Foundation scholar Richard Kahlenberg and Gary Orfield of the Civil Rights Project at UCLA.

Charter opponents, led by the Chicago Teachers Union, have long argued that charter schools — whose teachers are not represented by CTU — are treated differently than district - run neighborhood schools.

July 19, 2014 — Team led by Upstate Veterinary Specialties» Dr. Aaron Wey and Staff donate their time, skill, and muscle to build with Habitat for Humanity Capital District, Fox Hollow neighborhood in Troy, NY.

Dogs that are not neutered are much more likely to want to get out of the small backyard space and roam the neighborhood often leading to being hit by a car.