Sentences with phrase «local builds community»

Buying local builds community and has potential environmental benefits.

Each Construction21EXPO will provide funds to contribute to a green building project that both directly reduces energy use and inspires the local building community to improve their environmental performance,» says Ioana Diaconu, communication specialist for Construction21EXPO.eu.

Not exact matches

His goal is to build a community where local entrepreneurs can live and work.

She had been renting in Vancouver's Downtown Eastside for ten years, during which time she'd built a successful local theatre company, a strong community of friends, and had had two children with her husband who also works in the arts.

Rather, the time, effort, and resources put into the startup scene show an aggressive effort by a community to take control of its destiny and begin building a new economy from the ground up by supporting local innovators.

This shows how building an informed community, supportive local communities, and a civically - engaged community are all related.

«Colu is leveling the playing field between local communities and larger institutions, giving them the opportunity to accelerate their growth while generating cooperation built on mutual trust and shared successes.»

Born out of N ot For Sale, a non-profit with the mission to eradicate modern - day slavery around the world, the organization built REBBL as a self - sustaining business that would source ingredients from the Peruvian Amazon to improve the local community.

For example, it recently built a solar energy farm in China that doesn't disrupt the local communities, Jackson explained while showing photos of yaks grazing under the elevated solar panels.

From 2005 to 2014, the company received at least $ 613 million in local government subsidies to build warehouses and another $ 147 million for its data centers, according to a report by the Institute for Local Self - Reliance, a group that pushes for local resources to be dedicated to community developlocal government subsidies to build warehouses and another $ 147 million for its data centers, according to a report by the Institute for Local Self - Reliance, a group that pushes for local resources to be dedicated to community developLocal Self - Reliance, a group that pushes for local resources to be dedicated to community developlocal resources to be dedicated to community development.

It accomplishes this by building healthy, sustainable communities through local engagement and partnerships and by focusing on the leading causes of mortality for mothers and children in targeted communities throughout Africa, Latin America and the Caribbean.

Gummi Oddsson, a cross-cultural sociologist from Northern Michigan University, has found that Nordic governments go to great lengths to build trust in local communities.

That means, for entrepreneurs, it's now as important to build a solid community and good reputation online as it once was to foster excellent small - town relations when businesses were more likely to have Main Street storefronts and returning locals as customers.

Local franchisees simply do a better job of serving their clients and building long - term trust — local business owners like to do business with other businesses in their commuLocal franchisees simply do a better job of serving their clients and building long - term trust — local business owners like to do business with other businesses in their commulocal business owners like to do business with other businesses in their community.

AT&T has also spent decades building a national alliance of local government officials and nonprofit groups — particularly from black and Hispanic communities — that it will certainly be asking to weigh in again in Washington, as it tries to get the merger approved.

You'll find a built - in community of English - speaking locals and expats — it's said that more than 11,000 U.S. retirees currently live in Costa Rica.

To determine which communities are a good fit for the initiative, Starbucks looks at all the available data on the socio - economic health of America's cities to understand which communities have the biggest opportunity gaps, which have the biggest need for business investment and leadership, and where there is local movement underway to build a better future for its residents.

Whether you're new in town and want to get plugged into the local business community, a seasoned Vancouverite who wants to build your network and grow as a professional, or a recent graduate of our Leaders of Tomorrow mentorship program, this is the place for you!

Facebook sees local news as an opportunity to push community - building and more positive content — a way for its users to interact about something that isn't Donald Trump.

Borrowers who might be looking for a $ 3,000 or $ 5,000 loan might be pushed into a credit card account for these smaller loan amounts at the local bank, however that very small loan amount in the right hands has the potential to create jobs, build a business, and strengthen a community.

Now, as Kraft Heinz, we're eager to once again celebrate the pride of local hockey communities and help build the sport by providing much needed awareness and financial support for local rinks.»

A public bank working in partnership with community banks ensures that local money works locally and stays local supporting development and businesses that build up our neighborhoods and increase our «common wealth.»

His outgoing personality and demonstration of results have contributed considerably to the way he's built trust and the reputation of Starbucks in the local community.»

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.

He had built a community gathering spot and urban beer garden where locals could grab a handcrafted beer and enjoy life.

Why not spearhead something or reach out to local organizations like your Chamber of Commerce to see if other area businesses might be interested in building a community event around shopping local?

A sale to the employees living in an area protects the jobs and wealth of the employees, benefits the local community, and allows the entrepreneurs who built the businesses to cash out their equity interest so they can enjoy retirement.

You can build a marketplace to strengthen relationships within your local community, but you can also attract others who share your mission and vision to be a part of your marketplace community.

Children from the local school and community were engaged throughout the entire Build Day playing games, learning about the environment and being active.

Some of the highlights to this package are real time exclusive leads every month for the first 2 years of your business, Network Referral building whereby we actually set up local appointments for you with people who can refer you business in your community and marketing for the life of your business!

The qualified candidate will need strong critical thinking skills and will be expected to brainstorm article ideas, schedule and conduct interviews, write stories, spread content on social media, attend events and build relationships with members of the local startup community.

So, as a small business owner, the substantive relationship you have with your local banker, or the social capital you've built within your community over years, if not decades — which propels enormous goodwill, customer loyalty, and economic value — means little, if anything, to regulators.

Associates from Ontario, Canada, helped a local family reach its goal of home ownership in another way when they came together for the Habitat for Humanity build in Amherstburg, Ont., the first such home built in this community.

BlocPower: Smart Cities platform connects investors to green and healthy building projects in local communities.

Using a Lean Startup Methodology tailored for communities of color, DID excels at 1) finding Black and Latina women entrepreneurs with high growth companies and game changing ideas, 2) connecting them to an unmatched network of investors, mentors, and influencers, 3) developing their start - up toolkit and leadership skills, and 4) supporting their entrepreneurship journey from the build phase to exit with the goal of helping create companies that have a strong positive impact on the economic health of their local communities.

Can hotels have a coworking space within their building that benefits the local community, its guests, and the hotel?

To build a successful community, Airbnb hires employees who enjoy connecting with people, who loves local culture and interacting with locals.

A critical challenge of liberation theology is its rooting in local praxis and base communities, and here the main British version has been a multifaceted urban theology which has built on a tradition of pastoral, political and community - building activity in cities.

Partnering with local leaders, World Vision helped the community build and maintain a better dam — a beautiful reservoir of deep blue beneath Hunu, capable of providing irrigation to ver 170 families and even stocked with fish for extra protein!

Furthermore, under the general welfare provision of the Constitution, the Federal Government offers financial assistance to states and local communities for a variety of educational purposes, ranging from subsidies for school lunch programs to salaries for teachers of agriculture and loans for school building construction.

His first function is that of building or «edifying» the church; he is concerned in everything that he does to bring into being a people of God who as a Church will serve the purpose of the Church in the local community and the world.

As they have argued, family, citizenship, church, neighborhood, community, schools, and markets need to be drawn closer together in a more integrated whole, in every aspect ranging from the built environment to the cultivation of genuine local cultures arising from the varying circumstances of diverse places.

During these crusades, Moody pioneered many techniques of evangelism: a house - to - house canvass of residents prior to a crusade; an ecumenical approach enlisting cooperation from all local churches and evangelical lay leaders regardless of denominational affiliations; philanthropic support by the business community; the rental of a large, central building; the showcasing of a gospel soloist; and the use of an inquiry room for those wanting to repent.

Whether it is Lutheran social service agencies in the Midwest or Presbyterian parochial schools in New Mexico (founded because the Catholics so dominated the territory's few public schools) or Jewish philanthropies in New York or the ubiquitous Catholic hospitals and Protestant colleges throughout the land, religions have provided much of the social (and financial) capital for building local communities.

Sure, the buildings cost money to build and maintain, but what price do you put on serving a local community?

While I've spoken at many of them, and Passion has influenced them around the world, I want to be able to lay down at the feet of Jesus and say I gave it a shot — I tried to build into the local community of faith that he gave his life for, that he loved, and that he believed is the best agent for change in the world.

Use local radio, television or cable to help build community: encourage coverage of local issues.

Some local governments might consider buying a building as a community center.

«Our humanitarian response includes supporting local partners to run training workshops with people from affected communities, so they can build safer homes that can withstand earthquakes.

Would it be desirable to build an economy that supported local communities as did the village markets of yesteryear?