Sentences with phrase «local community efforts»

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«Write to Play» heralded Playworld's first - ever social media giveaway, and the results are impressive: Not only did its Facebook fan base increase from 600 to more than 9,000 during the two months the contest ran, but as finalists rallied to gain community support for their campaigns, many local news outlets reported on their efforts, earning Playworld significant free publicity in the process.

Employees are committed to bringing confidence to others, and come together to support company giving efforts, both globally and within our local community.

Although Cascade was able to document its successes in workplace diversity, local charity, and community service, the company did not have verification that its suppliers were making similar efforts.

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.

The more involved in the local community a firm is, the more its efforts boost its image and lead customers to respond with increased support and loyalty.

It calls its vision «Stand For Something Good,» a link to the company's purported efforts to integrate with local communities.

Members of the Trump campaign who worked on local community outreach unwittingly aided that effort, while the Russians paid to advertise the rallies on Facebook and Instagram, prosecutors said.

Michael McNiven, Ph.D., a Managing Director & Portfolio Manager at Cumberland Advisors, has written a guide called, Personal Finance in a Nutshell, in support of our efforts to drive financial literacy in our local community and wider society.

In tandem with the 100,000 Opportunity Youth Initiative, Starbucks has opened four stores with classroom and training space as part of its effort to support local economic development in diverse low - to - medium income communities across the U.S.. Each of these stores creates 20 to 25 new jobs with benefits, partners with a local women - and minority - owned supplier and contractor, and works with local nonprofits to provide job - skills training to youth.

Similar to those stores, the new location in Englewood will support efforts to revitalize the community by creating meaningful local jobs, providing a unique in - store job skills training program for youth, and investing in local minority - owned contractors and suppliers.

In addition to bettering our local communities and supporting numerous organizations through our Spirit to Serve efforts, Marriott Vacations Worldwide is also committed to social responsibility through corporate financial contributions, fundraising efforts and in - kind giving.

Each store catalyzes Starbucks Veteran hiring efforts and connects to its community through relationships with the local military base and with Veterans service organizations.

Last October, Facebook told TechCrunch that it works with NGOs and the local community in Myanmar to communicate its policies there, though its efforts seemed fairly toothless.

We are proud to partner with the Canadian Red Cross to create awareness of disaster preparedness in local communities and to support their response efforts when disaster strikes.

Top Starbucks executives and about 40 Philadelphia clergy and community leaders met in what local leaders say was the beginning of an effort to push the coffee company to play a leading role in addressing racial injustice.

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.

Sediment resources on the OCS are leased to local communities or federal agencies to help them restore shorelines or wetlands in an effort to address chronic erosion, sea level rise, impacts from major storms, or to protect valuable infrastructure and habitat.

ORLANDO, Fla. — June 24, 2016 — Marriott Vacations Worldwide (NYSE: VAC) is pleased to announce, as a member of the Orlando business community, it will be making a $ 25,000 donation divided among several local organizations coordinating support and healing efforts to those who have been so profoundly affected by the tragic event on June 12, 2016.

«These other agencies are able to take on a variety of missions which will supplement state and local efforts to assist the community move forward,» she added.

In addition to leading activism efforts in our local communities and providing pastoral care to those devastated by the verdict, we also took to Twitter, blogs, pulpits and conference podiums to call upon white Christians to wake up to the reality of racism in America.

The tension becomes frustratingly evident, he adds, in the efforts of those on the ground who «want to pursue the local but then begin to lose their nerve because they feel they're becoming too parochial — people of initiative, people of courage, pastors and local communities, who try to pursue the agenda of inculturation nevertheless looking over their shoulder all the time wondering when they're going to be asked or called to account.»

I work with a local interfaith group and track the efforts of the interfaith community worldwide — including Muslim organizations.

The best combined effort of state and local governments, businesses, foundations, religious and other charitable institutions to support community development is no substitute for a renewed federal commitment to housing.

Despite the opportunity lost with the cancellation of the forum, AFSA and the VFMA will continue our efforts to engage regulators in a constructive dialogue of how they might work within the existing regulatory framework to best support and enable the producers and communities who are building local, transparent and fair food systems.

It's why we are working with national and local public health organizations on comprehensive efforts to reduce sugar consumption in communities where it's most needed.

Many efforts brought PhilRice to this point with Golden Rice: getting permits of approval for the first confined test, engaging the support of local community leaders, establishing the field experiment, monitoring the experiment daily, and managing the harvested area for weeks afterward.

But while the challenges posed to rural communities in Honduras are great, so are the opportunities: in the last decade, the government has begun handing over land rights to some local and indigenous people, providing an excellent basis for efforts to create sustainable forest economies.

The plan may also include efforts in parts of the world where ingredients are sourced — like Indonesia, a huge source of palm oil for processed food manufacturers — such as providing communities with technology and resources to harvest and utilize local foods more efficiently.

We are committed to making a difference in our communities by partnering with local organizations and leading volunteering efforts.

In the last decades most international efforts have focused on distributing food to vulnerable populations; with very little support dedicated to strengthening the ability of small holder farming to adequately feed their local communities.

In addition to cash and product donations contributed to regional feeding programs, employees from The Kraft Heinz Company lead volunteer efforts year - round to ensure these local communities have ready access to fresh, healthy and affordable food.

An avid supporter of her community, Ms. Welch champions the fundraising efforts of several non-profits including Special Olympics and local Illinois charities.

This partnership supports the community effort to develop local Little Leagues and bring the Senior Western Regional Tournament to Sacramento, building character of our youth through the Game of Little League Baseball.

Since 2007, PrideIndex.com «s Esteem Awards has honored local and national organizations and individuals for their continued efforts in supporting the African - American and LGBT communities in the areas of entertainment, media, civil rights, business and art.

This nationally recognized community event generates support and participation in local anti-crime efforts to strengthen neighborhood spirit and community relations.

With a new baby, her local fundraising efforts and her experience in wedding planning, she will be a huge asset to the team and an aweseome community builder.

It has since grown into a collaborative effort of over 700 local and national organizations all working together to establish community and school gardens across the country.

It's also worth mentioning that in 2014, OshKosh B'gosh launched The B'gosh Jeanius Campaign as an annual effort to support customers» local communities with donated clothing and school supply needs.

I was excited to see our zoo educating our local community on conservation and restoration efforts.

The United States Department of Agriculture's (USDA) People's Garden initiative has grown into a collaborative effort of local and national organizations all working together to establish community and school gardens.

Done right, they can help shift the eating norms in a school, in a community and — in tandem with other efforts such as the Local Farms, Food, and Jobs Bill — in the entire country.

And join any efforts to improve school food in your local community.

Mass Audubon's Community Partners Program presents local businesses and nonprofits with an opportunity to offer great benefits to their employees while supporting Mass Audubon's efforts to protect wildlife and wild lands in the local community and across MassaCommunity Partners Program presents local businesses and nonprofits with an opportunity to offer great benefits to their employees while supporting Mass Audubon's efforts to protect wildlife and wild lands in the local community and across Massacommunity and across Massachusetts.

We will also be bringing in allies from local anti-hunger, education, nutrition, and health communities to enhance and support these efforts.

The report finds makes a list of recommendations for business, industry, professional bodies and government, namely: Construction businesses · Focus on better human resource management · Introduce and / or expand mentoring schemes · Boost investment in training · Develop talent from the trades as potential managers and professionals · Engage with the community and local education establishments Industry · Rally around social mobility as a collective theme · Promote better human resource management and support the effort of businesses · Promote and develop the UK as an international hub of construction excellence · Support diversity and schemes that widen access to management and the professions · Emphasise and spread understanding of the built environment's impact on social mobility Professional bodies and institutions · Drive the aspirations of Professions for Good for promoting social mobility and diversity · Support wider access to the professions and support those from less - privileged backgrounds · Promote and develop the UK as an international hub of construction excellence · Emphasise and spread understanding of the built environment's impact on social mobility · Provide greater routes for degree - level learning among those working within construction Government · Produce with urgency a plan to boost the UK as an international hub of construction excellence, as a core part of the Industrial Strategy · Provide greater funding to support the travel costs of apprentices · Support wider access to the professions and support those from less - privileged backgrounds · Place greater weight in project appraisal on the impact the built environment has on social mobility The report is being formally launched at an event in the House of Commons later today.

The committees suggested setting up a national climate change adaptation program to empower communities by using local, indigenous knowledge to help decrease disaster risk and support recovery efforts.

Some even see rays of hope in local efforts in some communities to establish social coping mechanisms — whether soup kitchens, rubbish collection or free additional tutoring for poorer children.

In addition to Mr. Skelos, a healthy string of ambitious Democratic citywide and local elected officials have made the soup - ladling trek, which says nothing of their efforts to pay tribute to other prominent Jewish social service organizations but also speaks volumes about the community's growing political significance.

(2) to supplement and complement the efforts of States, the local school systems and other instrumentalities of the States, the private sector, public and private educational institutions, public and private nonprofit educational research institutions, community - based organizations, parents, and students to im - prove the quality of education;

Besides packaging the tools, these national groups seeded local efforts, steering their members to activist networks in their communities.