Sentences with phrase «local efforts through»

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He has counseled political leaders, led economic development efforts, endowed programs at local colleges, and donated considerable sums to local philanthropies, individually and through Cascade.

These efforts, along with advancements we're making in our strategy through building deeper clinical and local market capabilities, are moving us closer to our core objective of helping our members with their «whole health» so they can achieve their best health.»

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.

This corporate thrust is made through the direct effort of innumerable local congregations and through the thousands of varied denominational institutions, all of which constitute a manifold witness to the Lordship of Jesus Christ as they set forth the fact that there is no human need and no human concern which is not His concern.

Citizens who try to promote public - works projects through their local or federal governments find that their efforts are crowded out by pork - barrel projects benefiting powerful corporations.

If through greater sensitivity to its stories a local church better discerns its constitution and mission, the effort of narrative analysis will have a significant result.

Local speculation had it that the man had carried out the beating himself, and was displaying the victim in an effort to intimidate the townspeople through a shameless feat of bravado.

This rising tide of cultural domination can be turned back in two ways: through the support of efforts in the third world to achieve local communication that reflects local needs; and through reform of the media in the first world — which we will consider in some detail in Chapter 11, «What We Can Do.»

«This initiative is unique in the way it provides a level of assurance, through consistent third - party verification, that all green efforts promoted by us and our supply chain partners are truly sustainable and that our local produce has been grown, harvested and delivered using safe, sustainable practices,» Yeater adds.

The River Murray system is a key focus of efforts to improve environmental outcomes through the collaborative management of environmental water at federal, state and local levels.

He is also the Chairman of the School Health Advisory Council for Laredo, involved in the Laredo Food Coalition, and an active advocate for anti-hunger efforts through the local food bank.

They have performed annually for 25 years at Bay Area KidFest, along with performances through the years at Concord Fall Fest, Police Olympics and at local schools in an effort to promote the benefits of martial arts training for all ages.

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.

MAC agreed to source local collards and sweet potatoes to Dawson Elementary, G.N. Smith Elementary, Pecan Park Elementary and Rowan Middle School in conjunction with the local FoodCorps effort to build school gardens, teach nutrition education through gardening and cooking classes and bolster the school food system with healthier and more localized options.

Our efforts touch the lives of parents worldwide through local support groups, our quarterly publication, Attachment Parenting: The Journal of API, this newsletter, and national advocacy efforts.

The American College of Nurse - Midwives and the North American Registry of Midwives recommend that midwives should at minimum meet the standards of midwifery established by the International Confederation of Midwives (ICM), which include completion of a formal midwifery education program, national certification, and licensure in the local jurisdiction of practice.32, 33 Certified professional midwives (CPMs) may achieve certification through apprenticeship and portfolio evaluation without obtaining a formal midwifery degree; within CPM professional organizations efforts are under way to uniformly adopt ICM standards.33, 34 Oregon has followed this trend; in 2015 licensure became mandatory for attendants at out - of - hospital births.

«Facebook is proud to support the Family Online Safety Institute's unprecedented effort to deliver online safety tips, tools and resources directly to parents nationwide through state and local PTAs.

But through my research and writing on the topic, and through my active participation in local school food reform efforts here in Houston, I've come to believe no proposed «solution» to the crisis will get us anywhere at all — unless kids themselves become invested in change.

Last December, Agriculture Secretary Tom Vilsack announced grants for 82 projects spanning 52 states and the U.S. Virgin Islands in support of USDA's efforts to connect school cafeterias with local farmers and ranchers through its Farm - to - School program.

Even after a contract agreement through November 1994 was reached between the union, Service Employees International Local 106, and management, the Cemeteries Association of Greater Chicago, the effort to draft a bill continued.

The article profiles the efforts of Dick Armey's FreedomWorks to «turn local Tea Party groups into a standing get - out - the - vote operation in Congressional districts across the country,» in part through a series of trainings that would be right at home in the 2008 Obama grassroots operation.

Nineteen local governments — including two in the Mohawk Valley — will receive $ 9.7 million through the Citizen Empowerment Tax Credit thanks to their consolidation efforts, according to Cuomo.

A gastronomic festival will be organised to showcase Ghanaian foods and recipes through cooking competitions throughout the country as part of efforts to promote the local Ghanaian cuisine.

At the December, 2009 edition, Charles Lenchner and I had a great conversation about applying the lessons of the ’08 Obama campaign to local political campaigns and issue advocacy efforts, and it lives on still through the magic of online video.

Through the efforts of BASC members and local landowners we've been able to successfully despatch over 20 mink on a relatively short section of the river.

Last year, meetings held on the issue became rancorous after project opponents stymied local meetings with talks of a U.N. Agenda 21 takeover of local planning issues through such means, along with all planning efforts.

After considering a potential move to Iowa, American Packaging decided to stay and expand in the Finger Lakes region thanks Governor Cuomo's emphasis on Upstate Revitalization through the Finger Lakes Forward strategic plan, as well as other local support efforts.

While last year the Farm Bureau secured nearly $ 1 million earmarked by Senator Ken LaValle (R - Port Jefferson) for deer fencing to protect local crops, Mr. Gergela said this year his organization has $ 200,000 it will contribute to expanding wildlife sharpshooting efforts on the East End through the United States Department of Agriculture — a service Southold Town has utilized in recent years.

In response to the recent corruption cases against public officials which continue to rock state and local offices, and perhaps in an effort to distance himself from the corruption which ensnared a member of his own small network of close colleagues, Senator David Carlucci (D - Rockland / Ossining) joined Executive Assistant District Attorney Itamar Yegeri to announce a comprehensive plan which aims to prevent campaign finance improprieties through new regulations on campaign spending and donations.

A new program offered through Attorney General Eric Schneiderman's office will award local governments in New York state up to $ 20 million to help fund housing improvement and blight elimination efforts over the next two years.

«Instead of chastising and denigrating local authorities through the media, the government should deploy all its effort to help councils minimise the impact on vulnerable communities and front - line services.»

In the Downstream Sector, Dr. Baru explained that in the last one year, NNPC had stabilized the market with sufficient products availability across the Country through modest local refining efforts as well as the Direct Supply Direct Purchase, DSDP, scheme, which he observed had saved the nation about N40billion in 2017.

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New York State United Teachers, with local unions and advocacy groups, announced Thursday an upcoming effort to lobby Gov. Andrew Cuomo, the state Legislature, the state Education Department and the Board of Regents to end testing in pre-kindergarten through second grade.

He has focused his efforts on saving taxpayer dollars through Government Reform — boosting Economic Development to create local and lasting Suffolk County jobs — improving Long Island's Water Quality to protect the region's water supply — and enhancing the Quality of Life of Suffolk residents by improving public safety and investing in County parks and roads.

Maxwell said he will look to achieve that goal by focusing efforts on Say Yes to Education — a local, community - wide partnership that supports Syracuse students in school and through college — and career and technical programs.

The building — which will include a media center, green roof, snack bar and planetarium — will be constructed using nearly $ 10 million from the city earmarked through the efforts of local elected officials.

Any cost - saving efforts he discussed are a burden on local governments, all while he proposed additional costly mandates through his other policy agenda points.

«The grant will fund setting up infrastructure [for efforts to] connect groups and junior scientists around the country with our group and each other; helping local groups organize meetings and workshops by providing full - time logistical support; and beginning to look through the data that exists about the scientific enterprise [so that] we can... advocate for change,» McDowell tells Science Careers by email.

Edwards explored this concept through the case studies of St. Joseph, Louisiana, where efforts to fix infrastructure that transported brown water saturated with iron, manganese, and lead were hindered by local corruption; Washington, D.C., where a covered - up water crisis led to increased miscarriage risks, fetal deaths, and lead poisoning in thousands of children; and Flint, Michigan, where a switch to a new water source without adding the anticorrosive agent orthophosphate to the water to protect pipes caused significant lead poisoning, an outbreak of the Legionella bacteria causing twelve deaths, and a breakdown of the water infrastructure.

It does so through regulations spelled out in the Clean Water Act, which include providing tax incentives for selling or giving wetlands to land trusts or other conservation groups, via cooperative efforts with state and local entities, and by acquiring wetlands outright to add acreage to public lands systems.

«These findings can be used to inform the prioritization of strategies within the new infant mortality Collaborative Improvement and Innovation Network (CoIIN) that originated in the South and through other public and private efforts to improve birth outcomes and reduce infant mortality at local and national levels.»

Along with Namibia's Ministry of Environment and Tourism, NACSO manages a network of 50 local conservancies across the country, under which some 300,000 Namibians are involved in efforts to preserve natural resources and make money through trophy hunting, tourist lodges and so on.

«Our findings present a need for broadening local food opportunities beyond the privileged, higher - income consumer, through alternative payment plans and strategic efforts that make fresh foods accessible to a diversity of people,» said James Farmer, assistant professor in the Department of Recreation, Park and Tourism Studies in the IU School of Public Health - Bloomington.

The son of Italian immigrants, young Louie easily found trouble, and only the efforts of his older brother and a local police officer allowed him to discover inner strength through his talent for distance running.

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Only through a grassroots holistic effort of local improvement can America's educational system be repaired.

And in Ho Chi Minh City, Vietnam, they worked with the Waste Collectors Union sifting through trash in an effort to learn about recycling and then hosted a student environmental conference with more than 60 local university students.

The majority said de jure segregation (caused by the state or a local government) was different from de facto segregation (resulting from social and economic factors, like lower housing prices in the city and white flight to the suburbs) and that it was constitutional to address only the first through a metropolitan - wide effort.