Sentences with phrase «local examples of»

The following resources can be helpful to learn more about Guardianship and State and local examples of Subsidized Guardianship.

In this section you will find State and local examples of promising practices for recruiting foster and adoptive families.

Family Leadership and Perspectives National Resource Center for Permanency and Family Connections (2012) Offers resources and State and local examples of engaging families to continue to improve outcomes for children and their families.

Family Leadership and Perspectives National Resource Center for Permanency and Family Connections (2011) Links to resources such as State and local examples of parent leader development and recognition efforts as well as PowerPoint presentations, bibliographies, and related websites.

This section contains State and local examples of effective practices to serve families affected by substance use disorders and who are involved in the child welfare system.

In fact I'd suggest that turning away from a focus on what needs to be done and instead challenging local examples of the global damage is the core of the weakness of public response to the predicament.

Local Best Practice Playing to the Institute's strengths in research and identifying best practice, the Urban program is looking to the many local examples of innovation here in the Golden Gate National Parks as models and learning opportunities.

Throughout the briefing, panelists provided local examples of how the federal investment in education has been paying dividends in their communities while urging members of Congress and their staff to protect education from the cuts proposed in the president's budget.

In addition to the research cited above that provides a clear rationale for what Barnett Berry terms «teacher - powered» schools, CTL sought local examples of teacher - directed leadership, professional learning and collaboration that are having a positive effect not only on teachers themselves, but on student achievement and school culture.

More local examples of successful recycling initiatives include San Francisco, which has made recycling and composting mandatory for residents and businesses, and banned Styrofoam and disposable plastic bags.

Despite this and other efforts, the United Nations Environment Programme (UNEP) concluded in 1991 that the problem of land degradation in arid, semi-arid and dry sub-humid areas had intensified, although there were «local examples of success».

«The black hole's behavior may be a local example of events that commonly took place when the universe was much younger.

In the guest commentary below, Kathryn Mullen Upton of the Thomas B. Fordham Foundation shares a local example of these elements in action.

Until now, the de Young Museum's ongoing series, «The Art of the Americas,» has been the prime local example of the exhibition informed by the new art history.

Participants also had the opportunity to tour local sustainability sites, including a field trip to the People's Food Coop, a local example of sustainable food and community in action.

A local example of the global phenomena that Parker denies.

Then Martin «pitches» these stories to their media list, using the company as a local example of a national trend.

Not exact matches

For example, you could ask that each member of your team look up information on 10 local companies, or spend one hour each week, yourself, finding new information.

The co-working space has grown to occupy 7 buildings, hosts an annual demo day that awards $ 50,000 to local area startups, and was recognized by President Donald Trump in a November speech as an example of Main Street innovation.

But she's keen to emphasize that innovation is about more than just technology, citing the example of a local female entrepreneur in the construction industry who couldn't find workboots for women and started a company to manufacture them.

To give one example, Climate Mayors is a group of U.S. mayors committed to working with one another to boost local efforts to cut greenhouse gas emissions and support aims for «binding federal and global - level policymaking.»

«For example, Starbucks and Dunkin' Donuts are direct competitors, while the prepared foods section of the local supermarket could be an indirect competitor to them both — especially if its coffee is good,» Levy says.

For example, Raof Latiff Abdul, Head of JP Morgan Treasury Services for ASEAN, pointed out in a recent report that foreign companies often «struggle to build their operations in China» (not least because of the need to establish local partnerships).

Navarro called the move «courageous» and said it provided an example of what the U.S. government wants to accomplish: more consumer purchasing from local manufacturers to support the economy.

A concrete example of this that landed one of my students, Miriam Pearl of Delicious Without Gluten not just an interview but a regular column on her local breakfast TV show was pitching gluten - free Valentine's Day treats.

You can search for potential linking opportunities by typing your keywords «< massage therapy > submit a guest post» or «< massage therapy > local directories», into Google (in this case, using the example of a massage therapist).

Dan Gilbert, CEO of Quicken Loans, for example, moved his company's headquarters to downtown Detroit to bolster the population numbers and help jumpstart the local economy, then provided further sustenance to the commercial ecosystem by opening a new start - up incubator and venture capital firm.

For example, I was writing up a series of posts about rain gardens for a local gutter contractor.

For example, each store in the Whole Foods Market chain donates food to area food banks and shelters and holds community giving days during which 5 percent of net sales are donated to a local nonprofit.

One example is the initiative of the government of Moscow to test the effectiveness of blockchains in local elections.

Yet another great example is Twitter; Twitter's #FridayForGood Initiative is a chance for its employees to spend their Fridays volunteering in support of local community organizations.

For example, numerous retailers rely on a partnership with third - party delivery service ShopRunner for two - day delivery — and a shot at competing with Amazon Prime; Starbucks sticks cafes in Barnes & Noble; convention bureaus in places like Vegas and Orlando try to conduct a symphony of airlines, airport authorities, hotels, restaurants, and local transport providers.

Nowhere near as sophisticated as things are today, geo - targeting allowed marketing companies to hit a general area (usually a town, county or city) and drill down to the right people in that area using data mined from cookies, so, for example, farmers within driving distance of one of the many Springfields across our great land would get ads from the local Agway there telling them when there was a sale on farmer stuff.

With mobile couponing, Mason predicts a world where the price of, for example, a hamburger will depend on the time of day — what the demand is at any given moment, will dictate what coupons local businesses will offer.

Both the central government and local governments, for example, help fund Chinese healthcare startups, according to Marietta Wu, managing director of the life sciences venture fund Quan Capital.

And these are just three examples of businesses making America great again by improving their local communities — with or without the government's assistance.

For example, we get SBC's bundling of local and long - distance service, but we're required to pay for tacked - on services we don't use.

Beyond that, people also get unlimited access to a variety of «on - net» resources ranging from news to local e-government services to business and educational tools (you can see an example of a Project Isizwe portal here).

The Titan V could go in a high - powered PC used by an AI scientist on a local project, while the Tesla V100 will be good for servers that handle the immense app workloads that power the voice recognition abilities of digital assistants from Google or Amazon, for example.

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.

For example, they largely use web - based apps rather than local apps, meaning a lot of storage isn't all that necessary, and the computer doesn't really need to process intensive apps.

In an era when the pension liabilities of local governments remain a concern, investors may want to consider the debt offered by established public enterprises — airports and utilities, for example — as an attractive alternative to lease revenue and pension obligation bonds.

For example, if one of the areas you want to say you have experienced and impacted within the time - frame you have chosen is around U.S. voting numbers, you would probably want to have worked with your local representative's office or powerful and politically influential organizations such as the League of Women Voters or AARP.

In both the NBA and NHL, for example, the bulk of a team's revenue is through ticket sales and local TV revenue.

Although the FAA has approved some companies to use drones to photograph property damage, for example, doing so could potentially violate local privacy laws if drones take pictures of nearby homes without their owners» consent.

One of his clients, for example, a construction company whose stock value was recently appraised at $ 15 million, kept $ 9 million in CDs at a local bank, earning just 3 % in annual interest after taxes.

It only takes a glance at the websites of local retailers to see examples of projects they are launching to benefit society.

For example, if you're passionate about the work of a local food bank, donate generously and invite your employees to do the same.

For example, let's say that you run a local pizza shop in San Diego, California, and you want to target patrons in a 10 mile radius of your restaurant.

For example, if your company is focused on improving the local community, fill the room with photos of the neighborhood.