Sentences with phrase «local youth initiatives»

She also donates her design services to local youth initiatives & non-profit organizations.

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Through networking opportunities at the Solutions City ™ town halls, local Starbucks store manager Andrew Bertolino discovered Homeport, a local affordable housing organization, to help spearhead a hiring initiative for opportunity youth.

A subcommittee of the commission — which includes representatives from local churches, Northbrook Park District, the North Suburban YMCA and the Youth Services of Glenview / Northbrook — is working on a logo for the initiative and the design of the online resource.

If you're in need of support in order to allow your child the opportunity to attend overnight camp, there is help out there for you, through your local religious organization or one of the various charitable initiatives such as Muskoka Woods Youth Foundations».

As a Southampton Town Board member, Ms. Fleming says she's helped to eliminate a budget deficit, thereby restoring the town's credit rating; focused on proper staffing and controls in the town finance department; and spearheaded economic initiatives such as the Farm Fresh Market in Flanders, which is run by teenagers and sells local produce, and the Youth Build Project in Riverside, which teaches young people about sustainable building methods while restoring blighted homes.

He said 4,500 head porters, popularly referred to as «Kayayei», would be trained and employed as garment manufacturers under a new module which would be rolled out soon, while 2,000 youth would be engaged under the youth in green Ghana project, an initiative between the agency and the Department Parks and Gardens of the Ministry of Local Government and Rural Development.

On Wednesday morning, on the day before the Mayor was to unveil his budget, advocates that included representatives from Alianza Dominicana, Children's Aid Society, the Children Arts and Sciences Workshop, ACDP, Fresh Youth Initiatives (FYI), Community League of the Heights (C.L.O.T.H.), the Police Athletic League (P.A.L.), and representatives from local New York City Councilmembers Ydanis Rodriguez and Robert Jackson, New York State Assemblymembers Guillermo Linares and Herman D. Farrell, among others, gathered in an early morning meeting to brain - storm about strategies to ward off the cuts.

Last year through the initiative, the Youth Bureau funded such community service projects as a bicycle giveaway for Utica children; making Christmas cards to send to veterans and service members; soliciting donations, collecting money and walking in Utica's version of America's Greatest Heart Run and Walk, the Walk to end Alzheimer's and Making Strides to End Breast Cancer Walk; cleaning the yards of senior citizens; preparing food and serving meals at local food pantries; youth mentoring and tutoring and other community activiYouth Bureau funded such community service projects as a bicycle giveaway for Utica children; making Christmas cards to send to veterans and service members; soliciting donations, collecting money and walking in Utica's version of America's Greatest Heart Run and Walk, the Walk to end Alzheimer's and Making Strides to End Breast Cancer Walk; cleaning the yards of senior citizens; preparing food and serving meals at local food pantries; youth mentoring and tutoring and other community activiyouth mentoring and tutoring and other community activities.

In addition, he gave the organization another $ 51,000 as a local initiative to support cultural programming and operations at the Alianza Dominicana Cultural Center, which offers arts and youth programs to the Uptown community.

This Thurs., May 31st, local community groups and organizations, including Alianza Dominicana, Inwood Community Services, Asociacion Comunal de Dominicanos Progresistas (ACDP), Fresh Youth Initiatives (FYI), and members of Community Board 12 will gather for a rally to protest the budget cuts to child care services proposed in the Executive Budget.

Rodriguez was awarded $ 735,000 in city funds, which could be spent in four categories: senior services run in connection with the Department of the Aging, youth services through the Department of Youth and Community Development, anti-poverty initiatives and local projyouth services through the Department of Youth and Community Development, anti-poverty initiatives and local projYouth and Community Development, anti-poverty initiatives and local projects.

The Council again identified five areas for discretionary funding — spending on the aging, youth, anti-poverty programs, local initiatives, and borough - wide needs.

Just last week, I was honored to stand with District Attorney Thomas Zugibe and Rockland BOCES District Superintendent Mary Jean Marsico to launch the Rockland County Partnership For Safe Youth, a new initiative designed to enhance the effectiveness of services for local at - risk youth and their famiYouth, a new initiative designed to enhance the effectiveness of services for local at - risk youth and their famiyouth and their families.

It felt quite odd to ring my own local council to ask for examples of initiatives against youth crime.

The report examines school - based initiatives, youth employment programs, GED - preparation efforts, and state and local policies that have had a positive effect on helping dropouts return to school in 12 communities.

Serving food at community sites and activities has had a welcome side effect — youth participation in existing initiatives, like summer reading programs at local libraries, has increased.

Harnoor even goes out in the community and leads events through his club such as initiating the conversation to make change while promoting worthwhile community causes and engaging as well as empowering local and global youth through his group's various community initiatives.

In our PBS film Not In Our Town: Class Actions, middle school students take the lead in educating their peers and their teachers in a NIOS anti-bullying initiative that reached 50,000 students following two suicides of local youth in Lancaster, California.

ANNAPOLIS, MD. — The Clinton Administration's school - to - work initiative appears to have been broadened beyond youth apprenticeships to embrace a wider variety of programs at the state and local levels.

In Chicago, public school officials are attacking truancy by combining «systemwide efforts, local initiatives, and improved programs for at - risk youth.»

For the last 13 years Matt has worked in charity leadership as a director of local youth and community services, as Operations Director at School Councils UK, a national education charity specialising in youth participation and active citizenship in schools, and more recently leading on the delivery of ThinkForward, the successful Social Impact Bond funded, five year education - to - employment initiative.

Last August, the federal Administration for Children, Youth, and Families commissioned a study of the degree to which state early - childhood - education initiatives work in concert with local Head Start programs.

For the last 13 years Matt has worked in charity leadership as a director of local youth and community services, as Operations Director at School Councils UK, a national education charity specialising in youth participation and active citizenship in schools, and more recently leading on the delivery of ThinkForward, the successful Social Impact Bond funded, five - year education - to - employment initiative.

First, that the «fragmenting» of the school system through academisation has cut out more than just local authorities — but also many services, such as educational psychologists, sports partnerships, and joined - up youth offender initiatives.

Through the same initiative, the U.S. Department of Health and Human Services (HHS) is also providing more than $ 48 million to state and local education agencies to support teachers and schools in recognizing mental health issues among youth.

To counter this issue, the Obama administration has announced a new initiative titled the Summer Opportunity Project, which aims to engage state and local leaders, community - based organizations, and private sector leaders to join forces and increase the percentage of youth participating in summer programs.

The other fundamental pillar of Bodhi's multi-faceted mission are their eco-action and community engagement initiatives, including town and beach trash clean - ups, planting trees for community reforestation projects, teaching local stakeholders about conservation, empowering local youth with GPS technology, offering free yoga classes in return for community service work, hosting high school students to work on community projects.

Their initiatives also include youth exchange programs, local events and relief efforts.

Firstly, the RUAF Foundation cooperates with urban producers, local NGOs, public administrations and other relevant stakeholder groups in setting up of concrete short chain marketing initiatives, for example within the framework of the Market - oriented urban agriculture project in Gaza (implemented in cooperation with Oxfam) agricultural value chains in various specific product groups are supported in a market - for the poor - perspective; The From Seed to Table programme supported 30 urban farmer groups in 17 cities to innovate their local production systems, engage in value - adding activities and establish innovative short marketing channels; The projects in Freetown and Makeni in Sierra Leone implemented in cooperation with COOPI helped to establish various youth - led agro-enterprises (in pig raising and slaughtering; milk and fruit processing and waste management).

Examples of what we have accomplished include our Green Cities initiative to encourage environmentalism across India, visiting local schools to engage youth, and tree plantings in both urban and rural areas.

Similarly, you can help fund or advise other local programs, like ones for at - risk youths or after - school initiatives, to ensure every child in your community gets the guidance they need to succeed.