Sentences with phrase «make change in your community»

From making change at the grocer to making change in the community, the practical application of math is necessary for nearly all of life's endeavors, big and small.

This Spring, the mayor of Purvis, Mississippi, sat down with the seventh graders at Purvis Middle School to discuss the process of making change in their community.

This 35 — 40 minute documentary (short enough for a single class period and attention span) will focus on a simple message, «Adopt, Don't Shop,» and show children across the U.S. making change in their community.

empowering people to make change in their communities, by enshrining the constitutional right of all Canadians to live in a healthy environment.

Or invite a local group of youth trying to make change in your community.

If you want to make change in your community, start with local media!

Christine, a Director in a law firm, is the latest recipient of a Point of Light award, which recognises outstanding individual volunteers, people who are making a change in their community and inspiring others.

What could YOU to make a change in your community with $ 20,000?

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On top of all this, their website acts as a community portal, helping to clue people in about the changes they could be making to help themselves and the environment.

According to the SBA, DELTA loans of up to $ 1.25 million must be used to retain jobs of defense workers, create new jobs in impacted communities, or to make operating changes with the aim of remaining in the «national technical and industrial base.»

The prime minister made the comment Wednesday while greeting steelworkers during an early - morning shift change outside a plant in Sault Ste. Marie, Ont., part of a three - day meet - and - greet tour of communities where steel and aluminum manufacturing are major employers.

Deborah Brosnan, an environmental and disaster risk consultant, said the challenge in making a shift to integrating changing risks into planning and investments is enormous, even when a community has a devastating shock such as a hurricane or flood or both:

The Canadian adventure - travel firm became one of Canada's Best Managed Companies by making positive change in the local communities it visits

The Cubs have some of the very same challenges — to pull the broadest possible community into Wrigley Field, to change the surrounding neighborhood for the better, and to make the entire country sit up and take notice of what's happening in Chicago.

In either case, the company and its employees make real world positive change in their communitIn either case, the company and its employees make real world positive change in their communitin their community.

We caught up with Lerner to talk about making big changes by starting in your local community and grabbing your window of opportunity.

As many in the community had noted as early as in 2010, the usability of Bitcoin would be threatened without some tangible change was made to the consensus rules.

A change in American Banker's size - based criteria for inclusion made New York Community ineligible for this year's survey, and thus unable to defend its title.

While not obvious on the surface, there has been a fundamental sea - change in the investment community that has made the incremental Unicorn investment a substantially more dangerous and complicated practice.

The metro areas and counties that scored high in the rankings started to make change some years ago to get their residents thinking more about healthy lifestyles: bike paths, community gardens and nutrition programs, Lynch said.

Franklin Templeton's global volunteer program, Involved, empowers employees to use their time, talent and skills to make positive changes in our communities.

The Ontario government and MaRS Discovery District are helping promising young leaders gain the knowledge, skills and experience they need to make positive social changes in their communities and across the province with an innovative new program.

Over the last year and a half a number of prominent voices in the Bitcoin community have been warning that the system needed to make fundamental changes to its core software code to avoid being overwhelmed by the continued growth of Bitcoin transactions.

Steve Miller recently posted... Love Can Change the World: 6 Ways to Make an Impact in your Community

«Across North America and around the world, companies in every sector are assessing the impact of U.S. tax changes and making decisions that will have lasting consequences for employees and the communities in which they live and work,» writes The Honourable John Manley, President and Chief Executive Officer of the Business Council.

My thesis is that we want changes that increase the identification people feel with their communities, their willingness to take responsibility, and their ability to participate in making decisions about their shared lives.

At bottom, changes in a school's concrete identity come by decisions it makes, deliberately or inadvertently, about three factors we noted in chapter 2 that distinguish schools from one another: Whether to construe what the Christian thing is all about in some one way, and if so, how; what sort of community a theological school ought to be; how best to go about understanding God.

Making it a point to include such small steps while also pursuing bigger changes, like community recycling centers, can make a huge difference in ensuring the Earth stays healthy for generations to come.

But it came to be associated not only with religious but also with caste political overtones, and came into conflict with the anti-Brahmin movements of depressed castes who were organizing separately for separate political strength to bring about cultural and social change aimed at elevating their status in the body politic; it also made the conversion into other religious communities, of the depressed sections of Hinduism as well as of the Tribals partially Hinduised and moving more fully in that direction, to be seen as a weakening of the Hindu community and a strengthening of other religious communities as political entities.

I urge you to join with me in advocating for effective change that makes Princeton a more affirming community.

His own concentrated study of the dynamics of small churches and churches in changing communities has made him increasingly in demand around the country as a perceptive observer of the dynamics of congregational life.

This week, we talk with Teresa Goines about Old School Cafe, how it's making a difference in the lives of young people and to actually effect change in local communities.

(Citizens in a local community could use various levels of persuasion with the video store owner: consultation, letters to the local newspapers, appeals to the city council to make zoning changes, or stage actual public protests or a boycott.)

Currently the most influential version, of course, is associated with movements shaped by liberation theologies: We come to understand God as we are a part of a community that is united by a common history of oppression and struggles for liberation by radically changing the arrangements of economic and social power that have made the oppression systemic in our society.

The PDF, Microbes Make the Cheese, A Report from the American Academy for Microbiology explains: Cheese is created by orderly successions of microbial communities that produce compounds responsible for cheese flavor... Each piece of cheese contains as many as 10,000,000,000 or 10 billion microbes... The added starter cultures dominate the cheese microbiota, establishing conditions that select for the next microorganisms that will be capable of thriving in the changing cheese matrix.

As numerous cities make energy choices to tackle climate change, so too should municipalities invest in farm - to - hospital and farm - to - school programs that deliver healthier food and strengthen rural communities while emitting fewer greenhouse gases.

This vital work, to be carried out in alliance with Inter-American Development Bank (IDB), Honduran micro-finance institution FAMA, and Honduran conservation organization ICADE, aims not only to make smallholder businesses more competitive and self - sustaining, but to boost the communities» resilience to the impacts of climate change.

Productivity Commission chairman Peter Harris said the commission had recommended that the anti-dumping system be retained in 2009, but had proposed changes to make it less protectionist and less damaging to wider community.

This may be a catalyst toward connecting the gluten free community on Maui and to getting changes made in our food industry.

It's clear that those two words are enough to make everyone realize that life has changed dramatically for this community and all of us in the United States.

I've always wanted rid of the Ox, but his performances last season, coupled with another quality performance in the Community Shield, has made me change my mind.

The constant message is that Kroenke, Wenger and the Board are going nowhere, making no changes and totally ignoring any feedback from fans, but even also ignoring the opinions from basically the whole Football Community now, saying Arsenal is in crisis and Wenger should go.

We develop young leaders who are committed to social and environmental justice and are equipped with a sense of awe for natural and human beauty, tools for non-violent multicultural community building, as well as the confidence to make positive change in our families, communities and world.

Maybe not, but it's hard to stop the momentum when someone of Indian heritage in any community makes a request for the change to be made.

Wenger made two changes from the Community Shield victory over Chelsea, with Olivier Giroud getting the nod in attack over Theo Walcott against the Hammers last weekend.

As with legislation at every level of government, successful utilization of the power of the permit depends not so much on concerned citizens committed to making youth sports in their local community safer (although they are, of course, important) as on the willingness of governmental officials themselves to sponsor bylaw changes and push for enactment, in other words, to serve as «safety champions.»

The event is sponsored by «Now Is The Time,» a citywide initiative inspiring Chicago's young people to make positive change in their communities.

We are proud of this achievement because, as a community of informed and empowered parents, we are not only making a positive difference in our own families» lives, we are changing the world!

But what I and many others continue to find perhaps most disturbing about the mandate is that it was a policy change made by FHSAA in complete disregard of the unanimous recommendation of its own Operations Committee, US Lacrosse staff, nationally renowned sport medicine doctors and the Florida lacrosse community that it hold off until performance standards for helmets were established.

Here in D.C., many positive changes have been made to the menu in the last year, but precious little has been done in the way of involving parents or the community in those changes, or in educating children about why they should be eating something other than their beloved chicken nuggets and tater tots.