Sentences with phrase «making social equity»

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While the Canada Pension Plan Investment Board also considers environmental, social and governance factors when making investments, much of the CPP's equity portfolio essentially replicates major stock indexes.

Investors included the Indian Angel Network, which made its first social venture investment, and Digital News Ventures, the seed - stage equity fund of the Media Development Investment Fund.

Shortly after 11 am CST when the initial announcement was made, the power of the crowd and social media spread the news quickly through the tweeter - sphere signaling that equity crowdfunding was indeed advancing in Canada and that Saskatchewan was the country's first instance to approve a set of intra-provincial equity crowdfunding regulations.

Lauren makes debt and equity investments with the dual expectation of best - in - class financial returns and maximum positive social and environmental impact.

In social life, God commands that all cases shall be judged with equity; justice and charity are required; no injustices shall be done to people because of hatred toward them; all life is made sacred by God and may not be ended except through justice.

The social activist movements of those years also contributed to the seminaries» guilty conscience, so that they made at least token attempts to become sources of societal change as well as exemplifications of equity and justice.

LORDS Monday Questions - UK Equity Markets and Long - Term Decision Making, Incorporating social tourism policies in future tourism strategies, Enabling Eurostar to resume regular services between Brussels and Lille, Marking Workers» Memorial Day Legislation - Legal Aid, Sentencing and Punishment of Offenders Bill - Consideration of Commons amendments

Buried away in the Financial Times's (#) story this morning about a «joint appearance on the eve of the Budget» that David Cameron and Nick Clegg will apparently make - to «make several announcements, including shared equity schemes, social housing and support for first - time buyers» - was the following detail:

«Many of the plans talk a lot about social - equity goals, but these goals are not translated into clearly specified objectives — and it's not at all clear how the goals are incorporated into decision - making,» says Kevin Manaugh, lead author of the paper and an assistant professor in McGill's Department of Geography and School of Environment.

Dr. Bullock is also the Founding Director and Principal Consultant of the International Science & Education Alliance, an organization devoted to exceptional research, program evaluation, assessment design, strategic planning and capacity building to support equity, programmatic diversity and scientific integrity, and promote effective leadership, decision - making and social change.

This got me instantly hooked not only on the really important reasons to be a teacher — social justice and equity — but also on the idea that teaching made me feel truly alive.

A radically different vision of human well - being is the call; one that is in tune with nature and respects other species, promotes socio - economic equity amongst all people, enhances the cultural, material, economic, social, and political opportunities for all, empowers each person and community to take part in decision - making affecting their lives, even as it leaves the natural world a better and much improved place.

The equity issue, then, seems to matter a great deal to disadvantaged parents, and they appear to connect it to private - school choice in a way that is entirely consistent with the argument voucher advocates have been making for the past decade: that choice is a way of promoting social equity.

In this context, a radically different vision of human well - being, one that is in tune with nature and respects other species, promotes socio - economic equity amongst all people, enhances the cultural, material, economic, social, and political opportunities for all, and one that empowers each person and community to take part in decision - making affecting their lives.

It is one thing to share the authors» concerns about equity and current threats to social cohesion (which I do) and quite another to think they have made the case either that charter schools are threats to those values or that schools controlled by elected school boards effectively promote them.

By analyzing and addressing issues of equity and social justice, we believe artists and arts educators can make unique contributions to education and social change.

To make educational equity systemic and enduring, we must do more than engage our schools; we must redesign, align, and integrate all the community services that support children and families — our health departments, our recreation departments, our social services agencies.

At the time, I also was earning my Masters in Curriculum and Instruction with an emphasis on Social Justice in Urban Education that raised my awareness of equity issues and made me want to be even more of an advocate for others whose voices may not always be heard.

Such school - based partnerships provide social services and supports, enriching educational opportunities, healthcare, mental health services, adult education, and nutrition programs, with a strong emphasis on equity and making greatest use of the community's strengths.

We will convene with students, practitioners, and other social emotional learning (SEL) and education equity experts from across the country to explore ways to make the transition to post-secondary education more effective and ensure stronger outcomes for all students.

Functions The teacher leader: a) Facilitates the collection, analysis, and use of classroom - and school - based data to identify opportunities to improve curriculum, instruction, assessment, school organization, and school culture; b) Engages in reflective dialog with colleagues based on observation of instruction, student work, and assessment data and helps make connections to research - based effective practices; c) Supports colleagues» individual and collective reflection and professional growth by serving in roles such as mentor, coach, and content facilitator; d) Serves as a team leader to harness the skills, expertise, and knowledge of colleagues to address curricular expectations and student learning needs; e) Uses knowledge of existing and emerging technologies to guide colleagues in helping students skillfully and appropriately navigate the universe of knowledge available on the Internet, use social media to promote collaborative learning, and connect with people and resources around the globe; and f) Promotes instructional strategies that address issues of diversity and equity in the classroom and ensures that individual student learning needs remain the central focus of instruction.

As of April 1, 2014, the Equity Fund invests in the common stocks which make up the MSCI KLD 400 Social ex Fossil Fuels Index; prior to April 1, 2014, the Fund invested in the common stocks which made up the MSCI KLD 400 Social Index.

Send the corporations a loud and clear message: — reduce your consumption — buy local, support your local farmer — buy only from companies with a verified record of social equity and protecting the environment — speak out to others about the choices that you are making — boycott companies that engage in greenwashing such as ExxonMobile

It makes no attempt to enter the (very important) social science realm of equity, institutions or global governance.

While important progress has been made in New York, there is considerable room to utilize green roofs and walls to fight climate change, create jobs and improve equity and social justice across the Five Boroughs.

While a student at UCLA, she led E3: Ecology, Economy, Equity, an environmental and social - justice organization, and helped launch the Green Initiative Fund, a grant - making fund for sustainability projects on the UCLA campus.

It consists of 11 chapters covering the scope of the analysis, decision making under uncertainty, equity issues, intertemporal equity and discounting, applicability of cost and benefit assessments to climate change, social costs of climate change, response options, conceptual issues related to estimating mitigation costs, review of mitigation cost studies, integrated assessment of climate change, and an economic assessment of policy options to address climate change.

Ben Carroll Qualified: 2005 Made partner: 2013 Career highlights: Advising a Russian private equity firm in an LCIA arbitration concerning the interpretation of pre-emption rights in the context of the acquisition of rights in a leading social media site; advising BP in respect of an ad hoc arbitration concerning cost recovery under a PSC with the government of India.

And make sure to build social media equity: your blog needs to be published or promoted on social media.

Open source, lower hosting costs and social media for marketing / selling has made it possible for those willing to put in sweat equity and, in some cases, to take a small investment.

In tech terms it's not huge, but what's interesting is that it's the first social investment fund that will make equity investments focused on seed stage technology startups.

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According to equity and social exchange theories of relationship development (see Hatfield & Rapson, 2012; Sprecher & Schwartz, 1994), partners are predicted to be most satisfied with and committed to a relationship when they view it as equitable — that is, when both partners are perceived as making relatively equal investments or contributions to the relationship (and as receiving relatively equal benefits from that relationships)-- and evidence has been found in support of this supposition (e.g., Canary & Stafford, 1992; Dainton & Stafford, 1993; Haas & Stafford, 1998; Sprecher, 1992; Weigel, Bennett, & Ballard - Reisch, 2006).

With the extraordinarily detailed and sensitive information that hackers and their customers may now possess on millions of Americans — Social Security numbers, driver's licenses, credit card numbers, home addresses and more — they may be able to create fake identities that are credible enough to fool banks and other lenders into granting home equity lines of credit and other mortgages in their names, making off with thousands of dollars in the process.

With a HECM you can cash out a portion of your home equity, while continuing to live in your house without making monthly mortgage payments.6 Proceeds from a reverse mortgage will not affect your Medicare premiums or Social Security taxes.7