Sentences with phrase «modeling community with»

The Aerosol Modeling Testbed provides the global modeling community with a way to systematically and objectively evaluate aerosol process modules to quantify uncertainties and improve global climate models.

Not exact matches

Salesforce put philanthropy in place right at the very start with their 1 / 1/1 model: 1 percent of company equity goes into the Foundation, 1 percent of the product goes to community improvement, and 1 percent of employee time goes towards volunteerism.

When prime - time hosts — who have never served our country in any capacity — dismiss facts and empirical reality to launch profoundly dishonest assaults on the FBI, the Justice Department, the courts, the intelligence community (in which I served) and, not least, a model public servant and genuine war hero such as Robert Mueller — all the while scaremongering with lurid warnings of «deep - state» machinations — I can not be part of the same organization, even at a remove.

A model network for the internet age, Nerdist consists of a blog, podcast network, daily e-mail newsletter, premium YouTube channel, TV shows, live events and a massive social media footprint that includes the Nerdist Alliance, a community of curated partnerships with YouTube creators.

It's the stakeholder model at work, he contends: It creates goodwill with customers, motivates team members, and takes care of communities.

SOLARKIOSK combines an award - winning design and innovative technology with an inclusive business model to enable economic and social development in off - the - grid communities.

And its corporate campuses are mostly models of how not to build cities, with mega office parks (and spaceship designs) dependent on cars and detached from their neighboring communities.

Paranoiacs in the Bitcoin community have long speculated that the US government may have cracked the virtual currency's privacy model, that once made it popular with the online drug trade.

However, effective, integrated models require more than just an upside risk sharing arrangement with community providers, or an internal bolt - on house call program.

Our models include the Bank of North Dakota and public banks in other countries, which have put public money, such as property, income, sales and business taxes, fees and fines, to work for the public good, in cooperation with community banks and credit unions.

After this (and with the installation of the Workers» Party in power in Brazil), support from beyond Fortaleza, notably from the National Secretary of the Solidarity Economy in the Ministry of Labour, made possible a network of community banks in Brazil on the Banco Palmas model.

Founded in 1993, Sightline Institute is committed to making the Northwest a global model of sustainability, with strong communities, a green economy, and a healthy environment.

NEXUS» goal is for its members to achieve higher returns with less risk than typical angel investments by utilizing a model combining the business acumen of NEXUS members with Florida's community resources — including the vast university system and regional economic development programs.

As our relationship with Big Brothers Big Sisters has grown, we've seen firsthand the important work they're doing to help match kids with a healthy role model that will help them learn and grow into a valuable contributor in our communities.

Theoretically, if a philanthropic, community - based, nonprofit worked in San Diego, it could spur interest in other cities with ever - struggling dailies, though, to be sure, there are a host of management and governance issues implicit in a nonprofit model.

Start Here founder, Steve Rice, along with strategic advisors Dr. Tionna Jenkins, Katie Milligan, and Nate Thomas, presented the Arkansas - based Start Here Initiative as a model for other communities to increase the engagement of women and minorities in the entrepreneurial process and to raise awareness for the entrepreneurial information, resources and training available to new business owners.

He added: «For any kind of blockchain technology to prevail it has to be open: it has to be built around a community where this is a governance model, similar to the governance model with OpenStack Cloud Foundry, Docker and Linux.»

The typical church model, with its clergy - laity divide, fosters the (usually subconscious) view of church as a service organization, rather than a community.

In Searching for Sunday I feature several unusual church plants that are thriving in their communities, and many are associated with mainline Protestant denominations that were willing to take a risk on unconventional models.

Thus, metaphors and models of God are understood to be discovered as well as created, to relate to God's reality not in the sense of being literally in correspondence with it, but as versions or hypotheses of it that the community (in this case, the church) accepts as relatively adequate.16 Hence, models of God are not simply heuristic fictions; the critical realist does not accept the Feuerbachian critique that language about God is nothing but human projection.

Mainline churches looking to retain and attract young people, particularly «homeless» evangelicals like myself, would do well to look to Missiongathering as a model, for, at least from my perspective, they have managed to combine all that is great about the mainline with all that is great about evangelicalism into one faith community.

Earlier in our weekend symposium, an Evangelical Protestant with strong localist tendencies had expressed a certain sort of jealousy for those of us whose denominations operate on a parish model, for this, he thought, must make sinking roots into one's church community far easier to do.

And so I conclude this month of posts with a prayer written by four of the contributors to this series (Anna Broadway, Dominique Gilliard, Corey Widmer, and Natasha Sistrunk Robinson), a prayer modeled after the way Jesus taught us to pray, a prayer for me, for you and perhaps your church community:

Thus I would propose that we should not refer to the Hindu Brahman and the Christian God as complementary models (if some analogy with quantum physics is thereby implied), since they are not used in the same paradigm community.

Entrance to the community was by a rite of baptism, probably modelled on John's baptism but with the additional invocation of Jesus» name, whose saving power was shown by its efficacy in healing (Acts 3:6).

The churches also provided a model of connectedness of the people in one community with those in others.

What if the point of community was just to be community that is working towards being a functional, healthy and whole community, a small model of what unity in diversity looks like, a local expression of the Body with all its members?

This model, far more congenial to a Whiteheadian, takes existing communities as given and works with them to improve their economic well being.

For it is because of the more complete community in faith and order with these Churches that the dialogue with them comes closest to the model of «dialogue and reception among sister Churches.

What might be involved if religious communities were to cooperate with others of good will to broker enclaves of spiritual civility, dialogical skin grafts in our ravaged neighborhoods of hate speech, misunderstanding and mistrust, provisional gatherings of our many persuasion, that could model a search for the good in common?

We appreciate our hospital system, our legal home births, our midwifery model of care (particularly in our neck of the woods with the incredible program running at UBC) and supportive communities for breastfeeding and natural parenting.

Using Jesus» encounter with the Samaritan woman at the well and the parable of the Good Samaritan, Carroll argues that Jesus models for us the appropriate response to those neighbors who stand outside our communities.

First, I am not offering a prescriptive model but rather looking for resources to deal with the present predicament in India from the actual lived realities of specific communities.

Fosdick's relationship with America's Jewish community was anything but easy, but Miller's analysis of Fosdick's support for a binational state and the Jewish reaction to what was perceived as his pro-Arab bias is a model of a scholarly tightrope performance.

In a metropolitan model, the Presbyterian and the Methodist see themselves primarily as ministers in a local community, co-laborers with the Lutherans and Pentecostals and Catholics on the next block, working together to build a semblance of the city of God within the city of man.

It may be an arrangement that factors out different aspects of the school's common life to the reign of each model of excellent schooling: the research university model may reign for faculty, for example, or for faculty in certain fields (say, church history, or biblical studies) but not in others (say, practical theology), while paideia reigns as the model for students, or only for students with a declared vocation to ordained ministry (so that other students aspiring to graduate school are free to attempt to meet standards set by the research university model); or research university values may be celebrated in relation to the school's official «academic» program, including both classroom expectations and the selection and rewarding of faculty, while the school's extracurricular life is shaped by commitments coming from the model provided by paideia so that, for example, common worship is made central to their common life and a high premium is placed on the school being a residential community.

While you can do this with some of your money, the truly biblical model of giving money to God is making your finances available for the work of the kingdom in your own neighborhood and community, among the people with whom you live and work.

In developing the business model, McFall says the company was built around the owner - operator model because it gave each location a better chance of developing strong connections with the communities they served.

«Their model of distributing perishable food into the communities that need it makes so much sense and we are proud to work with them.

Kenai Red Fish Company operates as a Community Supported Fishery, or CSF, on much the same model, providing households with shares of salmon instead of produce.

Although the community forestry model has been in use in Cameroon for more than 20 years, its adoption has been slowed by the limited capacity of local communities to comply with complicated regulations, operate competitive enterprises, and access markets for sustainable forest products.

One of our flagship training methods is creating business model farms, which provide local learning hubs where surrounding communities can exchange best practices so that they all learn and benefit — whether they work directly with us or not.

The Rainforest Alliance worked closely with indigenous communities and Ecuador's Ministry of Environment to develop a new model of sustainable, community - based tourism in protected areas in the Amazon.

Lack of affordable housing is a social problem, so we've come up with a model that makes the community part of the solution.

Starting with a focus on food and agriculture, the company's environmental commitment grew into a larger business model that encompasses Five Aspirations, or bottom lines: Sustaining Business, Brands, People, Community and the Planet.

In sharing your transition with your parents, community, school, and the greater world community, you modelled for all of us what it means for us to feel as though we ourselves were leaving Egypt, a central commandment within the Passover Hagaddah.»

Dublin said the 10 - week training program pairs low - income «role models «with mothers or pregnant women in poor communities.

I love the idea that we can harness the power of social media and combine it with a grassroots, community - based distribution model, including a network of home - based Ambassadors as well as retailers and schools, to create a global lifestyle brand around the concept of living Barefoot, and bringing art and story to children from all walks of life.

It was the perfect fit for Drumlin Farm, and after a few discussions, Celona, Scudder, and Novakowski came up with a school version of the community supported agriculture (CSA) model.

If you are looking for an organization abroad that has developed an effective model for community development starting with empowering maternal care, please consider donating to Shiphrah Birth Home.