Sentences with phrase «more organized effort»

Unlike Google Cardboard, Daydream is a much more organized effort, however.

Now that the leak is plugged, the reasoning goes, perhaps a more organized effort to address the environmental ills the spill brought to light — oil dependence, the dangers of deep water drilling, etc — can indeed capture the public's attention.

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And we organized «get out the vote» efforts that helped more than 2 million people register to vote who might not have voted otherwise.

The ruling potentially gives corporate parents more responsibility for the affairs of their franchisees, including their organizing efforts.

According to a Defense Department memo obtained by Military Times, the undersecretary of defense for personnel and readiness will direct «an effort to form a working group to determine changes to military personnel policies necessary to provide the Military Departments increased flexibility to organize, train, and equip more ready and lethal forces.»

In an effort to remain hip, it is infusing the focal point of its website with a more dynamic look and additional controls designed to empower its 1 billion users to sort streams of photos and other material into more organized sections that appeal to their personal interests.

«The better organized our forms are, the more effective our collection efforts can be.»

Teams from the London School of Economics and Erasmus University Medical Center in the Netherlands found that involvement in organized religion was more effective at producing «sustained happiness» than sports, political groups, charity work or continuing educational efforts.

The greater our efforts to know and possess and organize the world, they observed, the more do we strengthen the material trammels that imprison us and increase the universal multiplicity from which we must free ourselves if we are to attain the blessed unity.

It appealed more to the charity and sense of justice of the Christian middle class than to organized efforts on the part of labor and the poor.

Our household just seemed more organized, and we were all working more as a team, more productive in our efforts to do anything and everything.

CRMs designed for candidates typically incorporate an integrated online fundraising system, and can also include more advanced modules that allow supporters to organize events, run personal fundraising efforts and download lists of neighbors to visit or phone numbers to call.

It is the best organized political movement in the chaotic society and can block Saudi Arabia's efforts to install a more fanatical Wahhabi based regime.

The incentives for moving to a digital organizing model will be more and more obvious as more and more efforts see success in doing it.

The effort — organized, Italian - style, in less than a week — is much more modest than the data - driven machinery of the Obama and Romney campaigns.

My old Austin buddy Chris Cosart passes along this Newsweek column by Howard Fineman, who compares Hillary and Obama's websites and more traditional offline organizing efforts and finds Barak's lacking.

At 8 a.m., more than than 100 community, law enforcement and religious officials participate in a «Cops, Community, Clergy» multi-faith prayer breakfast organized as part of efforts to improve community - police relations; Union Theological Seminary, 3041 Broadway, Manhattan.

But for more concrete results, Rodriguez is reaching out to leaders throughout the city to organize a boycott of Arizona, according to aides, and is trying to get Comptroller John Liu onboard with an effort to make the boycott enforceable for city - connected businesses.

This new paradigm will force the politicians to get more involved in grass roots, community organizing efforts in order to get millions of people to support them instead of millions of dollars from a few insiders.

The Mayo Clinic SCAD Registry was created in 2010 in response to an organized effort by an online community of SCAD patients who sought more research on their condition.

She says that an organized, visible effort is far more effective than fighting individual battles.

More recent efforts include PeerJ PrePrints and F1000 Research; the latter site organizes open peer review of the paper and charges a fee.

Latino teachers were better perceived across all measures, while students perceived Black teachers (more than their White peers) to hold students to high academic standards and support their efforts, to help them organize content, and to explain ideas clearly and provide feedback.

He highlighted Ruffin's efforts to train more than 3000 health professionals and organize research summits on health disparities.

In an effort to learn more about how to combine his interests in community organizing and the arts, he came to HGSE, lured by the promise of the Arts in Education Program and by Associate Professor Mark Warren's research on community organizing.

The piece closes by presenting a framework for thinking more generally — one might say strategically — about different operating models for parent advocacy and organizing and by raising some key questions about the future of these efforts.

If some teachers could earn improvements in their wages and working conditions from their own efforts rather than from the efforts of their organized representatives or affiliated politicians, then more - effective teachers would have little reason to support the unions financially or politically.

Edcamp is a teacher - organized grassroots effort to re-imagine educator professional development, born out of a desire to make it more valuable, more educator - centered, and more democratic.

The shirts had been made during my time with the county when I organized an effort to get the community more involved in ending child abuse.

Unlike more orthodox forms of parent and community engagement, organizing efforts are characterized by a focus on building effective power to influence institutions and policy through leadership development, relationship - building, and critical consciousness.

BAEO was an exception, but its efforts were aimed more at recruiting students and parents to testify at the committee hearing than at organizing public rallies.

I'd be interested to learn more about organizing efforts that haven't panned out, and why.

More than 60 parents boycotted that process at the urging of Parent Revolution, the Los Angeles reform group and charter - school ally that organized McKinley's effort.

Last year, she was a part of an organizing effort that brought more than 500 people to Las Cruces.

Innovate Public Schools» staff bring more than 40 years of professional experience in grassroots community organizing, with significant demonstrated success in building long - term reform efforts led by low - income parent leaders in California.

You can help support this effort by organizing one or more activities in your community to raise awareness of the need for these important protections for students of color during the week of Friday, March 16th through Thursday, March 22nd.

Even with that said, I came away with several new ideas and action steps that I could take immediately to begin building my platform, focusing my content and reaching more people.Thank you, Stephanie for taking the time and effort to organize such an inspiring and informative event.»

Designed to be a free learning management system, Classroom laces together the functionality found within Google Drive, Docs, and Gmail in an effort to help teachers «save time, keep classes organized, and improve... [Read more...]

What is more interesting than the same battle that has been circulating since groups on Goodreads and a grassroots effort called Stop The Goodreads Bullies first began waging organized warfare on authors or reviewers is that Rice is no casual observer of the issue.

On occasion we have organized fund raising for the benefit of rescues but more often we have simply donated our own time, effort and cash.

But nonprofits organizing disaster - relief efforts are asking people to be patient Read More

Your targeted trapping efforts will keep you organized and allow you to help more cats in the most effective way possible.

Under Rebecca's leadership, LifeLine also operates its own no - kill shelter, which focuses on animals with special medical or behavioral needs; Catlanta, the first and largest organized trap - neuter - return (TNR) program in Atlanta, which has sterlized and vaccinated more than 35,000 community cats; and Community LifeLine, an outreach effort that provides free vaccines and spay / neuter to thousands of pets belonging to low - income Atlantans.

The Philippines is to organize travel agency managers in Hong Kong for a «familiarization tour» of Manila and Puerto Princesa City in Palawan island on Nov. 12 - 16 in an effort to attract more tourists from Hong Kong, the Philippine Department of Tourism (DOT) said here Monday.

Moog Cookbook — «More Than a Feeling» LittleBigPlanet 2 trailer featuring «Sleepyhead» by Passion Pit Play for Japan — A game music charity album for Japan relief efforts, organized by Akira Yamaoka and featuring Nobuo Uematsu, Yasunori Mitsuda, Bear McCreary, and others.

In a more extreme example of alteration, Steve Lambert organized an effort to craft a mock edition of the NYT that presents the news as we wish it might be, circa 2009: the war in Iraq is over (thankfully now a reality), Condoleezza Rice holds a press conference to confess frankly that the Bush Administration knew all along that there were no WMDs; and all public universities are free.

Even as they slash budgets, many are increasing marketing efforts, organizing more special events, and expanding hours and free - entry times.

The modest show, organized by guest curator Jay Belloli and largely selected from holdings in the artist's foundation, includes student efforts, late paintings, a few ceramics, some wood carvings, jewelry designs, two glass vases, a Surrealist abstraction carved in low - relief on the back of an illuminated plexiglass sheet and more than a dozen prints.

She was also instrumental in getting farmers, restaurant owners, farmers markets, consumers and citizens together to talk about and take action around creating more local, sustainable food options in Jefferson County during a Menu for the Future community organizing push a few years ago, which served as an example for other groups in the US, with Cleveland, Ohio and Vermont replicating her efforts.

I find comfort in being with people who are concerned and interested in learning more about what they can do, and I am inspired by people who are organizing efforts such as letter writing campaigns, marches, stream clean - ups, and social justice activism.