Sentences with phrase «new community organizations»

The program's expansion awards approximately $ 4 million in grants over two years to seven new community organizations as well as the original five organizations (listed below).

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She is also a craft beer enthusiast and homebrewer, and a mentor with the Digital Mentoring Program at Girls Write Now — an organization that fosters a community of mentorship between professional writers and high school - aged girls in New York.

This fall, several members of its executive will begin transplanting the Stop's model to other parts of Canada through a new umbrella organization, Community Food Centres Canada.

Many of these calls have led to new customers or introduced me to entrepreneurial organizations and communities around the world.

The problem was that many small, community - based entrepreneurship support organizations, or ESOs, existing in New York City lacked resources, networks, and visibility.

Jonathan Mohan, founder of BitcoinNYC, a volunteer organization based in New York that unites Bitcoin enthusiasts, says the Fed's takedown of Liberty Reserve was downright good for Bitcoin — and that many people in the Bitcoin community see the Liberty takedown as a «benefit» for virtual currencies.

To help newer, smaller and startup businesses access the appropriate business financing and support they need, Wells Fargo will extend $ 50 million in investments and $ 25 million in grants to organizations called Community Development Financial Institutions (CDFIs) that serve small businesses and entrepreneurs.

Our work with these organizations has generated leads and new business opportunities, and this involvement also helps position CMIT Solutions as a brand with unlimited potential for giving back to local communities.

Developed by local design firm Myron Creative, the new logo features bold, interwoven lines that form the shape of a «V» — intended to represent the connected and inclusive nature of not just our organization, but the Greater Vancouver business community.

Treacher also brings experience working with global industry communities, organizations and governments to shape new financial and payment practices.

NY Tech Meetup is a non-profit organization with over 40,000 members supporting the New York technology community.

Signs hung up in front of a vacant lot in Weeksville, Brooklyn, in 2014 by members of 596 Acres, an organization that maps vacant lots in New York City and advocates for community stewardship of th at land.

VANCOUVER — Hundreds of community organizations that rely on provincial grants, including 78 in Vancouver, are feeling the pinch thanks to Christy Clark's government dropping the ball on processing applications, says New Democrat spokesperson for local government, sports and seniors,...

MaRS Discovery District is pleased to announce two important leadership changes, placing key staff members in strategic, new roles that align with the organization's growth strategy: Salim Teja takes on the role of EVP Ventures and Tim Jackson becomes the EVP, Corporate & Community Development.

The organizations sent a joint letter to Minister of Foreign Affairs Chrystia Freeland outlining their shared principles and priorities for a new trade model rooted in principles of equity, the primacy of human rights — including the rights of Indigenous peoples, women and girls, workers, migrants, farmers, and communities — and social and ecological justice.

In 2015, the Prentice plan did not invest any new funding in FCSS despite advocacy by volunteer organizations concerned about a lack of resources to support Alberta's growing cities and communities.

With the release of proposed equity crowdfunding rules, many organizations (like TiE, AAPI, Entrepreneurs Organization, MIT Enterprise Forum, NASABA, NAPABA, CEO Council, AAHOA and ATDC), meetup groups (like New York Tech Meetup) and other communities should now consider how equity crowdfunding could be used to benefit their community.

My organization — the Independent Community Bankers of America, or ICBA — in 2015 released a lending survey in which three - quarters of community - bank respondents said new mortgage regulations were keeping them from making more residential - mortgaCommunity Bankers of America, or ICBA — in 2015 released a lending survey in which three - quarters of community - bank respondents said new mortgage regulations were keeping them from making more residential - mortgacommunity - bank respondents said new mortgage regulations were keeping them from making more residential - mortgage loans.

Michael S. Miller, Executive Vice President of the Jewish Community Relations Council of New York, accuses the SBC of complicity in messianic Jewish organizations» «deceptive tactics» of employing such traditional Jewish symbols as prayer shawls and skullcaps.

For every host organization that has decided to sever ties with their troop, eight to 10 new ones have invited the Boy Scouts into their community, according to Jeff Fulcher, spokesman for the Atlanta Area Council of the BSA.

«We get them hired at $ 7.50 or $ 8 an hour and they just can't make it and end up taking a second job,» says Mary Nelson, president of Bethel New Life, a Chicago - based community development organization that seeks jobs for former welfare recipients.

Christian faith is conceived as a new covenant, which moulds all the theology, ethics and organization of the community.

I've also been freshly convicted about the importance of strengthening my relationships with schools, nonprofits, and community organizations here in East Tennessee, and am considering new ways to volunteer / contribute that will work for our family over the long haul.

That conviction is part of what led him to found Haven, a New York - based organization for actors in the entertainment industry who also want a faith community.

He also traces the history of Islam among African - Americans by tying together such key developments as the formation of black fraternal lodges in the 18th and 19th centuries; Noble Drew Ali's 1913 organization of the Moorish Science Temple in Newark, New Jersey; the growth of various Islamic missionary and revivalist movements beginning in the 19th and continuing throughout the 20th centuries; and the conversion to Islam of be-bop jazz musicians who helped raise the faith's profile in the African - American community.

New roles for clergy and congregants in community organization and consumer participation are also developing.

Chambers is, in fact, Alinksy's heir, and he has continued since his teacher's death to expand and adapt the Alinsky pratiqur» by establishing eighteen IAF - affiliated community organizations in California, New York, Maryland, and Texas.

Other symptoms of this new spirit are to be found in the increased interest in the common worship of the academic community, though this is by no means universally evident; in the widespread and intensive discussions of faculties about the purpose and organization of the course of study; in the experiments that are being carried on to relate the work of the seminary more intimately to the work of other church agencies, particularly to the local churches.

As they took their places as new members of the emerging church, the pattern of organization of the believing community began gradually to take shape.

At the Market - 101 session, entrepreneurs can learn how to launch a great product, grasp the ins and outs of start - up costs, and expand customer base; aspiring market managers and community organizations can gauge the feasibility of opening new markets.

Additionally, on one Thursday of eight months every year called Community Day, a local nonprofit organization receives 5 percent of the day's total sales from New Leaf.

If you are new to a community and relatively unknown, you will need to actively work to establish relationships with community leaders and organizations.

That film, titled «The Greenhorns» grew into a small nonprofit organization that currently produces events, media and new media for and about the young farming community.

Develop pool of farmer - leaders and farmer - trainers in the POs; and in the province and enhance their organizational and technical capability, for them to respond to the objective needs of their own organization, and of new POs / farmer - communities; 5.

Through March 23, a number of agricultural organizations, including the Future Farmers of America (FFA) and New York Farm Bureau, will be raising awareness about New York's farmers and the importance of agriculture to the State's economy and its communities.

The California Sustainable Winegrowing Alliance (CSWA)- a non-profit organization established by the Wine Institute and California Association of Winegrape Growers (CAWG) to promote environmental stewardship and social responsibility in the California wine community - recently elected new officers to its Board of Directors and appointed a Managing Director.

She is a graduate of the Natural Gourmet Institute in New York City, and apprenticed under the worker - ownership of Three Stone Hearth in Berkeley, California, the first community supported kitchen (CSK) of its kind and has experience managing farmer's markets, working with a variety of artisan food producers, in restaurants, business management and organizations promoting urban food sustainability, local food economies and seasonality.

She oversees the organization's work to deliver rescued food to 500 soup kitchens, food pantries and other community food programs in New York City - free of charge and focused on ensuring that high - need communities receive more fresh produce.

Her community accomplishments include being part of establishing several new programs and organizations serving the Bristol area.

I honestly had no idea how many people in my community needed the help of a charity and I am so happy I can support a organization like Catholic Charities of New Hampshire that is doing so much.

A few months ago I told you all about FoodCorps, a promising new public service organization (part of AmeriCorps) dedicated to improving the health of children in low - income communities.

Learn how a youth running program can produce revenue for your organization, uncover a new reach of patrons and impact your entire community through Ready, Set, RUN!

Finally, on Tuesday, came the exciting news that a group, including the NFL, NFL Players Association, NCAA, NOCSAE (the organization that certifies new helmets), SIGMA, and NAERA (the group, have entered into an unprecedented partnership with football helmet manufacturers Rawlings, Riddell, Schutt, and Xenith to create a youth football safety and helmet replacement program for youth in underserved communities.

Regular donations are made to organizations that help women and children, including: New Beginnings (they provide shelter, advocacy and support for women and children affected by domestic violence); GAPPS (Global Alliance to Prevent Prematurity and Stillbirth); Open Arms Perinatal Services (they provide community - based support for women through pregnancy, birth and postpartum).

It means listening to their concerns, helping them out as a community when they have a new baby, pointing them to organizations that support young families, and simply giving them a call to see how they are doing and if they need practical help.

As part of her organization Birth on Labor Day, or BOLD, she developed a play called «Birth,» performed in communities to spread the message about new options in childbirth.

She was the founding ED of a major mentoring agency; transformed and reorganized underperforming agencies into dynamic organizations with new programs and funding resources to meet community needs, and she successfully led diverse groups of board members, volunteers, staff and community groups to achieve goals through strategic thinking and effective communication.

«EPA applauds Mass Audubon, along with all the people and organizations being recognized today as leaders in helping create a cleaner environment and healthier communities,» said Curt Spalding, regional administrator of EPA New England.

Mass Audubon's commitment to this innovative digital resource spans the organization's departments, from Ecological Management and Land Conservation to our «Shaping the Future of Your Community» program, which will be conducting a series of MAPPR workshops to help communities use this powerful new tool to identify which parcels are most important to protect, while guiding development to less sensitive locations.

With her background in grassroots community organization, she is energized to support new birth professionals on their own course for success.