Sentences with phrase «of change in their communities»

As a body of concerned professionals, clergy are in a unique position to be agents of change in their communities.

«A natural leader, Jamaal has been at the forefront of change in our community throughout his career.

«There are issues around the pace of change in communities, pressures on public resources and making sure entitlements work fairly,» he said.

She told the Guardian: «This referendum has revealed that there are a lot of people [who] feel they don't have a voice, that this country is not working for them and they have faced a combination of years of austerity and a rapid pace of change in their community they didn't vote for.

The TEDx Youth Conference offers a powerful way to make learning relevant to students» lives: it helps them develop critical presentation and persuasion skills, provides a space to share their ideas, and asks them to think creatively and critically about how to motivate people to change — helping them become agents of change in their communities and the wider world.

Finally, with this course I feel empowered to apply radical frameworks, critical pedagogies, and liberation practices to support students be agents of change in their communities.

A pioneer in the education reform movement in Washington DC, Chavez Schools is known for developing teachers into leaders and for empowering our students to be agents of change in the community.

Odiaka Gonzalez is the executive director for Oakland Leaf, a nonprofit that utilizes creative education to develop young leaders to become agents of change in their community.

But if we are sincere about parents being powerful agents of change in their communities then we can't just assume our agenda is their agenda.»

We approach our work firmly grounded in the notion that supporting families to be agents of change in their communities is crucial to ensuring students succeed and have a bright future.

Our students recognize their potential as agents of change in these communities and understand what it means to be an active citizen in a democracy.

According to Louden, a longtime New York artist who moved to Minneapolis a few years ago, «all of these contributors have impactful, artistic activities and act as agents of change in their communities.»

This guide aims to support the process of change in the community child welfare systems by building an awareness of an understanding how trauma can affect children and families and develop practical implications for child welfare administrators are included in each chapter.

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«Ending DACA would place severe economic strain on businesses around the country, putting them into the impossible and extremely costly position of having to fire productive employees for no other reason than an arbitrary change in federal policy, potentially resulting in backlash from other employees, or their broader community,» the report reads.

To be the most successful Defy Ventures graduate in the history of the program so I can employ the most number of Defy graduates and give back to this community that has literally changed my life.

I had the pleasure of sitting down with Jeffrey Shinabarger, author of Yes or No: How Your Everyday Decisions Will Forever Change Your Life and founder of Plywood People, a nonprofit in Atlanta that «leads a community of startups doing good.»

University of Toronto «s Colleen Flood, the Canada Research Chair in Health Law and Policy, explains what's standing in the way of health care reform, and why the business community may be our best bet for bringing about change.

Nike said the race was a way to inspire the running community and fans of the brand, but it also represents a change in thinking about how the athletic - gear maker will bring products to market.

«We've not really had access to this in the end user and open source hacker community, and it changes a lot of assumption about how we write software,» says Adrian Cockcroft, a technology fellow at Battery Ventures.

Dr. Victoria Keener, a research fellow at the East - West Center in Honolulu, Hawaii, whose research focuses on the impact of climate change in Pacific Island communities, expressed similar sentiments.

Morrissey said that Digiday's initial approach has not changed: It tries to serve its community of readers in as many different ways as it possibly can.

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.

«Elections have consequences, and the consequences for our community have been dire, and if we do not change the balance of power, we question our ability to remain free in this country,» she said.

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.

Real - estate website RENTCafé analyzed the 2000 U.S. Census and the 2016 American Community Survey to find changes in key metrics of 11,000 U.S. ZIP codes and came up with a list of America's top 10 most gentrified areas.

Realizing that he was located in an area with a large concentration of Hispanic consumers, he changed his eatery's name to Pizza Patrón and focused his marketing efforts on the Latino community.

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.

Republican Rep. Devin Nunes, the chairman of the House Intelligence Committee, inserted a last - minute «unmasking» provision that would change the intelligence community's process for identifying US citizens caught up in foreign surveillance.

Setting up a company explicitly to bring about positive change may be challenging, but keep in mind that enterprises that survive and thrive in the long run are ones that have won the trust and respect of their communities.

«The people who are at the vanguard of the investment community in and around San Francisco are starting to come to grips with the fact that there's a gaping hole in the strategy that investors are using today, and are now looking at things that are disruptively world - changing, fundamental technologies that will take five to 15 years to develop and are extremely capital intensive,» he says.

And while the Dead's records may never have sold in huge volume, taping encouraged a community of fans who would collect and trade homemade concert recordings, obsessing over the band's ever - changing set lists and improvisational approach.

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

In her community, where gun ownership is considered a fact of life and a point of pride, she's bravely taking a stand as one of the few voices advocating for change in her areIn her community, where gun ownership is considered a fact of life and a point of pride, she's bravely taking a stand as one of the few voices advocating for change in her arein her area.

«If Congress passed this bill that the American Bankers Association wants, how many community bank mortgages would be eligible for QM that aren't currently eligible... and how does that stack up against the number of mortgages held by Well Fargo, Citibank, JPMorgan and the other giants that would become eligible under this change in the rules?»

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.

«They are sending signals to the business community that there would be much less regulation, which is a tremendous force in business for being first out of the gate when a major change is happening,» he said.

Start - ups brimming with ideas, industry leaders committed to facilitating change, and an ecosystem in which entrepreneurship can thrive are the key ingredients for a community of innovators.

Public policy can help in the adjustment process by promoting flexibility in the economy and by reducing some of the costs of change for individuals and communities.

In addition to this training program, Starbucks will work with the community to leverage existing programs that help connect young people with internships, apprenticeships and jobs, and foster the type of dialogue and engagement needed for continued social change.

CMIT Solutions keeps a finger on the fast - changing world of IT, and its robust network of more than 170 franchise providers leverage this expertise to provide comprehensive and affordable IT solutions in their communities.

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We strongly believe that small businesses have the power to change lives and livelihoods in their communities, and must be at the heart of positive change in the BVI.

More than just a workspace, CSI is a community hub offering consulting services and speaking engagements to aid in the creation of innovation and change.

It is also worth noting that The Vancouver Board of Trade has a very long, proud history of collaborating with other business and community groups in Greater Vancouver, and in the years ahead, that will not change.

The landscape has changed and, although most investors recognize it, it is probably time for us to rally the cleantech community together to formally usher in the future of cleantech for those who haven't looked under the hood in a while.

Even though the intellectual climate within the Reserve Bank and other economic policy agencies was already moving in favour of deregulation in the early 1970s, wider community acceptance of the case for change did not come until after the Government set up a broad - ranging inquiry, conducted by a group of independent experts.

The world's most valuable privately held company is buying an historic office building across the bay from its San Francisco headquarters and some in the community are worried how that will change the character of Oakland and its burgeoning tech community.

Our support for Studio Y will help these youth foster social change, tackle complex problems and become leaders in their communities and in the province,» said The Hon. Teresa Piruzza, Minister of Children and Youth Services.