Sentences with phrase «of city initiatives»

Since Eskolta's founding, we have worked extensively with the New York City Department of Education to understand the impact of City initiatives and policies on educators in the City.

Greg Loh, the new director of city initiatives, said Walsh will not be officially considered mayor until midnight.

Syracuse Mayor - elect Ben Walsh named another top staff member, tapping PR executive Greg Loh to be his director of city initiatives, one of the top jobs in the administration.

He designed a bar in the shape of a gargantuan belly - down heron surrounded by cracked egg furniture which spans the length of the 32nd floor Nante's panoramic Tour Bretagne as part of a city initiative to revitalize neglected urban spaces into cultural hubs.

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Mayor Berke and Skuid founder and CEO Ken McElrath sat down with Fortune to discuss the economic impact of Chattanooga's city - wide tech initiative.

Correction: A previous version of this article incorrectly stated that Fingert led the White House Smart Cities initiative.

Tell me about the economic impact that this kind of tech initiative can have on a mid-size city like Chattanooga.

But because many of these multinationals do most of their business outside of Portland, the actual dollar amount deducted for the tax would be miniscule: the city estimates it will generate about $ 2.5 to $ 3.5 million per year from this initiative.

The Omani - based company leads many different initiatives in a variety of sectors, ranging from higher education to solar energy to core testing for oil and gas, and even trying to build a «smart city» which may enable citizens to pay utility bills automatically, amongst other things.

Over the years, Gotham has pushed through initiatives that ranged from lifestyle perks like free Wi - Fi in public parks and subway stations to make the city more attractive to a tech workforce, to establishing a network of business incubators to help provide affordable office space to more than 500 startups.

Boston and Washington, D.C., for example, use a mix of federal, state, and city money to fund their programs, while New York City's bike - sharing initiative is financed entirely by private mecity money to fund their programs, while New York City's bike - sharing initiative is financed entirely by private meCity's bike - sharing initiative is financed entirely by private means.

This month, the company is launching its largest initiative to date, which will eventually put 10,000 new bicycles on the streets of New York City.

Cornett says Oklahoma City also made the Kauffman Foundation's list of most entrepreneurial cities, as several local businesses capitalized on the public health initiative.

«In a small city, it will be easier to get to know the best service providers, such as lawyers, your banker may likely be someone you know, and you can more easily create a name for yourself,» said Chuck Sacco, assistant dean of strategic initiatives in the Charles D. Close School of Entrepreneurship at Drexel University.

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Within the next decade, all public schools in New York City will be required to offer computer - science classes to all students as part of Computer Science For All, a new initiative by Mayor Bill de Blasio.

The beating heart of the startup ecosystem in Argentina is the city of Buenos Aires, where the local government has created various initiatives for the entrepreneur community.

Other highlights for the year included the introduction of GVBOT's Pillar Partners, the expansion of the Company of Young Professionals program to Richmond, North Vancouver, and the Tri-Cities, a new advocacy initiative with the Canadian Global Cities Council, and the WE FOR SHE Conference on gender diversity.

To determine which communities are a good fit for the initiative, Starbucks looks at all the available data on the socio - economic health of America's cities to understand which communities have the biggest opportunity gaps, which have the biggest need for business investment and leadership, and where there is local movement underway to build a better future for its residents.

The two - day event in New York City, sponsored by Time Warner, highlighted the «State of the Network,» and offered insight on exciting new initiatives planned for 2015/2016, in addition to a focus on our certified women business owners.

She is on the board of Women Entrepreneurs New York City, an initiative to encourage female entrepreneurship, with a focus on underserved communities.

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Kuwait City — April 21, 2015: MIT Enterprise Forum of the Pan Arab region, with the strategic partner Abdul Latif Jameel Community Initiatives (ALJCI) and the Zain Group, announced that teams from Egypt, Jordan, Lebanon, Morocco, Saudi Arabia and the United Arab Emirates made it to the winner's stage at the MIT Enterprise Forum Arab Startup Competition for best start - up innovative and creative business ideas in the Arab world among 75 contesting teams from 15 Arab countries.

As I mentioned at the outset of the talk, that is one of the areas that the Springfield team has chosen to focus on for their Working Cities Challenge initiative.6

Read the City of Zion weekly reports to learn about development progress and other community initiatives.

Dubbed Xiong «An Global Blockchain Innovation Fund, the new initiative was announced Monday at the opening ceremony of a new Blockchain Industrial Park in Hangzhou - a Chinese city noted for its support for innovation and which plays host to major companies such as Alibaba.

It is clear that it is not easy to rebuild an entire country and turn it into the new city of cyber punk technologies, but the initiative seems to be sustained by a series of circumstances that lay the foundations for the construction of something that could be at least an example for other countries that are willing to progress and attract private investment.

Among the initiatives is the creation this year of seven international news bureaus in «entertainment» markets — Hong Kong, Seoul, Mexico City, Moscow, Rio de Janiero, Lagos and Mumbai — headed up by Davan Maharaj, publisher and editor - in - chief of the LA Times.

At launch events in Toronto, Quebec City, Charlottetown and Clarington, the Government of Canada rolled out funding as part of its initiative to create 10,000 paid student work placements over the next four...

The city of Hangzhou has a strong history of supporting innovative initiatives, hosting major companies such as Alibaba.

Previously Norris worked on such civic initiatives as KC Digital Drive and was the inaugural chair of Kansas City Mayor Sly James» Challenge Cabinet.

If that initiative had passed it would have effectively overturned the city's legal recognition of gay marriage.

The city at its best generates its initiatives from dreams of a great and unlimited future, not from short - term or purely pragmatic ideals.

A statement read: «In a social and political climate such as ours, it often takes a gathering of unlikely individuals to shape the future of our nation on issues of faith and inner city initiatives.

The initiative is simple but aggressive - battle the recent violence by tearing down the abandoned homes that have become havens for criminal activity, then hope to stem the tide of residents fleeing the city.

His initiatives included sending two diocesan priests annually on doctoral studies mostly to the Jesuit Faculty of Theology in Brussels; reorganising the seminary in households linked to large city parishes where 10 to 12 seminarians live and undertake pastoral work while attending theological studies at the Faculte; and, perhaps above all, linking theological studies firmly to knowledge of the living Word of God in Scripture.

The DC Board of Elections denied the request for a ballot initiative saying it would violate the city's 1973 Human Right Act, which prevents discriminatory ballot initiatives.

One of the most startling facts about America is the contrast between our great prosperity as a nation and these islands of misery in our cities, Why, with all our resources, initiative and ingenuity, do we do so little to solve these problems?

The campaign initiative is being headed by Michael Wear, the Obama campaign's National Faith Vote Coordinator, Derrick Harkins, Director of Faith Outreach for the Democratic National Committee, the Rev. Regena Thomas, pastor of Allen A.M.E. Church in Atlantic City, New Jersey, Katherine Archuleta, a political director for the campaign, and Broderick Johnson, a campaign adviser who focuses on Catholic outreach.

Some come from «NYC Condom,» a service of the New York City Health Department, some from other groups (like the BACCHUS Initiatives of the National Association of Student Personnel Administrators).

An active national leader in the fight against hunger, Danny serves on the board of Share Our Strength and has long supported hunger relief initiatives including City Harvest, God's Love We Deliver, and the Bed - Stuy Campaign Against Hunger.

Le Pain Quotidien ran a pilot program in New York City last year certifying 43 of its restaurants as CO2 Neutral, a CO2logic initiative.

«As we've begun to launch initiatives in cities in the United States, we begin to move up in the overall category of lemon consumption,» Edwards says.

Foremost in their minds now is food security, something that the City of Davao has been proud of being the first with a local initiative in 2010 to pass the Organic Agriculture Ordinance ahead of Republic Act 10068 (Organic Agriculture Act of 2010) on the same year.

Meat Free Monday founder Paul McCartney expressed his support for the initiative: «Congratulations to Vancouver, the City of North Vancouver, New Westminster and Port Moody for going meat free on Monday 15 May.

The initiative is being led by the Brazilian Vegetarian Society, in partnership with organisations that include São Paulo's Municipal Secretary of Green and Environment, Vegetarian Magazine, Greenpeace and others — a real breakthrough from a city in one of the world's biggest meat - exporting countries.

Chata products started in 1962 in the city of Culiacan, Sinaloa Mexico by the initiative of the Machado Pina Family with Mrs. Augusta Pina Machado, known as Mrs. Chata.

This year, Providence, R.I., Mayor Jorge Elorza was honored with 2nd place in the Medium City category in recognition of his «Eat Play Learn PVD» initiative.

This year Waterloo, Iowa, Mayor Quentin Hart received the 2017 Childhood Obesity Prevention Award for a small city in recognition of his innovative «Healthy H2O Loo» initiative.

These lessons will be used to improve the effectiveness of the initiative, with the best strategies being applied elsewhere throughout the city as well as other cities where they might work.