Sentences with phrase «of running the shelter»

«Five years ago, I came from Washington, DC for the sole reason of running this shelter,» he recalls.

Several protesters said they hadn't met Ridgway, but they think the county agency should be led by someone with a history of running shelters and with ideas about how to improve animal care in Orange County, which will soon add a second shelter.

Staff can get busy with the day - to - day details of running a shelter, and may seem to overlook your contributions.

This is a tough one for me as there were a couple of posts I thought would get more traction — but the +1 goes to «Recreating the wheel — very good sentences from the Book, Little Boy Blue» — which I think highlights just how long the ideas of running shelters / rescues like businesses and increasing adoptions through customer service have existed — and why, still 30 years later, too many shelters still aren't learning from these models.

We need volunteers in almost every aspect of running our shelter.

The cost of running the shelter is high and funded entirely on donations.

One way is for the private organization to make a credible showing that it can do a better job of running the shelter, at a lower cost.

Not exact matches

In Toronto, 31 percent of the people sleeping in city - run shelters in January were refugee claimants - up from nearly 19 percent a year ago, according to city data.

The Weatherhaven shelter's arched ceiling was a structural feature that ran up against a rule that required workers» camps to be composed of buildings with straight walls and a uniform minimum ceiling height of seven feet.

Did you ever wonder why we had to run for shelter when the promise of a brave new world unfurled beneath a clear blue sky?

I met the woman who ran a local shelter for abused women and children, most of them from poor homes.

The bomb, a dud, disappeared into the earth as Kovama leapt over the crater and continued to run from one shelter to the next in search of his familv.

I have volunteered in homeless shelters in two major cities and the ones that rely on private donations exclusively do a MUCH better job of helping the homeless and the poor than the government run shelters.

Many of those sheltering there ran to higher ground and stayed in the hills behind the town.

Some churches are involved in community services, especially emergency - care services: crisis counseling centers, battered women's shelters and other housing for homeless women and young people — many of whom are running away from physical and sexual abuse.

Actually, many of the public shelters are run by a church group or a council of churches on contract to the city.

I have fallen away from the church though the older I get the more I realize that any organized religion freaks me out, but here is the thing there are lots of homeless shelters and hot food banks that run off churches so they do some good for the community.

Like a great many missions, some of the shelters run by church groups make a point of managing without any government support.

What do you think of this idea — Income the church receives that is used to help the poor, run homeless shelters, alcohol treatment programs and so on (rather than pay for church buildings and that sort of thing) would not be taxed?

We run on donations, and Linda goes to local animal shelters to take in cats whose due dates are coming up, as well as strays, and pets of deployed military personnel, so that they'll have someone to look after their pets while they're off overseas.

We don't run animal shelters though some of our Member Societies operate companion animal and farm animal rescue groups.

Outside of a long - running joke, the only hangup was finding a shelter to give the dozen or so Rams shirts and jerseys I had collected over the years.

The $ 833,372 deal with Car - Min Construction Co. of Waukegan calls for a dual - purpose band shell and picnic shelter, a concrete walkway, a boardwalk running along the beach's sand dunes, picnic tables, grills, landscaping, lighting, a fence along the harbor and a telescope.

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Passengers should board the bus at the shelter on East Payton Run located southeast of the Metra station, Pace said.

Many single parent families bring in enough money to pay for fixed expenses like shelter and transportation but run out of money for food and other essentials before the end of the month.

«We've seen a lot of hunger in our area,» said Washington, who helps run a homeless shelter for Holy Angels Baptist Church in Englewood.

Temporary shelters can provide a place for your teen to live while dealing with the reasons for running and the consequences of their decision to do so.

Campbell Robb, chief executive of Shelter, said: «It is simply not acceptable that people are handing over their hard - earned cash to live in houses that are run - down, squalid and in some cases even dangerous.

The Home Office runs a Violence Against Women fund worth # 80m over five years, a paltry sum given the needs of the sector and the wholesale slashing of budgets for women's services such as domestic violence shelters.

Would people working to help migrants — maybe those running food banks or night shelters — be seen as frustrating the Home Office strategy of incentivising people to «go home» through enforced destitution?

Frank Commisso, Jr., an Albany common councilman who is running for mayor this year, has pledged to spearhead his own «audit of the tax - exempt status of SUNY Poly,» adding in a blog post that «the many private and profitable companies being sheltered under the tax - exempt status of SUNY Poly [must] finally pay their fair share toward the cost of city services.»

They've questioned the level of need in the borough as well as the city's ability to find a nonprofit to run new shelters here.

That audit found 87 percent of 101 city - run shelters visited by Stringer's auditors had at least one health and safety violation such as rodents or roach infestations, peeling paint, water damage or mold.

Animal Care Centers of NYC, a nonprofit that runs the city's animal shelters, opened a pet food pantry in the Bronx in December, and in the first month alone, the pantry gave out more than 2,000 pounds of food for 71 dogs and 50 cats.

One of the homeless shelters run by Housing Enterprise for Less Privileged (HELP), founded by Cuomo in 1986, racked up 31 critical incidents last year — the most of any of the so - called Tier 2 family shelters in the city, according to a review of internal records by the Daily News.

As he moves to open 90 new homeless shelters in New York City, Mayor Bill de Blasio is opening himself up to a new level of political risk as he runs for re-election this year.

Quinn, now the CEO of nonprofit Women in Need, which runs shelters for homeless women and children, said she'd like to see Cuomo's housing plan passed.

There are many qualified not - for - profits that are capable of running good operations and many of the current shelters are well run.

The members of the public were spurred on by an op - ed piece published on an internet news source that implied town officials had already made a back - door deal with another entity to run the shelter, and by a letter sent to other animal service organizations soliciting proposals by a woman who has long been an opponent of the League's presence at the shelter, ostensibly at the urging of a member of the Town Board.

With a record number of 60,000 New Yorkers sleeping in homeless shelters, Christine Quinn — the former council speaker who now runs a nonprofit helping homeless women and children — said her onetime opponent Mayor Bill de Blasio had made progress but that there's still work to be done.

Bedco will continue to Run The Eddie Harris Residential Facility On Chauncey Street in Bushwick, despite the nonprofit's history of building code and homeless shelter violations and various state and federal lawsuits, Politico reported.

At the time of his fatal encounter with police, he was living in a shelter run by a church group in Baton Rouge, LA and making his living selling music CDs.

The 53 - passenger ferry, running seven days a week until recently, has carried more than 15,000 people since launching at the end of June, but «it's not a moneymaker» yet, Councilwoman Chris Lewis told the Shelter Island Town Board Tuesday while reporting on an East End Transportation Council meeting she attended last week.

As yet another Greenport resident demanded to know why the latest proposal to run an electrical cable from the North Fork to Shelter Island would succeed where the last attempt by the Long Island Power Authority had failed, Christopher Hahn, the director of external affairs for PSEG - Long Island, began to speak louder.

Ulrich, a Republican who represents parts of Rockaway and is considering a run for mayor, lambasted the administration Friday for failing to communicate how it decides to site shelters, saying local officials have been left little time to provide feedback or different options.

Mayoral candidate Bill de Blasio has been a staunch critic of the city's scatter - site homeless shelters — but he's willing to pocket money from the private operators who run them.

This will create a series of sheltered bays that will catch and keep beach material and, in the long run, help to bolster the cliffs.

Instead of running for shelter, you'll know there's a storm coming and can schedule your afternoon.»

The killing of «defenseless creatures» refers to the humane euthanization of unwanted dogs, cats, and other pets at a PETA - run animal shelter.