Sentences with phrase «of shelter directors»

What we are actually suffering from as a nation, what is actually killing a high number of animals, is an overpopulation of shelter directors mired in the failed philosophies of the past and complacent with the status quo.

The significance of the above calculations is that we can get an enormous bang for the buck and make a significant impact on shelter populations by intelligent targeting of spay / neuter services upstream of the shelter and before homeless pets clog those shelters and require heroic efforts on the part of shelter directors and the rescue community.

If personnel and policy decisions are controlled by the government hierarchy, above the level of the shelter director, it can greatly hinder getting to No Kill.

A friend of the shelter director who worked with a local rescue group was moving to Scottsdale, and offered to drive Fatcat there.

To avoid a potential conflict of interest, other employment or volunteer service must be brought to the attention of the Shelter Director or Board President.

Not exact matches

As HSUS Texas senior state director Katie Jarl, Florida state director Kate MacFall and director of shelter outreach and policy engagement Kim Alboum organized the transports, Animal Rescue Team members, coordinated by senior director Sára Varsa, searched for missing pets and animals in need of rescue.

«When the Royal LePage Shelter Foundation first introduced this unique fundraising initiative, the response was immediate and overwhelming,» says Shanan Spencer - Brown, executive director of the Royal LePage Shelter Foundation.

«Our priority is to give those in shelters immediate relief with perishable and non-perishable food items and water,» said Heidi Clarke, executive director of the Sandals Foundation, who flew into Turks & Caicos with a team to assess the damage this week.

«The ASPCA is pleased to be in a position where we can assist animal shelters in Florida by helping move homeless cats and dogs out of impacted communities to free up much - needed space for owned pets displaced by the storm,» said Dick Green, senior director of Disaster Response for ASPCA Field Investigations and Response.

He is a director of health services at Covenant House Pennsylvania, a shelter for homeless and marginalized youth.

«All of this felt like a punch to the stomach, but the jab that hurt the most were the numbers around children,» said Kate Maehr, executive director of the Greater Chicago Food Depository, which supplies about 600 food pantries, soup kitchens and shelters.

Diane Doherty, executive director of the Illinois Hunger Coalition, called the decline perplexing and said it wasn't consistent with the number of families who show up at shelters and pantries for emergency food.

Theresa Jennings, director of parks and recreation, said the space could still be used for a playground, picnic shelter or bicycle paths.

The Greater Chicago Food Depository last week issued 806,590 pounds of food to 473 pantries, soup kitchens, shelters and combined feeding and pantry sites that feed the homeless and needy, said Executive Director Steve Whitehead.

«There's a little bit of a perfect storm going on,» said Kate Maehr, executive director of the Greater Chicago Food Depository, which supplies 600 shelters, pantries and soup kitchens in Cook County to feed about 500,000 people a year.

Kate Maehr, executive director of the cavernous South Side food depository, said more than 32,000 one - pound packages of ground pork and an accompanying 12,000 pounds of bacon and sausage — donated by Farmland Foods — would be swiftly shipped out to 652 food pantries, shelters and after - school programs in Cook County, and more than 1,000 other pantries statewide.

With: Josh Ryan - Collins, Associate Director, New Economics Foundation; Toby Lloyd, Policy Director, Shelter; Peter Hetherington; and Beth Stratford, PhD student University of Roehampton and visiting lecturer at University of Masaryk and the Centre for Alternative Technology.

«One of the most gruesome things we hear at the Ali Forney Center is our young people who have been recently diagnosed in their desperation to get shelter and housing will forsake taking the medication because they want to be eligible for the current HASA guidelines,» said Carl Siciliano, executive director of the group, which helps homeless LGBT youth.

Vanessa J. Herman, Zacarese's director of communications, noted that Shelter Island has only four election districts and 1,048 ballots remain to be counted.

Carl Siciliano, the founder and executive director of the Ali Forney Center, lauded the de Blasio administration for adding 100 new emergency beds in youth shelters over the past year, which he sees as a down payment on a commitment to grow the stock of available spots until the unmet need is addressed.

Jeri taught high school English; served as co-executive director of folk singer Harry Chapin's World Hunger Year; was an aide to Manhattan Borough President Ruth Messinger; served as executive director of The Retreat, the East Hampton women's shelter; and founded two local businesses, A Taste of the North Fork and the North Fork Specialty Kitchen.

Greg Beales, Shelter's campaign director, said: «The withdrawal of housing benefit for 18 - 21s put young people at real risk of homelessness.

At a technical briefing after the mayor's speech, at which de Blasio took no questions, Office of Management and Budget Director Dean Fuleihan said the shelter plan wouldn't add any new costs to the city's operating budget, because cluster sites and hotels are being phased out at the same time new shelters are being opened.

Oneida County Workforce Development Director David Mathis said, «This project will help our Working Solutions System reach out into the community's areas of need, and work with the community agencies and faith - based organizations that are already feeding and sheltering homeless people.

Community Voices Heard (CVH), a member led organization of low - income families with chapters in Poughkeepsie, Newburgh, Yonkers and NYC; Current and former Emergency Shelter clients and homeless Poughkeepsie residents; Rev. Blake Ryder of Christ Church in Poughkeepsie; Brian Riddell, Executive Director of Dutchess Outreach; other social service providers, faith and community leaders.

HRH Executive Director Ed Murphy told shelter clients that the policy is intended to encourage clients to find permanent housing more quickly; however, for most homeless, the cost of permanent housing is out of reach or takes several months to find.

The task force, chaired by city Human Resources Administration commissioner Steve Banks, Housing Preservation and Development commissioner Vicki Been and Laura Mascuch, executive director of the Supportive Housing Network of New York, will help the city expedite the creation of the new housing units, de Blasio said, as it faces high numbers of homeless people living in city shelters and on the streets.

We believe that the solution is always closest to the issue.We remain an important resource for youth now, when RTA passes and an effective model of how to treat young people in the midst of RTA,» said Christian M. Philemon, Executive Director, Youth Shelter Program of Westchester.

The Niagara County SPCA's Board of Directors has reversed its decision to hire Dr. Grant Hobika to lead the troubled shelter.

But Catherine Trapani, executive director for Homeless Services United, told Politico the lawsuit is just part of a NIMBY campaign to stop the shelter from moving forward.

«With shelters at the breaking point and emergency homeless services on the chopping block, this is not the time to be giving millionaires another tax break,» said Mary Brosnahan, the executive director of the Coalition for the Homeless.

Rosalind (Olly) Grender MBE - former Director of Communications for Shelter; former Director of Communications for the Liberal Democrats

«School kids living in homeless shelters must contend with unimaginable levels of stress and hardship, and are at a tremendous disadvantage when trying to keep up with their housed peers in class,» said DAVE GIFFEN, Executive Director of the Coalition for the Homeless, the nation's oldest advocacy and direct service organization helping homeless men, women and children.

Alex Zablocki, director of community relations for DHS, said there had only been two arrests in the area of the shelter since it opened six months ago and that the apartment has 24 - hour security and a strict 10 p.m. curfew.

CROWN HEIGHTS — As some neighbors of two planned Crown Heights homeless shelters fight to block their openings, city officials hope to mend relationships between shelters and residents by hiring a full - time Director of Community Partnerships to manage problems and volunteer efforts.

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.

As CountyExecutive, my administration will continue our work with Hi Tor President Lizanne Fiorentino and her Board of Directors to build a new shelter, increase adoptions, save more lives and prevent animal suffering — all in the most fiscally responsible way possible.

«You're giving $ 10 million to one of the most mismanaged board of directors,» Zelda Penzel of S.O.S. Save Our Shelter Animals said.

As County Executive, my administration will continue our work with Hi Tor President Lizanne Fiorentino and her Board of Directors to build a new shelter, increase adoptions, save more lives and prevent animal suffering — all in the most fiscally responsible way possible.

Boyd, an archaeologist and director of SHUMLA (Studying Human Use of Materials, Land, and Art), an education and research center in Comstock, Texas, will spend the afternoon scouring the shelter for insight into the ancient residents and their spiritual world.

They are eligible for a tax - sheltered annuity program through TIAA - CREF or Valic,» according to L. D. Newman, director of MCG's International and Postdoctoral Services Office.

When the influenza results came back positive NYACC reached out for assistance to Dr. Sandra Newbury, the Director of the Shelter Medicine Program at the University of Wisconsin - Madison School of Veterinary Medicine (UW - SMP), because of her recent work with influenza in dogs and cats in the Midwest.

Scott Speedman and Evan Rachel Wood star as the ne'er - do - well son of a wealthy Southern family and the sheltered young woman he begins to fall for in Barefoot, a romantic comedy from director Andrew Fleming (Dick, Hamlet 2) and writer Stephen Zotnowski.

She comes to Shelter as VP of National Film & Television Publicity from senior director of publicity and awards at Focus Features where she worked on such films as Loving, Nocturnal Animals, Kubo and the Two Strings, The Beguiled, Victoria & Abdul, Darkest Hour and Phantom Thread.

Take Shelter (Director and screenwriter: Jeff Nichols)-- A working - class husband and father questions whether his terrifying dreams of an apocalyptic storm signal something real to come or the onset of an inherited mental illness he's feared his whole life.

Jeff Nichols, the talented director of «Shotgun Stories» and «Take Shelter» is back at Cannes with his third film, «MUD.»

At the Critics» Week — where, in the interest of full disclosure, I served on a competition jury comprised of three other critics and the South Korean director Lee Chang - dong — the highlight of an unusually strong lineup was Take Shelter, the second feature by Shotgun Stories director Jeff Nichols, an acknowledged Malick acolyte whose new film shares a producer with The Tree of Life as well as a leading lady, Jessica Chastain (reportedly at Malick's personal recommendation).

Inevitably, Nichols can't entirely avoid the public face of this injustice, and later scenes with lawyers and the media feel especially perfunctory (Michael Shannon, helping out his old Take Shelter director, has a cameo as a Life photographer).

Director Dan Trachtenberg embraces the «less is more concept», perhaps not to the extent of superior psychological thrillers «Take Shelter» or «Z For Zachariah», but still in the right direction.

In 2011, relatively unknown writer / director Jeff Nichols took a lot of people by surprise when he delivered one of the best films of the year in «Take Shelter ``.