Sentences with phrase «of sheltering policy»

The quantity and quality of shelter adoptions is in the hands of shelter management, making life - saving a direct function of shelter policies and practice.

Despite the fact that HSUS had worked to kill similar bills in Texas, New York, Florida, and elsewhere, I was more optimistic about shelter reform legislation succeeding in Minnesota because two HSUS representatives — a Board member and Jennifer Fearing, the person in charge of sheltering policies for HSUS — personally assured me at a meeting in San Francisco just over a month ago that the days of HSUS claiming «neutrality» (a sham in and of itself given it benefits the status quo) but then working to kill shelter reform legislation were over.

Not exact matches

«Child migration will affect certain states and localities differently, based on where costs such as education are incurred but also based on gains in terms of spending for things like shelter and transportation,» said Michelle Mittelstadt of the Migration Policy Institute.

B.C.'s previous government had enacted provisions to shelter the average costs of production from GHG costs, but there was no guarantee this would continue and the new government has indicated that GHG policies will become more stringent.

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.

A social policy, therefore, that first provides food, clothing, shelter, and medical care and only then attends to the other circumstances that permit or prevent the pursuit of happiness will undermine the social practices through which those other enabling conditions are ordinarily created.

The South African soccer team the Kaiser Chiefs organized a national awareness day; in Burkino Faso, activists partnered with a trucking union for monitoring purposes; drivers of moto - taxis in Thailand keep watch for child sex exploitation; Nepalese trafficking survivors formed Shakti Samuaha, a nongovernmental organization that lobbies officials to make policy changes; organizations in Bangladesh have focused specifically on the taboo topic of male prostitutes and have opened shelters for exploited children.

In the last month I volunteered, as I try to regularly, at the kitchen of a local homeless shelter; I made a donation to Mazon: A Jewish Response to Hunger; I brought canned food to a food drive; I continued to work toward improving school food in my district by attending SHAC and Food Services PAC meetings; and I hope I increased awareness of various food policy issues through my writing on The Lunch Tray and The Huffington Post.

Campbell Robb, chief executive of Shelter, criticises the government for «bulldozing» through badly thought out policies despite advice from experts.

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.

Mayor Michael Bloomberg is pushing for policies to move the homeless out of city shelters more quickly.

At 10 a.m., NYC Councilwoman Julissa Ferreras - Copeland, Council Speaker Melissa Mark - Viverito, Assemblywoman Linda Rosenthal, the Women's Caucus and advocates celebrate the passage of the nation's first menstrual equity policy to make pads and tampons free and readily available at public schools, homeless shelters and Department of Correction jails, City Hall steps, Manhattan.

Assemblyman Keith Wright lent his name to a WFP mailer on the Bloomberg administration's policy of charging the homeless to stay in shelters.

The mayor's announcement comes just after the City Council unveiled a report and a package of legislation aimed at reforming the city's Fair Share policies, which provide a set of guidelines and require public outreach before the city sites «challenging facilities,» including homeless shelters.

Massey says he will launch an immediate review of the city's homelessness policies and convert unsafe shelters into thousands of supportive housing units.

New York City Comptroller Scott Stringer called for policies to increase school attendance of homeless children, following an audit that found more than half of students in shelters were chronically absent from public schools.

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.

On July 5, Hudson River Housing (HRH), the operator of Dutchess County's only emergency shelter, announced new policies that limit clients» stay to 120 days, and charge a $ 10 nightly fee after 60 days.

Homeless residents of Dutchess County's only emergency shelter will join community and faith leaders to protest the shelter's new harsh policies, just one day before the policies are set to go into effect.

Pre-Campaign Community Service / Activism: Worked extensively with Family of Woodstock, Rip Van Winkle Council of Boy Scouts of America, establishing Ulster County Habitat for Humanity, Ralph Darmstadt Homeless Shelter, Ulster County Board of Health and Ulster County Human Rights Commission, Caring Hands Soup Kitchen Board Member, Midtown Rising Board Member, Teacher at Woodbourne Prison, part of Rising Hope Program Platform At a Glance Economy: Supports farming subsidies, job creation through infrastructure investments in rural broadband and sustainable technology, in favor of strong unions Healthcare: Medicare for All Women's Rights: Pro-choice, supports fully funding Planned Parenthood, birth control to be paid for employer, supports equal pay for equal work Racial Justice: Will work to prevent discrimination of all kind Immigration: Supports comprehensive immigration reform that includes path to citizenship for undocumented immigrants Foreign Policy: Supports increased pressure on North Korea but not military intervention Environment: Supports measures to stall climate change and create green jobs LGBTQ: Supports anti-discrimination of all people Gun Control: Will not take NRA money, supports common sense gun control and against Faso's vote to allow the mentally disabled to obtain firearms

The number of people sleeping in New York City homeless shelters has risen to nearly 60,000, according to an official city count released today, reviving questions about the effectiveness of Mayor Bill de Blasio's policies to combat homelessness.

It refers to resolutions adopted by the towns Shelter Island, Southampton, Southold and the villages of North Haven and East Hampton protesting «the effect of excessive aircraft noise from the increased traffic at the airport on their respective town and village residents and requesting the Town Board of the Town of East Hampton «adopt a comprehensive aircraft noise limitation policy.

«I have been vocal in my opposition to many of the mayor's policies,» Malliotakis said, criticizing him for his policies on property taxes, water bills, spending, his plan to open 90 homeless shelters across the city, and sanctuary cities, among them.

CITY HALL — Assemblywoman Nicole Malliotakis criticized the city's policy of sheltering homeless in hotels Wednesday but didn't explain exactly how she'd end the practice if elected mayor.

In particular, he railed against the mayor's policy of converting hotels in residential communities into homeless shelters, and staged his kickoff outside the most contentious such site of all: the Holiday Inn in Maspeth, Queens, miles from his own district.

A group of Queens elected officials and residents rallied on the steps of City Hall on Friday to criticize Mayor Bill de Blasio and what they say are his failed homeless policies, an over reliance on using hotels as shelters and a lack of communication from City Hall.

If pressure is brought to bear on the East Hampton Town Board, which will begin regulating key aspects of its airport policy on Jan. 1, the town can put an end to the excessive incoming and outgoing traffic and even ban certain kinds of aircraft, explained Kathleen Cunningham of Shelter Island.

Chief among those proposals were establishment of a Mayor's Office of HIV / AIDS Policy, funding of shelter beds for homeless youth to eliminate the current waiting list that averages 350 per night at such facilities, and capital spending for senior housing that would serve the needs of LGBT New Yorkers.

They were actually originally sent in the wrong size, and I tried to exchange them, but the company is so cool because their policy is to have you donate them to a woman's shelter if they don't fit, and they'll simply send you your new size free of charge.

Barbara Duffield, policy director for the National Association for the Education of Homeless Children and Youth, said that while many school districts across the country are collaborating with shelters to arrange housing and services for homeless students, Maplewood Richmond Heights has gone one step further and committed resources to provide housing.

-- Anatomy of a Project: «Give Me Shelter» — Juniors at Casco Bay High School, in Portland, Maine, explore homelessness by working in teams to make audio slide - show portraits in a semester - long project about housing issues and public policy.

The good news is Lucky was at one of those well - endowed, fairly luxurious private shelters with a no - kill policy.

The money left in the investment account earns a tax - sheltered return based on the performance of the investment fund (s) you've chosen inside the policy.

With the universal life policy you have a minimum premium, which covers your insurance costs and administration costs of the policy, and anything you put above that minimum premium goes into a tax sheltered savings account.

Term life insurance is often considered the most popular form of insurance for people who want to put a prepared financial plan into place to shelter their family members in case something unexpected happens to the policy holder.

Effective Coverage brings years of insurance industry experience to the table and can customize a Shelter Cove renters insurance policy to meet your needs.

Some insurance companies promote these insurance policies as a college savings vehicle because the value of the policy is sheltered from financial aid need analysis formulas.

Either way they were enjoying the tax shelter status of life insurance policies in a way that the government hadn't anticipated.

With an exempt life insurance policy, the annual growth of the cash value is not subject to taxation, providing tax - sheltered growth similar to RRSPs and TFSAs.

During the income earning years, deposits are made into the investment portion of the policy, where they grow on a tax sheltered basis.

First, insurance policies have some tax - sheltering advantages (important with larger investment portfolios) and secondly you can diversify both by participating in the general returns of some insurance company portfolios, as well as taking advantage of insurance pricing considerations.

Part of the premium paid in a par policy is invested by the insurance company in a conservative portfolio, where dividends earned are credited to the policy and can grow in a tax - sheltered environment, similar to an RRSP.

The tax rules are changing at the end of 2016, so now is the ideal time to purchase such a policy to maximize the tax sheltering available within these products.

Some permanent policies behave like a hybrid of investment and insurance, allowing you to grow your savings in a tax - sheltered environment.

In Baecker's home state of Minnesota, for instance «ice houses» — shelters used while fishing on ice — are covered as personal property, under the terms and conditions of the policy, he says.

It tracks the numbers of shelters in Oklahoma, what area of each county has access to a shelter and what their overall policies are.

The National Council on Pet Population Study and Policy report found that 96 percent of relinquished pets came from somewhere other than a pet store, and 70 percent of the time the reasons owners relinquish a dog or cat to a shelter could have been prevented with consumer education.

«I don't care how good your shelter looks or how new it is; if your policies allow animals to end up having litters, you're a part of the problem.

Fewer than one fourth of cities have procedures that actually support compliance with the 1986 Oklahoma Dog and Cat Sterilization Act, a law intended to keep shelter animals from giving birth to more unwanted animals; many do not keep records of the number of animals handled and 28 shelters refused to return calls or told us they would not discuss their shelter policies with the public.

While I am not familiar with the adoption policies of all the rescue groups and shelters in the area, I do know that many of them do not adopt out animals the same day that you meet them.