Sentences with phrase «of volunteer pilots»

LightHawk is an international group of volunteer pilots who donate their time to...

LightHawk is an international group of volunteer pilots who donate their time to foster conservation efforts.

It's a group made up of volunteer pilots, who use their own planes, and cover their own fuel and expenses, to transport special needs animals around the country.

Starting at 7 a.m., dogs were carefully loaded aboard planes, and dozens of volunteer pilots flew them to the waiting arms of rescue organizations up and down the East Coast, with the ultimate goal of finding each dog a forever home.

Each year, thousands of volunteer pilots fly across all 50 states to rescue animals and bring them to safe shelters, or even their forever homes, miles upon miles away.

She works with Wings of Rescue — a group of volunteer pilots who fly pets up north and to places where dogs and cats can find homes.

We rely upon these donations and the incredible generosity of our volunteer pilots, and the fabulous no - kill shelters and rescue groups across North America to save shelter pets» lives.

Since our founding in 2012, there are now over 30,000 pets who are cherished family pets living in homes after having been flown on either one of Wings of Rescue's squadron of volunteer pilot owned planes or on one of charter cargo planes.

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This session will update on progress since last year's conference, on the work between coalition members of the Baby Feeding Law Group to develop a resource for food bank organizers and volunteers, and a pilot to implement the resource supported by Leicester City Council.

Basically, a new committee of teacher volunteers from across the state would review all exam questions after the items had been tried out on a pilot basis in «field tests» conducted among sample groups of students statewide.

Twelve Erie County deputies have volunteered to test body - worn cameras as part of a two - month pilot program that could lead to as many as 100 deputies routinely wearing body cams while on patrol.

Following on from earlier pilot projects we have been training pastoral support volunteers and in 2016 hired our first full time Head of Pastoral Support to increase the availability of such care.

Residents that volunteer for the pilot program are eligible for up to $ 21,000 in loans and grants to cover the costs of installation.

Last fall Dunn began his «Wildlife of Our Homes» project with a pilot study in which 40 volunteers swabbed eight locations in their houses and mailed back the samples.

So they conducted a pilot study of 13 volunteers and found they all had these archaea on their skin.

The researchers performed a pilot study of Dynamic Glucose - Enhanced (DGE) MRI in four normal volunteers and three patients with brain tumors.

European Journal of Clinical Nutrition Published online ahead of print, doi: 10.1038 / ejcn.2010.47 «Epigallocatechin -3-gallate and postprandial fat oxidation in overweight / obese male volunteers: a pilot study» Authors: F. Thielecke, G. Rahn, J. Böhnke, F. Adams, A.L. Birkenfeld, J. Jordan, M. Boschmann

In an uncontrolled pilot study at the University of Chicago researchers assessed the feasibility and impact of the Headspace 10 - day Basics program in volunteers from the pediatric residency program.

The crew volunteering for the maiden voyage consists of Dr. Avery, his daughter Beneatha (Danielle Cooper) and their pilot, Captain Race Johnson (Tosin Morohunfola).

It is reassuring to know that HMRC are one of the ten volunteer employers to join the pilot as this will allow them to see first hand how it is working from an employer's perspective.

For the prototype phase, Intrinsic staged two pilots during school holidays, borrowing the multipurpose areas of neighborhood schools, where teachers could interact with students who volunteered to participate.

The plaintiffs in this case reject the proposed pilot program, which has no guarantee of ever having meaningful evaluations that actually count, even for the volunteer participants in the pilot.

\ As with any new system there are bound to be teething problems and there are areas that are still «work in progress» so it is reassuring to know that in advance of the mandatory RTI requirements next year, in April HMRC began a pilot with volunteer payroll software providers and employers.

Volunteers at Future Leaders Institute Charter School serve a meal at our Family Dinner Night, part of our pilot project.

The initial involvement was a portion of one course (11 students) made up of volunteers who agreed to participate in the pilot phase of the project.

Daily news editor Eric Weiner does not own a Miata — he's like that fifth dentist who does not recommend your toothpaste — but volunteers to pilot the new car when we rotate out of it and hop back into our own Mazdas.

This assessment will be conducted through analysis of information collected from members of the public who volunteer to serve as pilot test participants.

Commercial airline pilots volunteer this kind of information — altitude and cruising speed — which is how I've learned to estimate how high above the ground I am, looking from an airplane window.

The one - year pilot project will establish a high - volume spay / neuter service fully open to the community, specifically aimed at reducing the over-population of cats, offering assistance to surrounding Ontario SPCA communities and assisting volunteers working with feral cat colonies.

The flights are piloted by volunteers on their own planes, as well as by a fleet of chartered cargo planes.

Thirty - seven of the dogs who required behavior modification work before they could be reassessed for our adoption program would likely have been euthanized if they had not participated in the program.Six months into the pilot program, I met with a few volunteers to learn what areas might need improvement.

Wings of Rescue is well on the way toward their goal of saving 10,000 pets this year — an impressive feat for an organization funded completely from donations and run with an all - volunteer staff, including the pilots who use their own private planes to shuttle the animals.

As the wife of a Coast Guard helicopter pilot, she moved around the country and worked in many veterinary clinics, as well as volunteering in a variety of animal shelters along the way.

Dr. Howard is also an Angel Flight pilot; as a volunteer with this organization, he provides free - of - charge flights to children and adults so they can access crucial medical care otherwise not available to them.

About 15 volunteers shuttled dogs onto a small plane early Tuesday, where the pilot, Dr. Peter Rork, worked up a sizable sweat packing their crates like a game of three dimensional tetris, occasionally calling for different sizes to make it all fit.

«I know that the gentleman who did the flight this time and I think their main pilot, he's also an orthopedic surgeon, and he volunteers his plane for the cause,» said Nadia Novik, Animal Shelter of the Wood River Valley.

Dartmouth (June 17, 2016)-- Last Friday staff and volunteers from the Nova Scotia SPCA were waiting anxiously for the arrival of 3 very special dogs set to land via their private plane flown by Pilots N Paws Canada — an organization dedicating to transporting animals from point a to b across Canada.

«There are so many pilots across the country that are volunteering their time and services to get these dogs out of terrible situations, and get them to a city where they will be in a loving home.»

Pilot programs can prove the worth of an initiative to a variety of stakeholders, from board members to volunteers to elected officials.

Sasha eventually regained health and weight, was successfully spayed, and was transported to a new adoptive home by Pilots - N - Paws (an organization of small plane pilots who volunteer to transport rescues to adoptive hPilots - N - Paws (an organization of small plane pilots who volunteer to transport rescues to adoptive hpilots who volunteer to transport rescues to adoptive homes).

«Pilots are often limited to 250 miles for one leg, so we need volunteers to foster animals until their next leg of the trip.

Pilot Susan Delgado of Atlanta, Ga., saw the post and volunteered to fly to Kentucky to get the malnourished dog, who was full - grown but weighed only 35 pounds.

Today, the organization has a network of 3,000 pilots and 12,000 volunteers who rescue animals, organize transportation and provide foster homes to dogs, cats and other animals.

Pro Bono Net, a national nonprofit organization dedicated to increasing access to justice through innovative uses of technology and increased volunteer lawyer participation, will convene local partners and provide service design expertise to execute the pilots.

The program will place trained volunteer members of the public (Public Navigators) in the courthouse in Bridgewater, Nova Scotia (site of the first pilot) to help self - represented litigants navigate and understand options available to them inside and outside the court system for resolving their legal issue.

Our plan also include an effort to extend a very successful pilot project that the ABA had in conjunction with the Department of Veterans Affairs, it was called the Veterans» Claims Assistance Network, it was called VCAN, some of you may have heard of it, and many lawyers that are listening may well have volunteered in that program.

Federal Crown attorneys, who have been hamstrung from doing volunteer legal work, now are also able to participate in three pilot projects that will allow them to volunteer for approved activities (screened by the Department of Justice to minimize conflicts) at legal clinics in Vancouver, Edmonton, and Ottawa.

After completion of the pilot, in 2015 Trusch conducted another collaborative law training for in - house corporate attorneys interested in volunteering for the program, and she and Emmott refined the standardized forms used in the project.

Effects of tai chi qigong on psychosocial well - being among hidden elderly, using elderly neighborhood volunteer approach: a pilot randomized controlled trial

The pilot project aimed to reach people aged 50 years and over in metropolitan and regional areas of South Australia, utilising older volunteers as peer educators.