Sentences with phrase «of volunteers across the country»

Programs and services are made possible by the support of individual donors, corporate partners, and the dedication of volunteers across the country.

When Allan Luks, director of Fordham University's Center for Nonprofit Leaders, surveyed thousands of volunteers across the country, 95 percent of respondents reported a pleasurable physical sensation associated with helping — what Luks refers to as the «helper's high.»

Join the tens of thousands of volunteers across the country who participate in National River Cleanup ®.

It involves supplier partners and thousands of volunteers across the country, from employees to clients, who make sandwiches and pack lunches.

Over 5,000 US Points of Light have been awarded and both President George H. W. Bush and President Barack Obama have publicly supported the partnership with Points of Light UK which honours shining examples of volunteering across the country.

Not exact matches

McAlpin: Because of the way we're approaching the business model, not taking commission and offering free memberships to farmers, we're connecting with people across the country who are volunteering to help us spread the word.

«We post the video or the handwritten note onto our social media feed as well as contact our network of volunteer detectives who are 40 or 50 people across the country who have said that they want to help individuals experiencing homelessness locate their long lost loved ones,» explains Kevin F. Adler, the organization's founder.

«We are proud of the robust and diverse faith outreach program employed by the Democratic Party that begins with volunteer faith captains in precincts all across the country and ends with a Chairman who spent a year as a missionary and has made faith outreach among our highest priorities as a Party,» he said, referring to DNC chairman Tim Kaine.

The Technical Committee and its associated subcommittees are made up of volunteers from membership breweries from across the country.

«Every day across the country, our amazing volunteers are creating tasty, nutritious three - course meals, served to vulnerable people in the community at risk of food poverty and social isolation,» said FoodCycle Communications Officer Steven Hawkes.

Almost unanimously, professional youth sports administrators who oversee the fields at parks and recreation facilities across the country will say what a great group of volunteers they have but they will almost always concede that it's a very small group, or even an individual who ends up taking a majority of the responsibility.

A great resource is Tiny Footprints, a non-profit organization which has a team of volunteer photographers across the country who specialize in free photography for NICU families.

With local officials from school board on up now hearing from internet - organized constituents, and with cadres of veteran Obama volunteer commandos dug in across the country post-election, we may see an explosion of email, online video, social networking outreach and all of the other tools of electronic advocacy in the coming months — but this time turned on the projects in the stimulus bill, not on electing a candidate.

Micah Sifry will inevitably link this loss to the «Obama disconnect» despite the fact that OFA volunteers and organizers made hundreds of thousands of calls from across the country.

«Since February 2017, CLF staff and volunteers have been talking to voters across the country on issues that matter most to them, and informing them on how their member of Congress is delivering results for the community.

«As we continue to bring the clear choice of this election into focus for the American people over the final weeks, our supporters and volunteers across the country are responding with action in their neighborhoods to make sure the president has four more years to keep moving America forward,» said Obama campaign spokesman Adam Fetcher.

Volunteers across the country (but particularly in battleground areas) trained in person and online to work in their own communities, downloading «walk lists» of houses to visit in their neighborhoods and placing calls assigned through online «virtual phone - bank» applications.

Ukraine's acting president called for the activation of 20,000 military reservists and volunteers across the country and for the mobilisation of 20,000 in the recently formed national guard.

But by gathering images from over 1,000 trained volunteers and from members of the public snapping pics with smartphones across the country, the MegaMovie project will capture the full 90 - minute duration of the solar eclipse as it crosses the continental United States.

By using a sampling kit and answering a few questions, volunteers help researchers create an atlas of microbial diversity in homes across the country.

To distinguish the ribbits and croaks, volunteers take a short training course at one of 43 participating nature organizations across the country.

The «Cooperative Network» operated by the National Weather Service (or NWS) is a network of several thousand volunteers from across the country that routinely make and report weather observations.

The more than 500 volunteers that make up NASA's Solar System Ambassadors Program bring the excitement of NASA science and engineering to children, teachers, and adults across the country and in several international locations.

Since its kick - off in 1986, the cleanup has mobilized more than 11 million volunteers across 153 countries and six continents to prevent more than 220 million pounds of trash from entering the ocean.

Halfway across the country, parent Beth McKnight, of Alamo, California, raves about a volunteering field trip her children's school took to the nonprofit organization Books for the Barrios.

Action for Healthy Kids is comprised of more than 50 education, health, fitness, and nutrition organizations forming our Partner Steering Committee that provides guidance to the 6,000 volunteers working across the country to make improvements in schools.

The American Institute of CPAs has developed a curriculum package for grades 4 - 6, and volunteers from state CPA societies are available to teach it in classrooms across the country.

Minister for School Systems Lord Agnew said: «Across the country there are thousands of dedicated parents who are doing an excellent job of educating their children at home, and many selfless volunteers working for clubs and organisations that help to enrich children's education outside of school.

The massive cleanup was one of hundreds of events across the country celebrating National Youth Service Day, in which nearly one million students volunteered to work in such places as nursing homes, homeless shelters, and public parks to showcase youth involvement in community service.

Senior Corps» Foster Grandparents program provides an opportunity for volunteers age 55 and older to serve as mentors and tutors for students.39 In 2016, an estimated 24,000 Foster Grandparents volunteers served approximately 200,000 students.40 Similarly, in 2016, AmeriCorps VISTA volunteers were approved to provide capacity - building assistance to more than 2,900 education - related project sites.41 Cutting funding for the CNCS would mean eliminating a substantial amount of necessary support for traditional public and public charter schools and would hurt low - income students across the country.

According to its website, CNCS programs serve more than 50,000 unique sites across the country.8 AmeriCorps, the largest of the CNCS programs, accounts for more than 21,000 of these sites and provides service opportunities for more than 80,000 volunteers.9

NAACP Volunteers to Push for Biggest Education Overhaul Since Brown v. Board of Education The NAACP is going on the offensive on education, deploying volunteers across the country in its biggest push for a public education overhaul since the nation's classrooms were ordered desegregated in 1954, the civil rights group saidVolunteers to Push for Biggest Education Overhaul Since Brown v. Board of Education The NAACP is going on the offensive on education, deploying volunteers across the country in its biggest push for a public education overhaul since the nation's classrooms were ordered desegregated in 1954, the civil rights group saidvolunteers across the country in its biggest push for a public education overhaul since the nation's classrooms were ordered desegregated in 1954, the civil rights group said Thursday.

«Traditionally, across the country, there is a significant drop from the number of parent volunteers at the elementary level to the number of parent volunteers at the junior - high / middle - school level,» Nicole Cicci Kazarian observes.

In those 20 years, we have grown from an idea into an incredibly hard - working staff of 130 people, with 11 state offices, hundreds of thousands of supporters, and hundreds of volunteer leaders across the country.

How has this series, published from an 8» x 8» backyard shack and staffed by hundreds of unpaid volunteers across the country, survived and thrived for decades?

If filing over the computer doesn't appeal to you, filers can still go the free route if they go to a one of the free temporary volunteer - run tax preparation clinics across the country aimed at those with low to moderate incomes.

Though Oklahoma has its fair share of disasters like tornadoes and flooding, Ames and Beene hope to make Paws and Claws a nationwide organization with equipment and volunteers across the country ready to help, much like the Red Cross.

Animal rescuers are people, the vast majorty unpaid volunteers, across the country and world who think this doesn't have to be the fate of these animals.

«Most AKC Reunite Canine Support and Relief Fund grants are provided for volunteer search and rescue teams across the country, but this grant of $ 5,000 provided a unique opportunity to help Newtown have a new K - 9 officer capable of providing law enforcement services, including searching for missing people,» said AKC Reunite CEO Tom Sharp.

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With help from a network of local volunteers she formed, Judy has rescued more than 300 dogs to date, inspiring admirers across the country.

Americans love animals to the tune of 90 million dogs and 94 million cats in homes across the country, and yet many know very little about the daily work that animal control officers, veterinarians, volunteers, adoption counselors, community cat coordinators, kennel managers, behaviorists, shelter directors and humane educators do to help the people and animals in their communities.

In order to pursue her dream of working with shelter dogs, Lindsey left San Francisco to spend a year studying dog behavior and animal learning while volunteering at shelters across the country.

OHS has an experienced group of staff and volunteers who respond to emergency situations across the country.

Operational costs remain high for this kind of work and it is always our goal to aid volunteers and the selfless workers across the country who share our vision of bettering the lives of animals.

With local and national events, memorable volunteer opportunities, and a mission that resonates with so many around the country, Best Friends Animal Society can offer your company a way to engage as a team while helping a cause that is close to the hearts of your employees and your customers — saving the lives of pets in shelters across the nation.

You might find her emceeing at Best Friends's annual Strut Your Mutt, or inspiring a national network of volunteers to do more to increase life saving in communities across the country.

Every year thousands of volunteers generously give their time to help us to help pets across the country.

Would you like to join our team of dedicated volunteers to help hundreds of animal welfare organizations across the country?

But we must not forget the other selfless acts to save animals from harm's way that are seldom heard of, but quietly out there, like the work of Michelle Ingram — along with shelter and rescue volunteers, pet foster families, and pet parents all across the country.