Sentences with phrase «of volunteers running»

«Most of the volunteers running the booths are women,» she explains.

Not exact matches

Instead of discounting the years I spent parenting, running my household and volunteering, I inventoried them.

First off, Eco's blockchain, or shared ledger system, is designed to run on «verified nodes,» rather than on the machines of an anonymous network of volunteers.

One Florida - based entrepreneur says he has leaned on the helping hands of volunteers to get his brewery up and running.

Tor protects you by bouncing your communications around a distributed network of relays run by volunteers all around the world: it prevents somebody watching your Internet connection from learning what sites you visit, and it prevents the sites you visit from learning your physical location.

The Assistance League of St. Louis (ALSL), a nonprofit organization that is entirely volunteer - run, was looking for a strategic technology advisor that could support the group in achieving its mission of making a difference for families in the community.

Jon and Terry, who run Planet Geek, and a bunch of volunteers even made sure the computers we used for Girls Learning Code had all the software we needed, and even set the machines up and took them down!

All - volunteer group running caravans of Central American asylum seekers finally gained the world's attention thanks to Trump, but organizers fear it could come at a cost.

Erik Dyson, executive director and CEO of All Hands Volunteers, shared, «Taube Philanthropies» generous grant and the funding it will catalyze make it possible for All Hands Volunteers to do what the magnitude of this disaster demands: to run our largest disaster response to date, and to commit to staying in the affected areas through the many, many months ahead it will require to repair and rebuild.

I run a volunteer Search and Rescue Team that has saved the lives of many.

Eight of the passengers killed were local volunteer teachers for Operation Christmas Child, a program run by Christian charity Samaritans Purse.

(I'm guessing if I met her she might well be the kind of person who volunteers at a food pantry, runs a business with high ethical standards, sends money each month to an orphanage in Guatemala, and prays regularly for a neighbor stricken with a terminal disease.)

For two and a half years, Jones ran the clinic out of a Lutheran church with volunteer doctors and nurses from out of state.

Check out Islam where Mosques and Community Centers are run solely based on volunteer basis with the exception of the Imam (Salaried) and perhaps an administrator (depending on the size of the congregation).

usually run by some inept volunteer leader... I like to call them «lack of Care Group» — out in the «world» people receive a lot of training to care for others — but in Church it's something of a free for all.

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.

Although our NPO is run by Christians, there are also Muslims, Hindus and atheists who volunteer, and if they care as much as the Christians do to give of their time and resources, compassion alone doesn't point to Jesus since anyone can have it.

The country was up in arms, the war was on, in every breast burned the holy fire of patriotism; the drums were beating, the bands playing, the toy pistols popping, the bunched firecrackers hissing and spluttering; on every hand and far down the receding and fading spread of roofs and balconies a fulttering wilderness of flags flashed in the sun; daily the young volunteers marched down the wide avenue gay and fine in their new uniforms, the proud fathers and mothers and sisters and sweethearts cheering them with voices choked with happy emotion as they swung by; nightly the packed mass meetings listened, panting, to patriot oratory with stirred the deepest deeps of their hearts, and which they interrupted at briefest intervals with cyclones of applause, the tears running down their cheeks the while; in the churches the pastors preached devotion to flag and country, and invoked the God of Battles beseeching His aid in our good cause in outpourings of fervid eloquence which moved every listener.

In the LDS hierarchy, only the Prophet and his Quorum of 12 get salaries — Temples are run by volunteers.

Thousands of hours were volunteered to keep the club running.

But where do you think the majority of the money and volunteers come from that run the real food banks you laud so much?

Churches are indeed just a business, and have been ripping off the masses since the clever inception of tithing, donations, non - profit / not being taxed (and buying up real estate), running on volunteers accept the nicely salaried and benefited leader and tiny staff.

I volunteered at a hospice for women with AIDS run by a group of Missionaries of Charity and it was exactly as you'd expect any such organization in the United States to be.

The local chapters are run by a large number of volunteers.

We also have a growing number of regional chapters run entirely by passionate volunteers, mentored by OzHarvest to get them established with local food rescue operations.

Pint of Science Australia Co-Director, Jirana Boontanjai, said that the volunteer - run festival was a great way to celebrate the contribution and the passion of researchers who drive innovation.

The Friends of Ruskin Park are looking for passionate volunteers with a variety of skills to help run this year's Ruskin Park Wheat Growing project.

The group, which has been running since 2014, is made up of 5,100 volunteers across 30 cities, and estimates it has served half a million people to date.

«This is a volunteer - run club, they are part - time players and in our own small way we are very proud of our home ground and the prospect of Arsenal coming perhaps overtakes the fact that we could try to go to a neutral ground.»

And they heed this law, out of respect for the children at play, out of fealty to the dedicated parents and volunteers who run the highly - touted JRW Little League.

I think I'd like to volunteer like that by taking a 17 (allegedly) or 18 year old girl to a prom (or we could just stay in with movies / wine coolers if my car ran out of gas).

Volunteers are instrumental in the success of clubs and the running of them.

It's chilly near the start of the Run - de-Vous, one of the hundreds of ultrarunning races that take place every year, but seven volunteers are working like the dwarves pounding packs of ice on the pavement and shuffling the broken cubes and sponges into buckets of water.

WCA is a volunteer - run, non-profit organization, with a roster of over 100 athletes ranging in age from 6 — 21, and in ability from novice to Olympic hopeful.

Its volunteer workers are involved in the safe and sensible process of laying to final rest the best, most traveled and most abused running track in the U.S.

Of those 22 meetings, eight were designed runs and 14 were pass attempts from Volunteers quarterback Tyler Bray, an important designation because of Clowney's improvement vs. the run between the 2011 and»12 seasonOf those 22 meetings, eight were designed runs and 14 were pass attempts from Volunteers quarterback Tyler Bray, an important designation because of Clowney's improvement vs. the run between the 2011 and»12 seasonof Clowney's improvement vs. the run between the 2011 and»12 seasons.

IT»S ALL ABOUT THE SPONSORS Thanks in large part to our sponsors, hosts and exhibitors, volunteers and staff, the KidFest's Inaugural SportStars Field of Dreams was a Home Run!

We run an Executive Committee of students that volunteer to represent the views and interests of the clubs, with focuses of equality and outreach.

The Greater Manchester College Games was an amazing event, run by a team of sports volunteers.

This year, the event was run by a team of 23 sport volunteers, all students from Manchester Metropolitan University.

It's designed to improve the day - to - day running of your club and promote long term development, with topics likely to include club management, volunteer recruitment and extending club activities.

After reading and hearing about some of my friends * doing fund - raising and volunteering for the Obama campaign, last weekend while out running errands, the family and I stopped in our local Democrat headquarters and I inquired as to what I could do to help.

A Trustee of the National Association for Child Contact Centres, Angela was aware that an objective of «neutrality» in contact centres, as well as lack of funding and expertise (most centres are run by volunteers) hindered the development of add - on services to support these men.

The study committed volunteers to three months of stretching or not stretching before running and collected blinded information via a secure website.

«In the long run, cases like this end up being positive because it gets people talking and gives us an opportunity to get accurate information out,» said Amy Robison, a volunteer with La Leche League of Champaign - Urbana.

Benefits Of Optimal Breastfeeding Support (B.O.O.B.S.) is a volunteer run, no cost program, designed to offer peer support in the first 8 weeks of a parent's breastfeeding journeOf Optimal Breastfeeding Support (B.O.O.B.S.) is a volunteer run, no cost program, designed to offer peer support in the first 8 weeks of a parent's breastfeeding journeof a parent's breastfeeding journey.

The RDA is run by 6 volunteer Board of Director members, 3 part - time employees, and 35 Real Diaper Circle Leaders, and volunteers all across America, Canada & even in military communities in Europe & Asia.

The midget soccer team is one of the Hickory Hills Park District's Volunteers in the Park programs, which use about 60 volunteers such as Geschrey each year to run its sports leagues and events, says Dan Maier, the district's program sVolunteers in the Park programs, which use about 60 volunteers such as Geschrey each year to run its sports leagues and events, says Dan Maier, the district's program svolunteers such as Geschrey each year to run its sports leagues and events, says Dan Maier, the district's program supervisor.

Frontier Days is organized and run each year by the Arlington Heights Festival Committee, a large organization of volunteer citizens, with the cooperation of the Park District, the Village and a number of local businesses.

Many youth sports programs today are run by a group of volunteers who dedicate an enormous amount of time to the league.