Sentences with phrase «of willing volunteers»

When Scott Campbell brought his Whole Glory project to the Frieze art fair in London, there was no shortage of willing volunteers.

Take the 2008 Obama campaign as an example — the kernel was assembled from early 2007 onwards, with staffers plotting strategy and tactics, technologists developing the tools and infrastructures for an extensive, nation - wide effort, and organizers connecting with the multitudes of willing volunteers who helped power Obama to victory in both the primary and the general election.

Not exact matches

Two - thirds of young professionals surveyed by Cone Communications said that they will not work for companies that don't have strong volunteer programs.

Kane closely tracked the daydreaming of 274 volunteers and discovered that, while planning your next vacation during a big presentation will forever remain a terrible idea, daydreaming strategically can actually help you solve problems and focus when you need to.

«Other kinds of work — be it exercise, a creative hobby, hands - on parenting, or volunteering — will do more to preserve your zest for Monday's challenges than complete vegetation or working through the weekend,» she writes.

Walk around any floor of the company's plus - sized headquarters in Seattle, and you'll see blackboards and posters touting the number of volunteer hours a particular team of employee volunteers has put in on a particular project, or the current level of the Partner (employee) Cup Fund, an employee initiative whose value is in financially helping partners in need, including this formerly homeless barista, whose story I tell here.

In that series of experiments, fully two - thirds of experimental subjects — volunteers from various walks of life — demonstrated that they were willing to administer a lethal dose of electricity to a stranger, just because an authority figure in a white lab coat told them to.

«Other kinds of work — be it exercise, a creative hobby, hands - on parenting, or volunteering — will do more to preserve your zest for Monday's challenges than complete vegetation,» she has written before recommending that, if you really want to feel jazzed up after a break, you should proactively schedule challenging or engaging activities rather than just planning to chill and take things the days as they come.

If you bought a regular economy ticket, sometimes the airline, for the sake of an on - time departure, will allow volunteers to check their full - size carry - on bags, free of charge.

All of the costs for infrastructure and space are covered by Coursera's global partners, and the facilitators themselves will be volunteers.

Will Reynolds, CEO of SEER Interactive (# 25), left his job at a large firm because his boss would not allow him to leave work a little early to volunteer at a local hospital.

Entrepreneur Week organizers estimate the bizfest will provide $ 900,000 in consulting services, thanks to 9,000 hours of service from 90 MBA and corporate volunteers.

If you give them time to complete those kinds of activities, and even set up occasional volunteer days, it will help them feel more connected with your company.

Given the scale and scope of damage, SBP will bring to bear a number of rebuilding methods including its proven effective AmeriCorps and volunteer labor based model.

The Student Action Volunteer Initiative (SAVI) will provide not - for - profit organizations in Calgary up to 12 hours per month of volunteer accounting support from third - and fourth - year accounting students.

As of next month, however, the place where the volunteers have been living will be unavailable.

The partnership means Mary's Place will receive a $ 25,000 donation from Zillow as well in - kind donations in the form of product development, economic research, marketing support, and volunteer time.

Submissions will be judged by Barbara Corcoran, Noah Breslow, OnDeck CEO, and David Bobbitt, the President of SCORE, a non-profit organization comprised of 11,000 business executives who volunteer to provide free and confidential advice to small businesses.

On September 9, 2016, dozens upon dozens of neighborhood volunteers will transform the area into a place that children will spend hours playing.

and Prospera Housing Community Services, provided the tools, inspiration, and volunteers to build the playground which will help make active play a daily priority in the lives of these San Antonio kids.

These calls will update us on the planning progress, what ideas will be implemented from the children's drawings and serve as motivation to drum up the volunteers needed to make all of this happen.

Ahlborn assembled a team of volunteer engineers and scientists shortly after Musk put forth the idea, offering equity in the company instead of pay to those willing to put in at least 10 hours of work each week.

Like any growing community, the success and future of Toronto's design community is dependent on the people who are willing to volunteer their knowledge and experience with peers.»

Volunteers from businesses and the community will converge upon Beyer Ford dealership in Morristown, N.J. on May 3 — 4 to frame walls for the future home of a U.S. Army Veteran.

Dianne will work closely with MaRS Health Systems, the EXCITE and MyHealth teams to drive health system transformation, as well as with MaRS Health advisors, volunteers and partners to grow the footprint of MaRS Health.

August 21, 2014 Ms. Freeland, Mr. Dubourg, Mr. Regan will join Mr. Boissonnault and his campaign volunteers for an evening of door - to - door canvassing in Edmonton - Centre's Queen Mary Park.

We will be volunteering our time and using our resources to increase ticket sales, draw in press and media, organize catering, and will be on - site for majority of the event (that includes restocking Red Bull at 3 am).

To the volunteers that have been working with us, I'll do my best to reach out to each of you over the coming weeks.

On Tuesday, Ek's Spotify will pioneer a new way for companies to go public, volunteering itself as a guinea pig for the venture - backed economy by eschewing the traditional help of investment bankers.

Other elements of the work will be to coordinate volunteer groups to provide assistance.

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.

A celebration of the spirit of Christmas will be held in Sunderland on Saturday, thanks to hundreds of volunteers who are preparing to sing «Ha «way in a Manger».

The LDS Library is currently with the help of thousands of volunteers (of which you do NOT have to be Mormon) are transcribing the information to go up online and it will be available to the public again at NO EXPENSE.

Some of the same churches I've been to, You left some out, tho... only if she wears a head covering... as long as she doesn't wear makeup or jewelry (wedding ring and denominational pin excepted)... no peep toe shoes, especially with toenail polish... if what she is doing gets bigger than what the men are doing, she's out (Thats a real big one)... only if she'll do it on a volunteer basis and never expects an honorarium, even if she speaks at the main Sunday service.

Move all these chairs back in at the end of the night, pick up all the Bibles, throw out all the trash (no, your momma don't work here, but don't worry, these volunteers will pick up after you).

I hope that several prominent neurologists without a stake in the situation will step forward and volunteer to examine Jahi — and not just for a day or two but over an extended period of time, to test her brain and body functions thoroughly and determine whether she does indeed respond to requests.

«And the thousands of volunteers in our country who will give up their time to make someone else's Christmas that little bit better: from faith inspired projects like the Churches Together initiative in my own constituency - to aid workers helping those in war - torn parts of the world.

Obviously if they don't volunteer, they will continue to suffer the pain and horror of war driven by the stupidity of their religions.

It will also see the creation of a new heritage learning centre and the expansion of its volunteer and learning programme.

I'm a Christian and I'm the one that will pull over on the side of the road to give a stranger a ride in the rain or volunteer to help the mentally ill or children.

The ministers» perceptions of their parishioners» expectations include the burdensome feeling that the minister is supposed to be all things to all people; that he or she will be available 24 hours per day, including days off and vacation times; that the spouse will be a willing volunteer; that the family will love the parsonage, whatever its condition; and that the ideal minister is a young but vastly experienced white male with a homemaker spouse and two or three lovely and well - behaved children.

The first American volunteer to die fighting ISIS in defense of persecuted Syrian and Iraqi Christians will be laid to rest Wednesday.

Life will never be put on hold for the sake of your timeline, but if you're volunteering, going through personal challenges and working 70 hours a week, you may be setting yourself up for failure by taking on something new.

For the torture law to be similar, it would have to require that the torture could only be carried out by volunteers who were willing to choose to enact the punishments, and members of the Department of Corrections could abstain from participating on principle.

This year's national gatherings will be bigger and better than ever, with plenty on offer for all ages, including a full programme of seminars, extended kids» work, a youth stream, sports and activities, cafés, art workshops, late - night entertainment, a marketplace packed with resources and volunteering opportunities, and a big family funfair!»

-- This institution will make every effort to battle such reprehensible fundamentalist violence to ensure that such horrors are not repeated anywhere (even if that means Muslims volunteering — NOT protesting — to be ethnically profiled, as terrible as that would normally be in times of peace, at airports, to help catch the murderers).

Lots of organizations will have volunteer opportunities remotely, as well.

What is surprising is that instead of pulling out the protest signs and megaphones, local Lynchburg VA protestors have announced that they will instead be organizing a «Day of Action» full of volunteer opportunities for community service.

@Happy Atheist, I don't think the concept is that new citizens will volunteer for service, but if necessity demands it, such as insti, tution of the draft, then will they be willing to answer such a call.

Two Rivers will be taking donations and organizing volunteers to help in flood relief for the Pennington Bend area of Nashville.