Sentences with phrase «oldest community groups»

Herron and I were introduced by staff at Coleman Advocates, one of San Francisco's oldest community groups, and I met her in her classroom on a recent afternoon to discuss what's driving those disappointing results.

Not exact matches

(Case in point: Whenever my RAND Corporation colleagues and I talk about our model for helping community groups plan prevention programs, Getting To Outcomes — GTO for short — most everyone thinks about the old GM muscle car, not our planning model.)

Having seen an Arab chieftain's son, who had attended the American University in Beirut, make his decision between the old nomadic life of his clan, still living in tents, and the new town life which his education made possible, one vividly understands that, choosing the former, he inevitably chose submergence in the social solidarity of his group as against emergence into the individualism of a commercial community.

Those among the older established religious groups who have become dissatisfied with conventional religiosity may also be divided into those opting for direct political action and those seeking to form new religious communities.

An off - duty LAPD officer fired his gun during an altercation with a 13 - year - old Latino boy and group of teens in Anaheim, California, allegedly because one of the teens walked on his lawn on their way home from school, sparking protests in the area community protested the case.

VII, pp. 155) When in the New Testament the old historic name «Israel» is applied to this continuous community, it means now not any racial or national group, but simply «the People of God»; that is to say, a community defined solely by its relation to the eternal King of the Universe.

New churches, schools and Catholic institutions were constantly being opened, and the Catholic community was a vibrant one, the small nucleus of «Old Catholics» having been augmented by Anglican converts and Irish emigrants — from which groups came Francis Bourne's own family.

The operation of such a ruling group is pictured in the story of Boaz» negotiations for the redemption of Naomi's property (Ruth 4:1 - 12); the narrative is presumably from a comparatively late time, but the councils of elders persisted in the smaller communities right through Old Testament history, so there is ground for believing that the author relates practice with which he was familiar.

Every community should create a network of low - cost groups for at least four types of couples: pre-marrieds (see Chapter 6) early, middle, and older marrieds.

Even as Jesus himself stuck around to help the blind man in John 9 adjust to a world of light and sight, so now the community to whom Christ entrusts the newly raised in baptism, that group we call the body of Christ, assists us daily in stripping off the binding remnants of the old life in death's dominion.

Soccer Academy Reaches Across Border to Nurture Young Players - The New York Times On a stormy Saturday, a group of young boys wearing red soccer uniforms and cleats in a dizzying array of colors clip - clopped out of the rain and into an old warehouse, where wealthy residents of this historic community along Raritan Bay once stored their antique cars.

A Little Village neighborhood group on Wednesday announced that it will launch a campaign to get the Chicago Park District to fulfill its three - year - old promise to build and staff a park in the predominantly Mexican immigrant community.

Whether it's online (communities, blogs, Facebook pages, webinars, teleseminars) or in - person (communities, classes, support groups or local AP friends with older children), you can't beat parents helping parents to expand your toolbox!

Groups visiting Old Sturbridge Village will be immersed in a re-created early 19th - century rural New England community.

I continued to go to LLL meetings, and when we moved to a new country and community when our daughter was about eight months old, the very first thing I did was to find the local LLL group and attend a meeting.

Hon Nii Lante Vanderpuye who is known as a grassroot man and the longest serving Assembly Member in the Accra Metropolitan Assembly used the occasion to engage opinion leaders from the various ethnic groups in the Old Fadama and Kokomba Yam Market community and members of the National Democratic Congress in his constituency to share ideas on how to mobilize people and make the Party more appealing to the constituents.

Elon Harpaz, also a Legal Aid attorney, and a board member of the community group Good Old Lower East Side, is the LG contender.

The non-partisan government watchdog group picked the 25 - year - old real estate business owner, who is challenging incumbent state Sen. Shirley Huntley (D - Jamaica) for being «active in the community to address the fallout from the foreclosure crisis,» according to the candidate.

About a dozen community members, many who belong to a neighborhood group called Red Hook Local Leaders, gathered Monday night to discuss ways to help Gurley's 2 - year - old daughter and her mother, Kimberly Michelle Ballinger, both of whom reportedly live in the Red Hook Houses.

UPDATE2: The WFP also put a placeholder on its line for LG (Elon Harpaz, also a Legal Aid attorney, and a board member of the community group Good Old Lower East Side), and AG (Amy Young, an attorney for the Communications Workers of America and a longtime WFP member).

Religious groups like the Catholic Church and Orthodox Jewish community oppose the provision that would open a window to revive old cases.

LOWER EAST SIDE — A new study by a transportation advocacy group echoes the Lower East Side community's concerns over the dangers of crossing Delancey Street, a week after 12 - year - old Dashane Santana was struck and killed by a minivan as she tried to navigate the thoroughfare's nine lanes of traffic.

Brooklyn, NY — October 6, 2016 — Today, the U.S. Department of Housing and Urban Development (HUD) and the New York State Homes and Community Renewal (HCR) joined residents and development partners MDG Design + Construction (MDG), Hudson Valley Property Group (HVPG), and Marien - Heim Tower Associates LP to celebrate the renovation of Marien - Heim Tower, a 181 - unit affordable development for low - income seniors aged 62 and older.

On Monday, the 37 - year - old man's bid to have his deportation order reconsidered was rejected, despite calls for his release by his family, community groups and even the New Paltz Town Board.

Last week, she traveled through the city in a compact car, meeting with grass - roots community groups in old - age homes and a Brownsville, Brooklyn pizza parlor.

Supervised Community Residences - SCR & SOCR are congregate care facilities (group homes) which house 8 to 24 residents 18 years of age or older.

The Greater Whitestone Taxpayers Association will likely soon be facing new competition from the Welcome to Whitestone Commercial and Residential Civic Association proposed last month by Devon O'Connor, founder of the year - old Welcome to Whitestone community group.

The study group comprised 29 community - dwelling older adults.

«Even more importantly, we were interested in determining whether inflammatory markers in plasma were independently linked to CSF markers of AD - related pathology and neuronal damage in a group of healthy, community dwelling older adults.»

With a recent K23 Career Development Award from the National Institutes of Health (NIH), Johnson is investigating whether group singing training with older adults in residential retirement communities will improve the structure of the larynx, giving the adults stronger, more powerful voices.

In total, Brady studied the DNA of 30 army ant species and 20 possible ancestors within the army ant community, divided between the New World species in Ecitoninae and the Old World groups Aenictinae and Dorylinae.

Look for senior fitness groups in your community, or for fitness clubs specifically for older adults — a growing trend that USA Today and the Pittsburgh Tribune - Review both reported on this month.

There are also a bunch of community centers and groups for the older crowd.

I find that more young men are interested in community service than older ones, so service groups where men can get their hands dirty building and fixing stuff are often good places.

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Gen battles to find a place within the depressed Maori community of small town Gisborne (six hours east of Auckland), eventually convincing an old friend, Noble (Kirk Torrance), to let him teach chess to a youth group of disadvantaged kids.

In the shadow of Altgeld Gardens, in a church on the South Side, a lanky, charismatic, 28 - year - old lawyer addresses a small group of community organizers.

Moneyed David (Brandon Polansky), a thirty - year - old man with autism whose outbursts lead him to court - ordered group therapy with Connections, a gathering at a Jewish community center for autistic men and women.

I also led a group of housing - project boys in various activities one afternoon a week at an old - line settlement house in East Cambridge led by the charismatic Elsa Baldwin, a chain - smoking, tireless, compassionate socialist, community organizer, and unbending poverty warrior.

Michael McDowell, who trains teachers on managing group dynamics through the New Technology Foundation, a ten - year - old nonprofit organization that helps communities replicate the New Tech model nationwide, says teamwork is one of the greatest challenges project - learning teachers face.

When Ocean City Primary School, where I work, asked a group of 8 - year - olds to create something, the students were given one design requirement: Whatever they created had to better the school community and solve a problem.

Because there were complaints from community groups about the old superintendent, the school board engaged the community in helping to pick the new superintendent.

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Chicago is on the forefront of corporate education - busting because of the true grass roots collaboration between the Chicago Teachers» Union and Chicago's old and new parent and community groups.

As part of an intensive planning and self - study process, teams of parents, educators, community members, and older students in each school received training from Institute for Responsive Education staff, then conducted focus groups and interviews with local constituent groups, asking these questions.

«Whether it's a handshake or a hug at carpool; a reflection on Sunday's gospel; an inspirational video from YouTube; a read - aloud from an old favorite like the Giving Tree; affirming a member of the community for a good deed; a blessing on a group of students like a CYO team before a big game or the eighth graders prior to taking their high school placement test; a prayer intention for someone who is ill or who has recently returned home to heaven; so many different activities can take place during morning assemblies, but there is only one goal, make God known, loved and served.»

Older adults, by contrast, are more likely to place a high level of importance on libraries» roles in their communities — even age groups that are less likely to use libraries overall, such as those ages 65 and oOlder adults, by contrast, are more likely to place a high level of importance on libraries» roles in their communities — even age groups that are less likely to use libraries overall, such as those ages 65 and olderolder.

There's also a really fast growing group of young people through online communities who are discovering sci - fi and fantasy, but there's also the old guard of sci - fi fans who are discovering us on the computer.

This is a guest post from Dave Cramer, a co-chair of the W3C Community Group, an ebookcraft favourite, and an #eprdctn old - timer.