Sentences with phrase «organizations like schools»

CivicPACE supports solar energy development by making it easier for tax - exempt organizations like schools, affordable housing, and places of worship to finance solar projects.

Rather, they're meant for businesses or organizations like schools and government.

Rick Hess studies education at the American Enterprise Institute and says that when you're trying to help people run really complicated human organizations like schools, «you probably shouldn't try to do it via memos and red tape from 3,000 miles away in Washington.»

Unless you work for a tax - exempt organization like a school or government, you will most likely be offered the 401 (k).

Dragon, what's funny about Catholics having health insurance — or a catholic organization like a school having a health plan?

How does giving up local control to an organization like School Food Focus (and if you join a consortium like this, you do give up some control and have to work with their goals and priorities) really facilitate relationships with your own community?

In partnership with IDE, NYCLA has worked with nine local education agencies and organizations like the School Administrators of Iowa to design the TLC Administrator Support Program and to build the capacity of facilitators and coaches across the state to support program implementation.

Not exact matches

He is a founding faculty member of The School of Life in London, an empathy adviser to organizations like Oxfam and the United Nations, and a former teacher of sociology and politics at Cambridge University.

What began as a film - production company blossomed into a full - fledged media organization, with a news platform, RYOT Films and RYOT Creative, which makes videos for paying clients as well as pro bono clients like Pencils of Promise, a nonprofit that builds schools.

Advocacy groups such as Code NL are pushing for coding to be added to the high school curriculum, while organizations like Ladies Learning Code and Lighthouse Labs are building an alternate tech talent pipeline.

Be it resolved that the Legislative Assembly urge the Government to introduce legislation, like Manitoba's and Ontario's, requiring all school boards to develop policies to support students who want to lead and establish gay - straight alliance activities and organizations, using any name that is consistent with the promotion of a positive school environment that is inclusive, welcoming, and respectful for all students regardless of sexuality, sexual orientation, or gender identity.

So let me get this straight... religious organizations fight for their «right» to run schools like BYU that virtually write discrimination into their so - called «honor code», but when a school has a policy that forces them to NOT discriminate, that's when they have a problem?

During school breaks she used to visit an uncle, a doctor employed by international relief organizations, in places like Guatemala.

The government should not be permitted to create incentives for religious practice or belief (like giving favored status to religious organizations, as compared to other nonprofits), to facilitate the religious practices of some at the expense of others (like offering vocal prayers in public schools), or to accommodate one religion but not others with similar needs or problems (like limiting draft exemptions to members of traditional «peace churches») Within these guidelines, religious accommodations are fully in keeping with the First Amendment — albeit in conflict with strict separation.

We have thrown it out of Washington, our schools, our homes and if Godless organizations like the ACLU, Peta, and Planned Parenthood have their way, no one will be speaking or seeing the name of God anywhere.

At Expeditionary Warfare School, we learn to think of the joint environment as pertaining not only to the different military services, but also to nonmilitary organizations like the U.S. Agency for International Development (USAID).

On behalf of the Islamic Society of North America, the largest organization of Muslims in the United States and Canada, we would like to request that in view of the above teachings of Islam, Muslim students in your school system should not be required to:

This would effectively stop all the changes like no prayer in school and in the military since its a religious organization is wanting the change.

Most Americans assume that the separation of church and state is a fundamental principle deeply rooted in American constitutionalism; that the First Amendment was intended to ensure that government does not involve itself with religion (and vice versa); and that contemporary debates over such vexing issues as school prayer, voucher programs, government funding of faith - based organizations, and the rights of religious minorities represent ongoing attempts to realize the separation intended by the Founders and like - minded early Americans.

Just like, there are variants in any organization, US Military, School Districts, etc., bad people who got into the the Catholic Church as Priests have had a very detrimental effect on the communities and the Church.

The organization looks to fill in the cracks in the public school system, buying basic school supplies like pens, pencils and papers, and distributing them to the schools that need them.

In most cases schools and youth organizations like the YMCA and the Boys Club managed the camps and recruited the caddies.

Many fraternities (both national organizations like Phi Delta Theta and local chapters) and schools have taken this approach, and it is something that SU could definitely implement immediately.

You've written in the New York Times Magazine about the education - reform movement — organizations like Teach for America and the KIPP network of charter schools.

In fact the authors point out that there are no studies of meditationamong children in a general school population that are designed well enough to meet the standards of the gatekeeping organizations — like CASEL (Collaborative for Academic, Social, and Emotional Learning), the Department of Education, or the Society for Prevention Research — that would endorse program changes in schools.

But will Congress pay attention to ordinary Americans» support for strong school food standards, or will their voices be drowned out by lobbyists and powerful organizations like the SNA?

School nutrition programs have developed comprehensive and sophisticated social media marketing campaigns, and professional organizations like SNA and SNF are committed to staying on the cutting edge by providing members with access to social media expertise.

Instead of engaging in an unseemly, public battle with the White House, the organization could be closely allied with a still - hugely popular First Lady to jointly advance the cause of improved school nutrition, able to take advantage of all the prime PR opportunities only someone like Michelle Obama can offer.

I would like to see how schools or community organizations can provide parents with more information on nutrition and not just the kids.

I wanted to let you know that last week I undertook the laborious task of going through the almost 500 food - related organizations and individuals I follow on my Twitter feed and grouping them into general topics such as: «Childhood Obesity,» «School Food Reform,» «Public Health» and the like.

Because the fruit was so popular, the Elizabeth School Board was told that an organization within the school (like the EMS Student Council) would begin doing the fruit cart the next year, but it never hapSchool Board was told that an organization within the school (like the EMS Student Council) would begin doing the fruit cart the next year, but it never hapschool (like the EMS Student Council) would begin doing the fruit cart the next year, but it never happened.

It then distributes it to a child in need through a non-profit organization of the buyer's choice — everything from local schools to national and global organizations like Baby2Baby, Volunteers of America's Operation Backpack, and the Salvation Army.

Several schools and hospitals in the Chicago area use sensory equipment to help people with disabilities regulate their emotions or stimulate their senses but the equipment is rarer in public recreational settings like a park district, said local occupational therapists and a representative from Flaghouse, the company that sold the sensory equipment to SEASPAR and other Chicago organizations.

Spending boatloads of money on professional lobbying and a massive postcard campaign to legislators, the organization and their deep - pocketed friends like PepsiCo, Coca - Cola, Con Agra and Schwan's killed the state school nutrition bill, ensuring many more years of junk food for New York's schoolchildren.

Participants at these conferences pondered upon what an anthroposophically inspired organization looked like and what were considered the core principles and guiding imaginations that might help a school thrive both as an independent school and as a center of cultural renewal.

In the Cooperative model, like in most Waldorf schools the leadership is more dispersed throughout the organization.

Packing a healthy and kid - approved school lunch every day can feel like a huge feat, but with the right organization, some advance planning, and a few simple tips like these, it doesn't have to be a totally thankless chore.

One organization found that in 29 % of businesses, school - aged children were allowed in the workplace on an occasional basis, like for a snow day.

Often the ads make inflammatory and false claims with what the Democrats called fictitious «AstroTurf» names such as «NYS Public Schools» or «People for Parks» that sound like grass - roots organizations.

«I look forward to our continued partnership to improve our industrial waterfront economy, to create a Harbor Middle School, to continue working alongside organizations like UPROSE to create opportunities for our youth and supporting the Red Hook Community Justice Center to break the cycle of mass incarceration,» she said.

«This students are among the best and brightest in our great borough,» said Bronx Borough President Ruben Diaz Jr. «Clubs like La Sociedad Honoraria Hispanica are a great launching pad for the future leaders of The Bronx, and I remain honored and humbled that the school community of the Bronx School for Law, Government and Justice chose to name their organization after me.&school community of the Bronx School for Law, Government and Justice chose to name their organization after me.&School for Law, Government and Justice chose to name their organization after me.»

StudentsFirstNY, a local chapter of the national reform organization, and Success Academy, the city's largest and most powerful charter school network, quickly joined suit, along with other charter networks like KIPP and Achievement First.

«Given the strong interrelationship between the economic success of the city and the health of its real estate industry, and that REBNY is one of the city's leading trade associations, the organization historically has spoken out on matters of important public interest, like mayoral control of NYC public schools,» Chin - Lyn said in a statement.

For it to be portrayed otherwise is a gross injustice — not just to this school or to Success Academy as an organization, but to kids like our son, who are lucky enough to have exactly the kind of education and attention they need and deserve.

He says the New York State Board of Elections alone has registered more than 500 high school students across the county, and there are also other organizations like the League of Women Voters, as well as candidate groups, that are working to get first time voters registered.

«Grants like these can make a big difference for local neighborhoods and the schools and organizations serving them,» said Brewer.

«Outstanding issues include under - investment in school technology infrastructure, significant inequities in allocation of Fair Student Funding dollars, disparities in gifted and talented education, resistance to training and support for new learning devices like tablets, inaction on liberalizing school space usage policy for community - based organizations, and poor community notification on significant changes to school utilization,» Adams said.

Chanting slogans like «Profits, not pupils,» «We want money, not textbooks» and «First the banks, then the schools,» a large and spirited group of gaudily dressed faux hedge - funders expressed their enthusiasm for siphoning profits from charter schools on May 4 at a rally in front of the New York City Charter School Center, the organization of charter school management that receives significant funding from hedge - fund operators and anti-union corporations such as Wal -School Center, the organization of charter school management that receives significant funding from hedge - fund operators and anti-union corporations such as Wal -school management that receives significant funding from hedge - fund operators and anti-union corporations such as Wal - Mart.

Anthony J. Picente Jr. went on to say «We have seen partnerships with local government, county government, the state of New York, School Districts and non-profit organizations like Utica Safe Schools have successl in developing our youth and preventing youth violence.

Classes at STREB — which range from founder Elizabeth Streb's POPACTION to parkour — cost money, but the organization regularly partners with public schools and nonprofits like the St. Nicks Alliance to fundraise and offer free sessions.