Sentences with phrase «other community groups working»

We also collaborate with other community groups working on particular problems and projects.

The North Vancouver Chamber of Commerce is a not for profit organization comprised of businesses, professionals, and other community groups working together to ensure a sustainable local economy that supports a true live, work and play community.

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So the group committed to making that a reality — working with their Global Forum colleagues and others in the private and nonprofit sectors to fund a corps of 750,000 community health workers in sub-Saharan Africa and other underserved rural areas of the globe.

The organizers were mostly groups working for gay rights — Equality Florida, Human Rights Campaign, the GLBT Community Center of Central Florida, Come Out With Pride and a half - dozen others.

We work with the national Public Banking Institute, and seek to work with other community banking organizations, as well as other community - minded people and groups, in and beyond Massachusetts.

The Red Cross is working very closely with the entire response community - government agencies, other non-profit groups, faith - based organizations, area businesses and others - to get help to people as quickly as possible.

Because [the community] is not defined by a work to be done, it will only be able to define itself by its opposition to other human groups.

«Church Urban Fund is working hard alongside other charities, churches, faith groups and community organisations to support those affected by food poverty, isolation and financial difficulties.

Here are some illustrations of how churches can cooperate with other groups in working for more adequate treatment resources in their communities, states, nation, and the world.

If you're not able to create that type of community with your existing friends, look for meet - ups or groups where you can work toward that with others as support; or consider asking a close family member or friend to check in with you for accountability.

When a group of parents in a community of faith work together to educate their children in the life of faith, this gives members of each family something in common with other families.

And then, we should also find ways to work with other community groups — neighborhood associations, mosques (or other faith communities), business associations, arts associations and similar organizations.

At its heart, the movement that undergirds these written reflections arose out of the gatherings and shared reflections of the oppressed poor themselves, in groups called comunidades eclesiales de base — communities of the Christian wretched who met together to study scripture in light of their own impoverished situations and reflect on how each one informs the other (praxis).15 But our access to their groundbreaking work is through the printed page, and so I proceed with a full awareness that the persons under consideration here are as much reporters as originators.

There are many forms of community in existence — family, neighborhood, school, the people one works with or plays with, the team one plays on or cheers for, bridge clubs, political parties, labor unions, Rotary clubs, Masons, the «solid south,» Florida versus California, the nation, and a host of other groupings in between.

It would devoutly be hoped that professionals in the fields of mental health and, religion could learn from the mistakes that have been and are being made by other groups supposedly working for the betterment of our communities.

Although not fully sympathetic with everything that some of the «deep ecologists» or «Gaia theorists» advocate, these works stand, more than any other works I know, as theological manifestos for an American Green Movement — one book is in a more academic form for the university and seminary, the other in a more confessional mode for the church and community study group.

Since 2009, the Healthy Communities Research Group (GP RED, GreenPlay, Design Concepts, along with other key academic and community partners) has been working together to develop and test the Healthy Communities Surveillance and Management Toolkit Project.

The Society's other main streams of work are around raising awareness of the Muslim community and Muslim issues, supporting other Muslim groups and influencing policy development.

Baby Safe Homes works closely with pediatricians, hospitals and other childrens» groups within your community.

Since then, the group has grown to 27 households, purchased 42 acres of the farm, become a development LLC working with a project manager, the design / build team of GO Logic, and grown to a community of 27 equity members with a list of others waiting to join.

«We try to work all the angles: digital media, newspaper, radio, word - of - mouth, flyers, presentations and collaborations with other groups — community members will eventually receive the info, one way or another.»

This group is for people who embrace and want to help us collectively realize by joining us in learning to appreciate the Inner Doctor within each of us, learning to communicate and work with the Inner Doctor through the Healing By Design ™ Self - Care Technology and other self - care, self - healing modalities and tools to achieve optimal health, and learning to advocate for the Inner Doctor in our home, our workplace, and our community, by sharing our self - healing experiences.

Support the Serve a Village Diaper Bank by conducting a diaper drive with your work, club, team, PTA, moms group, scouting troop, youth group, religious organization, school, community center, or any other civic minded group.

Strategic Plan Focus for July — Goals 2, 3, and 4 World BF Month is the perfect opportunity to promote a culture supportive and accepting of breastfeeding (goal 2) through parties and health fairs, etc., build, link, and ensure access to state and local resources (goal 3) by providing information to moms about resources online and in your community, and to engage stakeholders in alignment of goals and actions to increase breastfeeding support (goal 4) by pulling in other groups that work with moms and babies to help with World Breastfeeding Day / Week / Month (WBM) activities!

Breastfeeding Expert Work Group Mission Statement: ACOG's Breastfeeding Expert Work Group will assist ACOG, specifically the Committee on Obstetric Practice and other committees as appropriate, by providing expertise in breastfeeding medicine and use that expertise to develop and promote breastfeeding tools and initiatives for providers and patients at all levels of the community.

Some have started consulting practices, others are off developing new technologies or working in issues in their home towns, but many have gone right back to work for Democratic campaigns, labor unions, environmental groups, community action networks and the like.

THE BIBLICAL PATTERN FOR CHURCH IS THIS: Every Christian should gather together to hear the Scriptures and worship Jesus together with other believers weekly (see Acts 20:7; 1 Corinthians 16:2; Acts 2:42; Colossians 3:16; 1 Corinthians 16:19; Colossians 4:15; Romans 16:5; Acts 20:20; James 2:2; Psalm 84:4; Psalm 37:17; Psalm 92:13) It is also good to meet for smaller groups of Christian community in each other's homes regularly (see Acts 2:46) It's good to have leaders overseeing the work and needs of each local church — this is the Biblical pattern — not all of us are called to church leadership, and so we should submit to, and serve whoever God has called to lead at the place we find ourselves (see Acts 14:23; Titus 1:5; Hebrews 13:7, 17; 1 Timothy 5:17; 1 Thessalonians 5:12 - 13; Philippians 1:1 b; Ephesians 4:11 - 12; 1 Corinthians 12:28; 1 Peter 5:1 - 2; Acts 20:17;) If there are believers who are unable for physical reasons to attend a church weekly, they should find a church or believers who will gather together with them regularly for worship in their own home.

We believe there is an alternative to the spending cuts the government has proposed and are seeking opportunities to work with other unions, organisations and community groups to defend the services we all rely on every day.

Laboy has encouraged community involvement with the school thus far and is convening a working group to discuss the admissions process and other decisions she will make about the school.

«We really need to work over a long period of time and help the community understand what's being proposed, so that groups like New York Communities for Change and others can't come in with their own agenda and hijack the conversation,» she told TRD.

The all party parliamentary save the pub group will work with CAMRA, and other organisations, to lead the debate until it does, until we finally get some proper protection for the great British pub, something that would be warmly welcomed by communities the length and breadth of the country.

Newberry said more resources from foundations and other funders would enable civic and advocacy groups to do more work in the community.

From his work with low - income communities, to his steadfast advocacy for minority groups, Mr. Perales has demonstrated his outstanding commitment to serving others.

NEW YORK, NY (05/11/2012)(readMedia)-- Early this afternoon, a team of welfare recipients, unemployed New Yorkers looking for work, public housing residents, and people living with HIV / AIDS — members of the grassroots organizing groups Community Voices Heard (CVH) and Voices of Community Activists and Leaders (VOCAL - NY)-- led other New York residents in a series of actions in Lower Manhattan to highlight the inequality prevalent in our City today, and lift up the need to restore critical programs currently proposed to be cut in Mayor Bloomberg's Fiscal Year 2013 budget.

We had about 30 parents show up and, out of that, we've decided to create a community group to hopefully work with other community organizations,» Eichenholtz says.

They work with community organizations and other neighborhood - based civic groups on local issues.

Glushefski has been endorsed by Democratic, Women's Equality and Working Families parties, as well as 12 unions and 10 other community advocacy groups.

As a fellow, he works on Big Data policies and programs, participates in a coordination and leadership group on cyberinfrastructure investments, and works to advance the data - intensive science and high performance computing communities supported by NSF and other Federal agencies.

Master teachers — an elite group of teachers in STEM (science, technology, engineering, and mathematics) fields — would mentor other teachers, serve as role models to draw talented students into the profession, and work with community leaders to improve science and math education.

The team usually works with other local service groups or high school students looking to fulfill community service hours.

Continue working with Navajo Nation officials and community groups to support DNRPA from expected legal challenges and assist other efforts to stop new uranium mining, including working closely with the Acoma Pueblo on permitting actions in the Mt. Taylor Traditional Cultural Property area.

If you're having a hard time connecting with Messianic singles through family, work, or social groups, or if you can't meet others for different reasons, create your free trial profile on our Christian community.

So... we continue to encourage Christian singles to do the hard work it takes to be in community — both within the larger congregation of the local church AND within a smaller group where they can truly be known and share with others.

Be active and adventurous: Get out of your past and, develop your friends circle by joining group activities like cooking, hiking, voluntary social work, Book clubs and other community associations.

Chapters take on a variety of work, including: Regularly scheduled events for the public to discuss public education, school board candidate forums, monitoring school board meetings, translating proposed school board policies into other languages for various language groups, providing tours of schools for prospective students and families, working for adequate funding for public schools, engaging with bond elections, helping parents navigate enrollment policies, and in general, being involved in the issues of public schools in their communities.

If there are factions or tensions I sense in a group of adults I'm working with, I'll use secret admirers or other community builders to surface the strengths and assets in the group.

Although most of EVC's work is with teachers and students, their parents, friends, and community members join in the dialog during end - of - term screenings of student work and through portfolio roundtables during which students present and comment on their work to a small group of teachers, peers, EVC staff, and others.

Over the course of this grant, FOI: (1) is producing professional development materials to help staff representing multiple state agencies better understand the basic science of child development generally and the promotion of executive function and self - regulation skills more specifically; (2) is supporting the creation of small learning communities, building on existing relationships at the site and policy level and connecting to other learning communities across North America; (3) is supporting the Washington cross-agency working group to sustain its current gains and momentum during the upcoming executive branch transition in January and to share lessons learned with the broader national FOI community of states and Canadian provinces; and (4) is beginning conversations with stakeholders at the community level to explore mutual interests and is beginning to chart a path toward enhanced collaboration within the state.

Roland Fryer Answers Reader Questions About His Police Force Study New York Times, 7/12/16 «My sincere hope is that the type of analysis being done in our paper will lead other police departments and community groups to understand the types of data we need to answer these important questions and work together to be more transparent and make that data public.»

«The summit will also look at how we can best engage with communities and work with parents, community groups and others towards the common goal of raising attainment and closing the poverty - related attainment gap.