Sentences with phrase «people and communities who»

It's made up of people and communities who have turned their passion for quality craftsmanship and well - designed goods into a way of life.

It should not be the talking heads of the movement but the actual people and communities who are being impacted by climate injustice and who will ultimately be most impacted by geoengineering.

Of course, though the names have changed over the years, OneMain's dedication to helping the people and communities who need it has never wavered.

Because for too long politicians have said to people and communities who are crying out for change that they can't have what they want.

Major Canadian brands making these levels of commitments to the people and communities who make their goods are few and far between.

So whatever you do, you have to have the buy in of the people and the community who are in actual fact the primary beneficiary of what you are doing.

According to her, the commission has the responsibility of ensuring that durable solutions are found for persons and communities who have been displaced by conflict, man - made and natural disaster.

SkyPower prides itself on its established relationships with world - leading banks and financial institutions, as well as with its global and local suppliers, and the indigenous peoples and communities who work hand in hand with SkyPower with the shared objective of producing hundreds of millions of kWh of clean electricity each and every year.

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My mentees — or the people in the community who are watching and aspiring — they're very encouraged when they see things like this.

This concerns local police who say they need the cooperation of all people in the community, including lawful and undocumented immigrants, in reporting crime and aiding criminal prosecutions.

This diverse collection of content has accrued a community of like - minded people who also feel passionately about film and now have access to an abundance of filmmaking tools.

That doesn't mean there haven't been things on Facebook that we don't want to have happen on Facebook — and we're taking strong steps to correct that — but as an organizing tool for people who are trying to reach communities, it's huge.

«Soylent is a community of people who are enthusiastic about using science to improve food and nutrition,» Chris Dixon, who works at venture - capital firm Andreessen Horowitz, wrote in a 2015 blog post after the firm invested $ 20 million in Soylent.

Vijay Koduri, who spent 7 years at Google and now contributes to the Xoogler investment fund, says that the loves the community because the people are what he misses most about his old job.

For somebody who had never been to New Orleans, but moved there initially to teach and then a year later left the classroom to start a company, I've seen firsthand just how much the community has invested in bringing in and retaining young people who really want to contribute to rebranding the city, bringing it from, old oil and gas and just tourism really into the 21st century with lots of high - tech, high - growth businesses.

I interact directly with people in the community, people who e-mail me, and I do what needs to be done, and this keeps me in contact with what's real.

Developmental lending as practiced by IBC involves providing financial services (primarily loans) to aboriginal people who, for a variety of cultural and / or financial reasons, are alienated by mainstream lending institutions; approving loan applications on the basis of typical financial considerations while taking into account the potential for positive social or community outcomes; and evaluating social outcomes resulting from the loan portfolio over the long term.

People who can't afford traffic tickets should be required to do community service instead of having to pay fines, and we need more programs to help people deal withPeople who can't afford traffic tickets should be required to do community service instead of having to pay fines, and we need more programs to help people deal withpeople deal with debt.

«It has the power to influence public debate, mobilize communities, and — most importantly — offer creative solutions to help people receive better care, no matter where they live or who they are,» write Richards and Karp, who believe that the tech industry owes its success to both of its employees as well as the communities it serves, whose health needs are often partially met by Planned Parenthood itself.

If Zimbabwe is going to recover, it's critical for the global community of business leaders and philanthropists to come together to support the people who will rebuild its economy.

The company has already nurtured an entire community of «dropshippers» — people who buy goods on the cheap, sell them online and ship them to consumers without ever holding the inventory themselves.

Luckily, they're an easy sort to spot: The company seeks out engineers and scientists who are heavily involved in their communities (such as people who moonlight as Girl Guide leaders, soccer coaches or Rotary Club members).

It's about the people who work for the organization, it's about the clients, and it's about the community.»

I have also seen people who have attempted to build communities with the idea of profiting from those tribes — and those people have failed miserably.

«Walmart's vision of the future is centered around people — by serving the communities people live in and the people who work at Walmart,» Walmart chief information officer Clay Johnson said in a statement.

«You have a virtuous cycle here of producing really smart people who are quite entrepreneurial, which is in keeping with the character of the community,» says Bob Crow, RIM's vice-president for industry, government and university relations.

San Francisco — based Airbnb, a sort of hotel booking site for couch surfers, allows people who have extra space (like a spare room, guest house or sofa) to rent it out to travellers looking for a place to stay; «trust scores,» guest reviews and support from Airbnb staff give the site a sense of community that's missing from competitors Craigslist or Kijiji.

But the power of what Dinner Lab is doing comes into focus when you step back a bit and look at the community of people who participate in the Dinner Lab experience.

Thousands of people who have bought the kits have become members of a community that shares and compares results.

In South Orange, I think there was a feeling that the community was fairly disconnected from government and there was a desire to bring someone in from the outside who is able to look at the challenges that face our municipality from a new perspective and bring people in more as part of that process.

Attended by seasoned founders, executives, investors, and philanthropists who are seeking to leave their mark on the world, The Human Gathering continues to defy conventional conference norms and carefully curate a community of exceptional people.

Our creative community includes a lot of people who have studied things like woodworking, metal - smithing, and furniture - building.»

What it is Mash up the words want, need and love, and you get Wanelo, the name of an online community of people who can link to products they like and share them with their friends, via a corkboard - like interface similar to Pinterest.

The 2013 Hult Prize, which kicks off the Clinton Global Initiative's annual meeting for heads of state and leaders of businesses and nonprofits, will award $ 1 million to the sole startup idea that best secures food for undernourished communities — particularly for the 200 million people who live in urban slums.

The poll results suggest that people want more officers conducting background checks; they want the same standards applied to those who buy a gun from a person at a gun show or online or at a physical store; they want to remove the background check work - around of buying a gun through a trust or corporation; and they want the feds to do a better job of notifying local law enforcement when people in their communities who are prohibited from purchasing a gun attempt to buy one.

Preventable disparities in health outcomes continue for black, brown and Native people, communities of people who not that long ago may have also been unwitting medical test subjects.

Students begin crafting their network and community within the business world the minute they arrive at Columbia, thanks in part to the school's cluster system, which places first - year students in «clusters» of 65 to 70 people who take all their core classes together.

To completely eradicate the deadly disease — which most recently swept through parts of Africa last year, devastating communities and killing thousands of people — anyone who may have come in contact with an infected person would get vaccinated.

Places to Start Acquiring Users You've got ta admit that marketers today are incredibly lucky: there are numerous online communities already full of people who fit our target markets, like SlideShare, Quora, Hacker News and Meetup.

But for most people, what makes co-working alluring isn't the child care or the yoga but the cooperative spirit and community vibe fostered by the people who populate those spaces.

We're dealing with a system in which other people who are arrested do not have that privilege, and we're trying to break down the notion that there's preferential treatment for law enforcement because that is what is separating law enforcement from communities that they are supposed to serve and that's what is making it harder for them to get intelligence from those communities to solve crimes.

«I think the commonality is that in every community, there are certain entrepreneurs or leaders who really organize and get people motivated to go do stuff,» Zuckerberg told Recode.

Over time I've noticed a lot of people who have built a great community stop doing the things they used to do and start just using the community as a means to make money.

Lately, I've been focused on our community outreach team -; it's responsible for figuring out how to connect with and promote the people who use Tumblr.

Instead of just the big, famous causes and their galas, Six Degrees is more focused on people who are in individual, smaller communities, or big cities, who need funding and can use the celebrity status to get noticed.

Back in the late 1990s, Dotzler had been a young college dropout working in a market research firm in Austin when he joined Mozilla's community of «bug reporters» — people who volunteered to download the latest prototype of the product and submit technical reports of what needed fixing.

In their deliberations, they agreed to 20 specific actions to address global economic and social problems, ranging from building a corps of community health workers in poor regions of the world, to creating digital identities for the 2 billion people who lack access to financial services, to educating and training displaced, unemployed and underemployed workers.

The cost of living in New Jersey is among the country's most expensive, and much of the state consists of bedroom communities for people who work in New York or Philadelphia.

We created a patriotism score for cities around the U.S. by looking at three categories: the percentage of people who are veterans, according to the 2012 American Community Survey; the percentage of residents 18 and over who voted in the 2012 presidential election; and the ranking of the best cities for Fourth of July celebrations from Wallet Hub.

«I think Nova Scotians, regardless of where they live, will embrace an immigration strategy that actually will retain people in the province — people who are investing in communities, people who are running businesses, providing economic opportunities and, quite frankly, giving opportunities for our sons and daughters to stay here,» he said.