Sentences with phrase «people and community groups»

That role has stressed providing accurate information and analysis that people and community groups can use to influence decisions that directly affect them.

â $ œThis was funding that was supposed to help local people and community groups, but the governor didnâ $ ™ t want to allocate it.

Not exact matches

The «pipeline problem» is the theory there simply aren't enough properly skilled members of underrepresented groups for hire — including women, people of color, veterans and members of the LGBTQ community.

Affirmative action continues to uplift the Asian community, particularly young people from traditionally disadvantaged Asian groups, such as Southeast Asians and low - income families.

Facebook Groups are the place to connect with other like - minded people and are becoming increasingly important for brands and businesses aiming to cultivate a community.

By people having a big avenue and a group of people all leading in the same direction and people that support a handmade community has really grown my business.

We have a diverse group of people, and building community, building culture, understanding all things legal, and being able to develop our company mindfully have been critical.»

Though the group started as an online community, each attendee spent our own money and time away from family to learn from and share with each other, in person.

The Liberals have promised unique housing strategies for Inuit, Metis and First Nations communities alongside the 10 - year, $ 225 - million plan announced last year to fund groups that help house Indigenous Peoples living off - reserve.

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.

Enter David Shepherdson and Lisa Bovill, from Kaini Industries, who launched Hullcoin which enables people who engage with charities and community groups across the city of Hull to earn digital coins by volunteering and undertaking activities that benefit themselves.

«But once people started to understand what he was going to do — he made jobs [for residents] and isn't over-developing, but is fixing the [community] gymnasium and put in basketball courts — well, now he has a large group that supports him.»

«If we're going to be serious - as the province says we should [be]- about reaching out to under - represented groups like indigenous people, the disabled community, socioeconomic challenged areas and ethnic populations, the current resources we have, and the government has, on the table are just not going to be adequate to do that.»

Making and marking history in low - income community struggle at the edge of Metro Vancouver On May 2nd 2017 a small group of homeless people and supporters marched from Maple Ridge's soon - to - close Rain City

The mentoring opportunities and the community development initiatives brought me to the group, but what has caused me to get even more involved is the the caliber of people I've met and the shared spirit to do something impactful for the Lake Norman area.»

In recent weeks, racial justice activists and civil rights groups have noted that gun violence in black communities, rather than inspiring reform legislation or prompting national outcry, is often framed as the result of black people being unable to control themselves.

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.

Well, I think most people attend for the sense of community and having an «in - group» to belong to.

As an example, small groups are the result of someone looking around and feeling like there is a lack of community happening between people.

My hope is that we could model authentic community in a group - life structure that is so meaningful and refreshing that it would help move people to know how to live out all of their relationships.

The group has also prided itself on trying to reach into religious communities and bring people out of the closet.

The interview format used by the Oliner team had over 450 items and consisted of six main parts: a) characteristics of the family household in which respondents lived in their early years, including relationships among family members; b) parental education, occupation, politics, and religiosity, as well as parental values, attitudes, and disciplinary approaches; c) respondent's childhood and adolescent years - education, religiosity, and friendship patterns, as well as self - described personality characteristics; d) the five - year period just prior to the war — marital status, occupation, work colleagues, politics, religiosity, sense of community, and psychological closeness to various groups of people; if married, similar questions were asked about the spouse; e) the immediate prewar and war years, including employment, attitudes toward Nazis, whether Jews lived in the neighborhood, and awareness of Nazi intentions toward Jews; all were asked to describe their wartime lives and activities, whom they helped, and organizations they belonged to; f) the years after the war, including the present — relations with children and personal and community — helping activities in the last year; this section included forty - two personality items comprising four psychological scales.

The UK has made a commitment to receive 20,000 vulnerable people seeking protection and the government is looking for community groups to partner with to house and support some of them.

One of the things I heard from some of the church leaders here in Haiti is that the church is one of the only organizations that is successfully delivering supplies and provisions to groups of people and communities.

And if people can comment publicly on the Mars Hill or Duggar case, and call out problems with how the church community handled it, then why not discuss the concern over how Julie's been «handled» by the EV groAnd if people can comment publicly on the Mars Hill or Duggar case, and call out problems with how the church community handled it, then why not discuss the concern over how Julie's been «handled» by the EV groand call out problems with how the church community handled it, then why not discuss the concern over how Julie's been «handled» by the EV group?

I know that most people in my worshiping community have never heard of these folks — they're too busy housing homeless folks, working with the Interfaith Food Shuttle, and practicing the Prayer of Examen in our small groups.

Could football fans — this group of people gathering in weekly congregations, building community, worshipping and putting their money where their mouth is — be the great untapped mission field of the UK?

Do a personal or group study around Forgive Us: Confessions of a Compromised Faith by Soong - Chan Rah, Mae Elise Cannon, Lisa Sharon Harper, and Troy Jackson This powerful book provides historical information, reflection, and prayers around Christian complicity in sins against God's creation, indigenous people, African Americans and people of color, women, the LGBTQ community, immigrants, Jews and Muslims.

So someone who dies while fighting actively for justice and righteousness of a community or for a group of people has to be considered a real martyr today Those who lay down their lives for those values of the kingdom such as truth, justice, love of God and love to the poor can be considered as martyrs.

For Christians exile has been not only a condition forced upon a small group of people but a state into which everyone was called by God for their human maturation — a place of formation, where attitudes and motivations were molded by a community without earthly roots.

There is no other group of people in the world today causing the kind of death destruction and evil as the Muslim community.

Avoid the danger of over-involvement (which can hurt families) but keep connected with those groups which provide enjoyable relationships, broadening of your horizons, and opportunity to make your community a better place for people!

He represents a professional group which is very close to the problems of people, and he also represents a community of people who are interested in the implications of their religious point of view for their daily lives.

To deny females equal authority not because of their character, their intimacy with Christ or their giftedness, but solely because of gender — a fixed and unchangeable condition — creates communities, organizations, churches and marriages that are inherently unjustbecause they deny a people group shared authority based on an unchangeable condition - gender.

That money is collected, and 100 % of it goes to some ministry or group of people that is in need within our local community.

I would have to say that the people here with a corner on the market of «hate speech, legalism, and self - righteousness» would have to be the secular groups here: the politicians (any flavour), local environmental groups, the local anti-religious groups, public servants who want to squeeze Christians out of community life, and the local media.

He has a heart for the hurting in his community and leads a small discipleship group called Belong, whose doors are open to drug addicts, the homeless, those with learning difficulties and any person who simply wants to belong.

A human person is an example of such a personal order, and one could extend this image to include larger and more complex corpuscular societies, such as ethnic groups, geographical communities, or subcultures.

Whether in private conversation, group discussion, a sermon or a speech, or in the interaction within the community, the question is whether there is, on the one side, conviction about what the gospel means and, on the other side, unqualified readiness to hear the other people and see the world from their point of view.

This also means issues of life and relations among the people, groups and communities implies the fused horizons in all the levels.

The global market with «neo-liberal» developments have weakened liberal democratic subjecthood for individual persons, powerless groups, such as racial and ethnic minorities, local communities.

The result has been several precious families coming to our body, a host of kids coming up the hill to our AWANA program where they can be loved and learn about Jesus and a group of people form India who use our church as their community center.

Community can not be set up as a goal and directly attained, but can only result from a group of people being united around a common goal, their relation to the Eternal Thou.

The objectives are stated as: (a) increasing the awareness of mental health professionals and the clergy of their common interest in helping people, (b) exploring the ways in which these groups could assist each other in dealing with mental health problems in the community, and (c) stimulating the development of a framework and atmosphere of cooperation which would lead to an ongoing program of education and communication.

The church being one sixth of humanity can be a very meaningful and effective community for global reflection and action on the needs of persons and groups today.

The question being asked by women is whether the Decade will invite «the churches and the ecumenical movement to discover and nurture an enriched understanding of the very nature and mission of the church... growing from and supporting a new community, embodying the visions of all persons...,» as the Readers Group describe it in their interim report.

As Isaac Berkson wrote over 50 years ago, «The ethnic group is not a system of ideas but a nationality, a community of persons; it is a living reality related, indeed, to thought, but still flesh and blood and desire and no mere pale abstraction.

We were immediately invited to join a small group, and soon met most of the people in the community.

People from the community joined in and that has grown into a group that meets once a month.

I believe that if a person, or a group of people, want to follow Jesus into their community, and look to the Scriptures for guidance, and trust the Holy Spirit to lead them, then they will be the church.