Sentences with phrase «potential impact on the community»

However, I think it's important for us to take an objective look at this program's potential impact on the community, its taxpayers and those it targets before jumping on the «Let's get tough with sex offenders» bandwagon.

This simple description is an incredibly effective way for designers to think about griefers and their potential impact on the community as a whole.

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Tyler Macmillan, interim organizational director for the San Francisco Community Land Trust, says that while a new startup such as Zeus probably does not have a perceptible impact on the local rental markets, its business model has the potential to cause problems.

Non-profit lenders tend to focus on smaller loan amounts, of under $ 50,000, and small businesses that have the potential to provide positive economic impact within their communities, but either have too short a track record or are too small to be attractive to other, for - profit, lenders.

And, as the name implies, they focus on businesses that have the potential to impact developing communities and low - income borrowers.

This will, in turn, ensure that entrepreneurs can truly live up to their potential to not only grow their business and create jobs within their community, but also develop themselves as capable leaders and empowered individuals who will go on to create a lasting impact within their community.

To address allegations of bias, Facebook is bringing in two outside advisors — one to conduct a legal audit of its impact on underrepresented communities and communities of color, and another to advise the company on potential bias against conservative voices.

Every employee is empowered to reach their potential and be recognized for the impact they have on our organization, visitors, and the community we serve.

We believe that the Baby Language by DBL has the potential to have a significant, positive impact on families and communities around the world.

The report finds makes a list of recommendations for business, industry, professional bodies and government, namely: Construction businesses · Focus on better human resource management · Introduce and / or expand mentoring schemes · Boost investment in training · Develop talent from the trades as potential managers and professionals · Engage with the community and local education establishments Industry · Rally around social mobility as a collective theme · Promote better human resource management and support the effort of businesses · Promote and develop the UK as an international hub of construction excellence · Support diversity and schemes that widen access to management and the professions · Emphasise and spread understanding of the built environment's impact on social mobility Professional bodies and institutions · Drive the aspirations of Professions for Good for promoting social mobility and diversity · Support wider access to the professions and support those from less - privileged backgrounds · Promote and develop the UK as an international hub of construction excellence · Emphasise and spread understanding of the built environment's impact on social mobility · Provide greater routes for degree - level learning among those working within construction Government · Produce with urgency a plan to boost the UK as an international hub of construction excellence, as a core part of the Industrial Strategy · Provide greater funding to support the travel costs of apprentices · Support wider access to the professions and support those from less - privileged backgrounds · Place greater weight in project appraisal on the impact the built environment has on social mobility The report is being formally launched at an event in the House of Commons later today.

As Diasporic communities grow, so does their potential impact on their host countries and the strain on embassies who service them.

Curbed article on BP Adams joining community leaders to raise questions about the potential impact of the Bush Terminal transformation plans on local residents in Sunset Park.

New York Daily News article on BP Adams joining community leaders in Greenpoint to condemn the lack of communication around the planned implosion of the Kosciuszko Bridge and its potential impact.

The Department of Environmental Conservation and the Thruway Authority announced its finding Wednesday, saying the Pilgrim Pipeline project has the potential for significant adverse impact on the environment and communities.

«The creation of this new task force will help ensure potential impacts on the local community will be minimized and that an open dialogue is maintained throughout this transition process.»

A thorough scoping process, according to the letter, «will require time - consuming research by municipalities and the public to analyze the proposal and identify potential impacts on local land, water and air resources, cultural, historic and community resources and economic development... broad public input in the SEQR process is vital, given the millions of people potentially impacted by this project.»

Representatives from six different local companies sat down with the association's president and CEO Melissa Fleischut on Monday at the Saratoga County Chamber of Commerce offices for a talk about the potential elimination of the minimum wage tip credit and the impact it would have in the Saratoga Springs community.

She says community members have voiced concern about a potential decline in home values and services, increase in property taxes, and impacts on area businesses.

Before the restructuring, the Army said it would take into account community support and the potential impact of force reductions on those communities.

The report, «Assessing the Potential Impact of State Policies on Community Health Centers» Outreach and Enrollment Activities,» can be found at http://go.gwu.edu/ggrchnbrief35.

The study, «Assessing the Potential Impact of State Policies on Community Health Centers» Outreach and Enrollment Activities,» is the first to examine efforts on the front lines to find and enroll uninsured people, many of whom are living in rural and urban communities that face high poverty rates, elevated health risks and a shortage of primary health care.

This finding suggests that any human activities that alter the seafloor, such as potential deep - sea mining, could have a big impact on communities of marine life around the seamount.

«Assessing the Potential Impact of the Affordable Care Act on Uninsured Community Health Center Patients: A Nationwide and State - by - State Analysis,» estimates that more than 5 million health center patients would have gained coverage had all states participated in a sweeping Medicaid expansion.

As cannabis use is much more common than cannabis use disorder, its potential impact on cigarette use in the general community may be greater than estimates based on studies of cannabis use disorder alone, according to the researchers.

Microbial community dynamics during rearing of black soldier fly larvae (Hermetia illucens) and its impact on exploitation potential — Jeroen De Smet — Applied and Environmental Microbiology

The report also details the potential economic impacts of these changes on families, businesses, and communities.

I'm not saying that greenhouse gases isn't a player, but I'd like the IPCC and the climate community to work towards understanding the other potential causes of warming, before jumping to conclusions on the impact of greenhouse gases.

To understand the impact current piercings may have on us and the powers behind any potential new ones, we turned to our community of trusted acupuncturists who have a nuanced understanding of needles, metals, and how they might affect our bodies, whether it's right after the piercing or a long - term lasting effect.

The key goal is to discover, recognise and reward the technology innovations that have the potential to, or are already having a positive impact on the community — at home, in the office and on a global scale.

The two lessons prior to this one introduce restorative justice and the potential impact on participants and communities through another story of restorative justice.

We as physical educators need to realize the potential impact we can make on schools, communities, and future lives.

«Subtle» aspects of family involvement — parenting style and parental expectations, for example — may have a greater impact on student achievement than more «concrete» forms such as attendance at school conferences or enforcing rules at home regarding homework.144 Some researchers, policy makers, and practitioners argue that these subtle forms of family involvement are not easily influenced by schools.145 In contrast, we argue that the value of creating participatory structures in schools lies in its potential for increasing family and community members «sense of engagement in children «s education, and, as a consequence, augment and reinforce the subtle behaviors responsible for improved outcomes.146

A strong system of data collection has the potential to expand the impact restorative justice can have on a school community.

One of the communities vulnerable to potential Impact Aid changes is Wagner Community School District, located on the Yankton Sioux Reservation in South Dakota.

This initial conversation led to a commitment by this group to organize a Third Grade Reading Task Force to which met five times in 2014 to review key research, build on past community efforts and to define the goal, scope and pillars of a potential community - wide collective impact effort around early childhood literacy.

During both hearings several parents, students, educators and community leaders testified in support of the High School Success policies and their potential impact on Washington students.

Holding preference for districts (a) whose plans showed the greatest potential for district - wide impact; (b) whose targeted schools demonstrated sufficient capacity and were on a posi - tive trajectory of change; and (c) which planned to partner with community - based organiza - tions and / or institutions of higher education.

I am writing this statement not quite knowing what the immediate outcome will be, but am aware of the potential collective impact that this distinctive community of creators will have with Brian Belott's innovations in collage, Ákos Birkás's philosophy about painting a certain situation, Regina Bogat's devotion to art making with clever variations on certain abstract themes, Matt Bollinger's extra-large and bracing graphite drawings, Paul DeMuro's painterly electricity, Marc Desgrandchamp's time - fragmented paintings, Michael Dotson's paintings of the «Disney - esque,» Michel Huelin's relationship with nature and software, Irena Jurek's very meaningful cat character, Alix Le Méléder's proposals of four colors determined by the passage of the brush, David Lefebvre's painted images cut out of magazines or downloaded from a mobile phone, Pushpamala N.'s ethnographic documentations which have been compared to Cindy Sherman, Wang Keping's unique wooden sculptures that juxtapose vivid emotion with a marked sense of introversion, Katharina Ziemke's pictorial treatment of current events, and me, the co-host with a small drawing.

Learn about the current state of sea level rise research, the questions yet to be answered and the potential impact on coastal communities.

All this came about because of good ideas on the ground that were accelerated and enabled by funds from Aveda — and, notably, with the Global Greengrants Fund playing the (essential, in this case) middleman, because it has such an effective network for scrutinizing and selecting projects with the potential to make the greatest impact in the community and hopefully beyond.

The topics on which we believe additional information and analysis are necessary include the purpose and need for the project, potential greenhouse gas emissions associated with the project, air pollutant emissions at the receiving refineries, pipeline safety / spill response, potential impacts to environmental justice communities, wetlands and migratory birds.

Media reports have underplayed the potential impact of wind turbines on a community.

We only have to remember the recent impact of Hurricane Sandy on communities in the northeast to see the potential damage that a single storm can cause.

As part of our contribution, CSW commented that the document might carry greater relevance for decision - makers who want to advance a needed adaptation agenda to an unconvinced or climate - skeptic audience (a very real possibility) by including more explicit language on the ways in which climate change issues can be framed to appeal to diverse groups — for example, emphasizing the potential damages to people and property to one community, the negative impacts to industry in another.

Hence, effective communication between the scientific community and policymakers is urgently needed to relay available knowledge about the potential impacts of changes in glaciers on the region's hydrology and environment and on the livelihoods of millions of people.

These equity concerns include: the regressive impact of potential energy price increases on low - income households; the potential for carbon pricing policies to allow some fossil fuel - fired power plants or refineries to continue to operate and emit air and water pollutants in neighborhoods already burdened by pollution; and the economic hardship to workers and communities dependent on fossil fuel industries for livelihoods or for their tax base as we transition away from these resources.

EPA said that the draft environmental analysis needed further work on a range of issues, ranging from the basic need for the pipeline given U.S. clean energy and carbon pollution reduction goals to its potential impacts on greenhouse gas emissions, air pollution, wetlands, migratory birds, public water supplies and minority communities.

Too many newspaper editors have fallen prey to the propaganda campaigns of insurance companies who try to poison the perception of the public — and potential jurors in our community — about the impact of litigation on our society.

As a strategic thinker working at the intersection of law, technology and access to justice, and based on my years of experience being embedded in a community legal centre, here are some ideas that seem to me, to have some potential for positive impact:

West Coast LEAF will argue that the mandatory jail sentence at issue in this case has a disproportionate impact on women because of their role as primary caregivers and the potential for loss of child custody, and the likelihood that women will be jailed far from their home communities because of the lack of adequate facilities for incarcerated women in BC, among other issues.