Sentences with phrase «pressing social challenges»

MacArthur is placing a few big bets that truly significant progress is possible on some of the world's most pressing social challenges, including over-incarceration, global climate change, nuclear risk, and significantly increasing financial capital for the social sector.

York students and graduates push limits, achieve goals and find solutions to the world's most pressing social challenges, empowered by a strong community that opens minds.

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Enter the DO School, a global institution that, for select programs, borrows students passionate about social change from accredited colleges and offers them experiential learning through doing, challenging them to solve real - world, pressing problems in sustainable ways.

With the size and complexity of many of today's most pressing social and environmental problems, governments and communities struggle to overcome the challenges we face.

Monthly, we will share a 1 hour insights based conference call and once a quarter we will send out an insights report focuses on the intricacies of investing into emerging market startups solving pressing social and environment challenges.

Andrew Kirk, from an «evangelical» perspective, challenges the separation that often exists between evangelism and social responsibility in The Good News of the Kingdom Coming, The Marriage of Evangelism and Social Responsibility (Downers Grove, Ill.: Inter Varsity Press, social responsibility in The Good News of the Kingdom Coming, The Marriage of Evangelism and Social Responsibility (Downers Grove, Ill.: Inter Varsity Press, Social Responsibility (Downers Grove, Ill.: Inter Varsity Press, 1983).

For instance, radical change in the way we understand and manage state assets could help tackle some pressing social and economic policy challenges.

It is crucial that the party develops new approaches to deal with the pressing challenges of the early 21st century, such as rising inequality, declining social mobility, global financial chaos and climate change.

York U is fully engaged in the critical discussions that lead to innovative solutions to the most pressing local and global social challenges.

Diseases of the nervous system are becoming one of the most pressing social and medical challenges of the 21st century.

Inquiry - based learning allows them to focus on a pressing question or challenge, then think of new and creative ways to overcome the obstacle with the aid of informal social learning tools.

Although my overall goal is still the same, I have transformed the way in which I see how social entrepreneurship, behavioral science, and economic interventions play an important role in addressing some of Latin America's most pressing educational challenges.

In this 2004 article in the Stanford Social Innovation Review, Ronald Heifetz, John Kania, and Mark Kramer show how foundations can confront society's most pressing challenges by exercising adaptive leadership to focus attention, generate positive distress, frame the issues, and mediate conflict among stakeholders.

Her recent books include: The Growing Out - of - School Time Field: Past, Present, and Future (Information Age Publishing, 2018); The Future Directions of Educational Change: Social Justice, Professional Capital, and Systems Change (Routledge, 2018); «Empowering Teachers: The Role of School - Community Partnerships» (book chapter with IEL's Reuben Jacobson in Flip the System: Changing Education from the Ground Up, 2015); Leading Educational Change: Global Issues, Challenges, and Lessons on Whole - System Reform (Teachers College Press, 2013), The Futures of School Reform (Harvard Education Press, 2012, co-authored chapter with Jeffrey Henig and Paul Reville).

This book is open access under a CC BY 4.0 license.This book provides an original and challenging analysis of one of the most pressing social issues of our times: intergenerational inequality.

We are a press with a clear social mission, fostering an appreciation of the rewards and challenges of pluralism at every level in society, and, most importantly, an interest...

A major exhibition filling MoMA PS1's entire gallery space will open in 2013, highlighting artists who are reacting to the pressing questions of the 21st century with its interrelated ecological, economical, spiritual, ethnographic, political, and social challenges.

This curated exhibition of new work by our current 3D Design students will explore how today's most pressing challenges — such as social and economic inequalities, rampant material consumption, and environmental degradation — can become subjects for critical and poetic reflection in design objects.

Recognizing that climate change may be the most pressing challenge facing SIDS, the document outlines UNESCO's work on climate change in the following areas: climate science and knowledge; education; diversity and cultural heritage; and the social, human ethical and gender dimensions.

Rather we act with the conviction that near - term global population stabilization — such as the United Nation's low - variant population projection, which shows the end of population growth just 40 years from now — can be achieved through the vigorous pursuit and realization of a progressive human rights agenda and will be a powerful contributor to solving today's most pressing ecological and social challenges.

Instead, we present a vision for understanding the population issue as a powerful contributing solution to today's most pressing ecological and social challenges.