Sentences with phrase «provide impact strategy»

Align helps advisors provide impact strategy and portfolio management services to their clients who are asking for expert guidance in this area with the confidence that Align will not take the client from the advisor.

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Our business strategy is to generate competitive financial returns and positive economic, social and environmental impact by providing financing to SMEs, primarily in developing economies.

We provide timely feedback and opinions on investment solutions, capital markets and the tactical opportunities and risks that could impact your investment strategy.

«We are pleased to provide our clients with strategies to pursue risk - adjusted financial returns in tandem with faith - based objectives,» said Hilary Irby, Head of Morgan Stanley's Investing with Impact Initiative.

If I work with a relevant blog, like moz or search engine land and provide them with content they find valuable for their audience and link to something on our site to extend the story then that is a viable marketing strategy... even without considering it's impact on Google's search results.

Susan provides simple strategies that businesses can implement tomorrow that will have an immediate positive impact.

Essentially, Algorithmic orders provide clients with the opportunity to trade through various strategies with larger ticket sizes that may otherwise impact the market price.

Examples of these risks, uncertainties and other factors include, but are not limited to the impact of: adverse general economic and related factors, such as fluctuating or increasing levels of unemployment, underemployment and the volatility of fuel prices, declines in the securities and real estate markets, and perceptions of these conditions that decrease the level of disposable income of consumers or consumer confidence; adverse events impacting the security of travel, such as terrorist acts, armed conflict and threats thereof, acts of piracy, and other international events; the risks and increased costs associated with operating internationally; our expansion into and investments in new markets; breaches in data security or other disturbances to our information technology and other networks; the spread of epidemics and viral outbreaks; adverse incidents involving cruise ships; changes in fuel prices and / or other cruise operating costs; any impairment of our tradenames or goodwill; our hedging strategies; our inability to obtain adequate insurance coverage; our substantial indebtedness, including the ability to raise additional capital to fund our operations, and to generate the necessary amount of cash to service our existing debt; restrictions in the agreements governing our indebtedness that limit our flexibility in operating our business; the significant portion of our assets pledged as collateral under our existing debt agreements and the ability of our creditors to accelerate the repayment of our indebtedness; volatility and disruptions in the global credit and financial markets, which may adversely affect our ability to borrow and could increase our counterparty credit risks, including those under our credit facilities, derivatives, contingent obligations, insurance contracts and new ship progress payment guarantees; fluctuations in foreign currency exchange rates; overcapacity in key markets or globally; our inability to recruit or retain qualified personnel or the loss of key personnel; future changes relating to how external distribution channels sell and market our cruises; our reliance on third parties to provide hotel management services to certain ships and certain other services; delays in our shipbuilding program and ship repairs, maintenance and refurbishments; future increases in the price of, or major changes or reduction in, commercial airline services; seasonal variations in passenger fare rates and occupancy levels at different times of the year; our ability to keep pace with developments in technology; amendments to our collective bargaining agreements for crew members and other employee relation issues; the continued availability of attractive port destinations; pending or threatened litigation, investigations and enforcement actions; changes involving the tax and environmental regulatory regimes in which we operate; and other factors set forth under «Risk Factors» in our most recently filed Annual Report on Form 10 - K and subsequent filings by the Company with the Securities and Exchange Commission.

Its strategy of selling high value coconut products will help increase profit margins for farmers which in turn will provide a direct positive impact on their finances and their communities as a whole.

The Australian Weeds Strategy provides a national framework for addressing weed issues whilst maintaining the sustainability of Australia's primary industries and reducing the impact of weeds on the environment.

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.

Elliot Shaw, Executive Director of Strategy and Planning at Highways England focused on «The Road to Growth» — drawing upon extensive research, consumer and stakeholder feedback to provide the vision for a high performing road infrastructure that positively impacts the economy, employment and housing market.

Its strategy consists of four key components: 1) Priority identification — we respond to the crop biotechnology needs and priorities identified by developing countries; 2) Technology appraisal — we work to identify, evaluate, and facilitate the acquisition of new crop biotechnology applications; 3) Project implementation — we implement a portfolio of crop biotechnology projects that have a potential for near - term impact in food, feed, fiber crops, and forestry; and 4) Services for the enabling environment — we provide advice and services to assist in the development of an enabling environment to support the safe application of crop biotechnology.

Now researchers have teamed up to provide guidance to retailers contemplating similar strategies, via a meta - analysis of research related to the impact of music, scents, and colors on shoppers.

The paper, «Intact ecosystems provide the best defense against climate change,» published in Nature Climate Change, discusses how certain adaptation strategies may have a negative impact on nature which in turn will impact people in the long - term.

Given the high rates of fracture, particularly in the elderly, and the impact in terms of pain, immobility and potentially reduced survival, our findings provide real support for health prevention strategies.»

«We hope the information provided in these tools will help individuals, organization and cities understand what makes the most impact locally and to enable more tailored climate strategies.

«Given the amount of insecticides applied today to urban settings for Argentine ant control and the impact of these insecticides on urban waterways, it is critical to develop alternative integrated pest management strategies in order to decrease the overall amounts of insecticides applied and found in urban waterways, while still providing effective control of the target ant species,» Choe said.

«A fully annotated salmon genome will provide important information about the impact of cultured fish escapees on wild populations, about preservation of populations that are at risk, about strategies for fighting pathogens, and about environmental sustainability issues,» says ICSASG chair Dr. Steinar Bergseth at the Research Council of Norway.

The Working Group generates estimates of R&D investment that can be compared year to year across options and strategies and funding sources, helping assess the impact of public policies aimed at accelerating scientific progress and to provide facts for advocacy.

But because of variations in method, sample, and context from study to study, the previous body of literature has not provided a decisive answer regarding which strategy, at scale, has the biggest impact per dollar.

The Scope of this project is to: - Provide seed funding and support pilot implementation of ideas resulting from the June 2014 design workshop on improving outcomes for babies in foster care; - Launch pilots of co-designed strategies for working collaboratively with parents in creating daily, regularized family routines in four sites and evaluate executive function skills, child development, child literacy and parental stress levels of participants pre -, during, and post-intervention; - Build a core group of leaders to help set the strategic direction for Frontiers of Innovation (FOI) and take on leadership for parts of the portfolio; - With Phil Fisher at the University of Oregon and Holly Schindler at the University of Washington develop a measurement and data collection framework and infrastructure in order to collect data from FOI - sponsored pilots and increase cross-site and cross-strategy learning; Organize Building Adult Capabilities Working Group to identify, measure and develop strategies related to executive function and emotional regulation for adults facing high levels of adversity and produce summary report in the fall of 2014 that reviews the knowledge base in this area and implications for intervention, including approaches that impact two generations.

Improving employee and organizational performance by providing data - driven and innovative learning strategy and training, performance consulting, business process consulting, change impact management, and organization effectiveness consulting.

Employing information on in - class time use provided by a nationally representative sample of U.S. teachers in the 2003 Trends in International Mathematics and Science Study (TIMSS), we estimate the impact of teaching practices on student achievement by looking at the differential effects on the same student of two different teachers, using two different teaching strategies.

SDUSD's iPad initiative provides a critical example of how a 1 - to - 1 program was impacted, altered, and remained effective without scrapping the district's entire strategy.

In this paper written for the Rural Opportunities Consortium of Idaho, Public Impact examines the challenges that prevent rural schools from providing great teaching, and presents four strategies for increasing access to highly effective instruction in rural Idaho.

Studies in this set provided evidence of teacher leaders who provided demonstration lessons or modeling as one of their support strategies had positive impact on teachers» classroom instruction and student achievement.

While multiple authors and researchers have suggested specific strategies for formative classroom assessment, Stiggins and his colleagues have had a unique focus on the impacts of assessment on students, noting formative assessment's potential to provide feedback that motivates students.

The program provided 5 iPads for each teacher selected, through application, from the 9 school districts, 5 parochial schools and Erie 2 Chautauqua - Cattaraugus BOCES, which make up the constituency of ECTC, to determine if the iPad would change instructional strategies and impact student success.

The finding that content area expertise impacted teacher leaders designing and / or facilitating professional development was supported through the use of multiple data sources (Coggins et al. 2003; Manno & Firestone, 2006; Yost et al., 2009) and the inclusion of detailed descriptions in support of the reliability of data analysis strategies and instrumentation (Coggins et al. 2003; Manno & Firestone, 2006; Yost et al., 2009), providing additional confidence in the validity of this finding.

The Capital Area Region and the Utica Area Region collected data that provided indicators of success and impact on student achievement using the Instructional Strategies from Engaging Students with Poverty in Mind after offering distance learning workshop from the Teaching is the Core Grant.

A report from Public Impact provides states with strategies for going beyond the requirements of ESSA to «achieve a culture of excellence.»

«While litigation and legislation provide important guardrails, Educators 4 Excellence believes those directly impacted by what happens in our classrooms should be proactively identifying better strategies to improve teaching and learning.

Public Impact produced some of the earliest work guiding states and districts choosing among school turnaround strategies and has been the field leader in providing research, guidance and implementation support for turnarounds within schools, charter restarts and innovation zones.

The intended outcomes of the formal coaching process for the inviting teacher are the development of reflective practice and decision making; a refined and expanded repertoire of teaching strategies; an enhanced understanding of curriculum, instruction, and assessment; and the capacity to provide high - impact, learning - focused teaching strategies in an environment characterized by interesting and engaging work for students.

A social - emotional learning curriculum, Second Step, creates a backbone for teaching these skills, the Mindful Schools curriculum helps students learn strategies for self - regulation, and the Compassionate Schools framework provides an understanding of the impact of trauma and chronic stress on learning and children's brains....

Professional learning communities (PLCs) provide an avenue for teachers to work collaboratively to translate research into practice, develop and refine new strategies, plan learning sequences, analyse data and evaluate impact.

The report makes a range of recommendations for schools, local authorities and the Welsh government, from tracking and monitoring the impact of literacy strategies to providing better guidance and support for teachers.

Launched in 2011, Project Leadership and Investment for Transformation, or L.I.F.T., is a five - year initiative in nine low - performing schools in Charlotte, North Carolina.35 The project focuses on innovative strategies to provide students with extended learning time and increased access to technology while supporting community engagement and excellent teaching.36 Project L.I.F.T. worked with Public Impact — a nonprofit organization that works with school districts to create innovative school models — to design hybrid teacher - leader roles that «extend the reach» of high - performing teachers to more students.37 These «multi-classroom leaders» continue to teach while leading teams of teachers and assuming responsibility for the learning of all students taught by their team.38 For this advanced role, teachers earn supplements of up to $ 23,000 annually, funded sustainably by reallocating funds within current budgets.39

In order to help you change the way your students learn, this course will expand your knowledge related to learning differences, provide actionable strategies to impact the learning experience of your students, and cultivate positive habits of mind.

In this Education Week article, Rollins claims that «many national leaders are in a collaborative spirit, which is helping to gain traction and is providing a mechanism for sharing high - impact strategies.»

These types of experiences, when implemented effectively, provide some of the best opportunities for beginning teachers to see how different classroom variables (e.g., resources available in classrooms, class size, and student demographics) can have an impact on teaching methods and strategies (Brush et al., 2003).

In order to provide companies with the customized solutions they seek, LxD designers need to know how and why learning sticks in adult minds — and which multimedia strategies will have the desired impact.

Early Learning as a School Improvement Intervention During this session at the Title I Conference, presenters Libby Doggett (USED), Lenay Dunn and Carlas McCauley (Center on School Turnaround), and Jana Martella (CEELO) provide an overview on how early learning strategies can advance achievement as a school improvement intervention, along with key research on the impact of high quality early learning programs.

TFA's recent placement strategy in the Miami - Dade County Public Schools, in which large numbers of TFA corps members are placed as clusters into a targeted set of disadvantaged schools, provides an opportunity to evaluate the impact of the TFA program on broader school performance.

The study will provide actionable insights for the School District of Philadelphia, including information on the impact of district messages about climate and suspension, strategies schools are using to reduce out - of - school suspensions, factors that impact schools» alignment with district priorities regarding discipline, and what resources matter most to schools» approaches to discipline.

The first year is a paid fellowship that provides aspiring school transformation principals with the opportunity to step back and develop a high - impact strategy and plan for creating a high - achieving urban public school — in the year prior to the first year as a principal.

Barnes & Noble has always worked to democratize books and reading and our approach was designed to deliver textbooks in a variety of formats and provide options that help lessen the financial impact on students in their quest for an education,» said Jade Roth, vice president of books and digital strategy at Barnes & Noble.

Dan Blank is the founder of WeGrowMedia.com, which provides writers and publishers the strategy and tactics they need to impact their communities and build their legacies.

The Defined Risk Strategy (DRS) was designed to mitigate the impact of these outlier events and possibly provide a smoother, more reliable, more consistent outcome.