Sentences with phrase «public interest community»

Any 2L or 3L who attends a PSJD subscriber school and has significant pro bono contributions to underserved populations, the public interest community and legal education is eligible for nomination.This week, one of the 2016 - 17 PSJD Pro Bono Publico Award Merit Distinction honorees will be guest blogging about law student pro bono and their public interest commitments.

Tracy has worked very closely with grassroots public interest community organizations in such diverse areas as land use planning and community support for families.

This prestigious award honors one law student nationwide for their pro bono contributions to society, and recognizes the significant contributions that law students make to underserved populations, the public interest community, and legal education through public service work.

Every week, we honor an exceptional faculty / staff member who is making significant contributions to under - served populations, the public interest community, and / or legal education.

As the public interest community, we play a vital role.

The Pro Bono Publico Award recognizes the significant contributions that law students make to underserved populations, the public interest community, and legal education by performing pro bono work.

To recognize the significant contributions that law students make to underserved populations, the public interest community, and legal education by performing pro bono work.

The Law Foundation of Ontario is helping to coordinate articling positions in the Public Interest community, in conjunction with Pro Bono Students Canada (PBSC).

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Macquarie Group client investment manager David Kiely provided a financial community primer for what not do to in public view when he clicked on an e-mail containing racy GQ photos of Kerr as his colleague Martin Lakos appeared Tuesday on the country's Seven Network TV, to discuss the central bank's surprise decision to keep interest rates unchanged.

«It took four million comments to the FCC and a concerted effort from the public interest and startup communities to make Title II a real possibility.»

The result is To The Stars Academy of Arts & Science, a Public Benefit Corporation that seeks to «collaborate with global citizens to advance science and build a powerful community of interest» that is made up of three divisions: Entertainment, Science, and Aerospace.

At first they regulated the services that they performed directly — marriage and burial ceremonies, handicraft production via public guilds, and the prices and interest rates that merchants, public collectors and other professionals could charge, especially in serving as intermediaries between public institutions, local and foreign communities.

A committed leader with an interest in both business and education, Cardenas is a board member of several organizations including Discover The Palm Beaches, the Florida Atlantic University College of Education and the bi-partisan Council of Community Leaders, which seeks to shape public policy.

Notwithstanding its potential environmental burdens, the JRP ultimately concluded that the NGP is in the public interest, citing various societal benefits including primarily jobs and job - training for Aboriginal communities but also «research, monitoring, and planning initiatives and techniques with relevance beyond the project» and economic benefits, first and foremost the importance of «opening Pacific Basin markets» (NGP Report, Volume II, Chapter 2, s. 2.4.3 and 2.4.4.).

In addition to the normal representation of regional and linguistic interests, the commission included members from business, labour, the co-operative movement, the legal and academic communities, the public service and all 3 national political parties.

There are new offerings, like Calvert Foundation's Women Investing in Women Initiative for fixed income and the PAX Ellevate Global Women's Index Fund or Morgan Stanley's Parity Portfolio for public equities, and initiatives like The Women Effect bringing a new community together to accelerate deployment of interested capital into gender - lens investment opportunities.

Drawing on the biblical motifs of community and solidarity, the document formulates several principles of economic justice and then advocates community interests above private interests, and calls for public ownership and worker management in corporations.

Just knowing the size, the cultural prominence, and the public influence of the evangelical community, I was particularly interested in what the emergence of the ECI and other creation...

In the use of the mass media of communication, reverence is manifest in the aim of creating a blessed community, bound together in the truth, through media of public education devoted to the common good rather than to propaganda and profit for the advancement of selfish interests.

And a republican form of government makes it less likely that factional interests — that is, those groups that defend substantively wrongful and improper public policies — will be able to exercise their plans of oppression against the legitimate rights or interests of the community in general and the individual in particular.

the shift has been away from Freudian, Rogerian and Nietzschean values, especially individualistic selfactualization and narcissistic self - expression, and toward engendering durable habits of moral excellence and covenant community; methodologically away from modern culture - bound individuated experience and toward the shared public texts of Scripture and ecumenical tradition; politically away from trust in regulatory power and rationalistic planning to historical reasoning and a relatively greater critical trust in the responsible free interplay of interests in the marketplace of goods and ideas.

Robert Bellah has shown that American culture from its early beginnings has held two views in tension: on the one hand, the biblical understanding of community based on the notion of charity for all members, a community supported by public and private virtue; and, on the other hand, the utilitarian understanding that community is a neutral state which allows individuals to pursue the maximization of their self - interest.16.

At least one public broadcasting station, WITF - TV in Harrisburg, Pennsylvania, maintains a community - development process which helps people throughout the area to discuss issues of common interest, and, in effect, to re-create community.

In our great urban communities, rapidly becoming the normal context of American life, the influence of the church in many important collectivities may decide whether the public good or selfish interests will prevail.

Mr. George H. Pruette, Jr. (Director of Public Affairs, Advertising, for General Motors) says that «General Motors believes that positioning our advertisements in an environment of exploitative sex and gratuitous violence which violate the accepted standards of a community is not in the best interests of either the Corporation or to the sale of its products.»

For a very long time now we have been willing to tell ourselves that there are two moralities: one for the private world of family and community, where people share common interests, and another for the public world, the world of economics and politics, where power, greed and self - interest hold sway.

(30) Frank and Greenberg in their study The Public's Use of Television found that several of their specified interest groups in the community had a higher - than - average use of religious television programs even though their interest in religion was below average.

He headed to Chicago and worked for several nonprofit organizations, including the Illinois Public Interest Research Group and the Nkrumah Washington Community Learning Center, in the heart of gang territory.

The mission of the Sports & Society Program is to convene leaders, foster dialogue, and inspire solutions that help sport serve the public interest, with a focus on the development of healthy children and communities.

Mass Audubon stands with the affected communities and other interested public and private groups in supporting a strong EPA permit governing the implementation of this crucial environmental cleanup project, which may well affect Massachusetts and the Northeast for centuries.

The Role and Impact of the IBCLC: This position paper, released in 2011, is intended for IBCLCs, administrators, policy makers, and members of the public who are interested in the role and impact of the IBCLC within an organization, community, nation, or the world.

The audience for this Framework includes national policy - makers, programme managers, regional advisory bodies, public health authorities, Country Coordinating Mechanisms, United Nations staff, professional bodies, nongovernmental organizations and other interested stakeholders, including the community.

I graduated from a small high school, where the principal was very much interested in the poor and the hungry, and in public policy; he taught us how to be an advocate for the helpless people in our community and in our state.»

Email: [email protected] Date: 6 November 2013 Venues: McDonald Rooms Conference Centre, Hanover Housing, 95 McDonald Road, Edinburgh, EH7 4NS Audience: Specific interest More Information: Community Resilience under Public Service Reform event website The support of community empowerment and resilience is a core element of public policy reform in Community Resilience under Public Service Reform event website The support of community empowerment and resilience is a core element of public policy reform in ScoPublic Service Reform event website The support of community empowerment and resilience is a core element of public policy reform in community empowerment and resilience is a core element of public policy reform in Scopublic policy reform in Scotland.

I would strongly suggest that if someone is thinking about being involved in a future campaign for public office that they seek an appointment to a commission, board, or advisory community panel which will create interactions with other people who are interested in politics.

In that sense, a private company has to be understood as upholding public interest principles, as embedded in a community to which it owes duties and obligations.

«We will abide by the decision, but it's interesting that the judge did not go along with public employees who tried to tell the court there is no financial crisis,» the governor told reporters (including NY1's Grace Rauh) after delivering the commencement speech at Bronx Community College.

Citing the close race against Avella, the former head of public interest group Center for Community Interest said he hoped to draw on his years working alongside former Mayor Rudy Giuliani to restore honesty throughout the dinterest group Center for Community Interest said he hoped to draw on his years working alongside former Mayor Rudy Giuliani to restore honesty throughout the dInterest said he hoped to draw on his years working alongside former Mayor Rudy Giuliani to restore honesty throughout the district.

New York City's public financing program has opened the door «for meaningful participation from working - class communities,» resulting in a city council that is not only more racially and economically diverse, but that is also better positioned to represent the interests of ordinary New Yorkers.

Jack and Jill of America - Brooklyn Chapter Korean American League for Civic Action (KALCA) Latino Leadership Institute League of Women Voters of New York City Live On NY MinKwon Center for Community Action National Conference of Puerto Rican Women - NY Chapter National Woman's Political Caucus The New American Leaders Project New York Immigration Coalition New York Public Interest Research Group NYC Votes NYU Lutheran Families Health Centers Omega Phi Beta Sorority, Inc..

If you are interested in lobbying local elected officials for policy changes that effect our neighborhood (congestion pricing, affordable housing, public school improvements), getting involved in the local community board, or participating in our club's efforts to elect progressive judges, this is the committee for you.

The attention of Bayelsa State Police Command has been drawn to the increasing Public Procession and blockage of access roads by agitators, interest groups, communities and protesters without formal notifications or approval from the relevant authority thereby denying access to other users of pubPublic Procession and blockage of access roads by agitators, interest groups, communities and protesters without formal notifications or approval from the relevant authority thereby denying access to other users of publicpublic...

The Advisory Board, which is mandated by the Older Americans Act, helps conducts annual public hearings; represent the interests of older persons; and reviews and comments on community policies, programs and actions, which affect older persons.

On the same day community watch volunteer George Zimmerman made his first appearance in court to face murder charges in the death of Florida teen Trayvon Martin, New York Attorney General Eric Schneiderman tells WAMC that the case is a good example of what can happen when the public takes an interest in pursuing justice.

Metzger is also the director of Citizens for Local Power, a local not - for - profit organization that provides a voice for community interests at the New York State Public Service Commission, serves as a local utility watchdog and promotes a more equitable, affordable, locally based clean - energy economy.

But because the Pine Barrens are near suburban communities, fires have been «suppressed regularly in the interest of protecting public health and safety,» he said.

It's time our community rejects the special interests and their lobbyist, Jose Felix Diaz and elect a champion who will fight for our public schools, take on traffic gridlock and enhance our healthcare system.

It's time our community rejects the special interests and their lobbyist, Jose Felix Diaz and elect a champion who will fight for our public schools, take on traffic gridlock and enhance our healthcare system,» said Taddeo in a statement.

«Her work in Albany as well as her grassroots efforts to uplift the Long Island community will make her a strong addition to the Senate Democratic Party and her dedication to fight for the public interest of New Yorkers make her a true supporter of the progressive movement.»

Fifteen of the 16 communities where developers are eyeing casino development have populations under 50,000, a report on casino lobbying released by the New York Public Research Interest Group on Monday found.