Sentences with phrase «research local charities»

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Overall, Americans give hundreds of billions of dollars of their own money every year to universities, research institutions, clinics, private schools, churches, and thousands of private charities (both local and international).

Shannon and his family maintain close ties to the community and regularly participate in local business and charity organizations including a brain tumor research fund established in honor of his late wife Judy, VanMatre says.

Off the top of my head the biggest ones are: (1) corruption within the Buildings & Grounds Department (2) corruption involving school district vendors over-billing and paying bribes and kickbacks that led to those two Federal indictments and convictions; (3) corruption involving police harassment of a woman on behalf of the manager of a local beach club; (4) a child rapist operating out of a public middle school; (5) an illegal gambling and pornography web site operated by members of the New Rochelle Police Department; (6) a retired police officer defrauding charities including St. Jude's Children's Research; (7) illegal asbestos handling and asbestos removal at an elementary school; (8) an effort to artificially inflate the salaries and pensions of senior police commanders; (9) the relationship between the New Rochelle Police Commissioner and a corrupt contractor, a man who has since been convicted on Federal corruption charges; (10) the sordid history of former New Rochelle Schools Administrator Freddie Dean Smith.

Research by leading disability charities on the social care crisis has found that 34 % of working aged disabled people said that local authority cuts to their social care has prevented them from working or volunteering.

Here, we look at a range of charities — from large to small, national to local — that focus on funding research, the crucial component of the search for a cure for breast cancer.

Other charity involvements have included The Animal Rescue Fund, East End Theater and Radio, breast cancer research, and local art and artists via The Parrish Art Museum and Guild Hall membership.

This month, a city lawyer will reach the halfway point in her target to run 100 kilometres in competitive racing during 2017, to raise funds for a local cancer research charity.

I am also on the fundraising committee for a local charity that raises money for cancer research.

«There are so many charities involved in cancer research, which is very important, but I love that this event helps local Stratford patients,» says Doell.

And research shows these local business owners also support local charities, sports teams, and other community groups dramatically more than the big chains.

I've done some preliminary research on this idea not so much for profit but more along the lines of partnering with a local charity.