Sentences with phrase «several national initiatives»

Perinatal support of breastfeeding is the focus of several national initiatives that call hospitals to evaluate and improve their birth practices:

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Through several public policy initiatives, NACO represents Angel asset class issues of national significance, assumes a leadership role in areas requiring national coordination and support, and promotes the Angel asset class to the general public in Canada and abroad.

In 2003, editor John Buckeridge commissioned several advertising agencies to create posters to re-sell the Church, an initiative which was widely featured on national press and TV.

Tahi Estate is carbon neutral, reduces, recycles and reuses where possible, GMO free and have won several national and international awards for their environmental initiatives.

The use and movement of illicit market firearms is a national problem; the amnesty is one of several initiatives being used to address firearm - related crimes and threats.

Poughkeepsie... With the approach of the Martin Luther King Jr. national holiday, Dutchess County Executive Marcus Molinaro has announced Dutchess County's enhanced commitment to equality for all citizens, with several Human Resources initiatives, including the appointment of Jody Miller as the County's new Equal Employment Opportunity / Human Rights (EEO / HR) Officer.

It is through efforts such as these that the WNYREDC, through the Buffalo Billion initiative, is taking several steps to support advanced manufacturing in the region and develop the region as a national hub of advanced manufacturing innovation.

With the Environmental Protection Agency convening a National Bedbug Summit Tuesday, City Council Speaker Christine Quinn and several council members called on federal officials to put money into initiatives to fight the minuscule, resilient creatures.

The national identification scheme and the national digital address system are part of the special policy initiatives by the government to formalize the economy, broaden the tax base, in order to rake in more revenue to make up for the abolishment of several «nuisance» taxes.

The KC initiative arose in response to a request from senior policy - makers and national program leaders from several developing countries.

It would receive $ 8.7 million to extend its review of antibacterial drugs and oversight of antibiotics in livestock as part of the Combating Antibiotic - Resistant Bacteria (CARB) initiative, a national strategy that has prompted Congress to nearly double overall spending on antibiotic resistance across several agencies, to $ 774 million in 2016.

Putting Earth Under the Microscope The San Andreas Fault Observatory at Depth is one of several elements of EarthScope, an ambitious $ 200 million initiative by the National Science Foundation that is investigating the geophysical forces that shape the North American continent.

Researchers at several DOE national laboratories are organizing a new initiative — New Fuels and Vehicle Systems Optima (Optima)-- targeting the development and... Read more →

BC OCPP has several provincial, national and international initiatives in place, including a joint Canada - India program to export our technology and procedures to India where oral cancer is one of that nation's major malignancies.

Now that the House and the Senate have staked out opposite positions on the proposed national testing initiative, the two chambers and President Clinton will likely shift their attention toward reaching a compromise that satisfies several competing interests.

Several months before the draft product of that initiative was even ready for inspection, he declared that that «I will not commit Texas taxpayers to... the adoption of unproven, cost - prohibitive national standards and tests.»

Since joining The Mind Trust in 2016, White has led The Mind Trust's partnership with the Relay Graduate School of Education's National Principals Academy Fellowship and has developed several groundbreaking initiatives that provide educators across Indianapolis with expert instructional, operational, and executive leadership support.

Several of these schools (in Switzerland, Germany, and Italy) have won awards for these outstanding pedagogical initiatives, including the Pestalozzi Award for Child - friendly Environments, donated by UNICEF Switzerland and other national youth organizations.

He was chair of the National Competitiveness Committee for the National Venture Capital Association, was selected by Obama to represent the United States at the United Nations General Assembly in 2012 focusing on global education issues, and has funded several education initiatives.

The authors (from four nonprofit education research groups that compile the report annually) detail several successful efforts that have increased graduation rates, but stress that improvement has come from targeted local interventions, not overarching national initiatives.

She has served as principal investigator for national evaluations of several important secondary school reform initiatives, most recently an ongoing evaluation of the California Linked Learning District Initiative, which is managed by ConnectEd and supported by the James Irvine Foundation.

Ms. Russell currently directs several PSA evaluations of out - of - school time initiatives, including the evaluations of the Out - of - School Time initiative for the New York City Department of Youth and Community Development, and of the national demonstration of ExpandED for The After School Corporation.

DPS has received national recognition during this time for several initiatives, including exceptional leadership development programs for teachers, school leaders, and principal supervisors; school choice; collaboration among district - run and charter schools; and promising new schools.

We have numerous other initiatives that we will be working on this year — including exciting legislative priorities that seek to advance several recommendations from our fall 2017 policy paper, a third national teacher - powered conference in Boston, several guest speakers on innovative educational topics, exploring new work on teacher preparation, and much more!

She has worked on a number of other studies, including a longitudinal study of the effectiveness of inclusive STEM high schools funded by the National Science Foundation, the National Evaluation of Writing Project Professional Development for the National Writing Project, the National Evaluation of the Teacher Incentive Fund Program for the U.S. Department of Education, evaluations of several school reform initiatives in Chicago, and the Bridging the Divide study that examined the transition from high school to college for the U.S. Department of Education.

This extends to several initiatives, including expanding the National Charter School Resource Center and convening working groups to address emerging issues.

Vetere has lead several pet industry wide initiatives including the formation of HABRI, the Pet Leadership Council (PLC) to strengthen and advance the pet industry and Pets Add Life (PAL), a national social media campaign promoting responsible pet ownership.

wouldn't tell the public that the problem is not the Law Society's problem, as in effect it does; (15) LSUC's website wouldn't state that lay benchers «represent the public interest,» which is impossible now that we are well beyond the 19th century; (16) CanLII's services would be upgraded in kind and volume to be a true support service, able to have a substantial impact upon the problem, and several other developed support services, all provided at cost, would together, provide a complete solution; (17) LSUC's management would not be part - time management by amateurs - amateurs because benchers don't have the expertise to solve the problem, nor are they trying to get it, nor are they joining with Canada's other law societies to solve this national problem; (18) the Federation of Law Societies of Canada would not describe the problem as being one of mere «gaps in access to legal services» (see its Sept. 2012 text, «Inventory of Access to Legal Services Initiatives of the Law Societies of Canada» (1st paragraph), (19) LSUC would not be encouraging the use alternatives to lawyers, such as law students, self - help, and «unbundled, targeted» legal services, as a «cutting costs by cutting competence» strategy; and, (20) it would not be necessary to impose an Ontario version of the Clementi Report (UK, 2004) that would separate LSUC's regulatory functions from its representative functions, to be exercised by separate authorities.

Several leading national insurers, in cooperation with some aviation - savvy brokers, have taken the initiative to offer pilots preferred life insurance rates without a rating or exclusion.

During the last several years I have been providing customer service and support initiatives for the Claim Jumper's and National Airlines in Las Vegas, NV.

The COPMI national initiative offers several interactive and evidence - based eLearning courses for professionals working with parents, children and families where a parent experiences mental illness.

Since 1988, Nigel Vann has managed various fatherhood programs, provided a wide range of assistance to numerous organizations, been involved in four national fatherhood demonstration projects, and worked with several international fatherhood initiatives.

Although Australia's National Oral Health Plan and several Closing - the - Gap initiatives identified Indigenous peoples as a priority, the prevalence of oral health conditions continue to have an impact, with Indigenous peoples reporting that health services are not culturally safe.

The agencies include the Indigenous Land Corporation (ILC), the National Native Title Tribunal (NNTT) and Victoria's Native Title Representative Body (Native Title Services Victoria), as well as Caring for Country (CFC), a Victorian community initiative which administers several ILC and National Heritage Trust funded programs in Victoria.

To help REALTORS ® succeed and expand their business opportunities in today's rapidly diversifying real estate market, and to help Associations to grow and prosper through well - planned, well - executived diversity initiatives, the National Association of REALTORS ® offers several educational opportunities.

The bill provides reauthorization of several initiatives that the National Association of REALTORS ® supports, including programs to increase transportation safety and develop more pedestrian - friendly communities.

CHICAGO (February 1, 2018)-- The Realtors Property Resource ®, a wholly owned subsidiary of the National Association of Realtors ®, has suspended its Advanced Multi-List Platform, or AMP, project to reduce costs by several million dollars in 2018 and allow greater focus on its core initiatives.