Sentences with phrase «shelter directors in»

And yet those who should be celebrating them as heroes — our nation's animal protection groups — instead denigrate and malign them, paradoxically equating them with some of the cruelest people there are — hoarders and dog fighters — in order to fight legislation that would empower them to overcome shelter directors in community after community who make it impossible to do what should be simple and straightforward — partnering with others to save lives.

These protocols were developed in collaboration with some of the most successful shelter directors in the country.

Personnel from Charlottesville and Jacksonville have become successful shelter directors in Lynchburg and Tampa, respectively.

This appears to be somewhat consistent with what I hear from shelter directors in other parts of the country.

The former shelter director in Guilford County, Marsha Williams, was suspended with pay earlier this month.

When Michael Kitkoski heard that Austin achieved no - kill status in March of 2011, he persuaded the shelter director in Rockwall to let him try replicating APA's success.

«I am a new Shelter Director in a shelter with a great many challenges.

From a shelter director in New York state about the threat of dog breeders moving there from Missouri in the wake of Prop B....

A shelter director in my area suggested mandatory s / n when I asked her for ideas on how to save more shelter cats.

Not exact matches

As HSUS Texas senior state director Katie Jarl, Florida state director Kate MacFall and director of shelter outreach and policy engagement Kim Alboum organized the transports, Animal Rescue Team members, coordinated by senior director Sára Varsa, searched for missing pets and animals in need of rescue.

Karen Newman, marketing director at Royal LePage Atlantic Homestead in St. John's, was instrumental in setting up a hair salon at a local women's shelter.

«Our priority is to give those in shelters immediate relief with perishable and non-perishable food items and water,» said Heidi Clarke, executive director of the Sandals Foundation, who flew into Turks & Caicos with a team to assess the damage this week.

«The ASPCA is pleased to be in a position where we can assist animal shelters in Florida by helping move homeless cats and dogs out of impacted communities to free up much - needed space for owned pets displaced by the storm,» said Dick Green, senior director of Disaster Response for ASPCA Field Investigations and Response.

Since Nov. 1, volunteers have helped package food at the Greater Chicago Food Depository, 4501 S. Tripp Ave., which distributes food to pantries and shelters in the city and suburbs, said executive director Mike Mulqueen.

The planned project, likely to done in phases, calls for picnic areas, shelters, restrooms, trails and several softball and baseball fields, according to district director Roy Cripe.

«There's a little bit of a perfect storm going on,» said Kate Maehr, executive director of the Greater Chicago Food Depository, which supplies 600 shelters, pantries and soup kitchens in Cook County to feed about 500,000 people a year.

Kate Maehr, executive director of the cavernous South Side food depository, said more than 32,000 one - pound packages of ground pork and an accompanying 12,000 pounds of bacon and sausage — donated by Farmland Foods — would be swiftly shipped out to 652 food pantries, shelters and after - school programs in Cook County, and more than 1,000 other pantries statewide.

The 10 - acre park, which Director Larry DeGraaf describes as «run down,» will get three new baseball fields, a hiking and biking path, new playground equipment, a picnic shelter, a sand volleyball court and an in - line skating rink.

«One of the most gruesome things we hear at the Ali Forney Center is our young people who have been recently diagnosed in their desperation to get shelter and housing will forsake taking the medication because they want to be eligible for the current HASA guidelines,» said Carl Siciliano, executive director of the group, which helps homeless LGBT youth.

Carl Siciliano, the founder and executive director of the Ali Forney Center, lauded the de Blasio administration for adding 100 new emergency beds in youth shelters over the past year, which he sees as a down payment on a commitment to grow the stock of available spots until the unmet need is addressed.

Community Voices Heard (CVH), a member led organization of low - income families with chapters in Poughkeepsie, Newburgh, Yonkers and NYC; Current and former Emergency Shelter clients and homeless Poughkeepsie residents; Rev. Blake Ryder of Christ Church in Poughkeepsie; Brian Riddell, Executive Director of Dutchess Outreach; other social service providers, faith and community leaders.

The task force, chaired by city Human Resources Administration commissioner Steve Banks, Housing Preservation and Development commissioner Vicki Been and Laura Mascuch, executive director of the Supportive Housing Network of New York, will help the city expedite the creation of the new housing units, de Blasio said, as it faces high numbers of homeless people living in city shelters and on the streets.

We believe that the solution is always closest to the issue.We remain an important resource for youth now, when RTA passes and an effective model of how to treat young people in the midst of RTA,» said Christian M. Philemon, Executive Director, Youth Shelter Program of Westchester.

«School kids living in homeless shelters must contend with unimaginable levels of stress and hardship, and are at a tremendous disadvantage when trying to keep up with their housed peers in class,» said DAVE GIFFEN, Executive Director of the Coalition for the Homeless, the nation's oldest advocacy and direct service organization helping homeless men, women and children.

Alex Zablocki, director of community relations for DHS, said there had only been two arrests in the area of the shelter since it opened six months ago and that the apartment has 24 - hour security and a strict 10 p.m. curfew.

As CountyExecutive, my administration will continue our work with Hi Tor President Lizanne Fiorentino and her Board of Directors to build a new shelter, increase adoptions, save more lives and prevent animal suffering — all in the most fiscally responsible way possible.

As County Executive, my administration will continue our work with Hi Tor President Lizanne Fiorentino and her Board of Directors to build a new shelter, increase adoptions, save more lives and prevent animal suffering — all in the most fiscally responsible way possible.

Boyd, an archaeologist and director of SHUMLA (Studying Human Use of Materials, Land, and Art), an education and research center in Comstock, Texas, will spend the afternoon scouring the shelter for insight into the ancient residents and their spiritual world.

When the influenza results came back positive NYACC reached out for assistance to Dr. Sandra Newbury, the Director of the Shelter Medicine Program at the University of Wisconsin - Madison School of Veterinary Medicine (UW - SMP), because of her recent work with influenza in dogs and cats in the Midwest.

Scott Speedman and Evan Rachel Wood star as the ne'er - do - well son of a wealthy Southern family and the sheltered young woman he begins to fall for in Barefoot, a romantic comedy from director Andrew Fleming (Dick, Hamlet 2) and writer Stephen Zotnowski.

After making his name with three independent films in Shotgun Stories, Take Shelter and Mud, director Jeff Nichols approaches his fourth feature with a bigger budget, making it his first studio production and allowing him to operate on a slightly more ambitious and grander scale.

At the Critics» Week — where, in the interest of full disclosure, I served on a competition jury comprised of three other critics and the South Korean director Lee Chang - dong — the highlight of an unusually strong lineup was Take Shelter, the second feature by Shotgun Stories director Jeff Nichols, an acknowledged Malick acolyte whose new film shares a producer with The Tree of Life as well as a leading lady, Jessica Chastain (reportedly at Malick's personal recommendation).

Director: Paul Bettany Cast: Anthony Mackie, Jennifer Connelly Certificate: 18 Watch Shelter online in the UK: iTunes / Amazon Instant Video / TalkTalk TV Store / Rakuten TV / Sky Store / Google Play

Director Dan Trachtenberg embraces the «less is more concept», perhaps not to the extent of superior psychological thrillers «Take Shelter» or «Z For Zachariah», but still in the right direction.

In 2011, relatively unknown writer / director Jeff Nichols took a lot of people by surprise when he delivered one of the best films of the year in «Take Shelter `In 2011, relatively unknown writer / director Jeff Nichols took a lot of people by surprise when he delivered one of the best films of the year in «Take Shelter `in «Take Shelter ``.

It's not quite as good as «Take Shelter» but this is a director that has started strongly, backed it up with one of the best film's of 2011 and I believe will continue to go from strength to strength — time will tell with his forthcoming film «Mud» released later in 2012.

Included in this final batch of flicks the world premiere of director Tom Six's The Human Centipede 2: Full Sequence; Retreat starring Cillian Murphy, Thandie Newton and Jamie Bell; Morgan Spurlock's documentary Comic - Con Episode IV: A Fan's Hope; and director Jeff Nichols» drama Take Shelter starring Michael Shannon and Jessica Chastain.

She said the presence of young directors like Green and Jeff Nichols («Take Shelter,» «Mud») in the city brings a whole new generation of recognition.

He proves why once more in «Take Shelter,» writer - director Jeff Nichols» compelling but discomfiting study of a man struggling to balance his unshakable belief that the end is near with his recognition that he is, in all likelihood, going crazy.

Writer / director Michael Pearce, in his debut feature, has crafted a bizarre and intense story of a sheltered 27 - year - old woman, Moll Huntford (Jessie Buckley), and her new - found obsessive love, Pascal Renouf (Johnny Flynn).

In Take Shelter, writer / director Jeff Nichols (Shotgun Stories, also with Michael Shannon) makes that threat — this 21st century fear of losing everything you have — and makes it physical.

January 29, 2006 My first glimpse of lanky British director Stephen Frears was in passing as he took shelter from a frigid early - December wind in a doorway in front of Denver's historic Brown Palace Hotel.

A kind of subversive take on the traditional Noah story, Take Shelter made good on the promises of writer / director Jeff Nichols» first feature Shotgun Stories, establishing him as a powerful new voice in the film community.

Still, in smaller, quieter films, like those by indie director Jeff Nichols (Take Shelter, Mud, Midnight Special), Shannon has been restrained and therefore palatable, his excess reduced to a manageable (and very watchable) simmer.

For Shelter, his first film as a writer - director, Paul Bettany cast his wife Jennifer Connelly in the demanding leading role of a homeless junkie.

Directors Jason Reitman («Up in the Air»), Cary Fukunaga («Beasts of No Nation»), and Jeff Nichols («Take Shelter») are among notable former festival winners earning recognition for their first films.

Bertolucci had already received a Globe nomination as Best Director for Last Tango in Paris in 1974, and would later be nominated again, for The Sheltering Sky in 1991.

Movies, best seen in a big dark room full of strangers, are uniquely suited for creating and sustaining a sense of captivating mystery, and few films have done it better this year than Midnight Special, the latest from writer - director Jeff Nichols (Take Shelter, Mud).

Mud Year: 2013 Director: Jeff Nichols In 2011, Jeff Nichols turned heads at Sundance with his second film Take Shelter, as did his fast - rising stars Jessica Chastain and Michael Shannon.

Special honors went to actress - director Angelina Jolie, who took the Board of Governors Award; Russell Carpenter (the Oscar - winning «Titanic») won the Lifetime Achievement Award; Alan Caso («Six Feet Under») earned the Career Achievement in Television Award; Russell Boyd (the Oscar - winning «Master and Commander: The Far Side of the World») won the International Award; Stephen Lighthill («Gim me Shelter») grabbed the Presidents Award; and Frieder Hochheim, president and founder of Kino Flo Lighting Systems, earned the Bud Stone Award of Distinction.