Sentences with phrase «significant aid their communities»

ALBANY — While the North Country missed out on one of three $ 500 million jackpots given as part of the Upstate Revitalization Initiative, the region landed $ 85.1 million in state funding on Thursday for projects officials say will significant aid their communities.

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One significant victory in that battle was last year's passage of the Healthy, Hunger - Free Kids Act which, among other things, uses Medicaid data to directly certify children for free and reduced price meals; helps states improve the certification process for school meal aid; allows universal free meals for students in high poverty communities; and expands USDA authority to support meals served to at - risk children in after school programs.

Bill Sherwood's film is one of the first and most significant works (indie, of course) about the AIDS crisis that goes beyond the issue of coming out, placing its romantic triangle in the broader context of a vibrant gay community.

Bradford came of age in the 1980s, witnessing the destruction of his primary communities of identification by two significant historical events: the HIV / AIDS crisis which decimated the gay scene in Los Angeles and other major metropolitan centers, and the 1992 Rodney King riots, which rekindled much of the latent anger within L.A.'s African American neighborhoods that the 1965 Watts Rebellion had exposed a generation prior.

This new money would be another significant step in fulfilling the Civil Justice Reinvestment Plan — our community's approach to create meaningful access to civil legal aid.

«Having the International AIDS Conference here in the U.S. marks a significant human rights victory and an opportunity for those of us engaged in the fight against AIDS in this country to connect with the global health community,» said Cecile Richards, president of Planned Parenthood Federation of America.

Strategies: Develop initiatives that target parents and community in the importance of breakfast before school; provide adequate numbers of ATSI community education counsellors and teachers aids at all schools with significant numbers of ATSI students; undertake feasibility study on the establishment of an ATSI Unit at the regional TAFE; increase academic scholarships available to ATSI students.