Sentences with phrase «smaller neighborhood groups»

The Mayor's Alliance, a nonprofit liaison between city agencies, major animal protection organizations and smaller neighborhood groups, has a program called the NYC Feral Cat Initiative providing information, education and some services, like transport and traps.

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A small group of weary and conference - hungover hackers, information security professionals and activists is gathering at the new San Francisco office of Yahoo, in the neighborhood of South of Market, or SoMa, a quickly gentrifying and hip neighborhood filled with tech startups.

I would like to acknowledge what is a long list: Federal Emergency Management Agency (FEMA), the Small Business Administration (SBA), the Office of the New York Attorney General, the New York State Department of Financial Services, the New York Legal Assistance Group, Staten Island Legal Services, the Legal Aid Society, MFY Legal Services, various bar associations, New York City Department of Small Business Services, Center for New York City Neighborhoods, Neighborhood Housing Services of Staten Island and the Northfield Local Community Development Corporation.

If a small group wants to meet weekly, then make every other week a service project in the neighborhood or a dinner for the neighbors, nothing more.

The fastest growing and largest churches in the world are cell - based, with all of the church ministry flowing out of small groupings of people who meet weekly, worshiping together, studying together, praying together and often engaging in highly imaginative service to people in their neighborhoods.

Neighborhoods, ethnic groups, and tribes differ from small groups in other important ways.

Most of us are probably vaguely aware of small groups that meet in our neighborhoods or at local churches and synagogues.

Before taking to the show floor, a small group of exhibitors and attendees at Natural Products Expo East braved the rain in Baltimore on Wednesday, Sept. 13, to lend a hand on the city's largest urban farm that aims to improve neighborhood access to fresh, healthy food.

PEPS is a wonderful program connecting small groups of new parents by neighborhood for 12 weeks of discussion.

, the Downtown Boston First Time Moms Facebook group, and my neighborhood group, The Moms Club of South Boston (which also arranges small groups by child's age).

The group, he said, is planning to swap its small protests for a grassroots offensive, which will include canvassing outside subway stations and across Democratic neighborhoods.

One implication of the different spatial distribution of people by race is that lots of metropolitan areas have de facto segregated schools, while Brown v. Board of Education and the cases that followed were quite effective in requiring schools in small towns and rural areas with racially mixed populations to be integrated, since they don't have many schools period and don't have nearly as great residential segregation into large nearly mono - racial groups of neighborhoods the way that many large cities do.

A small chunk of Buffalo Billion funds designated for revitalizing neighborhoods and improving transit in the city went to about two dozen companies and local groups, a few of which also donated to the governor.

Comrie, the deputy majority leader at City Hall, has listed 144 member items in this year's budget, including small donations to neighborhood groups such as the Cambria Heights Civic Association, which received $ 3,500, and large contributions to long - running community organizations, such as the $ 28,000 he gave to the Afrikan Poetry Theatre for workshops.

EAST HARLEM — A small coalition of local community groups held a press conference Monday to call on mayor Bill de Blasio to halt his proposed rezoning of the neighborhood.

Then came more hints of something strange in the neighborhood: a trickle of X-rays from the same spot, tendrils of agitated gas surrounding it and, most telling, a small group of stars racing around madly for no obvious reason.

The small unit or apartment in a well - to - do area is superior than the most grand home in a lower class neighborhood, when it comes to rubbing shoulders with a wealthier group of people or rich male singles.

«When I first came to Oak Hill, we canvassed the neighborhood in small groups of staff members to ensure we spoke to every family,» she says.

Heisler consulted with neighborhood groups and with the whole Pie Ranch community, now including several teachers at Mission and dozens of kids, before she sold her house and purchased a building at 25th Street and Mission, just a few blocks from the high school, and turned a small downstairs apartment into a café.

Nearly two decades after they attended an experimental preschool program in a low - income neighborhood in Ypsilanti, Mich., the small group of young people monitored in a now - well - known study continue to fare better as students, workers, and citizens than children from the same neighborhood who did not attend the preschool.

The relatively smaller size of Census Block Groups (compared to tracts) allows us to most closely match school boundary neighborhoods.

[27] About 20 percent of all public school students do not appear in the dataset because the group who live in a neighborhood and attend one school is smaller than 10 students.

Together with a small group of dedicated volunteers, she provides hope and second chances to the residents of this neglected neighborhood, known as «Double Rock.»

But while these locations would certainly be memorable, extraordinary, and positively brag - worthy, if I had the choice a small part of me would rather head to that neighborhood diner with a group of old friends, where we would squeeze into vinyl booths, scarf greasy pizza, and drink cheap Chianti long into the night.

Our small group explored the Bang Rak neighborhood, which lies just to the east of the Chao Phraya river.

Small groups of seniors will visit to artists» studios to expand the relationship between artists and their neighborhood.

The Perry Art Park project is a partnership with the neighborhood group Friends of Perry Park and the City of Austin's Parks and Recreation Department to create a small - scale sculpture park in Perry Neighborhood Park.

They are known as «pods» or «clusters» - groups of small repurposed trailers and carts with wheels that have infiltrated every major neighborhood in Portland, Oregon.

Others simply celebrated the diversity and tolerance of the local community («vibrant southwest Hispanic neighborhood offering great classical Mexican culture, restaurants, and businesses»), or sought to appeal to some groups without excluding anyone («Great apartment for graduate students, married couple, or small family»).

You'll fall in love with the sky lounge — it offers a perfect opportunity to host a party for a small group of friends and show off your amazing new home and neighborhood.

A planning day began Monday morning at Marjory Stoneman Douglas High School as teachers streamed in and were welcomed by small group of school parents and neighborhood residents carrying welcome back signs and caling out greetings.

If I'm tougher than the neighborhood and can outlast the small group of losers that ruin an area I can make outrageous returns, once he property is stabilized.

The ancient trees and colorful planters of a vibrant downtown, the local theater group that brings entertainment to a small town — these and more create the sense of livability that attracts buyers and builds strong neighborhoods.