Sentences with phrase «social cause group»

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CHARITY group Dine for Life, which raises money from diners for a range social and humanitarian causes, is taking its Perth fund - raising expertise to the eastern states.

Success stories like Harrison's are few and far between for social entrepreneurs, defined as «someone who targets an unfortunate but stable equilibrium that causes the neglect, marginalization, or suffering of a segment of humanity; who brings to bear on this situation his or her inspiration, direct action, creativity, courage, and fortitude; and who aims for and ultimately affects the establishment of a new stable equilibrium that secures permanent benefit for the targeted group and society at large,» by Roger L. Martin and Sally Osberg in a 2007 Stanford University report titled «Social Entrepreneurship: The Case for Definition.&social entrepreneurs, defined as «someone who targets an unfortunate but stable equilibrium that causes the neglect, marginalization, or suffering of a segment of humanity; who brings to bear on this situation his or her inspiration, direct action, creativity, courage, and fortitude; and who aims for and ultimately affects the establishment of a new stable equilibrium that secures permanent benefit for the targeted group and society at large,» by Roger L. Martin and Sally Osberg in a 2007 Stanford University report titled «Social Entrepreneurship: The Case for Definition.&Social Entrepreneurship: The Case for Definition.»

A spokeswoman for Toronto - based TMX Group said the company was investigating the cause of the disruption but would be confining its comments to its social media feed.

He repeats his description of the ways bad charity (the Great Society) drove out good charity (religiously based groups): It reinterpreted the causes of poverty as exclusively material and environmental; its bureaucracy tried to reach ever - larger numbers of poor people with a decreasingly personal strategy for fighting poverty; it dismissed the role of volunteers in favor of professional social workers; and it removed the incentives for work, saving, and marriage.

One model that deeply embodies Christian values is a group of families pooling resources so as to reduce expenses and to free some of the adults to work as full - time volunteers for social and environmental causes.

Otherwise the only way to view those wars, is as all other wars — one group of thugs attempting to kill another group of thugs, both doing so in the name of their own ego, misappropriating whatever political, religious, and social pressure and propaganda they can, to their cause.

abortion as a standard part of health - care provision, insisting on programmes of sex education that promoted a range of sexual activities and downgraded marriage... all this and more gave great cause for concern and brought together a group of doctors, teachers, social workers and others anxious to take some action.

It is corporate social sin, by great groups of persons against great groups of persons, that causes the most serious evil consequences and is hardest to reckon with.

Persons or groups with strong commitments to social action or evangelical faith often shun direct engagement with Wiltshire - like churches, dismissing them as lost to the cause, and instead issue more general pronouncements that avoid the nastiness of encounter with specific congregations whose values oppose their own.

When a social group or political party embraces a position and maintains its commitment to it beyond a threshold of faddishness, when a cause becomes permanently entrenched within a group's self - understanding, a likely explanation turns to moral and philosophical grounds, not an embrace born and preserved out of expediency.

His discussions on the concept of God emphasize the reformation caused in the concept of God when it is undertaken by different social groups.

The event is being conducted by a group of enthusiastic youngsters from Rajasthan in India, who are working towards many social causes in the city.

Susan Lerner, executive director of Common Cause NY, a government watchdog group, said replacing the town's social media accounts with Saladino's was «completely inappropriate.»

Violence was accepted as a political tool against foreign as well as domestic enemies of their cause, which was to be achieved by a national revolution led by a dictatorship that would drive out the occupying powers and set up a government representing all regions and social groups.

Anti-violence and social justice groups in Syracuse are focusing on what's called conflict transformation or getting to the root of what is causing violence in the community.

The group cautioned the government agencies and the media to be careful in future before carelessly broadcasting sensational information, so as not to become the cause of a violent national social upheaval by misled Nigerians who are already on edge and frustrated with the status quo during this recession.

[268] Former Prime Minister Tony Blair, writing in The Observer, stated that the riots were not caused by a broken society, but due to a group of young, alienated, disaffected youth who are outside the social mainstream and who live in a culture at odds with any canons of proper behaviour; he added that this is found in virtually every developed nation.

Reclaim's critics point to the group's sophisticated use of social media as a cause for concern.

, 1968 Zick Rubin, «The Social Psychology of Romantic Love», 1969 Elliot Aronson, «Some Antecedents of Interpersonal Attraction», 1970 David C. Glass and Jerome E. Singer, «The Urban Condition: Its Stresses and Adaptations — Experimental Studies of Behavioral Consequences of Exposure to Aversive Events», 1971 Norman H. Anderson, «Information Integration Theory: A Brief Survey», 1972 Lenora Greenbaum, «Socio - Cultural Influences on Decision Making: An Illustrative Investigation of Possession - Trance in Sub-Saharan Africa», 1973 William E. McAuliffe and Robert A. Gordon, «A Test of Lindesmith's Theory of Addiction: The Frequency of Euphoria Among Long - Term Addicts», 1974 R. B. Zajonc and Gregory B. Markus, «Intellectual Environment and Intelligence», 1975 Johnathan Kelley and Herbert S. Klein, «Revolution and the Rebirth of Inequality: The Bolivian National Revolution», 1977 Murray Melbin, «Night as Frontier», 1978 Ronald S. Wilson, «Synchronies in Mental Development: An Epigenetic Perspective», 1979 Bibb Latane, Stephen G. Harkins, and Kipling D. Williams, «Many Hands Make Light the Work: The Causes and Consequences of Social Loafing», 1980 Gary Wayne Strong, «Information, Pattern, and Behavior: The Cognitive Biases of Four Japanese Groups», 1981 Richard A. Shweder and Edmund J. Bourne, «Does the Concept of the Person Vary Cross Culturally?»

Schizophrenic psychoses are a frequently occurring group of psychiatric disorders caused by a combination of biological, social and environmental factors.

For social insects, I'm presenting as much evidence as I can summon for each of the two opposing views: Either collateral kin selection is the key, or group selection favored by very unusual environments caused them to be altruistic.

«Gall and Damsky's experiment helps us understand how human - caused noise can interfere with the transfer of information among animals in social groups,» according Florida Atlantic University's Rindy Anderson, an expert in vocal communication in birds who was not involved with the study.

In a presentation in January at the Society for Personality and Social Psychology conference, researchers Juliana Breines and Serena Chen described a set of experiments in which they asked one group of participants to give support to another person, such as writing down suggestions to make a friend feel better after causing a fender bender.

Research has shown that social diversity in a group can cause discomfort, rougher interactions, a lack of trust, greater perceived interpersonal conflict, lower communication, less cohesion, more concern about disrespect, and other problems.

Telling a person from your social circle, interest group, or from a regular dating website about a herpes diagnose is often uncomfortable, embarrassing, and causes a fear of rejection.

About Blog Runners of Compassion is a registered non-profit society whose members participate as a group to raise awareness of and provide funding for social and charitable causes.

I told this story to a group of two dozen or so of my fellow ed reformers last week at an American Enterprise Institute convening on «race, social justice, and school reform» because I wanted to make two simple (some will say simplistic) points: our expensive and aggressive ed reform efforts still focus far too little on what kids do in school all day; and we don't all have the same ideas about what it means to serve the cause of social justice — or whether it is even appropriate to place social justice issues at the heart of our efforts to improve outcomes for kids.

The National Business Consortium for the Gifted and Talented, as the group called itself, proposed to carry out an ambitious scheme incorporating one of the new President's major themes — the enlistment of the national business community in «partnerships» with those championing important social causes, in this case the advancement of programs for gifted schoolchildren.

In - depth interviews with students who became engaged in social and environmental causes in middle and high school showed that each was motivated to serve the greater good through an ability to empathize with individuals and feel compassion for victimized, oppressed, and marginalized groups.

An insightful group of beta readers, an understanding of the importance of proofreading and editing, an eye for cover design, the ability to write a kick ass book blurb and a knack for social media won't hurt your cause either.

Often, canine - focused social groups enjoy supporting dog - related causes.

Social media is a powerful tool in these situations; in order to stand out from the pack, each person or group must come up with something clever to make their cause the most memorable.

The Monkeys are slowly replaced until the initial cause of the social structure and its rules are no longer known to the group; who continue to repeat the process like Sisyphus rolling his bolder into eternity.

Research has shown that social diversity in a group can cause discomfort, rougher interactions, a lack of trust, greater perceived interpersonal conflict, lower communication, less cohesion, more concern about disrespect, and other problems.

Religious organizations are groups where people are often already coming to make a change, so it makes sense for these organizations to be rallying points for environmental and social causes.

Also, when we keep these connections in mind, we can forge alliances with groups fighting for better healthcare, for social justice, and for many other causes.

The latest figures from the US Interagency Working Group on Social Cost of Carbon calculate a range of monetary damages expected to be caused by a metric ton of CO2 emitted in 2015; $ 12 (using a 5.0 % discount rate), $ 38 (using a 3.0 % discount rate), $ 58 (using a 2.5 % discount rate), and $ 109, (using a 3.0 % discount rate, 95th percentile).

Social networking sites are proving to be a valuable tool for labour union to bring a group of people together in a common cause.

Differences in academic achievement between demographic groups are frequently caused by social inequities while differences within the same group indicate different abilities.

legal problems they don't know that they have, e.g., one unserviced legal problem often leads to several more — e.g., termination of employment without cause or compensation, means debt, loss of property, family break - up, depression, substance abuse, and sometimes suicide, etc.; and, (3) enlist the help of the social media, news media, pressure groups, and those political parties in opposition to governments; (4) everyone should complain loudly to all of the above about law societies» failure to try to solve the unaffordable legal services problem — their failure to attack it is the cause.

Spain's government said state and private - sector Russian groups, as well as groups in Venezuela, used social media and the internet to publicize the separatist cause and affect the outcome of Catalonia's October 1 referendum on independence from Spain.

Ie if the person in the car has high social credit, the car will kill / injure a group of people with extremely low social credit before it will cause harm to the high social credit person.

About Blog Runners of Compassion is a registered non-profit society whose members participate as a group to raise awareness of and provide funding for social and charitable causes.

Draw up an intake form, he recommends, that includes questions like, Sometimes people have commitments to groups or causes outside of the family and their close social world.

About Blog Runners of Compassion is a registered non-profit society whose members participate as a group to raise awareness of and provide funding for social and charitable causes.

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Other social determinants that cause stress and trauma are also involved, as the conference has heard they are for other high prevalence groups like people with mental health issues.

Beyond those questions, Clark never showed whether poor social support caused depression or depression caused kids to have poor social support groups.

The promotion of social harmony and stability within the wider Australian community by removing so far as possible, the legitimate cause of complaint of an important minority group within that community;

The Parenting Skills Group, developed and led by Blacker and fellow UC Davis researcher Brandi Liles, is designed for parents and caregivers who are embarking upon or already in the process of reunifying with children who have been commercially sexually exploited.Educating parents around this complex issue and the trauma it causes is paramount to successful reunification, according to social workers and anti-trafficking advocates.