Sentences with phrase «social change around»

Over the last 15 years, Ms. Friedman has worked in the civil society sector to advance social change around the globe, from helping social entrepreneurs launch new initiatives, to helping organizations scale for impact, to building cross-sector partnerships.

The training emphasizes the importance of personal and community responsibility for social change around issues of violence against women.

Given social changes around gender and parenting issues — particularly in middle to upper income countries — it would seem obvious that fathers these days would be more interested in playing an active role in parenting.

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Political advocacy is a critical part in building a social movement around change, Zuckerberg said in the statement about Plouffe's new role.

Launched in 2015 around the birth of the couple's daughter Max, the Chan Zuckerberg Initiative seeks to make social change through engineering, science, and education.

But regardless of which side you lean toward, there are entrepreneurs leading the way in social impact, people like Joshua Schukman, founder of Social Change Nation, an organization focused on bringing together entrepreneurs from around the world who are making an impact while still making a psocial impact, people like Joshua Schukman, founder of Social Change Nation, an organization focused on bringing together entrepreneurs from around the world who are making an impact while still making a pSocial Change Nation, an organization focused on bringing together entrepreneurs from around the world who are making an impact while still making a profit.

«Regulations around cannabis are changing rapidly around the world, along with social acceptance,» says Derek Riedle, founder and CEO of the cannabis and lifestyle media company Civilized.

What has changed, however, is that people now spend significant portions of their time on and within social networks built around their interests and relationships.

The company eventually pivoted away from hardware, changed its name to Earn, and built a social network around cryptocurrency.

And that is the thing that really is changing, and of course how you create communication with consumers today even we're in China today, roughly around 10 percent of consumer product advertising goes through essentially social media means in China, and that number is going that percentage is going to go all the way up to about a third of the total advertising pie by 2015, 2016.

And if you're still unsure of whether Facebook Groups will be around for a while, Mark Zuckerberg just changed Facebook's mission and it revolves heavily around the concept of social groups online.

In 2011, at the age of 22, not long after creating a literally powerful, game - changing ball — and while juggling a full course load at Harvard University — Matthews went all in and singlehandedly launched Uncharted Play, her inaugural social enterprise, around the unique toy.

«Emergence of participatory media may change the power media have to frame social movements, as social movement actors can forcefully offer their framing, diffuse their preferred framing to large audiences in ways that would have been simply impossible or prohibitively costly before social media, challenge journalists directly, or create a strong enough attention around their own framing that it becomes harder to ignore.»

Adopting agile processes and methods will allow businesses to keep up with the fast pace of social and economic changes around them.

«Plan Canada is a global movement for change, mobilizing millions of people around the world to support social...

In doing so, he laid the foundation for the new discipline of enterprise design, successfully applying his design thinking methodology to economic, cultural, governmental, environmental, and social change for internationally celebrated designers, leading companies, and countries around the world.

SAFSF offers a study group for funders interested in deeper learning and sharing around finance and investing for social change.

Not only have these organizations added increased profits to their bottom line by adopting the principles of social conscience, but they are changing lives around the world, healing our planet and lifting our spirit.

Another decision that could change your withdrawal strategy revolves around when you claim Social Security.

This change in policy has allowed equity crowdfunding platforms to consolidate deal flow from around the country onto an easily accessible online platform, democratizing access across geographic and social lines.

As is the case elsewhere around the world, Marxist parties and institutes try to offer an alternative to fatalism, but party leaders appear to be little interested in serious social change.

With growing concerns around the known and unknown consequences of greenhouse gas emissions and climate change on natural systems, food producers are experiencing greater consumer demand for environmental and social credentials as well as various decarbonisation initiatives from governments.

Instead, discussions centered around the NFL and NFLPA working together to promote positive social change and addressing inequalities in society.

Put a shift in against Chelsea but yet again hounded in the press and throughout social media, this is Ozil's chance to turn around and change the mood in camp.

But, people can be trained to manage their jealousy, especially if social expectations around childrearing changed.

The issue centered around social decorum and eating in public vehicles; it ultimately required a change in statutes to allow mothers to feed their babies on the bus.

incorporate changing social norms around what marriage means and to embrace a variety of different «meanings» of marriage without writing any one meaning into our laws

This proved to be very popular (identified in the evaluation sheet comments section) and enabled discussion around sleep difficulties, sex and when to resume intimate relations, the stress and social life changes and self - identity issues in becoming a father.

The shorts (ranging from 3 minutes to 13 minutes) zoom in on intimate and revealing stories surrounding school lunch transformation and cooking - gardening education, and zoom out to the broader social issues and consequences around these changes.

Could a Hollande victory change the terms of the debate in Europe, catalyse a debate around a new set of social - democrat answers to the crisis, and possibly in doing so help to give momentum to the German Social - Democrats (currently flat - lining in German psocial - democrat answers to the crisis, and possibly in doing so help to give momentum to the German Social - Democrats (currently flat - lining in German pSocial - Democrats (currently flat - lining in German polls)?

I also have forthcoming articles, which discuss the classical debates around the role of ideas in social change in the tradition of the Left and sketch an alternative approach that is critical towards determinism — the idea that human agency can be predicted by external material forces — but avoids falling into the common idealist trap when one tries to rehabilitate human agency.

This sentiment is echoed by governments and citizens across the world: Education can help us to better understand the world around us and our place in it, equipping us to push for good social, economic and political change.

«The election of Jeremy Corbyn as Labour leader has galvanised a new generation of activists, and this year at Left Field we aim to give them a platform to discuss issues around social justice, the economy, gender and the possibilities for genuine change under a Corbyn government.»

LEAD Day is taking place during Social Work Month, when the nation's 650,000 social workers celebrate their profession and call upon elected officials around the nation to make changes for the profession and their clSocial Work Month, when the nation's 650,000 social workers celebrate their profession and call upon elected officials around the nation to make changes for the profession and their clsocial workers celebrate their profession and call upon elected officials around the nation to make changes for the profession and their clients.

Plus, what's it like to work remotely while on a trip around the world, a conversation about the social rules that govern the office and a look at how biometrics could change the way we check in at the airport.

Social class is only coded for around half the sample so the figures in that figure will change slightly once the full sample is coded.

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He announced changes to the social housing system: for existing social tenants, rent levels will remain unchanged, but new tenants will be offered intermediate rents at around 80 % of the market rent.

This year, I've been very fortunate to be a part of the inaugural class of the Presidential Leadership Scholars (PLS) program, which brings together 60 leaders from around the country to work on projects designed to create significant social impact and change.

Around the world the pace, complexity, and social significance of technological changes are increasing.

Emory University neuroscientist Larry Young, who studies perplexing social behaviours, said the imagined role of breasts changed from a source of nourishment to a source of sexual interest and pleasure around puberty, as a way of making women feel more bonded to their man.

It's not uncommon for teenagers to have trouble falling asleep before 11 p.m. School responsibilities and social distractions are two big reasons, but hormonal changes around puberty can also have a lot to do with teens» shifted sleep schedule.

Providing a delicious alternative to highly - processed, shelf - stable varieties of baby food, Once Upon a Farm is driving positive social change and delivering incredible nutrition to children around the nation.

The study includes some preliminary data around the relationship between social environment, social contact, bacterial transmission and hormonal changes, such as stress.

As of May 2015, the tool had been used to scan over 13m Facebook accounts, but had to be shut down after Facebook changed its settings around how developers could access the social network.

Ottokar Rosenberger, UK manager at eHarmony.co.uk, said changes in society such as moving around more and not necessarily having strong social or family networks had helped contribute to the popularity of internet dating.

Next City is a nonprofit organization with a mission to inspire social, economic and environmental change in cities through journalism and events around the world.

Fusion101 - now called» 101 free Christian dating service» has always been open to Christians around the world internationally and mainly focused on helping singles, but was also open to any Christians looking for friendship and fellowship (we have since changed it to focus just on singles as it was a little confusing and to that end we now have a separate - 101 Christian social network).

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Or is it how people dance around asking obvious but potentially insensitive questions when dealing with rapidly changing social mores?