Sentences with phrase «social impact of these projects»

The bank assesses the environmental and social impacts of the projects it finances and actively

«As implementer of several international WASH - projects, we are aware of the tremendous social impact of these projects, especially for the children of the project region», explains Jochen Gassner the engagement of First Climate.

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Caldwell's bio on the church's website says «In partnership with the Windsor Village Church Family, Caldwell has spearheaded several independently operated nonprofits and community development projects that have impacted the social and economic landscape of central Southwest Houston.»

Social The FreshWorks Fund has financed 22 food projects, impacting more than 2.3 million people, and aims to fund a total of 50 to 60 new grocery businesses by 2015.

Investments should be made in «net positive» companies or projects, where the pluses of social or environmental impact outweigh the minuses.

As part of The Home Project, there is an internal social impact award to further incentivize the development of products and features that address the unique housing needs in our communities.

Dr. Ryan has authored and co-authored many public policy reports, conference papers and academic articles relating to these diverse projects, including «Why Some Venture Capitalists Escalate And Others Don't», «The Psychology of Microfinance» and «The Future of Social Entrepreneurship and Impact.»

One of the most respected banks in the world and known for its support of philanthropy, BNP Paribas honors select entrepreneurs based on the social impact of their work, their personal and financial investment, and the transparency of their projects.

Jenn sits on the industry advisory board for the Center for High Impact Philanthropy, Wharton Social Impact Initiative and Tara Health Foundation joint project aligning investors interests in improving the lives of women.

The Ministry of Energy of the Republic of Lithuania has supported this project due to its possible social impacts on climate change control.

The market has yet to reach critical mass, but given the kinds of projects funded by state and local governments, «the market should be a natural issuer of green and social impact bonds,» notes Victoria Irving, Equity Strategist for the Global Sustainability Research team.

Social - Gospel advocates in the early twentieth century and their mainline children continued to view Christianity's role in the project of American civil religion in terms of the social impact of its moral vSocial - Gospel advocates in the early twentieth century and their mainline children continued to view Christianity's role in the project of American civil religion in terms of the social impact of its moral vsocial impact of its moral vision.

Most Provocative: Andrew Jones with «9 Reasons NOT to Plant a Church in 2012» «The measurement criteria of the church planting project, focusing on numbers of attenders and momentum of new church launch, is too narrow, too shallow, un-holistic and ignores more vital measurable signs of a transformed society in its various spheres (economic, environmental, social, impact outside the church environment, etc).»

He is currently employed on the Electronic Culture Research Project, a special initiative of the Uniting Church's Commission in Victoria to explore the impact of electronic media on global cultures and the implications of this cultural change on religious institutions and on the social experience and expression of religious faith.

Our projects and services facilitate greater understanding of the social, economic, and environmental impacts of our food choices, and promote the purchase of locally grown and produced foods to keep our farms and food businesses viable and to strengthen the local economy.

City University London Students» Union supports Meat Free Monday as one of its ongoing environmental «Green Dragons» projects, and runs stalls, activities, and social media campaigns highlighting the environmental impact of the meat industry and showing how individuals can make a difference.

This could be through culinary innovation, a commitment to social responsibility, sustainability or the economic development of their community; involvement in health or environmental campaigns, the promotion of pioneering cultural projects, or works that benefit society through their positive impact on the food industry.

The action week gives participating football clubs and leagues the opportunity to demonstrate the social impact of their community projects and raise awareness of the transformative role that...

The projects goals are to: 1) reduce the number of children expelled from early care and education settings due to behavioral issues, 2) increase understanding of social and emotional development and its impact on educational success, and 3) link and bridge systems and services on behalf of a child, family, and program.

Findings from the National Early Head Start Research and Evaluation project, a rigorous Congressionally - mandated study, indicate that the program had modest but positive impacts on EHS children at age three in cognitive, language, and social - emotional development, compared to a control group.xxiii In addition, their parents scored higher than control group parents on such aspects of the home environment as parenting behavior and knowledge of infant - toddler development.

The report finds makes a list of recommendations for business, industry, professional bodies and government, namely: Construction businesses · Focus on better human resource management · Introduce and / or expand mentoring schemes · Boost investment in training · Develop talent from the trades as potential managers and professionals · Engage with the community and local education establishments Industry · Rally around social mobility as a collective theme · Promote better human resource management and support the effort of businesses · Promote and develop the UK as an international hub of construction excellence · Support diversity and schemes that widen access to management and the professions · Emphasise and spread understanding of the built environment's impact on social mobility Professional bodies and institutions · Drive the aspirations of Professions for Good for promoting social mobility and diversity · Support wider access to the professions and support those from less - privileged backgrounds · Promote and develop the UK as an international hub of construction excellence · Emphasise and spread understanding of the built environment's impact on social mobility · Provide greater routes for degree - level learning among those working within construction Government · Produce with urgency a plan to boost the UK as an international hub of construction excellence, as a core part of the Industrial Strategy · Provide greater funding to support the travel costs of apprentices · Support wider access to the professions and support those from less - privileged backgrounds · Place greater weight in project appraisal on the impact the built environment has on social mobility The report is being formally launched at an event in the House of Commons later today.

It's impossible to project the impact of this over a lifetime without making wild assumptions about social trends and tax regimes, but at first sight reduced home ownership looks like increased inequality.

The key feature of this project was that it was funded through a new form of private finance initiative called a «Social Impact Bond» (SIB).

Monday 11 March 2013 2.30 pm Oral Questions Plans to tackle inequality in income and wealth in the UK - Lord Dubs Consequences for access to justice for those who will not be able to receive free legal advice on social welfare law matters from 1 April - Lord Bach Future railway re-openings - Lord Faulkner of Worcester Progress towards achieving the projected increase in the size of the UK's reserve forces - Lord Rosser Legislation Enterprise and Regulatory Reform Bill - Report stage (Day 4)- Viscount Younger of Leckie Short Debate Recommendations of the Francis Report into the Mid-Staffordshire Hospitals NHS Foundation Trust - Lord Patel Short Debate Impact of NHS innovation and research strategies on health improvement and wealth creation - Lord Kakkar

The research is part of the EU funded RISES - AM project, which looks at the impact of sea level rise from a physical, economic and social perspective.

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.

The 193 signatories to the convention agreed to outlaw such geoengineering projects «until there is an adequate scientific basis on which to justify such activities and appropriate consideration of the associated risks for the environment and biodiversity and associated social, economic and cultural impacts».

The latest research is part of a wider project at the University, led by Sussex psychologist Dr Helga Dittmar, that is systematically examining the impact of consumer - culture ideals on children's personal and social well - being.

The League of Conservation Voters gives McMorris Rodgers a 4 percent lifetime score out of a possible 100 in their environmental scorecard because she has voted against bills that would have required the federal government to account for the social cost of carbon in administrative actions and required federally funded projects to be resilient to the impacts of climate change.

Sterrenlab has been selected by the EU funded project BENISI among 300 of the most promising, impacting and employment - generating social innovations in Europe.

An additional consequence of the invisibility of the scientific impact of citizen science is that projects may miss the broader social impacts of their work.

Concern about the environmental and social impacts of the Aginskoe project was a primary focus of a technical exchange conducted among KLIE, PE, and Southwest Research and Information Center (SRIC) in July 2004.

linking probabilistic simple climate models, complex Earth system models, and econometric analyses of historical weathering and climate impacts to project future risks associated with climate change and improve estimates of the social cost of carbon.

2 years ago when we started to form the vision for a totally free network singles websites; a completely free dating site network that spans the globe we knew we had a monster project ahead of us... but we also knew how our social impact business model coupled with a great user experience could REALLY CHANGE THE WAY PEOPLE LOOKED AT ONLINE DATING.

Some negative social and environmental impacts are prevented through legislation requiring environmental impact assessments from proponents of big projects as well as through social and environmental safeguard requirements of multilateral development financing institutions.

Recognising the social impact of Snapchat, a team of researchers from the University of New England's School of Education conducted a research project to find out more about the ways that the media is used by young people and its influence in schools.

Superact is a UK based non-profit CIC using music and the arts to develop and deliver a range of social impact projects.

Recognising the social impact of this software, a team of researchers from the University of New England's School of Education conducted a research project to find out more about the ways that the media were used by young people and its influence in schools.

An August 2007 report by the California Dropout Research Project (PDF) detailed the economic and social impacts of failing to finish high school in the Golden State.

The government will not be able to see the impact of its # 72 million project, which aims to boost social mobility in 12 areas, until after 2020, according to government research.

Curriculum Quality Analysis and Impact Review of European ECEC Instrument: Collaborative project Call Identifier: FP7 - SSH -2013-2 Early childhood education and care: promoting quality for individual, social and economic benefits

The significance of mounting millions of public documents into Internet - accessible files is a project that will have immense impact on social studies education in this century (the Library of Congress» American Memory website is http://memory.loc.gov/ammem/ndlpedu/index.html).

I know from extensive experience with the Bay Area Writing Project, the UC Berkeley History - Social Science Project, Educating for Democracy in a Digital Age, and other professional learning communities that the best way to increase the impact of effective teachers is to make sure they can work with other teachers.

The Philadelphia Cultural Participation Benchmark Project, funded by the John S. and James L. Knight Foundation, was a collaboration of the University of Pennsylvania's Social Impact of the Arts Project (SIAP), RFA, and Audience Insight...

The government won't be able to gauge the impact of a # 72 million project to boost social mobility in 12 «opportunity areas» until after 2020, its own research has found.

ArtsEdSearch is a project of the Arts Education Partnership (AEP), and builds on Critical Links: Learning in the Arts and Student Academic and Social Development, a compendium of research that AEP published in 2002 exploring the impact of arts education on student success in school, life and work.

The Resilience Project aims to increase academic success and improve the social and emotional well - being of children impacted by trauma by providing staff training and ongoing coaching and technical assistance around how to create a trauma - sensitive school.

They aim to do this by sharing blog posts about their outreach community projects and articles that explore the social impact of literature.

On October 11, 2016, Dr. Mwangi Githuri, the Director of Biodiversity and Social Monitoring at Wildlife Works, leading teams assessing environmental and social impacts of REDD + projects in Africa, gave a thrilling seminar on Implementing Redd +: Policy and practical issues from the local to the national lSocial Monitoring at Wildlife Works, leading teams assessing environmental and social impacts of REDD + projects in Africa, gave a thrilling seminar on Implementing Redd +: Policy and practical issues from the local to the national lsocial impacts of REDD + projects in Africa, gave a thrilling seminar on Implementing Redd +: Policy and practical issues from the local to the national levels.

Impact investing involves going outside of financial markets and investing directly in projects that have both a positive financial return and a positive social or environmental iImpact investing involves going outside of financial markets and investing directly in projects that have both a positive financial return and a positive social or environmental impactimpact.