Sentences with phrase «social leaders who»

#GivingTuesday is an initiative founded by the United Nations in 2012 as a global way of engendering and celebrating philanthropy and is observed worldwide, supported by business, political and social leaders who jointly champion fund - raising for community development.

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After a week of workshops on social entrepreneurship and meeting with local leaders about enhancing the entrepreneurial ecosystem, those who attended, pledged to choose the latter and here are a few of the opportunities we identified:

SOBCon co-founders and social - media thought leaders Liz Strauss and Terry Starbucker introduced the group to some of the speakers who'll be presenting in the next couple of days, including Brogan, Roth and Today We Are Rich author Tim Sanders.

«In our celebrity focused culture, a young star like Emma Watson has the power to amplify important social messages,» says Katie Hood, a senior fellow at Duke University who teaches a «Women as Leaders» course and who recently became executive director of the anti-domestic violence One Love Foundation.

Leaders who prioritize volunteering and a connection to social causes are finding success in attracting and retaining Gen Yers, many of whom stress their desire to work for a business that has a positive impact on society.

Based on LinkedIn data, 51 percent of social selling leaders are more likely to reach quota and 78 percent of social sellers outsell their peers who don't use social media for selling.

«We believe growing leaders who give back is the most effective strategy for solving society's complex social problems and achieving global good,» Rich says.

After two elections backing social - conservative candidates who could afford little more than gas money, Christian leaders have long been eager to back a horse with the money to win.

But HBR has also recently begun incorporating environmental, social, and governance (ESG) rankings into their methodology in order to highlight corporate leaders who think beyond just short - term gains and dollars and cents.

I want to turn to DACA and its impact on the economy because this week, some 400 business leaders sent the president a letter saying if the 780,000 DREAMers who now work are put at risk of deportation, the economy will lose $ 460 billion plus $ 24.6 billion in Social Security and Medicare taxes.

That includes business leaders who launched something from nothing, content creators in the social influencer space, athletes pushing the boundaries of performance, and internal thought leaders innovating inside major corporations.

HADLEY, MA, November 9, 2016: Social entrepreneurs — business owners and leaders who use their business to address issues like hunger, poverty, war, and catastrophic climate change — face an apparent crisis.

For 30 years, SVN has been the leading peer - to - peer network of mission - driven business leaders, social entrepreneurs, and impact investors who are leveraging the power of business to solve social, economic, and environmental problems.

In this year's list of Social Media Marketing Influencers there are many people who demonstrate this kind of helpfulness and I am encouraging those influencers as well as our community of readers to nominate up and coming social media marketing leSocial Media Marketing Influencers there are many people who demonstrate this kind of helpfulness and I am encouraging those influencers as well as our community of readers to nominate up and coming social media marketing lesocial media marketing leaders.

The Draper Richards Kaplan Foundation finds, funds, and supports social enterprise leaders «who exhibit characteristics of extraordinary leadership: vision, intelligence, influence, ambition, and a tireless commitment to their mission.»

Our diverse, supportive community helps students become ethical and compassionate leaders who are inspired to create lasting social change in our global society.

Does investing «leader» overconfidence (self - attribution bias) transfer bad trading practices to other non-professional investors who participate in a social trading platform?

Reading novels can improve empathy and understanding of social cues, allowing a leader to better work with and understand others — traits that author Anne Kreamer persuasively linked to increased organizational effectiveness, and to pay raises and promotions for the leaders who possessed these qualities.

Former Social Credit Party leader Randy Thorsteinson, who led the party to win 6.8 percent of the vote in the 1997 election and later formed the Alberta Alliance Party (now known as the Wildrose Party) recently became the leader of the newly formed Reform Party of Alberta.

Great leaders who step up to the challenge will soon realize the powerful and positive impact social media can have on their business.

The CEOs of Microsoft, Google, Apple, and Southwest are just some of the leaders who have embraced social.

Religious leaders and pastors also come in for some gentle chiding from Wuthnow, who thinks they hold views about human action and social change that are simplistic and individualistic.

Social justice causes, candles in worship services, v - necks and big neck tattoos on worship leaders, screenings of PT Anderson films at church, heavy use of Helvetica font in church bulletins, bald pastors who always wear black clothes from Banana Republic, beer at church barbecues, a renewed interest in corporately reading ancient creeds or prayers, Nooma videos, Sufjan Stevens and everything related to Sufjan Stevens.

Obama is a progressive Christian who blends the emotional fire of the African - American church, the ecumenical outlook of contemporary Protestantism, and the activism of the Social Gospel, a late 19th - century movement whose leaders faulted American churches for focusing too much on personal salvation while ignoring the conditions that led to pervasive poverty.

The conference invited leaders in the Buddhist movement for social justice in Southeast Asia who are now dealing with problems that have long since surfaced elsewhere.

It started with Twitter users Emily Joy and Hannah Paasch, who took to social media to share their stories of abuse at the hands of church leaders under the hashtag #ChurchToo.

Their defence of scrapping the cap follows another letter written on Tuesday to the Daily Telegraph by a group of 70 faith leaders, politicians and academics who warned lifting the cap would be «deleterious to social cohesion and respect».

Those of us who have been involved in designing and promoting various models for the process of sustained prophetic inquiry can testify to the general lack of interest of ecclesial bodies in such ministry: «social action» is by and large out, and, where it is a priority among church leaders, most of its practitioners are concerned with direct action, not action research.

This conflict has emerged between the liberal and militant activist pastors and denominational leaders, on the one hand, and a large body of more conservative laymen, on the other hand, who think the church should stick to spiritual matters and stop meddling in politics and «social» issues.

The late Japanese Christian leader, Kagawa, once used a figure of speech which aptly applies to any church which ignores social problems: It is maintaining a rescue station at the bottom of a cliff to help those who have fallen while neglecting to work at the top to keep others from falling.

Pope Benedict XVI, who announced his resignation Monday after eight years as head of the Roman Catholic Church, will leave a legacy of strong theology, cooperation with evangelicals and a hardline conservative stance on social issues, evangelical leaders and observers say.

One of the Social Gospel's most influential leaders was Washington Gladden (1836 - 1918), who for thirty - six years was a Congregational pastor in Columbus, Ohio.

It bestowed upon the church also the gift of highly educated and cultured ministers who, profoundly aware of the needs of modern life, became the proponents of the advancement of modern civilization and the leaders of many progressive movements in education and social reform.

(no offense to people who hold a B.A. Those people are not going around selling themselves as social philosophers and intellectual leaders.)

Abrecht (1984) is one of many ecumenical leaders who judge that no ecumenically organized reflection on theology and social ethics has matched the quality and thoroughness of the 1937 meeting of the WCC on «Church Community and State in Relation to the Economic Order» and its report of that title.

Our church leaders shouldn't need to live in fear of harsh criticism; our church councils don't have to accommodate bullying and intimidation and our culture need not threaten social exclusion for those who don't fit easily into any one box.

Rajan Gurukkal of the Social Sciences department of the Mahatma Gandhi University in Kerala gives his reasons why the leaders of counter-culture who are anticipating «a total breakdown of the market - friendly dimension of development in the wake of micro-movements which they see as part of the process of global transformation» are too optimistic and are likely to be disappointed.

Television certainly offers the potential for social and political impact by religious broadcasters who seek to use it in that way, and yet, the example set by broadcasters in the 1980 election year left much to be desired in the eyes of many Christian leaders and adherents.

The ambition of the World Forum for Alternatives and all the organisations and individuals who wish to be associated with it is to set up working groups on each of these themes, drawing together a great diversity of analysts and social and political leaders.

Some practical points: If you're just starting out, some opportunities that make a lot of sense for platform - building include: writing guest posts for popular bloggers who share a similar audience, writing a regular column for a newspaper or online magazine, seeking out speaking gigs (paid or unpaid), participating in conferences (for networking opportunities as well as exposure to new, inspiring ideas), using social media to share your message, and requesting interviews with popular authors / speakers / leaders to feature on your blog.

Deborah — prophet, judge, national leader (Judges 4 - 5)[McKnight says, «if we ask what did women do, and we ask this question of Deborah, we learn that women could speak for God as a prophet, render decisions n a law court as a judge, exercise leadership over the entire spiritual - social Israel, and be a military commander who brought Israel to victory.»

We are proud to support the following leaders who do great work in their communities and strive to effect social change.

We develop young leaders who are committed to social and environmental justice and are equipped with a sense of awe for natural and human beauty, tools for non-violent multicultural community building, as well as the confidence to make positive change in our families, communities and world.

This is a stunning example of why those who are involved with marketing to women and in specific, social media need to have well grounded leader managing their strategy.

She was honored in 2005 where community leaders, including a generation of women who became mothers and social activists under her guidance, honored Katsi's leadership and extensive body of work.

Who are our members: TXBC members include Lactation consultants, La Leche League leaders and members, WIC staff and peer counselors, nurses, physicians, dietitians, social workers, business owners, moms, and grandmoms.

The later leaders who actually shaped Israel's social policy tend not to be so fondly remembered, with the possible exception of Ben Gurion, a socialist, Israel's first Prime Minister, and a particularly ascetic figure.

Depending your specific strategy, you may be building your email list, converting social media followers into donors and volunteers, reaching the journalists, bloggers and other opinion - leaders who set the public debate, hiring a good lobbyist, creating a destination website, advertising to the right audience, meeting with the right Congressmembers, building the right partnerships... or any of approximately a zillion potential steps to help you to reach your goals.

«Now more than ever, we need leaders at the Democratic National Committee who will continue the fight for social and economic justice, take on entrenched special interests in Washington and work to unify communities across the country,» Brown said.

Add to that the need for tens of millions in annual revenue for a new organisation; the need for members in every region and from every social class; the need for leaders who have a high profile but are not tarnished by past association with unloved governments; the need to avoid looking like a therapy group for embittered losers.