Sentences with phrase «social meaningful projects»

Oya finances ecological and social meaningful projects in an economical realistic perspective.

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What it is: According to its mission statement, SponsorChange aims to «empower volunteers by creating a pathway to meaningful skill - based project opportunities at social impact organizations while helping volunteers raise funding to pay down their student loan debt.»

Her social interactions during the election were certainly meaningful, a goal of Facebook's fix - it project, but not in a good way.

Though perhaps an impossibility, the attempt to bring about a more excellent social order through unceasing education is an imperative and itself a meaningful and worthy project.

* Day 1 Monday, February 22, 2016 4:00 PM -5:00 PM Registration & Networking 5:00 PM — 6:00 PM Welcome Reception & Opening Remarks Kevin de Leon, President pro Tem, California State Senate Debra McMannis, Director of Early Education & Support Division, California Department of Education (invited) Karen Stapf Walters, Executive Director, California State Board of Education (invited) 6:00 PM — 7:00 PM Keynote Address & Dinner Dr. Patricia K. Kuhl, Co-Director, Institute for Learning & Brain Sciences * Day 2 Tuesday February 23, 2016 8:00 AM — 9:00 AM Registration, Continental Breakfast, & Networking 9:00 AM — 9:15 AM Opening Remarks John Kim, Executive Director, Advancement Project Camille Maben, Executive Director, First 5 California Tom Torlakson, State Superintendent of Public Instruction, California Department of Education 9:15 AM — 10:00 AM Morning Keynote David B. Grusky, Executive Director, Stanford's Center on Poverty & Inequality 10:00 AM — 11:00 AM Educating California's Young Children: The Recent Developments in Transitional Kindergarten & Expanded Transitional Kindergarten (Panel Discussion) Deborah Kong, Executive Director, Early Edge California Heather Quick, Principal Research Scientist, American Institutes for Research Dean Tagawa, Administrator for Early Education, Los Angeles Unified School District Moderator: Erin Gabel, Deputy Director, First 5 California (Invited) 11:00 AM — 12:00 PM «Political Will & Prioritizing ECE» (Panel Discussion) Eric Heins, President, California Teachers Association Senator Hannah - Beth Jackson, Chair of the Women's Legislative Committee, California State Senate David Kirp, James D. Marver Professor of Public Policy, University of California, Berkeley Assemblyman Kevin McCarty, Chairman of Subcommittee No. 2 of Education Finance, California State Assembly Moderator: Kim Pattillo Brownson, Managing Director, Policy & Advocacy, Advancement Project 12:00 PM — 12:45 PM Lunch 12:45 PM — 1:45 PM Lunch Keynote - «How Children Succeed: Grit, Curiosity, and the Hidden Power of Character» Paul Tough, New York Times Magazine Writer, Author 1:45 PM — 1:55 PM Break 2:00 PM — 3:05 PM Elevating ECE Through Meaningful Community Partnerships (Panel Discussion) Sandra Guiterrez, National Director, Abriendo Purtas / Opening Doors Mary Ignatius, Statewide Organize of Parent Voices, California Child Care Resource & Referral Network Jacquelyn McCroskey, John Mile Professor of Child Welfare, University of Southern California School of Social Work Jolene Smith, Chief Executive Officer, First 5 Santa Clara County Moderator: Rafael González, Director of Best Start, First 5 LA 3:05 PM — 3:20 PM Closing Remarks Camille Maben, Executive Director, First 5 California * Agenda Subject to Change

The influential forces of the HGSE student community, faculty, and academic courses have led these projects to take new directions under the umbrella of Wunderkind Life, an organization that seeks to bring out the child prodigy (wunderkind) in every individual, guiding each person in discovering and cultivating a passion that drives meaningful learning and social change in communities.

Don't ask students to imagine something they can not actually see happening — rather, invite them to participate in meaningful endeavors, such as social entrepreneurship projects through Kiva.

A + Educators has identified focus standards in the core content areas of mathematics, reading, writing, science and social studies, and has developed meaningful student projects utilizing Web 2.0 tools that include engaging qualities of student work and assessment of and for learning.

Drawing on the skills and content from English language arts and mathematics, and combining with the Missouri Learning Standards in science and social studies, integrated projects enable meaningful learning through life - based, active projects that allow children to experience learning within a real world context.

In 2010, he joined the Queens Museum of Art in a unique role that reports to both the curatorial and community engagement departments of the museum, identifying opportunities for commissioned artist projects to make meaningful connections with community organizations in Corona, as well as guiding artists towards the successful merger of aesthetic preoccupations with the social impact aspects of their projects.

Home Mask Relations: A Social Art Project by Danish Textile Artist Isabel Berglund draws meaningful, individual connections through the actions of craft to the ways that domestic space is claimed and delineated in the US.

Philippa P.B. Hughes is a social and creative placemaker, creative connector, and cultural strategist, who designs inventive and collaborative projects that strengthen communities, connects people who would not normally meet in meaningful dialogue, and opens portals to art and culture for the culturally curious.

Interns work on meaningful projects that link to our key business priorities, attend our Executive speaker series and participate in numerous exciting social activities.

From research and findings of the project, the most essential ingredient to sustained economic and social development is meaningful self government:

With the support from like - minded social entrepreneurs and partners around the world, Imagtor is working hard to improve lives of hundreds people with physically challenged in Vietnam through direct and indirect initatives: providing free job skill training and empowement courses and equitable employment opportunities for people with physically challenged in Vietnam (More than 50 % of full time staffs at Imagtor are with physically challenged), and finance and social sharing support to meaningful projects for people with disabilities in Vietnam.

The Counselors of Real Estate Foundation supports projects of social, community, and / or educational benefit which contain a meaningful connection to real estate and knowledge sharing...