Sentences with phrase «successful community efforts»

There are also shelters where intake is decreasing, often due to years of successful community efforts.

This more holistic, school - and - environs approach is best summed up in our recent blog post «Successful Community Efforts to Prevent Bullying.»

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There WAS a successful grassroots effort on the part of private citizens who happen to be of the LDS (MORMON) faith who fanned out in their communities all over California in an effort to Pass Prop 8.

On that day, many years ago, I was confronted with a truth that operated practically among rural Christians from a Dalit background: the church's effort to estrange Christians from their Dalit religio - cultural roots and their Dalit Hindu neighbors had not been successful when it came to community practice.

Yet efforts emerging from the Christian faith were conspicuous and were partly successful in resolving those contradictions in such fashion as to bring individuals and the nascent world community more nearly to conformity to the demands of Christ.

Building on major trends and successful regional efforts, the wine community joined together to create the Sustainable Winegrowing Program, administered by the California Sustainable Winegrowing Alliance.

Certified California Sustainable Winegrowing and other statewide and regional programs such as Bay Area Green Business Program, Fish Friendly Farming, Lodi Rules, Napa Green and Sustainability in Practice (SIP) play vital roles in the California wine community's successful efforts to produce high quality wine that is environmentally sound, economically feasible and socially responsible.

Building on major trends and successful regional efforts, the wine community joined together to create the Sustainable Winegrowing Program.

The Independent Institute joins the successful efforts of numerous community initiatives around the country to offer children a competitive education alternative in the San Francisco East Bay.

It further uproots the noble, if not completely successful, efforts of the Cameronites to rebalance the core of Conservatism: a complex marriage between communities / the primacy of cultural norms and the free market economy.

At Pratt, he led many successful community - planning efforts, as well as campaigns to expand affordable housing and create NYC's «inclusionary zoning» program, which requires developers seeking tax breaks to set aside 20 percent of their units for low and moderate income families and pay a living wage to their service workers.

He proposed the CORe initiative to better align State support with local needs while supporting successful community - based efforts, allowing the State to better allocate resources to make measurable and sustained progress in improving high - need communities.

Woolwich — Senate President Steve Sweeney, Assemblyman John Burzichelli and Assemblyman Adam Taliaferro joined with local officials, educators and others today in a community forum to mark the increase in school funding for the Kingsway Regional School System as the result of the successful effort to include the school funding reform plan in the new state budget.READ MORE»

Zoe Fox, Chair of «Unite Community» West Cornwall branch and an officer of the Trades Council summed up the efforts of the Trades Council `' We stand for solidarity and strong and successful communities in Cornwall.

Bridgeton — Senate President Steve Sweeney and Assemblyman John Burzichelli joined with local officials, educators and others in a community forum to mark the increase in school funding for the Bridgeton School District as the result of the successful effort to include the school funding reform plan in the new state budget.READ MORE»

ERIE COUNTY, NY — U.S. Environmental Protection Agency (EPA) Regional Administrator, Judith A. Enck joined Erie County Commissioner of Health, Dr. Gale Burstein, representatives of the Community Foundation for Greater Buffalo and a Buffalo family to highlight the organizations» successful efforts to reduce indoor air pollution that can trigger asthma attacks.

Opponents of more police say the city's announced community - policing effort is an experiment with no guarantee that it will be successful enough to duplicate.

We believe that to be successful, microbiome research will require a coordinated effort across the international community of biologists, chemists, geologists, mathematicians, physicists, computer scientists and clinical experts.

The successful candidates will be actively involved in an interdisciplinary team who will help develop software frameworks, interact with community code developers including Software Fellows, develop and provide software development training, collaborate with partners in cyberinfrastructure, form mutually productive coalitions with industry, government labs and international efforts.

Many successful programs make extra efforts to link family, school and community environments.

As with all major legislative accomplishments, getting from idea to reality takes time and the sustained efforts of committed individuals at every level of government and throughout the communities that stand to gain from a successful campaign.

In the development of the community - campus AfterZone model, the Providence After School Alliance led the community in a rigorous effort to define the standards it would use to build a successful after - school learning network.

Mayor Bloomberg and Chancellor Klein have ramped up the citys efforts to infuse arts into New York City public schools, but the pressure is on all of us — our schools, arts education advocates, business leaders — to seize opportunities for partnerships that can build the type of successful communities that we all want to live in, and support our kids — the future of this city.

A common base of understanding about reform efforts, shared between teacher leaders, educators, and other community members, along with the community's recognition and value of their leadership expertise, helped teacher leaders to be successful in these roles.

More importantly, the most - successful efforts to expand school choice (including Virginia Walden Ford's work in Washington, D.C., Steve Barr's work with Latino communities in Los Angeles, and Parent Revolution's Parent Trigger efforts), have been ones led by poor and minority communities who explicitly made the case for helping their own children escape failure mills that damaged their families for generations.

The information in these synthesis reports was collected from practicing administrators and teachers in reentry programs nationwide, and is designed to assist state departments of education, school districts, and community - based organizations interested in redesigning or initiating efforts to help youth with disabilities return to the education system and become successful school completers.

Ms. Saavedra - Keber has taken leadership roles in community efforts that have been successful in the areas of immigrant voting rights, housing, accessibility to education, equal employment opportunity, and quality health care, including accessibility to interpretation and translation services.

We deeply believe this effort will only be successful if it is guided by the views and needs of the Oakland community.

Ms. Saavedra - Keber has taken leadership roles in community efforts that have been successful in the areas of immigrant voting rights, housing, accessibility to education,... More»

Pennsylvania can easily start by embracing the approach taken by Louisiana and its so - far successful reform effort in New Orleans, handing over control of traditional schools to an array of Parent Power groups, community organizations, and charter school operators.

National merit awards are given to magnet schools that demonstrate a commitment to high academic standards, curriculum innovation, successful desegregation and diversity efforts, and strong parent and community involvement.

By aligning each of the school efforts — professional development, classroom instruction, assessments, and community engagement — with the mission statement and prioritizing whole child support in that mission, Magnolia Elementary has set up a successful and sustainable environment for student growth.

In many cases, successful community school efforts have been started with little to no new resources, but rather through partners re-deploying and re-allocating existing resources.

Successful efforts must be sensitive to local context and flexible to meet the needs of the community (Chester and White, 2017).

This financing brief provides evidence and ideas from successful, longstanding efforts that school districts, counties, cities, non-profit organizations, and other public entities can use to begin exploring how to form community school partnerships that support student success.

Some successful community school efforts have pieced together cash and in - kind resources from each of the partners within a collaborative to cover the costs associated with coordination.

To be successful in their school improvement efforts, school leaders need the connections, support, and expertise that come from interacting with a host of people, organizations, and institutions in the surrounding community.

A prime example of this is Orange County's successful Evans High Community School, which is a collaborative effort between the district, UCF and other agencies.

We are excited to move forward in conjunction with the new LAUSD SELPA reorganization efforts to implement the flexibility and autonomy of our charter that has been so successful in providing an education and a voice to our community.

We hope all our partners, colleagues, and collaborators, including the families and communities whose support is essential to successful schools, will be part of a renewed effort to bridge the gaps in respect and human relationships in today's world, including peaceful ways to resolve conflicts.

A successful school transformation brings parents, families, community organizations, and local businesses into the discussion and ongoing implementation of character education efforts.

Many community school efforts have struggled to fill in the gaps in logic, without a basic recipe to guide successful implementation.

Running a successful crowdfunding campaign requires planning, effort, and an engaged community.

Successful authors usually make email marketing a core piece of their outreach and community - building efforts.

We're strengthening our ties with local organizations such as St. John Ambulance Therapy Dog Program and Nipissing University in an effort to raise awareness about animal welfare issues, to increase community involvement and successful animal adoptions, and to heighten respect towards all animals.

She describes the challenges of outdoor colony care through harsh Chicago winters, the time and effort that goes into completing a successful and safe relocation, neighbor relations in a range of communities, the vacuum effect that results when cats are removed from an area, and many other topics that arise when working with community cats.

To achieve this goal, Maddie's Fund is investing its resources in building community collaborations where animal welfare organizations come together to develop successful models of lifesaving; in veterinary colleges to help shelter medicine become part of the veterinary curriculum to train veterinarians to save the lives of sick and injured dogs and cats in animal shelters; and in the implementation of a national effort to promote accountability and transparency in animal shelter operations.

CAPA mandates the programs and services which have proven so successful at lifesaving in shelters which have implemented them; follows the only model that has actually created a No Kill community; and, focuses its effort on the very shelters that are doing the killing.

Her efforts supported the successful completion of events nearly every weekend during the summer months, raising community awareness, locating foster and adoption homes for animals and raising $ 1,000's.

We have had another record breaking year for adoptions and thank the northern Nevada community for continuing to help make our efforts so successful.