Sentences with phrase «successful group effort»

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Examining modern campaign politics, the open - source movement and some of the few recent bright spots in the traditional music business, Benkler isolates a handful of «design levers» — «elements of successful cooperative human systems that we can employ to motivate [people]... to contribute to the collective effort rather than exclusively pursue their own interests (at the expense of those of the group).»

Successful companies create internal programs, resources and networking groups after listening to employees and supporting efforts they're interested in.

Hence, some of us continued our education in Western universities but kept alive our hope of being able to contribute to the efforts of articulating our Filipino identity.13 To what extent either group has been successful remains to be seen since, unfortunately, political and economic considerations have overshadowed the more cultural ones.

Find out how successful your sustainability efforts are in your brewery by reviewing the 2015 Sustainability Benchmarking report and utilizing the online tools developed by the Brewers Association and Antea Group to record and study your efforts.

Finally, the attendees talked about the power of and need for partnerships to solve the many reasons for food waste, including sharing stories of existing efforts like the three companies in the Midwest who are splitting the cost and use of an anaerobic digester, which turns food scraps into energy, and several food donation groups who highlighted the effectiveness of successful partnerships.

Indeed, efforts in the House, if successful, would begin to dismantle the national school meal program through the use of state block grants, a proposal that's been sharply criticized by anti-hunger groups and the School Nutrition Association.

Among the new communication efforts are peer group counseling programs in which successful breastfeeding mothers are enlisted to help others in areas where high infant - mortality rates might be reduced by nutrition from breastfeeding.

In addition, attendees joined small group discussions about effective and successful policies and practices at the school, district, and state level pertaining to three groups of activities that catalyze efforts to meet and exceed Smart Snacks requirements:

Several people involved in this effort spearheaded the successful push for same - sex marriage, including Cuomo's former chief of staff, Steve Cohen, and ex-aide Katherine Grainger, who is now working for Civitas Public Affairs Group.

After years of setbacks and declining membership nationally, labor groups were seen as being on the offensive in the last year with successful efforts in some states to increase the minimum wage to $ 15 — a major union - led effort that initially began by focusing on fast food restaurants.

The group has ties to Gov. Andrew Cuomo and his former top aide, Steve Cohen, who headed Cuomo's successful effort to pass the marriage equality bill in 2011.

The groups against the nuclear power plant bailout have begun a grassroots movement that they liken to the successful anti-fracking efforts that led to a state ban on the natural gas extraction process.

Alex Smith, executive director of the America Rising political action committee, said the group is modeling its very, very early 2020 efforts after what she believed was a highly successful push to brand Hillary Clinton as untrustworthy, years ahead of the 2016 race.

The groups are modeling their efforts on the successful Democratic Party initiative of the 1990's, known as Rock the Vote, which resulted in the registration of hundreds of thousands of young people.

Blair Horner, executive director of the nonprofit New York Public Interest Research Group in Albany, said one of the few successful efforts to tighten the state campaign finance law occurred in 2014.

The groups against the nuclear power plant bail out have begun a grassroots movement that they liken to the successful anti fracking efforts that led to a state ban on the natural gas extraction process.

The group described Brooklyn's conviction review efforts as among the «most successful» in the country.

The ASP's Arthur B.C. Walker II Award has been established to honor an outstanding scientist whose research and educational efforts substantially contributes to astronomy and who has (1) demonstrated a substantial commitment to mentoring students from underrepresented groups pursuing degrees in astronomy and / or (2) been instrumental in creating or supporting innovative and successful STEM programs designed to support underrepresented students or their teachers.

Research at government centers generally has more of the flavor of group efforts; individual stars at government research centers usually are associated with group efforts, and these successful scientists often can be given leadership positions at their location.

Her level of influence is well established, and after the Michigan law passed the state House of Representatives, a press release from DeVos's group, the Great Lakes Education Project, noted that lawmakers «were successful tonight in preserving choices and options for [students] and their families -LSB-...] Despite efforts by some of the elites and big city bosses who believe they know what is best for children.»

It's therefore not surprising that small - yet - connected groups have been at the heart of many successful large - scale reform efforts.

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.

The authors (from four nonprofit education research groups that compile the report annually) detail several successful efforts that have increased graduation rates, but stress that improvement has come from targeted local interventions, not overarching national initiatives.

As part of this effort, Hope Street Group will engage a bipartisan coalition to analyze successful outcomes of the ARRA and work to bring the state and local level perspective to the national conversation.»

Focusing on the development of a campus» climate as a learning environment is fundamental to improved teacher morale and student achievement (Nomura, 1999) and formally assessing and addressing school climate is essential to any schools» effort toward successful reform, achievement and making a difference for underprivileged student groups (California P - 16 council, 2008).

Given the dissatisfaction among civil rights groups with the efforts by both the administration and congressional leaders to eviscerate No Child's accountability provisions, the unwillingness of the administration to back away from the effort, and the successful court challenges launched by those opposing implementation of the Affordable Health Care Act, it is quite likely that reformers on both sides of the ideological line will take Obama and Duncan to court.

The challenge for any successful intensive, dialogic professional development effort is to «scale up,» providing the means for other teachers to create their own professional groups, their own networks, and their own efforts to enhance literacy curriculum and instruction for their students.

But animal advocates agree that the decrease in euthanasia has been dramatic, driven mostly by successful spay - neuter programs and, more recently, by savvy adoption campaigns, greater efforts to reunite lost pets with owners and the proliferation of advocacy groups both small and large that have swept in to help municipal shelters, often poorly funded and sluggish.

If the dog you are trying to place is of a specific breed, and you have not been successful in finding a new home despite a genuine effort to advertise, etc., you should contact the appropriate breed rescue group.

PALS, an all - volunteer, non-profit, no - kill rescue group, is successful through the efforts of many different volunteers:

To be successful as we move ahead, we'll continue to rely upon the integrated efforts of our participating groups and the generosity of Maddie's Fund and the ASPCA.»

However, what has made this group successful is their effort to develop a working relationship with us by being readily available for phone consultations and by always accepting our referrals in a quick and positive manner.

Topics covered over the years emphasized positive efforts to find new homes for dogs, organizational help for rescue groups, and building successful coalitions.

NAIA applauds those groups and individuals that have been successful in promoting reasonable laws and challenges dog owners everywhere to merge into a larger effort to defeat or overturn breed - specific laws and to focus their attention on public education and on regulations that hold owners accountable for the behavior of their dogs, whether purebred or mixed.

Students learned how to conceive of, create, and mount a group exhibition from start to finish, SUPERHEROES was the successful result of their efforts.

Convergence and Collaboration is a panel discussion between the exhibiting artists working with varied content and media who are part of a larger group effort to run a successful artist collective.

Modeled on the successful effort to get colleges, pension funds, churches, cities, and states to divest from apartheid South Africa, the groups are asking ethical investors to freeze new investments in fossil fuel companies and divest from direct ownership or commingled funds, which include public equities and corporate bonds.

If the interest group is successful in its efforts to raise fears about the issue, the application of the scientific method is rejected and a new orthodoxy is imposed.

Objectively, then, the groups who have been most successful in thwarting the much - hyped nuclear renaissance are those who blocked efforts to make nuclear power more cost - competitive.

A new initiative by CWIP seeks to educate women and other underrepresented groups on how to build that successful mindset — and early indicators are that it's gaining ground.The effort is called the Grit Project, and it was launched by CWIP to identify some of the traits successful women in the legal field have used to advance their careers and help others develop those traits.

Managing partners and members of executive committees in the more financially and professionally successful law firms that are organized into substantive departments and / or practice groups for the delivery of legal services strongly support the concept of having practice leaders assume a major role in their firm's efforts to: (1) increase the productivity levels of all timekeepers within their practices, (2) increase the economic contribution of their practices to the firm and (3) assume primary responsibility for communications to and from members of their practices about firm economics, priorities and business issues, as well as practice growth and client development initiatives.

He also served as the CEO of Epiq Systems Class Actions & Claims Solutions, where he initiated a successful turnaround effort including a reorganization of marketing, sales force and strategic business development activities, and as Director of Practice Development for White & Case, leading practice group strategy, marketing, business development, competitive intelligence and client relations.

Peter Krakaur, Chief Knowledge Officer for 650 - attorney firm Orrick, Herrington & Sutcliffe LLP, believes that a key to successful client development efforts focuses on a dedicated marketing staff working closely and directly with individual attorneys, preferably organized by practice group.

This effort has been successful, and clients now note and appreciate the alignment between the different groups in legal and compliance».

Emphasizing teamwork — whether it's telling your manager that a specific successful project was a group effort or that you learned a particular skill from Bob in Accounting — shows that you're a team player (which will only make you look better).

We recognize that for it to be successful, we'll take the collaboration and efforts of groups, companies, people all around the world.

KEY ACHIEVEMENTS • Organized 42 student outreach programs, all of them deemed successful in recruiting the required number of students • Created and implemented a series of group orientations which assisted students in the safe transition through college programs • Improved communication flow between departments which increased operational efficiency of recruitment efforts by 58 % • Planned and executed the details of all recruitment events within set budgets, with leftover resources to be used for auxiliary recruitment efforts

• Led successful program to bring 24 products under a single sign on platform, this effort required a project plan that looped activities of several groups which resulted in a 60 % increase in client satisfaction.

Indeed without government support for human rights and development, company efforts in promoting development for impoverished groups is unlikely to be successful.