Sentences with phrase «tackling social challenges»

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To ensure that the social network keeps innovating, the company launched Pinterest Labs earlier this year, bringing together researchers, scientists, engineers and universities to tackle challenges in machine learning and A.I.

Its mission is to nurture, collect and propel an ambitious community of entrepreneurs and citizens to tackle social, environmental and economic challenges.

MaRS and Virgin Unite Canada, the non-profit foundation of the Virgin Group, announced today that they have joined forces to support Canadian entrepreneurs tackling social and environmental challenges.

TORONTO, Dec. 12, 2014 — MaRS and Virgin Unite Canada, the non-profit foundation of the Virgin Group, announced today that they have joined forces to support Canadian entrepreneurs tackling social and environmental challenges.

The new Rainforest Alliance has a bold and ambitious goal: to accelerate and scale up our work to tackle today's most urgent challenges: climate change, social inequity, rural poverty, and biodiversity loss.

Amarjit Sahota, president of Organic Monitor (organizer of the Sustainable Foods Summit) quotes: «there is a growing realization that sustainable agriculture can play an important role in tackling the environmental and social challenges faced by the food industry.

Continue reading Tackling the Environmental and Social Challenges Facing Agricultural Supply Chains and Rural Communities

Transport's wider benefits — transport has a role to play tackling some of our big societal challenges including the rise in obesity (through active travel), the ageing population and social exclusion (through connecting people and places).

This is why CIHT believes more needs to be done to recognise the wider benefits transport plays in people's health and wellbeing, and the role it has to play in tackling some of our big societal challenges such as obesity, the ageing population and social exclusion.

For instance, radical change in the way we understand and manage state assets could help tackle some pressing social and economic policy challenges.

Therefore if the next Labour government is to tackle the challenge of social injustice, reform of our economy will be vital.

That is what we are working towards, because we need a new approach to tackle the entrenched social challenges that we face.

The President of the Archdiocesan Laity, Mr. Steve Olasupo in his welcome address while decrying various social vices and problems militating against various families across the world however recommended a more conscious and structured approach and formation, promotion and sustenance of family values and Basic Christian Community (BBC), in tackling the challenges confronting families across the globe.

The president of IMANI Ghana, Franklin Cudjoe, has urged the Inspector General of the Ghana Police Service to find innovative ways of tackling challenges facing Ghana instead of banning social media.

He said Tower Hamlets was one of the worst areas for child poverty and the school, opening next year, aimed to tackle «social disadvantage and challenge the status quo».

At the same time, these powers will not give the Scottish parliament the power to defend itself against Westminster austerity measures, and certainly not the full control over macroeconomic policy it would need to tackle poverty, inequality and other significant social policy challenges.

The solutions to the challenges we face are still social and behavioral, and neuroscience is distracting us from tackling the big variables, such as nutrition, inequality and poverty.

One way to tackle the welfare challenge is to reduce income support for refugees, they say, but social democrats are strongly opposed.

He also co-directs Rutgers» transdisciplinary Coastal Climate Risk & Resilience (C2R2) initiative, a training program which brings graduate students in the natural sciences, social sciences, engineering, and urban planning together with coastal stakeholders to tackle the challenges that climate change poses to the world's coastlines.

I also co-direct Rutgers» transdisciplinary Coastal Climate Risk & Resilience (C2R2) initiative, a training program which brings graduate students in the natural sciences, social sciences, engineering, and urban planning together with coastal stakeholders to tackle the challenges that climate change poses to the world's coastlines.

While ditching makeup was a great way to tackle my physical insecurities, I knew that this week posed a unique opportunity for me to challenge my social insecurities, as well.

You have something concrete to offer them (assistance or at least companionship while tackling your shared challenges), and while you won't develop a «more than friends» connection with every woman you study with, you will at least expand your social sphere and develop your ability to interact with women, both of which will lead to greater success in your dating life.

The EF Glocal Challenge, now in its second year, invites youth to tackle tough problems in their community by applying the strategies of social entrepreneurs.

The programme partners schools with a design mentor (a Design Ambassador) to tackle a range of issues including: environmental sustainability (Eco Design Challenge); water conservation (Water Design Challenge); and social and emotional isolation amongst older adults (Keeping Connected Design Challenge).

Before tackling the most significant school challenges, schools need to build their own local resource expertise in the model of a professional learning community that builds competence and networking regarding school culture and climate and social - emotional and character development.

Reflecting on the value and significance of education in the globalized era of the 21st century requires tackling global dynamics (economic, political, cultural, social, educational, etc.) with new forms of cooperation and democratic social organization to respond to the challenge of governance in a cosmopolitan society.

Some of the world's leading businesses are coming together to tackle major social and environmental challenges at a unique week - long Innovation Festival.

When I was elected to the Los Angeles School Board 11 years ago as an experienced educator and social worker, I immediately challenged the downtown school bureaucracy, fought for greater accountability and tackled the most difficult problems facing our schools.

This issue includes advice on social media, how to tackle workload and how to deal with challenging behaviour.

He said Tower Hamlets was one of the worst areas for child poverty and the school, opening next year, aimed to tackle «social disadvantage and challenge the status quo».

In that flat world, what will differentiate outcomes is how motivated students are to undertake the work of learning; how well they tackle the inevitable barriers to achievement, including social and emotional challenges; and whether they move beyond the basics and engage in the higher - order learning that's increasingly important for college, careers, and life.

Will technological innovations only ever impact social studies curriculum and instruction on the margins — as dedicated, risk - taking teachers integrate out - of - the - box topics such as presidential propaganda (Journell, 2009) or tackle challenging instructional models such as digital documentaries (Manfra & Hammond, 2008; Schul, 2012; Hofer & Swan, 2006)?

Prime minister Theresa May has said that mental health is one of the «greatest social challenges of our time» and as such has launched a commitment to tackle the problem in schools.

«As the education secretary said in her speech at the Sutton Trust last month, we know that tackling social mobility is a generational challenge,» she said.

While many of the arguments against Mt. Laurel are easily dismissed, several articulate many of the challenges that must be faced in tackling problems of social stratification and segregation.

«Project Titan» will involve polling fans and outdoor journalists via social media, over several phases of development, in order to create a crowd - sourced 2014 Nissan Titan pickup capable of tackling the most extreme outdoor adventure challenges.

Working in international development is a challenge that Chelsey tackles with intense motivation for social change and human rights.

In his art he tackles social, ecological and economical questions, and at an international level, Rehberger is considered one of the most challenging artists of his generation.

The Robert Rauschenberg Foundation has selected the recipients of its 2016 Artist as Activist Fellowship — a two - year grant program designed to support US based artists and artist collectives tackling important social challenges through their creative practice.

Each year we issue project briefs that challenge emerging designers to tackle social, environmental and economic issues through design thinking.

Fallon, Roberta, «The first Wind Fleisher Challenge tackles political and social issues,» Philadelphia Weekly, October 29, 2008

If you're leading the charge for social media in your company or organization, you're probably tackling several challenges.

Today we announced the ten artists and artist collectives selected for the 2016 Artist as Activist Fellowship — the Foundation's two - year grant program designed to support independent artists and artist collectives who tackle important social challenges through their creative practice.

If this movement was to collapse under its own contradictions and corruptions, and a peaceful pushback could be engineered, then climate action and the green businesses that are driving it are perfectly positioned to build a new economic model that both tackles the environmental crisis and addresses the social challenges that gave rise to the new populists in the first place.

Sladek has addressed climate change and energy security from the grassroots level, illustrating how social entrepreneurship and environmental stewardship can come together to tackle two of the world's most urgent challenges.

But it said that meeting that target is a complex social challenge, that energy is important to the global quality of life, and that the issues should not be tackled in court.

I'm particularly pleased that they are not keeping this knowledge to themselves, but working with ClimateCare — which this year won a Queen's Award for Sustainable Development for its integrated approach to tackling climate and development challenges — it is actively sharing this knowledge, making it possible for others to assess the social impact of their carbon offset programmes for the first time.

In Oregon the Encore Fellow program operates under the auspices of Social Venture Partners Portland, a non-profit that aims to build powerful relationships to tackle our community's social challSocial Venture Partners Portland, a non-profit that aims to build powerful relationships to tackle our community's social challsocial challenges.

There should have a more meaningful discussion on the genuine need to challenge the ideological and philosophical doctrine of environmentalism and the real need to tackle social and economic development issues to ensure that tried and tested old values and customs are adaptable to the modern times around the globe.

In recent years the platform has expanded further to include project management and social collaboration tools to tackle many more collaboration challenges.