Sentences with phrase «thousands of volunteers»

This is accomplished with the help of thousands of volunteers from more than 100 professional societies, major corporations and government agencies.

A summertime call to the community for help, though, yielded donations and thousands of volunteers who completed hundreds of thousands of dollars of work.

She has supported projects across five continents and has successfully placed thousands of volunteers in humanitarian and environmental positions.

It involves supplier partners and thousands of volunteers across the country, from employees to clients, who make sandwiches and pack lunches.

Thousands of volunteers work together each year to stage the events, which are attended by over 100,000 people.

For instance, the clinical tests on thousands of volunteers — essential in the approval process for any new drug — are extremely expensive.

Using data collected by thousands of volunteers through «citizen science» schemes, responses to recent climate change were seen to vary greatly from species to species.

Its moral cohesion built and sustained major institutions that to this day provide billions of dollars and hundreds of thousands of volunteers for charitable work.

She led a recreation and facilities team composed of full - time, part - time and seasonal staff, as well as thousands of volunteers.

Since then, she has inspired thousands of volunteers to complete free repairs on more than 800 homes.

She sent thousands of volunteers and millions of dollars to support those who were affected.

He is one of thousands of volunteers stepping forward in this extreme time of need.

Every year thousands of volunteers generously give their time to help us to help pets across the country.

Each year, thousands of volunteer pilots fly across all 50 states to rescue animals and bring them to safe shelters, or even their forever homes, miles upon miles away.

The NRWA continues to innovate, grow, and evolve because of thousands of volunteer hours donated by a volunteer Board of Directors and dedicated members who have selflessly committed to continuing the vision of the early members of The NRWA.

We're working on translating all of our resources into more than 36 languages, with thousands of volunteers helping us subtitle videos.

Marinella Senatore has used the medium of film to build communities consisting of tens of thousands of volunteers from around the world.

In addition, we engage thousands of volunteers who spend time working in our community schools and on our projects to improve learning opportunities in Los Angeles and beyond.

Every year, tens of thousands of volunteers participate in the global Green Apple Day of Service to make our schools healthier, more sustainable places to learn.

Find out more about Jeremy Deller's 14 - 18 NOW WW1 Centenary Art Commission «we're here because we're here», in which thousands of volunteers took part in a modern memorial to mark the centenary of the Battle of the Somme.

After the storm, thousands of volunteers came to South Texas to lend a hand.

Both campaigns spent millions on television, and both campaigns mobilized thousands of volunteers to make millions of phone calls and door knocks to sway the undecided, shore up support from their base, and turn out their voters.

Part of this study, which involved thousands of volunteers between the ages of 12.5 and 17.5 in cities scattered across Europe, gathered nutrition and physical fitness data.

Join thousands of volunteers to cleanup Oregon's beaches.

There are literally thousands of volunteers who represent the passion and commitment behind the scenes which enable The Freecycle Network ™ to function as a grassroots and nonprofit gifting movement.

The applause continues for Batavia's newly dedicated Riverwalk, a transformation by thousands of volunteers over seven years of a former windmill manufacturing site along the Fox River into a 3 - acre scenic vista of bricked walkway, wetlands, wildflower sanctuary and community park.

«The Obama campaign has about a dozen paid staff in Michigan already and, it says, thousands of volunteers running voter registration drives, organizing house parties and recruiting more volunteers.»

The eighth in a series of BioBlitzes being held in national parks across the United States leading up to the centennial celebration of the National Park Service in 2016, the Golden Gate National Parks BioBlitz will gather thousands of volunteer scientists, students and community members to measure and highlight the biodiversity of these unique national parks in the heart of the urban Bay Area.

The Equinox Thanksgiving Day Community Dinner brings together thousands of volunteers who prepare and deliver thousands of Thanksgiving meals to needy community members» homes.

All Hands is in the process of establishing and leading a volunteer reception center, intended to recruit, activate and manage thousands of volunteers in a highly organized relief effort.

Paladino says thousands of volunteers are already gathering the minimum 15,000 voter signatures necessary to create the line.

NY19Votes will train and deploy thousands of volunteers to canvass the 19th district.

Statewide thousands of volunteers will be at state parks and historic sites helping to clean up and beautify them for the season.

Moreover, their members are some of the most politically active residents of New York City, deeply connected to and active in our communities, and they have pledged to dedicate thousands of volunteer hours for door - to - door canvassing, phone banking and rallies for our campaign.

Jerome Hauer, state Commissioner of Homeland Security, commended the quick response of thousands of volunteers Monday in attacking the fire.

Sources at Momentum said they believed there was a fundamental misunderstanding of how they had operated: «We believe the Electoral Commission is investigating Momentum because we managed to do so much with so little and because they haven't previously dealt before with a social movement - type organisation that is powered by the energy and enthusiasm of tens of thousands of volunteers rather than large amounts of money.»

From managing national campaigns to organizing issue advocacy messages through thousands of volunteer contacts, Lincoln Strategy Group uses grassroots efforts to successfully achieve results.

In a first for citizen science, a team of amateur astronomers — comprising thousands of volunteers — has discovered an entire planetary system, BBC News reports.

When Allan Luks, director of Fordham University's Center for Nonprofit Leaders, surveyed thousands of volunteers across the country, 95 percent of respondents reported a pleasurable physical sensation associated with helping — what Luks refers to as the «helper's high.»

That's a question facing an Alzheimer's disease prevention study, in which thousands of volunteers received either the painkillers Celebrex or naproxen, or a placebo.

Today, the White House and National Institutes of Health (NIH) announced several pilot projects, including one to work out how to recruit hundreds of thousands of volunteers online.

HR: The Call Tool [an app that's part of Dashboard], for example, allowed thousands of volunteers to do phone canvassing from their home and pull up lists of people to call and a script that said, «Hey, call Linda.

Meet the thought leaders who invested thousands of volunteer hours over the past seven years to collaborate and develop national standards:

Sundance Institute relies on the generosity and dedication of thousands of volunteers year - round.

«I'd like to recognize the contributions of thousands of volunteer leaders and all those who have filled staff positions with NAESP over the years.

Thousands of volunteers digitized and diligently proofread the eBooks, for enjoyment and education.