Sentences with phrase «urban leagues»

The experience began with a tour of major service agencies in the community, including libraries, urban leagues, and community centers with educational components.

Miller Lite has also aligned with community partners that focus on entrepreneurship and technical resources, including the United States Hispanic Chamber of Commerce, Milwaukee Urban League, Chicago Urban League, Urban League of Greater Dallas and North Central Texas, the Florida State Hispanic Chamber of Commerce and the National Association for Asian American Professionals.

«Everybody's getting paid, but Raheem still can't read,» Vivian Cox Fraser, president of the Urban League of Essex County in New Jersey, told the magazine.

A QuikTrip gas station that burned down is now the Ferguson Community Empowerment Center, a $ 5.8 million partnership between the Urban League and the Salvation Army.

She was with the Urban League's Monique Williams - Moore, who has been running job - readiness programs in the area, including a unique one created with Starbucks to give kids with complicated lives a chance to learn customer service and team work.

She has received the Vanguard Award for her distinguished career in business and personal finance reporting from the National Urban League Guild, and the All - Star Award from the Association of Women in Communications.

And having organizations sprout up such as Black Lives Matter, Campaign Zero, and the youth organizations of the NAACP, and the Urban League, and The National Action Network is very encouraging.

She also wrote several profiles of Chicago business leaders, including comScore Chairman Emeritus Gian Fulgoni and Urban League of Chicago CEO Andrea Zopp.

The free sealing and expungement event was hosted by the Office of the State Attorney, Michael J. Satz, in collaboration with The Clerk of Courts, BSO and The Urban League Of Broward County.

He also sits on the Board of Trustees for Babson College and serves on the Board of the Urban League of Rochester.

«Ferguson was an awakening for all of us to really take a hard look in the mirror, and try to turn what was a tragedy into a triumph,» said Michael McMillan, President and CEO of the Urban League of Metropolitan St. Louis, one of Starbucks key community partners in the initiative.

In addition to creating new local jobs, Starbucks will work with nonprofit partners like the Urban League of Metropolitan St. Louis to provide a robust, multi-week job skills training program for local youth, using a specially - designed classroom space within the store.

It's also in the south and would pull in talent from an area that's often overlooked by tech firms, said Marc Morial, president and CEO of the National Urban League, a civil rights organization.

Dr. Hill is currently on the boards of the California Water Service Group, Rand Corporation, Jenessee Center, Los Angeles Urban League (emeritus board) and Goodwill Industries of Southern California (advisory).

For example, in the purchase of a boat for recreational purposes, set aside a sum up to the price of the boat to give to the food bank or an organization such as the Urban League.

The ethos of dependency requires direct attention of the kind given by the Urban League and the Children's Defense Fund in their media campaign to discourage young ghetto males from fathering children they can not support.

Most of the major civic institutions in American communities today — like the Boy Scouts, the Red Cross, the League of Women Voters, the NAACP, the Urban League, the Knights of Columbus, Rotary, Kiwanis, the Lions Club — were created in this period.

«We recognise the traditions of gun ownership that passed on from generation to generation, that hunting and shooting are part of a cherished national heritage,» said Obama during remarks made at a National Urban League Conference in New Orleans.

The Century supported the Southern Christian Leadership Conference, the NAACP and the Urban League.

Instead, he will keep a job he has had with the Urban League and play this winter in Harlem's Bowman League, where his teammates will be other fallen idols who were not quite good enough or smart enough to make it up the ladder toward the pros.

Manigault and Daniels first met last winter at an Urban League storefront in Harlem.

There are some wonderful speakers on the agenda including Wayne Sutton (@socialwayne) and Marc Morial, President and CEO of the National Urban league.

The latter was developed in partnership with the Urban League of Portland with the involvement of a wide variety of community organizations.

Owner and Advisor of Strategic Advice Services and former President and Chief Executive Officer of the Tucson Urban League, has over 25 years experience working within the community development field facilitating projects, coalitions, and alliances at the neighborhood, citywide, regional, national and international levels.

At 7 p.m., — Assembly Speaker Carl Heastie and Sens. Brian Benjamin and Kevin Parker join AARP NYS Director Beth Finkel, state NAACP President Hazel Dukes and NY Urban League Executive Director Arva Rice to address disparities hurting New York's communities of color on WBLS's «Open Line» with Judge Bob Pickett and Bob Slade, Schomberg Center for Research for Black Culture, 515 Malcolm X Blvd., Harlem.

The Broome County Urban League, associated with the United Way, has been one of the major non-profit organizations that provides social services in the county for over the past 40 years.

The student should also have demonstrated leadership and support of the ideals of the Urban League - to improve the quality of life of the economically, socially and educationally disadvantaged persons within the Broome County area.

The family services offered by the Broome County Urban League are: Information / Referral, Respite Reimbursement, and an Inclusive After School and Summer Day Program for children ages 5 - 21.

Broome County Young Professionals Group (BCULYP) is the local affiliate chapter of the National Urban League Young Professional (NULYP), a National Urban League volunteer auxiliary that targets young professionals ages 21 - 40 to empower their communities and change lives through the Urban League Movement.

The BCUL became an affiliate of the National Urban League in 1970.

The Broome County Urban League will also be dedicating the basketball court at Columbus Park to King Rice in honor of all that he has done for the Urban League and the Binghamton community.

The Broome County Urban League will be hosting a gala to celebrate 50 years of impact and helping our community to earn, learn and live a better life.

In an effort to meet the needs of the Broome County Department of Social Services (BCDSS) Welfare to Work (WTW) Temporary Assistance for Needy Families (TANF), the Broome County Urban League (BCUL) along with several community based organizations have come together and will offer their expertise and resources with work experience activities (WEP) leading to employment and self - sustainability.

Dear Community Leader, The Broome County Urban League is proud to be able to provide the «I Have A Dream» Scholarship Program.

The Broome County Urban League 50th Anniversary Gala will be on Saturday, May 5 at the McKinley in Endicott from 6 to 10 p.m. Tickets are $ 75 and can be purchased here.

On February 26, 2009, the Broome County Urban League (BCUL) in partnership with On Point Productions applied for a Class - A FM, non commercial fm radio license from the FCC.

The Broome County Urban League is proud to be able to provide the «I Have A Dream» Scholarship Program.

Don't lower expectations for ELA, math tests, say Education Trust and Urban League officials.

See more about the Urban League online.

Also at 6 p.m., the National Action Network, in conjunction with the NAACP, the New York Urban League and the Hispanic Federation hold a forum for New York City Council speaker candidates, National Action Network House of Justice, 106 W. 145th St., Manhattan.

Also at 2 p.m., Rep. Louise Slaughter will tour ongoing progress at a home construction site for the Urban League of Rochester's YouthBuild program, JOSANA Neighborhood, Stadium Estates, 883 West Broad St., Rochester.

What to do about the Buffalo Urban League and its president and CEO, Brenda McDuffie?

A lawsuit brought by the Buffalo Urban League, which took the unusual step in April of suing Erie County after a scathing audit by the county comptroller, has been dismissed.

The Buffalo Urban League, disgruntled after a critical audit by the Erie County Comptroller, is pressing ahead with legal action against the county.

«Hazel Dukes, NAACP New York State Conference Director; Arva Rice President and CEO, the New York Urban League; Phil Banks President, 100 Black Men New York Chapter; H. Carl McCall, Former New York State Comptroller; Bill Thompson, Jr., Former New York City Comptroller; Senator Ruth Hassell - Thompson, 36th SD; Assemblyman Hakeem Jeffries, New York's 57th AD; Assemblyman Karim Camara, New York's 43rd AD; Assemblyman Carl Heastie, New York's 83rd AD; Assemblywoman Helen Foster, New York's 16th CD; Councilwoman Letiticia James, New York's 35th CD; Councilman Jumaane Williams New York's 45th CD; District Leader Eric Stevenson, 79th AD

The audit, which was completed last December, found that the Urban League had over-billed the county by an estimated $ 40,000, as well as failing to -LSB-...]

There were two noteworthy developments Thursday regarding findings by Investigative Post and the Erie County Comptroller about inappropriate actions taken by the Buffalo Urban League, including the submission of inflated bills and retaliation against whistleblowers.

The The Buffalo Urban League, recently the subject of a critical report from the Erie County Comptroller, is threatening legal action unless the report and negative public statements are withdrawn, Channel 2's Dave McKinley reports.

Former employees of the Buffalo Urban League say there's another side to the story.

Urban League President Brenda McDuffie said the comptroller's report was «filled with factual and -LSB-...]