Sentences with phrase «value to the community at»

Artist residencies very often take place in a larger art community that not only provides camaraderie with other artists, but also provides value to the community at large through art workshops, classes, and programs.

Not exact matches

After giving $ 100 million to Newark, New Jersey schools, $ 120 million to Bay Area schools, and 18 million Facebook shares (now worth $ 1.9 billion) to the Silicon Valley Community Foundation, they made the audacious announcement that they would give away 99 % of their Facebook stock during their lifetime, an amount currently valued at $ 45 billion.

Zuckerberg has built Facebook, which could be valued at up to $ 104 billion by the stock offering, into an international phenomenon by stretching the lines of social convention and embracing a new and far more permeable definition of community.

Our employees are free to take positive risks knowing that they will not solely be judged on a company's profit margin, but also on factors that all of us at Virgin value, like raising awareness of the brand, creating happy and loyal customers or making a positive impact on the larger community.

It reports $ 110 million of net income on $ 3 billion in revenue for the nine months ending Nov. 2, 2013, compared to $ 95 million in net income on $ 2.88 billion in revenue for the year - earlier period. www.michaels.com National Mentor Holdings, a Boston - based provider of home and community - based health services to children and adults with disabilities, is preparing to file for an IPO that could value the company at more than $ 1 billion, according to the Wall Street Journal.

That was on full display the weekend of March 17, as Bitcoin shed about a fifth of its value (dropping below $ 950 at one point, before bouncing back to about $ 1,050 on Monday) as an increasingly bitter split in the developer community behind Bitcoin threatened to split it into two competing currencies.

Good thing St. Louis» median home value, at $ 164,200, is well below the U.S. median of $ 194,500, according to the U.S. Census Bureau's 2015 American Community Survey data.

She is also the executive sponsor for Women at IO, a group designed to equip women to be more successful, personally and professionally, and encourage a culture that embraces the value women can bring to the business and community.

At Franklin Templeton Investments, we believe that Corporate Citizenship is a critical link between integrity and performance — how we do the right things the right way in order to deliver value to our stockholders, clients, employees, and our communities.

These remarks from Buterin might seem like negative criticism directed at the cryptocurrency community that has built its tokens on the platform he incepted, but the healthy dose of realism might be just what is needed to keep the eyes of the ecosystem focused on the benefits of developing decentralized technologies for reasons greater than the value associated with their related tokens.

In addition to his post as a senior data scientist at Google, the value investing community knows him for his side gig: hosting the Investing Talks -LSB-...]

They don't just meet people for business - card collection's sake; they understand the power of relationship - building, problem - solve by connecting the dots at high levels, and purposefully cause different worlds and communities to interact with the intention of creating mutual value.

At AIT, we vigorously seek opportunities to earn our customers» trust by delivering exceptional worldwide logistics solutions while passionately valuing our co-workers, partners and communities.

PR Seniors Housing Management Ltd. and Cedar Tree Investment Canada Inc. (an affiliate of the Anbang Insurance Group) completed a partnership transaction valued at over $ 1 billion in February 2017 with respect to 23 of its seniors communities, wherein PR Seniors Housing Management Ltd.'s subsidiaries continues to manage the day - to - day operations at these communities.

At any one time, the psychological influences (i.e., how the financial community is appraising these more fundamental matters of intrinsic value) will cause the price of the particular stock to be anywhere from well above this line to well below it.

Like an antiques appraiser's ability to recognize and value a rare piece of Limoges porcelain, or a judge's ability to spot a superlative collie at a dog show, the acquired capacity manifests disciplined habits of seeing and valuing which reflect the ethos of a knowledgeable community.

So the knowledge imparted was at different levels, - technical rationality, critical rationality to evaluate ends, universal human values, and the humanism of the person of Jesus - but with search for the unity of their inter-relationship realized in the renewal of personal and community life as the ultimate goal.

Taking the article at «face value,» I don't really see anything wrong with a church ponying up some application fees to help folks in their respective communities apply.

Finally, an observation at the personal, familial and community level: Although the global problems are compelling, we can not expect to resolve them without first reforming our personal values and life styles.

Culture involves specific actions or rituals to be performed in a given way at different stages of life such as birth, marriage and funerals within a community, and these acquire the value of tradition.

It has frequently been observed that the quality of life in inner - city communities is deteriorating at alarming rates, and that part of this deterioration is attributable to the erosion of moral and humane values.

Some how it's felt that values, morals, virtues are not there in a secular world only faceless solid lifeless laws of men rather than what has been relayed by Holy books that calls for good deeds and reject bad deeds and to build a faithful societies, communities, nations since communications among nations or even among the nations of mixed cultures and beliefs... Laws or God and universe are to be prepared by some thing that is equivalent to UN but built on nations beliefs to achieve the code of understanding among nations but as can see now it is build on groundless bases if not of words of God to faiths... in addition to those non spiritual secular beliefs to make decisions of faith but at the moment the secular world make and take the decisions while the beliefs and faiths has to pay for it when it becomes a war between all faiths or religions outside your world, it would become back into your inside among the mixed culture and beliefs of the nation or nations under one country flag...!

The only point of separation that I can imagine is one where a member of the community is actively working at odds to oppose the values of that community.

Many seem to find that the most valuable aspect is contact with people who share their values and their hopes for their children — a full youth programme requires its own separate field each year at Walsingham — and a sense of community and solidarity.

Thus, affirming his attachment to what he called «Old World values» to an audience at an ethnic festival in New Brunswick, New Jersey, he proclaimed, «Dedication to work, to family, to community, to neighborhood: Those are the values I believe in.»

The positive moral value that emerged from this conviction was a sense of joyous confidence, that transformed the little community from a mood of passive waiting to urgency in witness, fidelity in mutual service, and at least relative steadfastness in the Christian virtues.

Whitehead, however, does argue that the higher morality is to aim at the enhancement of value for the larger community.

One study of Catholic values on Catholic campuses disclosed that when administrators, faculty, students, and alumni were asked to identify core Catholic values in the culture of their institutions, «high academic standards,» «academic freedom,» and «respect for the individual» regularly ranked at or near the top, while «community of faith» trailed far behind.

The award honors notable individuals who inspire others through their dedication to the Jewish community and its values, but at the last minute, Portman refused to attend the ceremony.

In describing and accounting for the lives of the Religious Right, which we define simply as religious conservatives with a considerable involvement in political activity, the book and the series tell the story primarily by focusing on leading episodes in the movement's history, including, but not limited to, the groundwork laid by Billy Graham in his relationships with presidents and other prominent political leaders; the resistance of evangelical and other Protestants to the candidacy of the Roman Catholic John F. Kennedy; the rise of what has been called the New Right out of the ashes of Barry Goldwater's defeat in 1964; a battle over sex education in Anaheim, California, in the mid-1960's; a prolonged cultural war over textbooks in West Virginia in the early 1970's — and that is a battle that has been fought less violently in community after community all over the country; the thrill conservative Christians felt over the election of a «born - again» Christian to the Presidency in 1976 and the subsequent disappointment they experienced when they found out that Jimmy Carter was, of all things, a Democrat; the rise of the Moral Majority and its infatuation with Ronald Reagan; the difficulty the Religious Right has had in dealing with abortion, homosexuality and AIDS; Pat Robertson's bid for the presidency and his subsequent launching of the Christian Coalition; efforts by Dr. James Dobson and Gary Bauer to win a «civil war of values» by changing the culture at a deeper level than is represented by winning elections; and, finally, by addressing crucial questions about the appropriate relationship between religion and politics or, as we usually put it, between church and state.

With quiet resolve, with love even for those they oppose and concern for the human values at stake, such a group can make the difference between a community in which the church is merely a cultural parenthesis and one in which it is a factor to be reckoned with.

The crucial question is whether a plurality of religious and secular faiths, each of which had developed its own traditional culture, that is, philosophy, morality, ideology and legal system of corporate life, can, through inter-faith rational discourse, create at least the basic framework of a common culture or common direction and scheme of values for peoples to build together a new dwelling, like the national community.

that is philosophy, morality, ideology and legal system of corporate life, can through inter-faith rational discourse create at least the basic framework of a common culture or common direction and scheme of values for peoples to build together a new dwelling, like the national community.

We are also committed to creating shared value and being a good neighbor in the 140 communities where we operate in the U.S.. For more information, visit us at www.nestle-watersna.com/en and follow us on Twitter: @NestleWatersNA.

Continuing to follow their mission to embrace and add value to the community, Roscoe Beer Co. created a real - life project for advertising students at Sullivan County Community College, which will focus on the development of a print advertising campaign to promote beer sales to the community, Roscoe Beer Co. created a real - life project for advertising students at Sullivan County Community College, which will focus on the development of a print advertising campaign to promote beer sales to the Community College, which will focus on the development of a print advertising campaign to promote beer sales to the consumer.

Going forward we will expand the research to report data by company size and region, but we hope this set of information will provide value to our members as well as the import community at large.»

When you look at the youth development model, connection to positive caring adults and feeling as though they are valued in their community is an important aspect of adolescent development.

Quite frankly, school - aged children will typically spend most of their non-sleeping time at school, so it is critical to find a school community that can offer exceptional educational value and also mirrors the same values and beliefs you have within your home.

You are determined to find a school and community that will welcome you openly and meet the holistic needs of your child and at the same time align with your family's beliefs and values.

Manchester is the perfect location for a BJ's and the new BJ's Manchester club will provide amazing and unbeatable value to the community on top of fresh food options at amazing prices.

School Wellness Policies School wellness policies are a great way to articulate a school community's values and can build farm to school components into school food and the general food environment at schools.

Here at the Unconventional Parents Community we like to think of conscious business as doing work in alignment with your strengths and values that benefits the individual, the family and the world.

A moral panic is a widespread fear, most often an irrational one, that someone or something is a threat to the values, safety, and interests of a community or society at large.

The researchers set out to look at the relationship between homework load and student well - being in the upper middle class advantaged communities (where median household income is more than $ 90,000, and 93 percent of students go to college) because it is there that homework is largely accepted as having value.

Plum Grove Estates is a secluded, 172 - acre community, where homes are valued at $ 275,000 to $ 600,000.

Through its members» commitments to community projects and fund development businesses, this year the JLJ will donate more than 50,000 volunteer hours valued at almost $ 800,000.

«For years, Make the Road Action has mobilized communities from across the state to stand up to Governor Cuomo's destructive policies which put our values at odds with the needs of New York's communities of color,» Nixon said in a statement.

«I worked for years as a waitress here at Umberto's and the job taught me not only the value of hard work, but about the importance of connecting with people, of being involved in the community, of understanding people's lives and wanting to help make them better.

My research looks at ideologies as being produced at different levels, from that of government, through the press, electronic media and interest groups, right down to the normal and never - ending manifestations of the ideas and values we hold when we consider how the various communities to which we belong — national or local, formal and informal — should be run.

And I will fight for dedicated resources aimed at securing and strengthening property values here in this community, to undo the economic damage that has been done.»