Sentences with phrase «volunteer group called»

For years Village Trustee Jeremiah Quinlan and a volunteer group called Friends of the Old Hastings Marble Quarry have advocated turning this historic site into a public park with a trail connection down to the river.

Even more remarkably, this change, though strongly supported by the departments» top leadership, largely results from planning, organizing and management by scores of graduate students and postdocs working together as a volunteer group called the Joint Safety Team (JST).

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Collins called the future group of participating volunteers «unique and transformative» for precision - medicine research.

usually run by some inept volunteer leader... I like to call them «lack of Care Group» — out in the «world» people receive a lot of training to care for others — but in Church it's something of a free for all.

He founded a group called «Companions of Christ» that would volunteer their time to build re-creations of the Holy Land and Bible - themed attractions inside of an amusement park he called, obviously, Holy Land U.S.A.

In particular, learning about the group called RAID (Researchers in Agriculture for International Development) was one of those «ah - ha» moments as part of the scholar days as it linked, for me, the opportunities and possibilities of how volunteers and experts can contribute to a multiplier effect in capacity building within large projects.

The group called, Osinbajo Volunteers launched an online campaign presenting Vice President Yemi Osinbajo as the «right» candidate to become Nigeria's next president.

Another anti fracking group, Frack Action, is calling for volunteers to attend the protests on its Facebook page.

Another anti-fracking group, Frack Action, is calling for volunteers to attend the protests on its Facebook page.

Onondaga County built the shelter, but it will be operated through volunteers and funds raised by a group called Friends of Second Chance.

«[O] ne group of researchers [has launched] a crowdsourcing initiative,» called Mark2Cure, to help researchers «find those needle - in - haystack connections» in the rapidly growing biomedical literature «by harnessing the efforts of lay volunteers who will scan papers for key terms to help create a powerful searchable database,» Esther Landhuis wrote in a Thursday ScienceInsider.

Twenty minutes of tDCS to a part of the brain called the left perisylvian area was enough to speed up and improve language learning in a group of 19 volunteers (Journal of Cognitive Neuroscience, DOI: 10.1162 / jocn.2008.20098).

Several countries, including the United Kingdom and Estonia, have assembled similar studies of large groups of people, or cohorts, that collect DNA and health information on volunteers in repositories, sometimes called «biobanks.»

A woman called Dr. Varady did a study on fasting with two groups of volunteers doing alternate day fasting for 10 weeks.

The group has called for the UK to continue with the Erasmus + scheme, where young people study, work volunteer and train abroad in Europe.

Civic groups, community service organizations, and senior citizen groups have been called upon to help recruit volunteers.

The teacher calls on volunteer pairs to share with the whole group.

The online survey by the Professional Association of Georgia Educators, the state's largest educator advocacy group, came after the president called for bonuses for educators who volunteered to carry a firearm.

Wilkerson and OVS coordinate with a group of rehabbers called WING IT, which is currently in need of volunteers.

The group has a shared cell phone, and a volunteer is always on call to answer questions.

Please call us at 972-466-3420 if you are interested in adopting, working one of our supporting rescue groups, or volunteering at our shelter.

We are an all - volunteer group totally dependent upon goodwill and donations to reduce the feral cat overpopulation by using a humane solution, called Trap - Neuter - Return [TNR], to try to decrease their numbers.

It's not uncommon for dogs to run off when novices pull over to let them stretch their legs, according to Mary Blake of Charlotte, who runs a volunteer transport group called Movin» On Up.

«It saves tons of lives, because we wouldn't have a place to put them otherwise,» says Sarah Barnett, an HSUS staffer who volunteers with a D.C. - area rescue group called the Lost Dog & Cat Rescue Foundation.

She is stating that as a «volunteer» for a so - called animal rescue group that she is more qualified than a board certified veterinarian whom she doesn't know and has never met, to determine, though social media, just how this accident should be handled.

He volunteers for a local rescue group called League of Animal Protectors and hopes to receive a Master Groomer Certification.

The group has taken more than 200 hurricane - affected pets, putting out calls on social media to expand its volunteer list to 1,300 and holding weekly mass adoption events.

The Jacksonville Humane Society is an amazing place, thanks to a group of amazing people called volunteers!

A small group of volunteers who call themselves the Redland Rock Pit Abandoned Dog Project work to find and feed the hundreds of abandoned dogs in the Redland area and the Rock Pit Quarry several miles away.

Because we are an all volunteer group with limited time to return calls and emails, (we all have jobs and other life commitments in addition to our rescue work), we ask that you complete and submit an adoption application when you find a dog or cat of ours you are interested in learning more about.

While volunteering with a local Animal Assisted Therapy group called LAPS, she met Albert Einstein, her first therapy dog (pictured).

Dogs are the most common animal «therapists,» but Pet Partners (formerly called the Delta Society), one of several national and local groups that certify pet - human volunteer pairs, has cats, birds, rabbits, horses and even llamas among its 10,000 teams.

Osterman, a Maryland resident, became a vegetarian at 15, works with a local elephant advocacy group and volunteers at a horse sanctuary, but she found her calling last year when she attended her first Humane Lobby Day, an HSUS - sponsored event in state capitals across the country where animal advocates learn how to push for laws that protect animals.

The group refers calls from the public to volunteers in their neighborhood who can help with different parts of the job: teaching people how to trap, lending traps, transporting cats to the clinic, and holding the cats for post-surgery recovery.

«We were very shocked by how appreciative people were,» Dan reports, commending Animal League America, as well, for what he calls the «group of wonderful volunteers» who hustled to help the tremendous number of people who turned out.

Rescue contact: Dreama / Bobbie [email protected] Working closely with the shelter is a group called Animal Rights Fur - Ever (ARF): This is a group of local volunteers assisting with the JCAS rescue / transport program.

There are other ways to volunteer as well, such as helping with our quarterly newsletter mailings, making follow - up calls, conducting follow - up home visits, and giving presentations to schools and community groups.

«Our humane education volunteer manager gets calls from schools, college groups and Boy Scouts to go out and talk about what we do,» Darling says of the education program.

Most disturbingly, she is the director for a «no - kill» group called «Bully Breed Miracle Network and Rescue», described online: «Bully Breed Miracle Networking And Rescue is a non-profit, no - kill, volunteer dog rescue organization serving the Indianola, Iowa area.

If your civic group or scouting troop would like to help the Humane Society of Harford County by doing a service project, please click here to send a message to our volunteer coordinator or call 410-836-1090, x104.

The proposal calls on these volunteer groups to meet quarterly and share ideas, plan projects and devise better strategies for conservation and acquisition of natural areas.

She scuba dives, volunteers with groups such as Citizen Science, and writes an adventure blog called Travels With Tam.

A new trailer, first spotted by PC Gamer, shows off everything the volunteer group associated with the mod project, called «ElDewrito,» has accomplished since it was first released in 2016, including upgraded graphics, new maps, and its own updated «Forge» map editor.

• Sunday, June 10, from 1 - 3 pm, there will be an opening event for the exhibition; • Sunday, June 17, at 2 pm, Butler Director Dr. Louis Zona will present a free art talk, «Joan Mitchell in Historical Context,» in the museum's Beecher Center auditorium; • Groups may call to schedule a tour by Butler docent volunteers who will guide visitors through the Joan Mitchell exhibits (330.743.1107, ext. 115);

Run by a volunteer board of artists, The Halide Project produces two annual exhibitions: a small group invitational and a call - for - entry show, as well as affordable workshops, photographic study sessions, and other casual events throughout the year.

Brooklyn Cyclists Ride Relief into the Rockaways On Saturday night, a friend texted me to say he'd heard of a group bicycle ride from Williamsburg, Brooklyn to The Rockaways being organized by a shop called Affinity Cycles and that they needed supplies and riders to volunteer some manpower.

At first we had a core group of three or four members - people who volunteered to sit on planning councils at all levels and talk to parents who called for help.

Summary: (To include comparison groups, outcomes, measures, notable limitations) Volunteers and women recruited due to a risk factor were randomly assigned to one of conditions described below: 1) Sensory and developmental screening at 12 and 24 months only (control group); 2) Free transportation to regular prenatal and perinatal visits, and sensory and developmental screening at 12 and 24 months; 3) Nurse home visitation during pregnancy only, free transportation to regular prenatal and perinatal visits, and sensory and developmental screening at 12 and 24 months; or 4) Nurse home visits until the child was 2 years old in addition to nurse home visitation during pregnancy, free transportation to regular prenatal and perinatal visits, and sensory and developmental screening at 12 and 24 months [now called Nurse Family Partnership (NFP)-RSB-.

Volunteers and women recruited due to a risk factor were randomly assigned to one of conditions described below: 1) Sensory and developmental screening at 12 and 24 months only (control group); 2) Free transportation to regular prenatal and perinatal visits, and sensory and developmental screening at 12 and 24 months; 3) Nurse home visitation during pregnancy only, free transportation to regular prenatal and perinatal visits, and sensory and developmental screening at 12 and 24 months; or 4) Nurse home visits until the child was 2 years old in addition to nurse home visitation during pregnancy, free transportation to regular prenatal and perinatal visits, and sensory and developmental screening at 12 and 24 months [now called Nurse Family Partnership (NFP)-RSB-.

She occasionally does some volunteer teaching herself (on the topic of economics and the importance of staying in school), for an extracurricular non-profit group called Junior Achievement.