Sentences with phrase «volunteer group doing»

We are an all - volunteer group doing the best we can to keep things moving as quickly as possible.

Our all volunteer group does these activities because we believe in and respect the German Shepherd Dog.

Not exact matches

The United Health Group did a survey in 2013 and found that 78 % of people who volunteered reported lower levels of stress levels in their lives.

For the study, the researchers split socially anxious volunteers into three groups — one was asked to perform random acts of kindness, one was told to follow the usual course of exposure therapy and force themselves to participate in more social situations, and another was a control group who did nothing special.

They are members of a nationwide group known as The Initiative Collective — a volunteer crime prevention outfit that encourages people to fight back against violence using self - defense, armor and theatrics — in addition to doing general good deeds like fundraising, feeding the homeless and offering free martial arts training to anyone who wants it.

You faithfully attend church every Sunday, you go to a small group on Wednesday, you tithe 10 % to your church, you volunteer every year for VBS, and you don't try to cram Jesus down everyone's throat at work.

Major Adrian Allman from, Birmingham Citadel Salvation Army told Premier when the group started in 1892 volunteers «did the practical things because no one else was doing them».

Just like I wouldn't volunteer myself to participate in an activity I am not interested in or surround myself with a group of people who are completely different than myself or my family, I don't want to make worship uncomfortable and unfamiliar.

Did you know that faith - based organizations are registered as volunteer groups for emergency response by public safety systems?

But the fire is burning more sporadically, is not necessarily connected to Judaism, and it doesn't «significantly embrace» Israel, according to a poll released Thursday by Repair the World, a group that promotes volunteering among Jews.

Some volunteers find that they like working in a field which has no direct relation to their illness, as they do not want to be reminded of how serious chemical sensitivity can be; but others will want to work with consciousness - raising groups.

Faith Community sent polite but firm letters to families who attend church services and «freebie events» but never volunteer, never tithe and do not belong to a small group or other ministry.

«What it will do is make sure that groups put all the steps in place to stop those sorts of people engaging in their group, maybe preventing people from volunteering with their group because they've used proper robust safer recruitment processes, for example.

However, chaplains with clinical training tend to define the bulk of their work in nontraditional areas such as pastoral visitation to patients, counseling patients, teaching in in - service programs, developing liaison with the community, conducting clergy training, performing administrative work, teaching religious classes, participating in research, working with volunteers, counseling employees, and doing religious group work.

What an honour — I really hope the volunteer group likes them:) And how wonderful you teen did

Last week I volunteered, as I do every month, with a group of fourth grade students at an economically disadvantaged elementary school participating in Houston's Recipe for Success program.

The yes - Mom - I - still - want - to - do - Science - Team - and - archery - lessons - and - community - college - classes - and - co-op-classes-and-SAT-prep-and-AP-classes-and-novel-writing-and-music-lessons-and-robot-building-and-geography-book-editing-and-rock-band-and-non-profit-starting-and-music-organization-interning-and-girls» - STEM - group - volunteering - and - Spanish - and - Russian - and - driver's - licence - permit - and - oh - yeah - sleeping - has - to - fit - in - there - somewhere kind of busy.

«I was part of the first volunteer group and then I just didn't want to leave.

Volunteers selected for the non-stretch group did no stretching before runnning.

The closest API Support Group was in another state, five hours away, so I contacted API and asked if I could volunteer with them — because I knew that if I didn't affiliate myself with API in some way, I would not have the strength to continue on with Attachment Parenting without support at home.

The Wilmette Park District initiated a master planning process in 2008, choosing a consultant and soliciting volunteers for a Lakefront Commission, but the group didn't meet until 2010 because the economy worsened, Wilson said.

I was team mom for little league, cheer mom, pta mom, chaperoned school field trips, volunteered as a classroom helper and parent at their schools (when in public school) attended toddler tumbling and mom classes, was a homeschooling parent for one of my kids with leaning disabilities, I didn't have to scramble to figure out what to do about work or where to take my kids for child care if they were sick, I led and was involved with the church groups with my kids, I spent summers with them doing all kinds of things like traveling, visiting grandparents out of town, amusement park trips, swimming, picnics, and hiking, instead of them being stuck with a sitter every summer.

Working together as a family, asking a friend to join you in volunteer efforts, or doing it as a group activity for Scouts, church, etc. keeps kids motivated and interested when they have company.

The young and the energetic Konkomba Youth Group, who have volunteered to preach to their people about the good things President John Dramani Mahama is doing and how important the NDC as a party recognize the entire Kokomba community have said, the President has exposed the NPP and their Northern Regional Chairman Bugri Naabu for the lies they have spewed across the Konkomba communities just to win their votes

He has volunteered a lot of time on behalf of groups such as Democracy for New York City, Brooklyn for Barack and Develop Don't Destroy Brooklyn.

«We were just joking in our office that everyone on the second floor should resign and become a volunteer paid by the campaign, because we don't know of any laws that prohibit volunteers from acting on behalf of an elected official,» said John Kaehny, executive director of good government group Reinvent Albany.

Sean Ryan [email protected] A volunteer group wants Waukesha County to dedicate $ 2.5 million a year to affordable housing projects, but elected officials say they don't have the money.

Then the group sends its volunteers to talk to those voters in person, armed with literature and talking points touting what GOP incumbents have done to advance those causes.

The non-partisan group which does its research primarily through the work of volunteers, studied meeting minutes of 16 municipal governments — eight from Erie County and eight from Niagara County — for six months starting at the beginning of this year.

One group of volunteers first arranged words having to do with logic and reasoning into sentences; another group arranged neutral words into sentences.

As Science Careers noted 5 years ago, a group of young scientists at WUSTL took matters into their own hands, creating the volunteer - run BALSA (or Biotechnology and Life Sciences Advising) Group, which hires out five - person interdisciplinary teams — sometimes including law or business students along with scientists — to do approximately 6 - week - long consulting projects for companies, universities, and other organizatgroup of young scientists at WUSTL took matters into their own hands, creating the volunteer - run BALSA (or Biotechnology and Life Sciences Advising) Group, which hires out five - person interdisciplinary teams — sometimes including law or business students along with scientists — to do approximately 6 - week - long consulting projects for companies, universities, and other organizatGroup, which hires out five - person interdisciplinary teams — sometimes including law or business students along with scientists — to do approximately 6 - week - long consulting projects for companies, universities, and other organizations.

Yet more than 40 percent of these papers only mentioned volunteers in the acknowledgements, while another roughly 40 percent did not use the term volunteers at all, simply mentioning the name of the group that provided the data, like the British Trust for Ornithology's Common Birds Census.

The study enrolled 36 men and 36 women from two age groups — «young» volunteers who were 18 - 30 years old and «older» volunteers who were 65 - 80 years old — into three different exercise programs: one where the volunteers did high - intensity interval biking, one where the volunteers did strength training with weights, and one that combined strength training and interval training.

Young and his colleagues divided volunteers into two groups; one group had sites on their buttocks exposed to UV light, while the other didn't.

A control group from the same pool of volunteers did not receive any meditation training.

The control group consisted of 17 volunteers who didn't play video games on a regular basis.

The group declined that invitation, saying that as a small group of volunteers they didn't «have the capacity to give such an event the time and effort it deserves.»

All of the 20 people in the placebo group came down with rashes, low white blood cell count and other symptoms of the disease, while none of the 21 vaccinated volunteers became sick and did not have evidence of infection in their blood.

In the search for neutralizing antibodies, Landais says the rare volunteers in the group who develop them start doing so after two years of infection, with increasing levels of antibodies until 48 months after infection, until they reach a plateau.

Most of the volunteers who did full - bodied exertive dancing had higher pain thresholds compared with those who were in the low - exertion groups.

The volunteers were divided into groups of three, and they did either high or low - exertion dancing that was either synchronized or unsynchronized.

I have a really good group of volunteers and they know that if I can do something, I will.

In contrast, the same researchers studied leg muscles (tibialis anterior) in a similar group of volunteers last year (as I blogged about here)-- in that case, the older runners did preserve the number of motor units.

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

Interestingly, the group of volunteers who did experience dementia weighed about eight pounds less on average at the beginning of the study than those who did not develop dementia.

He said the volunteers in both groups did report that bite counting had seemed «do - able and tolerable,» although, he added, anyone who had found the process particularly onerous likely quit during week one.

do you have a group / organization in your area for volunteering time & visiting folks like that?

One super fun thing they do is have local men volunteer to be escorts for groups of 8 or more women who go in together as a group.

While the volunteer work I do can be time consuming, I get to serve alongside a group of dedicated alumnae women that also encourage me to be the best version of myself.

And then we have our Stacks Program which are groups of veterans and civilians that come together within their communities to either do team building events where they just might go out and get some pizza and hang out or they will go volunteer with another veteran's organization and do some good work for veterans within their community.