Sentences with phrase «volunteer group works»

Our little Southern Idaho volunteer group works with about 350 cats per year.

The all - volunteer group works through its website, www.mtcan.org, to find new homes for pets.

The industrial - village - turned - popular - tourist - destination is now home to over 100 cats in every possible breed and colour after a cat - loving volunteer group worked hard to give the town a new «Cat Village» image in 2009.

Some volunteer groups work to provide shelter and food for colonies to help them get by.

Read more about the Clay County volunteer group working to help community cat colonies.

Not exact matches

Not every group is a fit, so I find it works best for me to find a few I really like and get involved in those as a volunteer, board member, etc. - Michelle Garrett, MichelleGarrett.com

Celis became involved with the work of Engineers without Borders Canada, a group of engineers, students and volunteers who use their creativity and problem - solving skills to help communities in Africa, and soon left her job at OPG for a year - long position in Ghana, working with the development systems of local governments.

How it works: Zest's «tribe» of active members recommends content they've found to be valuable; then, a group of super-user volunteers reviews it and decides if it's a good or bad fit for the community.

Then, the volunteers were randomly divided into two groups — the ones who would work from home four days a week, and the ones who would remain behind, working in the company's offices.

I gathered data for both groups regarding their careers / employment, the percentage born to wealth, poverty or the middle - class, spending habits, academic performance, education, perceptions of wealth / poverty, various health data, inherited money data, gambling habits, home ownership, car ownership, reading habits, relationship management, savings habits, self - improvement habits, time management habits, beliefs, vacation habits, volunteering habits, networking habits, voting habits and work - related data.

As I sat down to record some of the day's happenings there was a small group of students who came outside to watch what was happening in their parking lot as almost 200 volunteers worked together to build a new playground for them.

An Alberta - based volunteer working group, of which I'm a part, recently released a document titled Foundations for an Alberta Alternative Budget (for media coverage, see this Metro article).

Nearly 300 volunteers, including 42 from Dr Pepper Snapple Group and more than 40 students from Marquette University High School, eagerly got to work assembling the new playground, which featured a «Tripple» Racer Slide, stationery buttons, a range of climber and interactive panels, a playhouse and even a playdozer!

While the volunteers worked, a small group of children participated in activities inside, including designing their own playground stickers, which they shared with volunteers at the end of the day.

After a lively warm up, a hardy group of team captains were introduced and volunteers got right to work!

Having worked with volunteers and parents through running a Public Access Television Station and various parent groups, in addition to being a Certified Trainer with The Success...

It attended staff meetings and created the concept of the «Agile Safari,» in which you could volunteer to work for a time in groups that were using Agile, to see how it ticks.

Other elements of the work will be to coordinate volunteer groups to provide assistance.

When Hurricane Harvey came through Aransas Pass, he left behind a lot of destruction of homes, businesses, and lives, but in the aftermath, a group of volunteers came in to work hands - on in the community and help it rebuild.

I volunteer weekly, give what I can of a meager salary to the poor, and work for groups that help the less fortunate.

He repeats his description of the ways bad charity (the Great Society) drove out good charity (religiously based groups): It reinterpreted the causes of poverty as exclusively material and environmental; its bureaucracy tried to reach ever - larger numbers of poor people with a decreasingly personal strategy for fighting poverty; it dismissed the role of volunteers in favor of professional social workers; and it removed the incentives for work, saving, and marriage.

Currently I work three jobs so I can support my family, I pay my taxes, I sometimes volunteer at the women's shelter downtown, I support my local community garden and I run a craft group.

The volunteer group of approximately 500 priests is currently working against South Korea's National Security Act.

One model that deeply embodies Christian values is a group of families pooling resources so as to reduce expenses and to free some of the adults to work as full - time volunteers for social and environmental causes.

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.

I stopped making excuses and signed up for a volunteer group that works with shut - ins of my community.

Many of those groups need help paying for the showers, and people to volunteer to work at the showers when they're open.

The group also identified with the majority of women in the congregation who are homemakers with growing or grown children and with busy schedules in volunteer work and social activities.

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.

On one occasion a group of American evangelical volunteers traveled to Barahona to spend two weeks «working with the youth.»

After they returned to the U.S. I asked the president of our youth group what he thought of the volunteers» work.

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.

Helping could take several forms, from something quick and easy like donating money to an established charity working in the New Orleans area to gathering a group of friends and spending a few days volunteering with a charity on the ground, working to clear debris from homes and to start to repair the damage.

Amid the clamor and negotiations, it would be easy to overlook one new movement, working to heal eastern Congo: Small groups of Congolese church leaders, including influential local women, are volunteering to solve and prevent conflicts one at a time, without fanfare.

These groups are small organisations that work hard for animals and many rely completely on volunteers, so they would love to hear from you!

The kale, spinach, and beet greens all went into this saag paneer recipe — we had several volunteers from one of the community groups my husband works with over for dinner.

-- Displays are groups that the Foundation work with, etc. — Started slightly at Brentford with the presentation to the «Aspire and Succeed» group which volunteered to refurbish a community centre in Lozells, but will form much more of an «entertainment / display» segment at half time in future (hoping to start at Nottingham Forest).

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.

Derico works with various community groups, including the area Head Start Program, helping to serve their children and the Extension Service program, where students and parents have volunteered in their garden project.

I've always loved aquariums, and by joining the Shedd Aquarium Auxiliary Board, I've had the amazing opportunity to work alongside a passionate group of employees, volunteers and fellow Aux Board members in supporting Shedd's mission of education, conservation and sustainability.

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.

This session will update on progress since last year's conference, on the work between coalition members of the Baby Feeding Law Group to develop a resource for food bank organizers and volunteers, and a pilot to implement the resource supported by Leicester City Council.

Founded in 1996 by a group of San Francisco moms, it is a volunteer - run organization who work hard to support each other.

If you can't convince him to join you at social events, suggest activities related to his interests that involve other kids, such as school or church groups or volunteer work.

Seriously, with an unprecedented number of people politically activated this year, and with the campaigns as well as outside groups like my friends at the New Organizing Institute training campaign workers and volunteers in the essentials of political action online and off, I can't help but think that we're going to be left with a ton of new people fired up about politics and armed with the tools to put their ideas to work.

Sure, commando strike teams can take a lot of work to organize and train, but groups such as MoveOn.org and the Obama campaign have created mini-online industries to support their offline work, providing volunteers with step - by - step guides to holding house parties, fundraisers, local press events and the like.

The board's case against Mark - Viverito centered on the acceptance of «volunteer efforts» from The Advance Group's president Scott Levenson, who volunteered to work for Mark - Viverito in 2013, according to a disposition document obtained by POLITICO.

Ampofo Ankrah, Founder and Navigator of Books and Boots, also works with youth group and organisations through Beach Soccer and the Ghana Volunteers Brigade.

«It says so much about our community that a group of volunteers, the Rockland County Art in Public Places Committee, are willing to work together to add beauty to our county.»

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.