Sentences with phrase «volunteer teams of»

By contrast, in the United States, the volunteer teams of educators sent by regional agencies to review schools might go easy on them because they know their own school could receive a similar appraisal in the future, said Michigan State's Jacobsen.

In the Hungary of 1947, for instance, volunteer teams of Party members spent their weekends in the countryside repairing war - damaged churches, in order to win the goodwill of the local population.

Anna Hoffman and her volunteer team of heart felt knitters has been teaming up with INFANT Inc. for 6 years now assisting with their mission to provide for families that have no other resources to support their babies.

Thank you to the API staff and the volunteer team of Jeannette Freeman, Ashlee Gray, Angela Adams, and Claudia Jendron for providing the (predominantly parent --RRB- power to make this event happen, and special thanks to Art Yuen for guiding and coordinating our celebration!

Founded in 1989, EC - HMRT is an all volunteer team of approximately 50 members and responds as a function of the Erie County Departments of Health and Emergency Services.

Since then, BART and its volunteer team of professionals have responded to nearly 40 federally declared disasters as well as other smaller state and local events.

Independent curator Jacob Robichaux and Clifford Chance's Diversity Committee, a volunteer team of staff members, have organized and sponsored numerous art shows over the years.

Last year was an incredibly busy year for the DLS, led by the volunteer team of director Andrew VanSingel and 10 other ABA members.

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On the day of its launch in April 2014, Cotopaxi held a competition called Questival in Utah that asked teams to compete for prizes by completing challenges like hiking or volunteering at a local soup kitchen.

In the case of Rogers Media employee Leanne Paola, volunteering offered a valuable team - bonding opportunity.

Take the team to a local sports game, restaurant or plan a day of volunteering for a local charity.

To test the effects of moderate anxiety on memory, the research team behind the study gathered 80 undergrad volunteers and used a standard personality questionnaire to determine their tendency towards anxiety.

To figure this out the team out of the University of Rochester asked 75 volunteers to do nothing more complicated than sit, alone, in a comfortable chair for 15 minutes without their devices.

Women walk by a team of volunteer lawyers in their makeshift office working to assist travelers detained as part of Donald Trump's travel ban in Terminal 4 at John F. Kennedy International Airport in Queens, New York.

The team out of the University of Toronto that developed the quiz took a dead simple approach to the project — just ask a bunch of volunteers to describe exactly what makes a person charismatic, weed out duplicate answers, and then ask other volunteers to rate the suitability of these suggestions.

This fall, our team members in and around Chicago, Boston, and Philadelphia volunteered with Cradles to Crayons, a national organization that provides children from birth through age 12 with essential items — all free of charge — to help them thrive at home, at school, and at play.

Do you want all of your employees volunteering together (for team - building purposes), or are you more interested in them finding opportunities that matter to them at a time that is convenient for them?

Walk around any floor of the company's plus - sized headquarters in Seattle, and you'll see blackboards and posters touting the number of volunteer hours a particular team of employee volunteers has put in on a particular project, or the current level of the Partner (employee) Cup Fund, an employee initiative whose value is in financially helping partners in need, including this formerly homeless barista, whose story I tell here.

And more surprising still is that nearly 82 % of those folks, or 40,017 volunteers in all, actually uploaded data to the research team.

The team tested the effects of sarcasm by having volunteers engage in a sincere, a sarcastic, or a neutral (control) exchange before completing a task designed to assess their creativity.

Perry Chen has been working with a team of volunteers every Monday night for the last year to come up with an organization that helps people discover and support nonprofits for $ 1 a day.

To figure out how best to handle life's shoulda - coulda - wouldas, the research team asked study volunteers to try one of three interventions.

After several months and lots of work from a team of volunteers, the result of her brain flash, TEDxNicosia was born in the country's capital.

Many provinces have intervened in the case against Comeau, while a team of lawyers with an interest in the constitutional issues offered to represent him for free, and the Canadian Constitution Foundation volunteered its assistance.

If you are an entrepreneur launching a business and want to get ahead of your competitors, have you and your team ever considered volunteering to help out at local schools?

It sends teams of volunteer health professionals to carry out disaster relief, long - term development and community health programs with local partners, ships millions in humanitarian aid to countries around the world, and provides mobile dental care to those in need in the US.

To determine the effect of small acts of rule breaking on perceptions of power, the research team conducted a series of experiments that asked volunteers to evaluate the personal power of people in imagined or videotaped situations (a visitor to an office who helps himself to coffee or a cafe patron who puts a foot up on a chair, for example) and in role plays.

Ringing today's closing bells are Federal Reserve Bank of Chicago in recognition of the upcoming Money Smart Week financial education program with Outreach Programs Team Lead Heather Greenwell, at the NYSE, and LiveOnNY with heart recipient and Live On NY volunteer Roxanne Watson at the Nasdaq.

First, the research team asked 276 volunteers to self - report how often they swore and share details of how honest they were in various situations.

According to The New York Times, the young leader served as her school's student body president in high school, was the captain of her volleyball team, started her school's Black Student Union and spent her high school summers volunteering at an orphanage in the Dominican Republic.

In support of our philosophy to give where we live, TELUS, our team members and retirees have contributed $ 440 million to charitable and not - for - profit organizations and volunteered more than 6.8 million hours of service to local communities since 2000.

In light of the almost absolute devastation in the USVI, All Hands Volunteers sent an Immediate Response Team to St....

Once all the boxes were put together, teams of volunteers were provided with a packing list for each box.

After the introduction of Team Leaders, volunteers got right to work!

Within a day, a team of tech volunteers was in full swing to support their movement.

Off the courts, team members representing Salmon Arm, Kamloops, Kelowna, Vernon, Delta, Tsawwassen, Port Coquitlam, Vancouver, Sechelt, Gibsons, Victoria, Shawnigan Lake and Naniamo enjoyed an abundance of delicious food prepared by Capilano Tennis Club volunteers.

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

Donations support the distribution of essential emergency supplies, hot meals, new clothing and a safe place to stay for those affected, as well as training and equipment for local volunteer teams.

Ahlborn assembled a team of volunteer engineers and scientists shortly after Musk put forth the idea, offering equity in the company instead of pay to those willing to put in at least 10 hours of work each week.

So in an effort to be present and follow the stirring of our team members» hearts, BLVR contributed to their cause — enabling a group of inspiring volunteers to get to Texas or bust!

This program which connects experienced entrepreneurs with a team of skilled volunteer mentors.

The Growth Mentoring Service is an ECJC program, modeled after the established and highly recognized MIT VMS mentoring program, which connects experienced entrepreneurs with a team of skilled volunteer mentors.

Dianne will work closely with MaRS Health Systems, the EXCITE and MyHealth teams to drive health system transformation, as well as with MaRS Health advisors, volunteers and partners to grow the footprint of MaRS Health.

In the Orlando area alone, teams volunteered at: Orlando Union Rescue Mission, The Mustard Seed of Central Florida, Arnold Palmer Hospital for Children, Winnie Palmer Hospital for Women & Babies, Grandma's House at Orlando Health and Rehabilitation Center, Give Kids the World, Westminster Care of Orlando Nursing Home, Ronald McDonald House, Girl Scouts of Citrus and The American Cancer Society, among others.

He said a number of adult volunteers from Kenney's team «chose to follow Sandra up and down the hallway, saying she killed babies, getting into her personal space.

Right after Hurricane Irma, I flew down to St. Thomas as part of the advance team for All Hands Volunteers to help set up their disaster response relief effort.

Whether it's cleaning up the environment or volunteering at one of the capital's great events, Team London mobilises the community spirit and enthusiasm of Londoners to make a difference.

Under Hope Starts Here, the company is committing to match up to $ 1.25 million of donations from its valued guests, team members, suppliers and partners in order to substantially help All Hands Volunteers (hands.org), a 501 (c) 3 non-profit relief organization, and Happy Hearts Fund (happyheartsfund.org) deliver early relief response for the Florida Keys, and rebuild safe, resilient schools in the Caribbean islands impacted by Hurricanes Irma and Maria.

From two guys who serve as volunteer campus pastors to a team of men who now care for the yard and landscaping so we could cancel the lawn contract, I am seeing that many people are hungry to offer themselves for the Kingdom.

When they arrived in the capital, a medic collected the patients from the aircraft and rushed them for successful separation surgery at a clinic, which was performed by a team of volunteer surgeons.