Sentences with phrase «volunteers gave over»

In 2011 - 2012, more than 2100 parent and community volunteers gave over 58,000 hours of their time to our program.

Our volunteers gave over 10,000 hours of pet therapy service this year.

The Anti-Cruelty Society Celebrates Volunteers During Volunteer Appreciation Week The Society has over 600 active volunteers giving over 50,000 hours of service each year

Not exact matches

A recent poll found that given the choice, 68 % of Canadians would choose a job with a company that has a strong volunteering culture over one that does not.

I'm a Christian and I'm the one that will pull over on the side of the road to give a stranger a ride in the rain or volunteer to help the mentally ill or children.

Most «do not participate in a volunteer activity under Jewish auspices,» with just 18 % reporting a preference for giving time to Jewish organizations or synagogues over other non-profits.

Wish I was given some kind of special power like to fly (lol) or heal the world, diseases, and people, cause I prayed over my fiance, girl friends, many friends, family, those I volunteer to help with, and hundreds of others and they all still passed on.

Clothing, for example, donated to give needy women something good to wear for a job interview is often picked over by volunteers who don't need it.

My «fleshy desires» have me giving to various charities (not the church) to help educate, feed, and cloth children the world over, spending years in the field helping those less fortunate, volunteering my time teaching inner city school children, and doing my best to live in love not in fear.

Volunteers placekicker Michael Palardy made a pair of fourth - quarter field goals, the last one coming as time expired, to give Tennessee a shocking 23 - 21 win over South Carolina.

The Volunteers will give Bama everything they've got after stunning South Carolina over the weekend.

«Giving volunteers ownership and responsibility over what they do in terms of fundraising and event organisation is important,» he added.

MyBO was particularly important in areas in which the campaign did not have professional staff, since it gave volunteers the means to create their own local campaign structure — professional field staff could «parachute in» as elections approached and immediately take over a functioning organization.

But the abundance of volunteers also comes with a reality check: The crowded primaries are giving the party's ideological divide a full public airing and could give party leaders less control over who carries the mantle in November.

Later in the experiments, the volunteers who had stood near the cages gave the capuchins pieces of marshmallow in exchange for small plastic chips, which the monkeys had been trained to turn over to get a food reward.

Volunteers can also donate samples of their blood, giving scientists the chance to study tiny differences in DNA that may play a role in how the disorder develops, why it runs in families, how it affects people over time and what makes people vary in their response to treatment.

«We joke it's like an online dating system,» says Wyndham of the volunteer network of over 700 engineers and scientists who give their time to various human rights projects.

Healthy volunteers were given 50 mg cortisol four times daily over 5 days.

A study by Leppaluoto et al [5] found that when volunteers were given twice - daily, hour long sauna sessions over a one - week period, growth hormone levels increased 16-fold within the first three days.

Given that over 40 percent of surveyed parents want to volunteer more, why don't they?

Over the next three years, teachers who volunteer to take part will be given professional development, as well as curriculum material they can weave into what they are already doing.

Eyebrows were raised recently over the cozy relationship between the state chief and the consulting project, prompting Ms. Honig to volunteer to go before the state school board to give details about her firm's multimillion - dollar business with California schools.

Over the span of three years, dozens of education experts and researchers, 3,000 teacher volunteers in six urban districts, 20,000 videotaped lessons, student surveys, and student performance on state and supplemental higher - order thinking skills tests, have given us a much better understanding of what great teaching looks like.

I'd like to give a special thanks to Mr. Murphy for his help in editing our third broadcast, fifth grader Nick for supplying the voice over in the introduction, all seven of our student reporters for volunteering their recess time to film the news, and my colleagues Ms. Saia and Mrs. Tigges for sharing the work that's taking place in their classrooms.

While the discussions included talks about communities supporting their libraries both in terms of manpower and funding, there was no precise data on how much of any given library's staffing or budget should come from willing volunteers; the Society of Chief Librarians revealed data that showed 425 libraries were currently «community supported» or are planning to become supported by their local patrons, a 150 % increase over the current number of public libraries involved in volunteer support.

But just do the best you can and get a few friends to read it over (or put out a call for beta - readers, you just need a few volunteers, they'll give you feedback and catch typos).

Through charitable giving and volunteer opportunities, FBFC and our employees donate over 10,000 hours and more than $ 200,000 per year to local nonprofit organizations.

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.

Sylvia Renee Lyss, founder of F.L.O.C.K., and her volunteers go out on a regular basis, usually at night, to the casino back alleys and into the less affluent neighborhoods of Las Vegas to maintain «Feeding Stations» with water and food for a multitude of stray and wild cats.The purpose is to humanely trap and give the cats immediate vet care, neutering, and vaccinations.The cats are either adopted out or taken to the F.L.O.C.K. sanctuary to live out their lives in comfort for as long as they are with us.Sylvia Renee Lyss has devoted her life to helping stray and unwanted cats and kittens.She has been actively doing this work for over the last 30 years in Las Vegas.

The Separation Anxiety Tool Book, for example, has been given away to well over a dozen rescue organizations for their volunteers» and foster homes» educational enrichment.

We are only able to achieve this thanks to our network of over 9,000 volunteers who give their valuable time, skills and expertise for cats in need.

Volunteers can often foster for a day or a weekend or over a holiday just to give dogs a break from kennel confinement.

Once puppy mills hand the dogs over to National Mill Dog Rescue, a team of volunteers gives them much - needed veterinarian care and nurses them back to health.

The bulk of our work falls to the over 300 volunteers who give of their time, resources, skills and «heart» to make the lives of the animals entering the Shelter better and prepare them for a new permanent and loving home.

With our teaching staff of over 30 weekly volunteers, we bring these scared kittens to the understanding that there is a wonderful human home waiting to give them the love and security they deserve.

We have over 500 + volunteers who give 75,000 + hours each year!

Over 400 dogs of the targeted breeds were given temperament tests, along with 70 Golden Retrievers who were volunteered by their owners for comparison.

WRM is fortunate enough to have an attorney and judge for the State of Missouri that volunteers over the legal aspect of rescue - this helps to ensure that both family and pet are given the legal security in knowing we are there for them.

American Fox Terrier Rescue is individuals and small groups of unpaid volunteers all over the US and Canada that take in Wire and Smooth Fox Terriers from animal shelters and help re-home dogs being given up by owners.

The American Feed Industry Association released the results of its annual charitable giving survey today, revealing a sharp increase over 2016 in the animal food industry's total donations and volunteer hours in support of charities and community organizations.

Volunteers come from all over, and spend time working with the animals and giving them personal attention.

The shelter cares for over 2,800 cats and dogs annually — that's a lot of love to give and the shelter's volunteers make this possible.

Over $ 177 million was raised online to benefit a tremendously broad range of organizations, and much more was given in volunteer hours, donations of food and clothing, and acts of kindness.

That is where the real heroes, our volunteer foster families, take over and give these deserving animals the opportunity for real hope and the chance to find permanent families of their own.

Presentations are given over the course of 2 1/2 days by speakers in four tracks: DVM, LVT, Management, and Staff & Volunteers.

Alan gave over his garage for the project and Sue arranged for shifts of volunteers to feed and clean the cats twice a day for almost a week.

Talented, committed volunteers who give their time — many spend well over 20 hours / week at The SPCA.

Over 500 dogs were adopted from TBL last year, especially impressive given the group is volunteers - only.

Over the coming months, as seals and sea lions haul out on beaches and give birth to pups up and down the California coast, the Marine Mammal Center is looking for volunteers to care for a likely onslaught of young animals that need help.

Craig Kielburger, co-founder of WE Charity, said: «The work of the WE Villages development programme has been able to build more than 1,000 schools and school rooms in our partner communities, giving 200,000 children the opportunity to gain an education, provided over one million people with access to clean water, and our immersive volunteer trips have been a huge part of making that happen.