Sentences with phrase «when local foundations»

A Minneapolis - based consortium, the Catholic Schools Center of Excellence, got its start when a local foundation gathered principals from the region's Catholic schools and found that the educators had never met most others in the room.

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When building wind farms, it's common to hire local contractors to pour concrete foundations, lay wiring and build access roads.

When challenged on the offending question, Grover answered» occasioning some hilarity» that he had meant a different Bradley foundation, a dinky local fund whose sole purpose is to maintain a sculpture garden somewhere in Milwaukee.

Initiatives include the Backpack Food Program where the foundation partners with local food banks and schools to provide knapsacks filled with nutritious, easy - to - prepare, nonperishable food for students who are at risk for hunger when free or - reduced price school lunches are unavailable.

In our education class they also partner with our local Doula foundation and when I went into labor my nurse commented they love Doulas and was glad I had one.

This foundation has been on my «To Try» list for a while now, so when Lancôme had a promotion at my local department store for a gift with purchase, I saw my opportunity to snatch it up and try it out.

Silver opened his school at a time in the history of American education when innovators could get traction for their dreams, with support from private foundations, state governments, local boards of education, and graduate programs like those at the Harvard Graduate School of Education.

Among those innovations are a night program that started this fall, the International Business Venture (in which students study local companies and then visit their counterparts overseas), a student - run foundation, computer - assisted learning, cyberdays for those snowed - in periods when getting to school is perilous, and Interim, which consists of two - week community - service projects.

It also provides the user with a community assessment instrument that, when used as a foundation for discussion and action, generates a clear direction local stakeholders can embrace to bring about real action to fulfill the promise of Brown and Mendez.

She already had a solid foundation in positive reinforcement training after completing obedience classes with her dog at the local pet store, so when her husband suggested she become a dog trainer, «the light bulb went off,» she says.

«Jason's brother Matt thought up the idea of a donut machine when he was nine years old and was selling donuts at a local fair,» the foundation's director and Peter's daughter Allison Brant tells us.

When I tried to make our local officials aware of a code violation of a common foundation application, I was told that there could not be anything wrong as houses were not collapsing.