Sentences with phrase «where city year»

Bain conducted a demographic analysis to help identify areas where City Year could make its mark.

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«I'm working to create a space where it feels easy to include and imagine black girls and make black girls like me the main characters of our lives,» Dias said at Forbes» Women Summit in New York City last year.

After graduating with a degree in Architecture from Cambridge, she spent a year as Operations Manager aboard the record - breaking biofueled powerboat Earthrace, where she traveled 25,000 miles, visited 120 cities, and ran a campaign to promote the use of alternative fuels.

«You have got this 10 - year vision and you know where you want to go... that's why you started a company,» said Tilenius, speaking at the Vanity Fair Founders Fair in New York City recently.

Within a few years, Torreón, the city of 1 million where AI is based, was producing 5 million pairs of pants per week.

For the next few years, the brothers made periodic trips to New York City, where they could buy retired trash trucks in bulk at auction.

As higher costs are passed on to consumers, supporters aim to put a dent in sales, as was the case in Berkeley, where according to public health officials retail purchases of sugar - sweetened beverages dropped nearly 10 % during the first year of that city's soda tax.

CASE: The fund came out of our work around Rise of the Rest over the last four years where we've visited 33 cities, completed six different tours, and met a lot of entrepreneurs and regional investors.

She's more concerned about the skyrocketing cost of rents in the city, which have risen 200 percent in the past three years, and where a modest storefront like hers can go for as much as $ 17,000 per month.

The feedback loop of the city making itself attractive to start - ups and start - ups helping to make the city attractive to talented young people (who in turn create more businesses that attract more young people) is only getting started, but Robinson says he can already see the effects both in terms of the area's legitimacy — «people are saying, «hey, I would actually invest here or I would start my business here» as opposed to 10 years ago where people would avoid the city at all costs» — and quality of life for young people.

Big Bertha, the largest production facility, where most of Winnebago's 2,500 Forest City employees (average tenure: 12 years overall, 17 years for management) work, looms especially large.

To find out where you could live by the 50/30/20 plan on $ 50,000 or less a year — that's take - home pay, not pre-tax income — GOBankingRates examined the following monthly expenses for a single person in 270 cities:

Ammann still sees lots of change in the next five years, largely in cities, where young people are not buying, or even leasing, cars the way they used to.

The Infocomm Development Authority of Singapore aims to enhance the use of technology and data to improve the provision of services such as health care and transportation in a city, where infrastructure has come under pressure in recent years as a rise in immigration boosts the country's population.

When I actually needed a new TV, however, I found the Circuit City salesperson to be so aggressively unknowledgeable and remarkably useless that I fled to Best Buy, where I was helped by a cheerful, 20 - year - old twerp who knew everything.

Over the last 20 years, in spite of the housing crash, you would have done better with real estate if you bought in one of the 20 U.S. cities where prices have risen the most.

Not so Illinois Senator Mark Kirk, who represents Chicago where so far this year, more than 1,780 people have been shot, leading to the vast majority of the city's 294 homicides, according to police.

Additionally, Glossier continued to run its brick - and - mortar showroom in New York City's SoHo and expanded its nearly year - old representative program, where sellers hawk products for a commission.

The paradox of my leaving home again in 2012 (having already left once for college) was that I would not be where I am now (working for technology company Waze in New York City) had it not been for the values and lessons instilled in me during my 19 or so years of growing up in California's Central Valley.

Life Is Good has always been a strong presence in resorts, beach towns, and other destination areas; now it is expanding into cities and communities where people shop year - round.

So far, the only city that gives tax breaks to B Corps is Philadelphia, where up to 25 B Corps a year will be eligible for a $ 4,000 tax break starting in 2012.

Next we scour each market looking for areas where homes are appreciating faster than in other parts of the city over the past one, three and five years.

During an interview with WNYC's Brian Lehrer on Tuesday morning where he first announced the proposal, Johnson noted the city's budget has grown from $ 86 billion in the current fiscal year to a projected $ 88 billion starting on July 1.

«This new terminal is a symbol of our commitment to Miami, the city where our company first started almost 50 years ago.

The Roosevelt Field shopping complex was built 60 years ago, in Garden City, N.Y., on the former Long Island airstrip where Charles Lindbergh took off on his historic transatlantic flight.

When: April 13 - 14, 2016; Where: New York City, NY Why: Now in its sixth year, the Women Entrepreneurs Festival brings together powerful women eaders and innovators from across the globe for two intense days of networking and discussions about how to be a successful female entrepreneur.

You stated your interest in a city where you can grow your company to 50,000 employees over the next 20 years, a home base that can hold your interest... a strong sense of place, a rich cultural life, great transit systems, smart young people and plenty of infrastructure - ready land that is close to both the business center and top universities... density, walkability, and diversity... some of the nation's finest universities... tech - savvy millennials... Philadelphia, the birthplace of America, offers all of these desirable attributes at a more affordable cost.

The news is an encouraging milestone in an ongoing effort by JPMorgan Chase, the country's biggest bank, to steer more of its corporate philanthropy toward revitalizing inner cities — particularly in Detroit, where the Entrepreneurs of Color Fund is part of a $ 150 million, five - year commitment by the bank.

Annual budgets in most of Canada's major cities are a mess — excluding key activities, using inconsistent accounting, burying crucial numbers where only experts can find them, and often voted well after the fiscal year has started, according the 2016 edition of the C.D. Howe Institute's Municipal Fiscal Accountability report.

Additionally, he served for many years on the Executive Committee of Temple Israel of the City of New York, where he is presently a member of the Finance Committee and head of its Investment Committee.

Prior to joining the Sherpa family, Liz spent several years in New York City as Senior Director of Communications + Special Projects at Conde Nast where she managed public relations, executive positioning and global programming across the company's media properties.

There is, however, evidence of weakness in apartment prices in the inner - city areas of Sydney and Melbourne where strong investor demand over recent years has contributed to a large increase in supply.

This is a HUGE negative for residents in coastal cities like New York and San Francisco where property tax alone can be $ 18,000 a year based on the median home price of $ 1.5 M. Further, a taxable income of over $ 400,000 means a state income tax amount of over $ 26,000.

Baltimore has made incremental progress reforming its police department under its year - old consent decree with the U.S. Department of Justice, but is still far from where it needs to be and faces significant technological hurdles in getting there, city...

Previously, Mr. Satchu spent 12 years in New York City where he was a General Partner at Fenway Partners, a US$ 1.4 billion private equity firm focused on acquiring leading middle market companies typically from families or large corporations and a Financial Analyst at Merrill Lynch in the High Yield Finance and Restructuring Group.

A few years later, he jumped into China's housing market, where he made profits in major Chinese cities and provinces like Xiamen, Beijing, and Jiangxi.

Just three blocks from City Hall — that gorgeous, gold - plated building where politicians are deciding how to spend more than $ 10 billion next fiscal year — sits a shooting gallery in broad daylight.

It includes a chapter on domestic life that reviews how and where single men lived; a chapter on associations such as the YMCA and YMHA, which sprang up in these years to offer support, wholesome company, and structure to bachelor life in the city; a chapter on bachelor - frequented institutions (a rather more dignified term than most readers would choose) such as the saloon, the pool and dance halls, and the barber shops.

Once every 12 years, tens of millions of pilgrims stream to the small northern city of Allahabad from across India for the Maha Kumbh Mela, or Grand Pitcher Festival, at the point where the Ganges and Yamuna rivers meet with a third, mythical river.

His definition started with the negative: it is not broken - down public housing; not neighborhoods where children and 73 - year - olds are on their own; not decision - making in which planners, city officials or federal bureaucrats — everyone but the people call the tune.

Five years ago, Mike Low started Bessie's House in Kansas City's Northeast neighborhood, where unemployment is at 16 percent and median household income is $ 25,000.

You know, please rest your conscience here as you read I am not an authority AT ALL as youll come to see, My lord has pulled me out of church the holy spirit filled church where I recieved Christ, and told me to visit ALL churches, oh and by the way 6 years ago The Lord asked me to open an out reach food pantry and safe haven for the needy, in the city that we live in, anyway this journey was humbling, God always shows me I am the stinker, that its my flesh that wars against the spirit, So many people are worried about satan, and demons or bad freinds or family or other religions, Yeah it makes you wonder 1st is it the same bible Im reading Jesus said it is finished!

I wrote The Secular City after having lived for a year in Berlin, where I taught in a church sponsored adult education program with branches on both sides of the barbed wire.

The tithe of the third year is to be laid up in a city where the Levite, the sojourner, the fatherless, and the widow may come and partake freely.

Given Willow's effort to be city - savvy, I almost swallowed my gum when I heard where the one - year anniversary party would be held: the Congress Hotel.

Ottoman influence continued to expand, notably again under Sultan Selim, who, in eight years between 918 and 926 (A.D. 1512 - 20), conquered Kurdistan and then moved southward to include Arabia, with its Holy Cities, and Egypt, where the last Abbasid Caliph was living.

She is currently at Union Theological Seminary in New York City, where she spends half of each year.

This seems in fact to be the gist of his confession in A Sort of Life, where Greene contrasts his state of resolve at the time of his conversion with his condition more than 20 years later, at a point (which Sherry suggests remains characteristic of the present) when «continual failure or the circumstances of our private life finally make it impossible to make any promises at all and many of us abandon Confession and Communion to join the Foreign Legion of the Church and fight for a city of which we are no longer full citizens.»

Where the prices of commodities had varied widely from city to city, within a few years after the telegraph unified national commodity markets could set essentially uniform prices.

For city builders for more than a thousand years after Augustine the urban realm became a great memory theater where our best aspirations were played out, the place where we said the most substantial things about who we are and what we long for.