Sentences with phrase «years working in our community»

He has a deep and unwavering passion for public service, and has spent years working in this community to improve the lives of its residents.»

His thirty years working in our community shows his dedication and commitment to making a difference for our pets.

Kristen has spent the last four and a half years working in community mental health, gaining experience in both school based and outpatient therapy with children, adolescents, and young adults.

A clinician, supervisor, and clinical director, Robert Taibbi, LCSW has spent over 40 years working in community mental health with couples and families.

I have been with Fox Valley Institute for 10 years, and prior to private practice, I spent 5 years working in a community agency setting.»

Not exact matches

Earlier this year, Zuckerberg acknowledged the damage the Facebook community is causing in the world, saying «Facebook has a lot of work to do,» and has made fixing it his personal challenge for 2018.

A dealer - owned co-operative, Home Hardware has worked hard in recent years to stress its connection to the communities where it operates, by sponsoring local minor sports teams and tournaments, and playing up its «Home Owners helping home owners» ad campaign.

«It is an important tradition for all of us in DHL — the chance to work with community partners and deploy our global shipping network — and one we look forward to every year.

«There's a need for innovative working models, and I think an entrepreneurial setting is a great place to set that up,» adds Flynn, who for the past four years has also been involved in Pipeline, a community for Midwestern entrepreneurs in technology and life sciences.

Facebook is one of the few companies in recent years to continue the legacy of the traditional company town, where the corporation master - plans a new community for its employees to work and live in.

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.

She had been renting in Vancouver's Downtown Eastside for ten years, during which time she'd built a successful local theatre company, a strong community of friends, and had had two children with her husband who also works in the arts.

There are 8,760 hours in a year, and I know exactly how many of them I have spent working, with family, exercising, or on community activities.

It broke ground in March that year with the help of teachers and students from a local school and, to this day, continues to work with the community, donating some of its 2,000 pounds of produce each year to local organizations.

Over the last five years, the organization has worked with some of the most well - known international relief efforts, such as Medic Mobile and Save the Children, helping them to add Bitcoin to their donation streams and running fundraising campaigns aimed at people in the Bitcoin community.

In the nine years since Bitcoin was invented, blockchain technology and the communities working on it have splintered in competitioIn the nine years since Bitcoin was invented, blockchain technology and the communities working on it have splintered in competitioin competition.

Jenna Kator has grown a community fan base in her home state over the past eight years while working fulltime alongside her husband Michael Kator.

A former top leader in academia, Rodin has put the idea of «resilience» at the center of the Rockefeller Foundation's work in recent years, helping communities worldwide prepare for and recover from major environmental and man - made shocks.

Most recently his work caught the eye of Forbes and was featured in an article entitled, The 12 - Year - Old Entrepreneur That Will Take Global Tech & The World By Storm Ian works closely with Dream Hustle Code, to help level the playing field for kids from communities that have traditionally been left out of the tech industry.

«Global Leaders has worked from a private office in the Cohere Community for the last 3 years, and we couldn't be happier.

One last example, I promise: Last year I realized just how frazzled it made me to fit focused work in between meetings and phone calls every day of the week while still leaving enough space to be with my family, serve my community, visit friends, and read a book or two.

The day is part of a growing series of events that was originally spearheaded by investor Aileen Lee of Cowboy Ventures and moved forward by Jess Lee of Sequoia Capital, who along with their women friends in venture wanted to work more closely with the far larger — and growing — community of women founders that has begun to form in recent years.

The primary business of Hobby Quest is after - school programs for children aged 5 to 14 years old, working mainly with and in schools and community centers.

I've really appreciated your work over the past year as I've gone through my own transition and found the kind of community that promotes health rather than just covering up the ugly in my life.

The interview format used by the Oliner team had over 450 items and consisted of six main parts: a) characteristics of the family household in which respondents lived in their early years, including relationships among family members; b) parental education, occupation, politics, and religiosity, as well as parental values, attitudes, and disciplinary approaches; c) respondent's childhood and adolescent years - education, religiosity, and friendship patterns, as well as self - described personality characteristics; d) the five - year period just prior to the war — marital status, occupation, work colleagues, politics, religiosity, sense of community, and psychological closeness to various groups of people; if married, similar questions were asked about the spouse; e) the immediate prewar and war years, including employment, attitudes toward Nazis, whether Jews lived in the neighborhood, and awareness of Nazi intentions toward Jews; all were asked to describe their wartime lives and activities, whom they helped, and organizations they belonged to; f) the years after the war, including the present — relations with children and personal and community — helping activities in the last year; this section included forty - two personality items comprising four psychological scales.

At the same time, we recognize that, during the past five hundred years, the Holy Spirit, the Supreme Magisterium of God, has been faithfully at work among theologians and exegetes in both Catholic and Evangelical communities, bringing to light and enriching our understanding of important biblical truths in such matters as individual spiritual growth and development, the mission of Christ's Church, Christian worldview thinking, and moral and social issues in today's world.

Two years later, in 1999, they were invited by the Church of Christ in Thailand to begin work there, regenerating a church - run community centre that was on the brink of closure.

When Obama landed on Chicago's South Side in 1985 as an idealistic 23 - year - old, eager to start work as a community organizer, he was already a political liberal.

We lived in Holland for a couple of years with our children back in the 90's and I worked with an electrical company that had a supervisor over us that was a leader within the local Muslim community.

This year, six players will travel to Trinidad to play soccer and do service work in the community.

His plan was that members should spend three months each year in community preparing for work in industrial areas of Scotland or in the mission field.

«Over the past three years, we've been working with the most vulnerable in the community to fix the damage done to homes, water supplies, toilet facilities, and livelihoods.

Within a year or two I knew the people in our community who worked with the poor, the homeless, the abused, the battered, and the overlooked.

For the past several years I've worked on environmental projects with American Indian communities in Michigan's Upper Peninsula, and I've become acquainted with remnants of an Ojibwa religion called Mediwiwin.

It brings together (a) fragmented reflections from my three years of living and working with the Paraiyar communities in about 20 colonies around the town of Karunguzhi in Chingleput District, Tamilnadu (1985 - 87); (b) systematically documented data from a six - week intensive field trip in two of these 20 colonies, i.e., Malaipallaiyam.

In the years since that day, our lives have grown to include some of the very things that used to look heroic to us on the outside: preaching, writing books, community development, social justice work, teaching, leading, stages, travel.

Priest Missioner at the church, Fr Andrew Williams said: «After four years working from our temporary space it is wonderful to move into our permanent home, a community centre and church from which to base our work in the wider community of Tottenham Hale.»

Consider this... a person goes to college, gets a four year degree in archaeology (or some antiquities preservation analog); spends summers sifting through sand and rock and gravel, all the while taking graduate level classes... person eventually obtains the vaunted PhD in archaeology... then works his / her tail off seeking funding for an archeological excavation, with the payoff being more funding, and more opportunities to dig in the dirt... do you think professional archaeologists are looking hard for evidence of the Exodus on a speculative basis... not a chance... they know their PhD buys them nothing more than a job at Tel Aviv Walmart if they don't discover and publish... so they write grants for digs near established sites / communities, and stay employed sifting rock in culturally safe areas... not unless some shepard stumbles upon a rare find in an unexpected place do you get archeological interest and action in remote places... not at all surprising that the pottery and other evidence of the Exodus and other biblical events lie waiting to be discovered... doesn't mean not there... just not found yet...

You Obama supporters keep clutching your skewed oversampled polls, pretend your community organizer has not been President for the last four years and keep chanting «Hope and Change» and «Forward»... we'll see how that works out in November.

For example, I worked in a Hispanic community as student missionary when I was nineteen years of age and made a number of close friends my age.

Sustainability and empowerment: When World Vision begins working in a community, the goal is to maintain presence in that community for fifteen years and then slowly make a transition so that all the programs, systems, and opportunities it provided are handed over to the community to maintain.

I was interested to know what that has taught a guy who grew up in a modest home during the Great Depression, in a hard - working, small - town community, who himself lived paycheck - to - paycheck for most of his working years.

Formerly a photographer, she undertook a years worth of volunteer farming (WWOOFing) in North America in 2010, where she had multiple epiphanies about the importance of soil, the power of food to create community and the purpose of life - made seemingly more enjoyable when working the land.

«One hundred years and four generations later, we are still in the close - knit community of St. Martinville,» says Bulliard, who has worked in the family business for about 50 years.

Simultaneously, during 2012 — 2015, three years of mentoring were provided by «The Postharvest Education Foundation» for more than a dozen Tanzanian extension workers and post-harvest trainers who are currently working within the local communities in and around Arusha to improve post-harvest handling practices and reduce losses in horticultural crops.

Born and raised in El Quetzalito, a rural community in the state of Petén, Guatemala, the 48 - year - old Román started working in 1990 with the National Council of Protected Areas of Guatemala (CONAP)-- the organization tasked with making the 2.1m - hectare (6m - acre) Maya Biosphere Reserve a reality — and has worked in conservation ever since, including as director of CONAP.

Fyffes has worked with banana growers in Belize for nearly 50 years and we have become involved in a number of the local communities during that time.

LDEI Atlanta provides thousands of dollars of funding and numerous volunteer hours to local organizations each year, focused on helping organizations working in the areas of: green tables / farming, global culinary initiatives, the culinary community and programs that teach cooking, nutrition or support anti-hunger work.

Towne Park's environmental council, Towne Green, spent this year's Earth Day weekend working to ameliorate Annapolis in partnership with GreenScape 2013, a «City of Annapolis and community partnership invested in the beautification, clean - up and planting in public spaces throughout the city.»

«We feel lucky to have had the unwavering support of Senator Stone as our county supervisor for the past ten years and are excited to work with Supervisor Washington on our continued mission to influence positive change in the community.»