So the New York State Masons have followed other state Masonic societies in doing something that they would have once considered heretical: they are actively reaching out for new members.
These were people who know their stuff, who are actively reaching across their traditional lines, and my overwhelming sense, talking to them, is that they care about Britain and the future of its people every bit as much as those of France and the other member states.
But these days, some rabbis and Jewish officials -- arguing that Jewish institutions ought to shed their inhibitions about embracing religiously unaffiliated non-Jews -- are actively reaching out as never before with widespread advertising in secular mainstream media and large public lectures on the basic tenets of Judaism.
Now, companies are actively reaching out to customers, engaging them with education and training and monitoring them with analytics to ensure they have the best time with the product as possible.
Liz Barnes, SFRS director of people and organisational development, said: "We are committed to ensuring that the Scottish Fire and Rescue Service reflects our country's very unique and diverse communities - and that is why we are actively reaching out to everyone to ask them to consider a fantastic career as a fulltime firefighter.
We are actively reaching out, directly and through partnerships, to connect educators and NGOs to First Book's resources.
Brian Katulis, of the Center for American Progress, said the administration had been actively reaching out to the Brotherhood to keep communications open and encourage its leaders to send a message of respect for basic human rights.
Stan Danzig, executive director of Cushman & Wakefield of New Jersey, who is marketing the former Carter Wallace consumer products division campus in Cranbury, said he is not ruling out any type of potential tenants, but he is actively reaching out to drug and biotech companies.
Still, Dr. Land said there were candidates already running who could and would address the critical evangelical constituency, among them the former House speaker Newt Gingrich — who has been actively reaching out to Christian groups — and former Senator Rick Santorum of Pennsylvania, who has been outspoken against same-sex marriage and about other conservative social causes.
iSpirt, a recently launched industry lobby and think-tank for software product startups in India, has been actively reaching out to potential acquirers including Facebook and Google.
Ed: We're actively reaching out both online (Facebook, LinkedIn, YouTube, Twitter, etc) and offline, trying to help people understand the power of Notes.
