Sentence examples for community-specific issues from inspiring English sources

NPR has received $3 million in funding to launch a new journalism project that will focus on providing in-depth, hyper-local coverage on community-specific issues on an online platform.

Community-specific issues built the LGBT smoking disparity, so community-specific strategies need to be used to eliminate that disparity.

If the Latino community can predicate their support of Barack Obama around the community-specific issues of the DREAM Act and immigration reform, then we in the African-American community should not settle for platitudes of rising tides lifting all boats in relation to Black unemployment...which is double the national rate.

As long as the LGBTQ community can frame their support of Barack Obama around such community-specific issues as DADT and gay marriage legislation; it is more than reasonable for us in the African-American community to apply pressure on the issues of inner city crime and public education.

The initiative offers a unique opportunity for South African youth to foster a nuanced dialogue about community-specific issues, to tackle them in a youth-friendly manner, and to encourage positive behaviour.

So when a swing voter turns on a television and sees someone attacking a president who is a little busy figuring out how to solve big global problems (Wars in Iraq and Afghanistan and the economy, to name a few) for what is perceived as a community specific issue, it ghettoizes the community in question, in this instance the gay community.

Community-based environmental health assessments begin by noting and understanding perceptions of community-specific environmental health issues [ 18, 25].

Taking a community-specific approach does raise several logistical and ethical issues that may be problematic.

In the North Carolina project the most recent of the collaborations, the academic researchers were approached by women in the community to address specific issues of concern.

After police around the country cleared the camps in November and December, the activists retreated indoors, to church basements and offices and apartments, and they've gotten more focused and strategic, reaching out to established community organizations and protesting specific issues, like student debt and Mitt Romney.

Three interventions [ 44, 49, 56] incorporated the point of view and specific issues of communities through focus groups or committees of community actors or workers in planning and implementation, early feedback, or community involvement.