Sentence examples for convening community from inspiring English sources
Since 1994, Samantha Reynolds, an intense British woman in her 30's who runs the U.N.'s urban regeneration program, has been convening community forums in urban areas to bring together neighborhood residents -- at first with men and then, as confidence builds, with women as well -- to demand basic services, like garbage collection, electricity, sewers and schools.
Objectives included identifying data sources that can help shape programming and intervention efforts, and convening community partners that might be able to share best practices and pool resources.
Working with the World Food Programme on a 'midday meal' school feeding programme Providing support to district authorities,partners and communities to increase school attendance by reaching out to vulnerable communities, mobilizing student groups, public awareness campaigns, and by convening community meetings to discuss ways of bringing all children back to school.
"These ideas are based on the actions many of you have already taken or supported," the memo read, "including convening community conversations in NBA markets to engage young people, parents, community leaders and law enforcement in a candid dialogue".
1vyG strengthens and empowers the interIvy League first-generation college student network by convening communities of students and administrators, sharing, and building best practices of support, and advocating for change.
Every year, Community Foundation convenes community members to recognize the good work of local non-profit organizations dedicated to making a difference in the lives of women in Tompkins County.
The Wellbeing division convened community leaders and residents from the worst-performing neighborhood in an attempt to discover the reasons behind this.
The alliance, a spinoff of the My Brother's Keeper initiative, shows Obama using the power of his office to convene community and business leaders to work on social problems.
They will help convene community meetings and respond to questions that local residents may have.
Trained fieldworkers and community facilitators convened community groups to listen to and discuss the eight BVV episodes.
Facilities that convened community committees likely developed workplans that more closely reflected community priorities than those facilities that did not convene committees.
