Initiative

I am writing to apply to the Director of Summer Session Initiatives position at Georgia Institute of Technology. This opportunity is appealing and I believe that my professional experience, education, and training make me a competitive candidate. I recently earned my doctorate in Educational Leadership from Clemson University, where my research focused on parent and family engagement practices in pre-collegiate summer programs. My qualifications are outlined below: I have nearly 10 years…

As the title suggests, this article, by Beth Gazley and Jeffrey L. Brudney, is the result of a study done to understand similarities and differences in why local governments and nonprofits choose to collaborate, particularly when those relationships are not governed by formal contracts or grants (Gazley & Brudney, 2007). Further, this article looks at various collaborative efforts in both, nonprofit and public sectors, and discusses the outcomes of these efforts. Collaboration in this regard…

individual firms and state CPA boards are also pursuing diversity initiatives in the profession by collaborating with other groups of professional organizations. Many of these individual programs provide valuable insights that help minority youths to gain a glimpse into what a career in accounting and business could be like. (Ross) For example, NABA and PwC have created a partnership in order to create the Accounting Finance Pipeline Initiative. AFPI is a high school program focused on providing…

company has experienced a slow, downward spiral that can most directly be attributed to an ill-fated and ill-timed attempt by our president and CEO to implement a change initiative affectionately known to the entire organization as Project GENI. GENI was an acronym which stood for “Good Enough, Never Is.” Simply put, the initiative asked us to challenge ourselves and our respective employees. Our…

WEB ACCESSIBILITY ADA WCAG AAA TESTING, AUDITING & COMPLIANCE IMPLEMENTATION The online web has been established as a “place of public accommodation”, to which fair access must be provided to all who visit. Website Accessibility for those with disabilities is a civil right that the Department of Justice is now aggressively defending, in addition to Accessibility Advocates and a growing number of plaintiff law firms. Following the W3C's Web Content Accessibility Guidelines (WCAG 2.0) is the de…

The Healthy Kids Initiative is a great program because it promotes physical activity and support to America’s schools through activating grants, assisting with development of school health teams and assessing schools’ health environment, as well as other tools and resources. Many children are not given enough food because of lack of funds at home, or lack of care for what they do eat. So some children and being fed cheaper and more unhealthy food. With the Healthy Kids Initiative, schools are…

“widespread alarm in the United States about the state of our math education” along with English Language arts. With the hope of America bettering their education system becoming more and more like an unreachable dream, The Common Core State Standard Initiative was enacted. Its plan is to “ensure that all students graduate from high school with the skills and knowledge necessary to succeed in college, career, and…

If this Proposition 54 so-called Racial Privacy Initiative or CRECNO (Classification on Race, Ethnicity, Color, and National Origin) had sanctioned and implemented back in 2003 in California, the state, local governments, private, and public agencies, such as schools and healthcare facilities, would have forbid and stop from gathering and saving the public 's racial and ethnic information in most areas. The proposition did not pass due to the final votes came out 36.1% votes received from people…

using guns almost doubled compared to adults whose percentage declined. In 1995 the program, Youth Firearms Violence Initiative (YFVI), was launched by the department of justice’s Office of Community Oriented Policing Services (COPS) to help the law enforcing agencies to come up with programs and strategies counter the rising juvenile firearms violence. The COPS facilitated the initiative by funding ten police departments across the ten participating cities to assist in the development of…

The Digital Designing™ Exhibition will be the first-ever such kind of initiative in Bangladesh where design works will be received through online, then subsequently placed for voting through social media network and finally scrutinized by the Jury panel for awarding. Nominated design works will be displayed in the Exhibition and a daylong workshop will be arranged for the awardees. The goal of the event is to promote the designers in the country with the slogan ‘Gear Up Designers’. The…