Word: outreaching
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...order to officially spearhead the outreach to students, the College eventually created The Undergraduate Minority Recruitment Program (UMRP), which coordinates call-a-thons for minority outreach and admitted minority students. UMRP also orchestrates Pre-frosh weekend events that target minorities such as Murillo...
...February, Heathrow commissioned Broadway, a local homeless-outreach organization, to visit the airport once a week in order to survey its homeless population and try to coax them into alternative accommodations. In the first four weeks alone, Broadway conducted a hundred interviews with homeless people at the airport, and although the group spoke with some more than once, the number was far higher than expected...
...night in March, I joined Jeff Motunde, a Nigerian-born Broadway outreach worker, and police officers for a survey of Heathrow's homeless. Those contacted included a man sleeping under his coat, another conspicuously hiding behind an open newspaper, and a woman clutching a duty-free bag who insisted she was waiting for a flight, only to whisper when police were out of earshot, "I can't afford electricity. It's warm here. Please let me stay...
...Rough sleepers," as homeless people are known in Britain, are sheltering incognito at many of the world's major airports, says Sandie Cox of Heathrow Travel Care, the organization overseeing the one-year pilot scheme. Chicago's O'Hare instituted a homeless outreach in the 1990s. Several others, including Newark-Liberty in New Jersey and Los Angeles' LAX, have done the same. Heathrow, the busiest airport in Europe, has more delays than most major hubs; the catalog of errors accompanying the March 27 opening of the $8.5 billion Terminal 5--including some 250 canceled flights and 28,000 pieces...
...Typically, a landlord doesn’t have much incentive to make a property more energy efficient, because they don’t pay utilities,” said Councillor Henrietta J. Davis. But Ellen Semenoff, the assistant city manager for human services, said that the city conducts outreach efforts with landlords, renters, and homeowners to educate them about energy efficiency. Semenoff also assuaged concerns raised by Vice Mayor Brian P. Murphy ’86-’87 that the rising cost of fuel might prevent the city from receiving the current level of funding for heating benefits...