...include a family plan. (PR Newswire, 2014) The Family Plan features balanced, seasoned, kid-friendly menus for a family of four delivered to the doorstep. The Blue Apron family price amounts to about $8.74 per person which offers an appealing option to busy working families who desire to eat more nutritiously.(PR Newswire, 2014) From the inception of the company many families have been asking for a plan specifically tailored made for them. By marketing this new plan to their customers, Blue Apron is doubling the addressable market available to them and furthering its nationwide mission of making incredible, home cooking, easily available and accessible to customers nationwide at a reasonable price.(PR Newswire, 2014, para. 1) With the promotion and launch of the Family Plan even more families are now making Blue Apron part of the weekly routine. In November of 2014, Blue Apron announced the delivery of one million meals per month. In addition, they marketed and launched their curated kitchen ecommerce store that features cookware and tools that are hand selected by the Blue Apron culinary team. (PR Newswire, 2014) This strategy promotes sales of this equipment successfully with the pairing of the new Family Plan delivery service. The Blue Apron offers the flexibility of receiving two to four meals a week and utilizes the time saving, organizational convenience of having all the nutritious ingredients you will need for a perfectly balanced and delicious family meal delivered...
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...1. What kinds of natural imbalances might affect your region? What makes your region particularly vulnerable to these imbalances? 2. Provide a specific example of a weather incident/natural disaster that occurred in your area in the past and discuss how the incident was handled by local residents and town/state officials. 3. What can people in your area do to prepare for a similar incident? (Consider what can be done prior to, during, and after the disaster. Be sure to include specific details using information from the CDC and/or FEMA.) 4. Compare your area to that of a classmate. What environmental features do you have in common to produce similar natural disasters OR what features vary, leading to completely different disasters? Would rescue efforts differ as well? 5. What predictions are being made for how climate change will impact either the frequency or intensity of future natural disasters in your area? (Hint: Refer to the extreme weather and hurricane resources provided above to find information to support your ideas.) Hello Class and Professor, The agency that I work for is part of the community disaster coalition as well as the county's emergency operations center. What happens is that the EOC contacts our leader of the disaster unit and "activates" us in the case of any disaster among other agencies such as the sheriff’s dept. We recently attended our annual disaster drill and the staged disaster was a 6.2 earthquake. 2-1-1 Orange County (which...
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...head: FAMILY ENGAGEMENT 1 THE IMPORTANCE OF FAMILY ENGAGEMENT ON THE EDUCATIONAL PROCESS OF YOUNG CHILDREN EDU 626 Instructor Dr. Rodriguez September 16, 2012 FAMILY ENGAGEMENT THE IMPORTANCE OF FAMILY ENGAGEMENT ON THE EDUCATIONAL PROCESS OF YOUNG CHILDREN Torri Gaines Ashford University 2 ABSTRACT Because of common barriers to engagement, many families do not actively participate in their child‟s education process. These barriers can be addressed and overcome by building strong school and family partnerships to promote and increase family engagement. These types of partnerships can be established and maintained by both teachers and families in a joint effort for the benefit of all involved. PURPOSE OF THE STUDY The purpose of my research study is to describe the impact that family engagement has on the educational process of children. Additionally the study describes the beliefs of teachers and families concerning family engagement, its benefits, and challenges. The specific research questions that will be addressed in this study are: 1. How does family engagement set the foundation for academic success in young children? 2. How does family engagement impact the family as a whole? 3. What are some barriers to engagement? A hypothesis I developed concerning this topic is that students whose families are not engaged in their educational process do worse in school (have lower selfesteem, perform worse academically and behaviorally) than those whose families are engaged...
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...ET Section 100 - Independence, Integrity, and Objectivity 100-1 Conceptual Framework for AICPA Independence Standards Sec.101 – Independence When performing attest engagement- Consult with the various organization that issues or enforces standards of independence. Ind. requirements or rulings might differ from those of the AICPA. Independence is impaired when: 1. A cover member had or was committed to acquire any direct or material indirect financial interest. 2. Was a trustee or executor or adm. of a estate committed to acquire any direct or material indirect financial interest in the client and the member can: Make investment decisions The trust or estate owned or will acquired > 10% of outstanding equity securities or ownership interest. The value of the trust or estate's holding in the client >10% of the total asset or estate. Had a joint closely held investment (material ) Had a loan with an individual owning > 10 % of the client's outstanding equity securities or ownership interests. A partner or professional employee of the firm, his immediate family, or any group of such persons acting together owned >5 % of a client's outstanding equity securities or other ownership interests. During the period covered by the financial statements or during the period of the professional engagement, a firm, or partner or professional employee of the firm was simultaneously associated with the client as a(n) 1. Director, officer, or employee, or in any capacity equivalent...
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...RUNNING HEAD: HOW TO PLAN AN ENGAGEMENT PARTY 1 How To Plan An Engagement Party by Barbarito Capote May 27, 2012 ENGL106-1202B-243 RUNNING HEAD: HOW TO PLAN AN ENGAGEMENT PARTY 2 Abstract It’s a special moment to have an engagement party that you can share with important persons, family and friends. However, the actual planning takes tons of time and focus to get every detail dealt with. This paper will describe how to plan such an important event. RUNNING HEAD: HOW TO PLAN AN ENGAGEMENT PARTY 3 The process of planning an engagement party takes a lot of time and effort to get every single detail done. First off, you have to come to...
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...practices at your center. Use the knowledge you have gained in this course, as well as practical application and research to support your presentation. You can be creative for this project, but you must include the following: 1. Introduction that states the purpose of the presentation 2. Summary of what will be covered in the presentation 3. Health (five to six slides/pages) 1. Explain what this component includes in the early childhood classroom. 2. Describe two to three strategies to support health and wellness in the classroom. 3. Identify and describe at least two resources that teachers can utilize in their planning and implementation. These can be text or web-based resources. 4. Create a family activity or newsletter that you can send home to support family engagement in fostering children’s overall health and wellness. 5. Discuss one obstacle that teachers may...
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...healthcare professionals, consumer and patient advocacy groups, patients quality organizations, health plans, hospitals and unions, they all must join together to establish an effective and efficient system. The PCMH’s do just this as they improve health outcomes, heighten the patient and provider experience of care. Also they reduce expensive, unnecessary hospital and emergency department utilization. On the opposing side, the healthcare systems that focus more on volume rather than value are constantly facing inefficiencies, having inconsistent health outcomes, and unstable financials. For these reasons there has been growing support for the PCMH across the vast majority of the United States. One of the most influencial benefits of the PCMH is the patient and family engagement. The PCMH’s initiatives are conveying the expectation for authentic patient and family engagements. This type of engagement happens at a few different levels within its system. As a patient one of the most important engagements is at the clinical encounter. This is where the patient and family engage in the care, the planning, and most importantly the decision-making. One of the hardest and most difficult process’ in your health is making decisions. PCMH’s give the patient and family a sense of trust and comfort. Engagements also occur at the practice or organizational level, where the patient and family engage in quality improvement and health care redesign. Times have changed as healthcare used to be...
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...knowledge you have gained in this course, as well as practical application and research to support your presentation. You can be creative for this project, but you must include the following: Introduction that states the purpose of the presentation Summary of what will be covered in the presentation Health (five to six slides/pages) Explain what this component includes in the early childhood classroom. Describe two to three strategies to support health and wellness in the classroom. Identify and describe at least two resources that teachers can utilize in their planning and implementation. These can be text or web-based resources. Create a family activity or newsletter that you can send home to support family engagement in fostering children’s overall health and wellness. Discuss one obstacle that teachers may encounter and a plan for how to deal with the challenge. Nutrition (five to six slides/pages) Explain what this component includes in the early childhood...
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...Kirsten Hill ACCT 5557 April 11, 2015 (original) May 5, 2015 (revised) Independence Certified Public Accountants (CPA) perform many important services for individuals and companies, public or private. One essential assurance engagement a CPA performs is an audit of financial statements. Audits of financial statements play a vital role in the business industry. An auditor can reasonably assure investors, lenders, management, and stakeholders that the financial statements are free from material misstatement and accurately reflect the accounting of the entity for that period of time. However, an auditor cannot provide an absolute assurance due to the inherent limitations of an audit. Generally, an audit includes the following steps: overall audit planning, assess control risk, perform tests of controls, perform substantive tests of account balances, and finally complete the audit (Kerr, Elder and Arens). In the overall audit planning stage, the CPA has to obtain an understanding of the potential client’s business and establish if the CPA Firm and its associates are independent. These two steps must be done before the CPA Firm can decide to accept the audit engagement. There are many important factors, steps, issues, knowledge, just to name a few that go into an audit but this paper will focus on the issue of independence. One of the principles listed in the AICPA Professional Code of Conduct states that an auditor in public practice must be independent in appearance...
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...together of two families and extended families as well. Their level of involvement is so profound that typically the family decides the bride or groom. In fact, even till a few decades ago the bride and the groom saw each other for the first time only on their wedding day. This trend has changed in urban areas, and in the present day, youngsters have a better say in choosing their life partner. Families search for eligible partners for their children through word of mouth or marriage priests primarily. However with the internet revolution in online matrimonial sites are also becoming quite a hit. Arranged marriages are strictly intra-religion and intra-caste. Compatibility of the couple is assessed on the basis of horoscopes, and if good, then an alliance is sought for. In urban areas, the couple goes a step further to interact and see if their interests and natures match. If the alliance is agreeable to both parties, they proceed to plan for the engagement ceremony and the wedding. Though arranged marriages are still the norm, love marriages are becoming a common occurrence these days, predominantly in urban areas. Months before the wedding an engagement ceremony, known as Mangni, is held. The two families meet to perform rituals to make the engagement official. A muhurat (auspicious date & time) for the wedding is decided based on horoscopes. The couple is then blessed by elders of both families, and is given gifts including jewelry and clothing by their new family. In certain traditions...
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...My personal engagement project consisted of me working with the homeless community. I was a case manager at a family shelter in framingham, and we had a woman named Laurie Laba sponsor the shelter. I later began to help assist Laurie in her community work with the homeless. Laurie and I are both very civically engaged with the homeless community in many ways. Laurie’s husband, Neale, is a music producer. Her produces folk music and they hold concerts at their house in Sudbury, Ma. Typically three or two months prior to the concert Laurie and I type up a detailed flyer regarding information about the concert. On the left side of the flyer is a section that is named homeless community. Underneath that section we give a brief description about the family shelter is framingham and list what the needs are for the house. We don't just come up with a random list of what we think the shelter might need. Prior to making the flyer we call or sometimes show up in person and speak with the program supervisor about what are the most important things that the families living in the shelter and the shelter itself is in need for. Depending on the season, we would typically be told that the shelter is in need of winter, or summer clothes. We would get a lot of toiletries request, such as paper towels, toilet papers, and cleaning supplies. The children living in the shelter vary from newborn to 17 years old, so we often like to get a list of the children's sizes, and favorite colors, so we could...
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...Whether you have only been dating a short time or your relationship has spanned several years, getting engaged is an exciting experience. While the next few months are likely going to be both exciting and stressful, there are five things you should do right away. Let Your Friends and Family Know It might be tempting to simply take a picture of your ring and post your engagement announcement on Facebook, but it is important to let your family and close friends know about your engagement right away. When possible, tell friends and family in-person. For those who live a little farther away, call them right away to let them know. Your best friend from high school does not want to learn about your engagement when she logs onto Facebook or from...
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...Stakeholder engagement Stakeholder engagement is a process which is close to the heart of all major organisations which have a sound operating philosophy. By engaging with the stakeholders, the CEO’s ensure the long term success of their business or projects. This is by getting the various interested parties to buy into the success of their venture by making them a part of the decision making and also ensuring that their concerns or requirements are met. Even though this may be driven by rules and regulations to a great extend, we are witnessing a more proactive, inclusive and broader approach in recent times. This is usually a cradle to grave approach taking into consideration the whole life span of the project and its continued or total impact on the various parties involved. The positive impact of good stakeholder relationship on reputation and in turn the profitability of the venture is well recognised by the business community. In fact the brand value of a company is directly proportional to its positive rapport with its stakeholders. As in any relationship mutual trust, respect, transparency and understanding, all play a part in maintaining a constructive engagement with the stakeholders. It takes time to build trust and past records become very important for an organisation embarking on a new venture. Organisations have to tailor their engagements to suit their business depending on the size of the project, its nature and impact on the stakeholders and the environment...
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...Employee Engagement in Organizations Word Count: 3005 Contents 1.0 Introduction 4 2.0 Employee engagement 4 3.0 Significance of employee engagement 5 4.0 Steps taken to enhance employee engagement 8 5.0 Steps to enhance employee engagement 10 6.0 Conclusion 13 7.0 References 14 List of figures Figure 1: Employee Engagement Model 4 Figure 2: Composition of Employee Engagement 5 Figure 3: Organizational Results of employee engagement 6 Introduction This report has been undertaken in order to discuss and assess the significance of employee engagement through various employee engagement models and the steps that can be taken in order to improve the employee engagement process in an organization. Various recommendations have also been provided in order to enhance the employee engagement in organizations at the end of the report. Significant company examples following appropriate employee engagement policies and their impact on employee satisfaction in the organizations have also been mentioned in detail. Employee engagement According to Albrecht (2010), Employee engagement is defined as the level to which the employees are loyal and motivated towards their work within a particular organization they work for. The level of pride they show while being a part of that organization and the extent of efforts they are willing to exert to achieve the organizational goals. Saks (2006) adds that employee engagement is simply...
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...Forced marriage, family cohesion and community engagement: national learning through a case study of Luton Dr Nazia Khanum OBE March 2008 Forced marriage, family cohesion and community engagement: national learning through a case study of Luton Completed by: Dr Nazia Khanum OBE Director Equality in Diversity Commissioned by: MP Margaret Moran’s Office – Ushrat Sultana Metropolitan Police Service – Jim Blair Home Office – Deborah Jamieson Published by: Printed by: Equality in Diversity e-mail: nkhanum@aol.com Bartham Press (Watford) Ltd e-mail: koyes@barthampress.com Phone: 01582 459402 / 573471 Mobile: 07931 973967 © Nazia Khanum 2008 All rights reserved ISBN: 1-904070-02-7 March 2008 Acknowledgements As soon as I started conducting this piece of research in 2006, it became clear to me that I was dealing with one of the most sensitive subjects, the actual scale and complexity of which will probably never be known. The paucity of available data and the inconsistency of recording incidents across agencies were clear from the start. Since the lack of data was anticipated, this research project took a qualitative and not a quantitative approach, and so no attempt has been made to indulge in a number crunching exercise. Full advantage has been taken of the opportunity to delve into the interviewees’ personal views, perceptions and experiences. During the research, I came across all kinds of emotions and value judgments including mistrust, fear, denial,...
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