They include the Northern Ireland Council for Voluntary Action (NICVA), the umbrella body for the local voluntary and community sector.
Last month, umbrella groups representing the UK voluntary and community sector wrote a joint letter to the Minister of State for Pensions, Steve Webb.
Branagh spent his early years in Northern Ireland, where he is now honorary President of NICVA supporting all the organisations in the voluntary and community sector.
Last week, I had the great opportunity to join 15 other colleagues from around the country as Champions of Change within the community college sector.
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The Champions of Change roundtable discussion that I participated in was exhilarating and full of promising new ideas about how to improve the community college sector for the benefit of some of our most vulnerable citizens who are seeking a better life for themselves and their families.
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"The business community and technology sector are running up against a shortage of highly skilled labor, and we need more H-1B visas, " said Brad Smith, general counsel of Microsoft.
The schools would develop an annual program based around a series of sustainability themes and work with government, community and private sector partners to develop school activities around these themes including special events, lesson content, competitions and exchanges between the schools.
The private sector and community leaders are also stepping up to the plate alongside the federal government.
Enterprise Minister Jim Mather said Moray was a defence sector orientated community.
Opponents, from the banking sector and community groups, predicted that Wal-Mart will expand its plan, leading to the closure of independent banks serving rural markets.
The staging of the event must also form part of a more comprehensive tourism, sports development and business investment strategy demonstrating public and private sector and community support.
But insiders say that reaching out beyond the law enforcement community to the private sector is a central plank of Soca's plans - in general, and for financial crime in particular.
Building upon what has been achieved so far in the decade: Scotland, as the rest of the UK widened the focus for ESD in the second half of the decade, from the formal education sector to community learning.
The government's plan to sell off or lease 258, 000 hectares of England's public forests, managed by the Forestry Commission, was intended to give the private sector, community and charitable groups greater involvement in woodlands by encouraging a "mixed model" of ownership.
We should reform our child support laws to get more men working and engaged with their children. (Applause.) And my administration will continue to work with the faith community and the private sector this year on a campaign to encourage strong parenting and fatherhood.
As long as we keep fortifying partnerships between Federal, State, and local governments and among community leaders and the private sector, we can continue to modernize our critical infrastructure and bolster our ability to overcome whatever challenges we may face.
Much the same with global corporations because the plural sector is rooted in community.
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The Commission will be independent and its commissioners, made up of representatives from the police, health sector, charities, community groups and private companies, are working for free.
But he added councils were doing the best they could and the onus was on the government to "re-direct resources away from the acute sector and towards these community-based services".
With collective action across these five pathways, actors from the private sector and the development community can contribute to feeding the world, increasing incomes in farming communities, and preserving our natural resources.
And that may involve in a number of cases using private parties, in other cases it may use public parties, or community development organisations, local private sector, whatever the appropriate solution in a particular case is.
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We're going to challenge the private sector to partner with community colleges, for example, to help train the workers of today for the jobs of tomorrow, even as we make college more affordable -- so that, by 2020, America once again leads the world in producing college graduates.
Most released prisoners and people serving community sentences are managed by the public sector probation service - provided by 35 trusts across England and Wales.
With biodiversity now on the sustainability agenda of leading multinational corporations, the conservation community is beginning to recognise the private sector as part of the solution and not just part of the problem.
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The US scheme took off in New York under its Mayor Michael Bloomberg, who provided support and resources to the London scheme, which will see the public and private sector and voluntary organisations coordinating community activities.
By harnessing the efforts of all parts of the U.S. Government in partnership with academia, the private sector, the civil liberties community, international partners, the Congress and state and local governments, the United States will continue to innovate and adopt cutting edge technology, while enhancing national security and the global economy.
More than any other sector, the small-business community needs encouragement and support that we can provide by shopping small.
CISPA, on the other hand, represents exactly the sort of new monitoring of the private sector that has spooked the privacy community.
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In November 2007 the Community transferred to the UNESCO's Education Sector.
Most released prisoners and people serving community sentences are currently managed by the public sector probation service - provided by 35 probation trusts across England and Wales.
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