Sentences with phrase «education advocacy project»

As the Executive Director of the Disability Rights Legal Center at Loyola Law School, Eve managed all aspects of this non-profit disability rights organization and supervised all major programs, including the Civil Rights Litigation Project, Disability Mediation Center, Cancer Legal Resource Center, Community Outreach Program, and Education Advocacy Project.

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The Annie Appleseed Project, a 501 (c)(3) non-profit corporation, provides information, education, advocacy, and awareness for people with cancer and their family and friends who are interested in complementary or alternative medicine (CAM) and natural therapies from a patient's perspective.

* Day 1 Monday, February 22, 2016 4:00 PM -5:00 PM Registration & Networking 5:00 PM — 6:00 PM Welcome Reception & Opening Remarks Kevin de Leon, President pro Tem, California State Senate Debra McMannis, Director of Early Education & Support Division, California Department of Education (invited) Karen Stapf Walters, Executive Director, California State Board of Education (invited) 6:00 PM — 7:00 PM Keynote Address & Dinner Dr. Patricia K. Kuhl, Co-Director, Institute for Learning & Brain Sciences * Day 2 Tuesday February 23, 2016 8:00 AM — 9:00 AM Registration, Continental Breakfast, & Networking 9:00 AM — 9:15 AM Opening Remarks John Kim, Executive Director, Advancement Project Camille Maben, Executive Director, First 5 California Tom Torlakson, State Superintendent of Public Instruction, California Department of Education 9:15 AM — 10:00 AM Morning Keynote David B. Grusky, Executive Director, Stanford's Center on Poverty & Inequality 10:00 AM — 11:00 AM Educating California's Young Children: The Recent Developments in Transitional Kindergarten & Expanded Transitional Kindergarten (Panel Discussion) Deborah Kong, Executive Director, Early Edge California Heather Quick, Principal Research Scientist, American Institutes for Research Dean Tagawa, Administrator for Early Education, Los Angeles Unified School District Moderator: Erin Gabel, Deputy Director, First 5 California (Invited) 11:00 AM — 12:00 PM «Political Will & Prioritizing ECE» (Panel Discussion) Eric Heins, President, California Teachers Association Senator Hannah - Beth Jackson, Chair of the Women's Legislative Committee, California State Senate David Kirp, James D. Marver Professor of Public Policy, University of California, Berkeley Assemblyman Kevin McCarty, Chairman of Subcommittee No. 2 of Education Finance, California State Assembly Moderator: Kim Pattillo Brownson, Managing Director, Policy & Advocacy, Advancement Project 12:00 PM — 12:45 PM Lunch 12:45 PM — 1:45 PM Lunch Keynote - «How Children Succeed: Grit, Curiosity, and the Hidden Power of Character» Paul Tough, New York Times Magazine Writer, Author 1:45 PM — 1:55 PM Break 2:00 PM — 3:05 PM Elevating ECE Through Meaningful Community Partnerships (Panel Discussion) Sandra Guiterrez, National Director, Abriendo Purtas / Opening Doors Mary Ignatius, Statewide Organize of Parent Voices, California Child Care Resource & Referral Network Jacquelyn McCroskey, John Mile Professor of Child Welfare, University of Southern California School of Social Work Jolene Smith, Chief Executive Officer, First 5 Santa Clara County Moderator: Rafael González, Director of Best Start, First 5 LA 3:05 PM — 3:20 PM Closing Remarks Camille Maben, Executive Director, First 5 California * Agenda Subject to Change

The letter's signers included the Empire State Pride Agenda, Lambda Legal, the New York City Anti-Violence Project, the LGBT Community Center and the Brooklyn Community Pride Center, the Callen - Lorde Community Health Center, Gay Men's Health Crisis, the Transgender Legal Defense & Education Fund, Immigration Equality, the Family Equality Council, SAGE (Services & Advocacy for GLBT Elders), the GRIOT Circle: a gathering of elders, and several organizations advocating on behalf of LGBT young people, including FIERCE, the Hetrick - Martin Institute, and Streetwise and Safe.

The Mars Society is pleased to announce that it has joined the online Marspedia project started by two other space advocacy groups - The Mars Foundation and The Moon Society - in an effort to build out a great resource for people of all ages to learn more about the planet Mars, promote the human and robotic exploration of the Red Planet and encourage STEM education.

Our guest created the Annie Appleseed Project, a non-profit that provides information, education, advocacy, and awareness for people with cancer and their family and friends who are interested in complementary or alternative medicine (CAM) and natural therapies from a patient's perspective.

According to lawyers for the Multicultural Education Training and Advocacy Project in Cambridge, Mass., the state officials» actions are directly correlated with the disproportionately high dropout rate among Hispanic students in the state.

Project Appleseed, a nonprofit advocacy organization for parent involvement in education, provides an excellent primer on the many types of performance assessments and their advantages, as well as strategies for improving student performance.

Beginning later this year, several elementary and secondary schools in Chicago, Moscow, and Amsterdam will take part in «Project Metropolis,» a collaborative effort funded by International Movement Towards Education, a nonprofit advocacy group.

Along with attendance, testing, GPA checks, and tracking their students post-high school, Build SF uses rubrics for student projects, develops peer assessments, and asks mentors to fill out formal exit surveys on students, based on skills developed by the Partnership for 21st Century Learning, an acclaimed advocacy group dedicated to infusing twenty - first - century skills into education through collaborative community efforts.

Speakers will include: Esteniolla Maitre, ListeningWorks Project Manager, Youth on Board; Carlos Rojas Alvarez, ListeningWorks Project Manager, Youth on Board and Marianna Islam, Director of Programs & Advocacy, Schott Foundation for Public Education (moderator).

Special Olympics Unified Champion Schools Special Olympics Unified Champion Schools ® is an education - based project that uses sports and education programs to activate young people to develop school communities where all youth are agents of change — fostering respect, dignity and advocacy for people with intellectual disabilities.

Advocates for Children of New York (AFC)'s Immigrant Students» Rights Project combines our distinctive leadership in the field of public education advocacy with our in - depth knowledge of the needs of immigrant students, students learning English, and their families to improve student achievement and advance meaningful reform.

All of AFC's projects involve special education advocacy to some extent, as they target specific populations that tend to include a disproportionate share of students with disabilities.

Respectfully, Action United Alliance of Californians for Community Empowerment Alliance for Multilingual Multicultural Education American Association of Colleges for Teacher Education American Association of State Colleges and Universities American Federation of Teachers ASPIRA Association Association of University Centers on Disabilities Autistic Self Advocacy Network Bay Area Parent Leadership Action Network California Association for Bilingual Education California Latino School Boards Association Californians for Justice Californians Together Campaign for Fiscal Equity Campaign for Quality Education Center for the Future of Teaching and Learning Center for Teaching Quality Citizens for Effective Schools Coalition for Educational Justice Council for Exceptional Children Council of Parent Attorneys and Advocates Disability Rights Education and Defense Fund Easter Seals ELC, Education Law Center FairTest, The National Center for Fair & Open Testing Higher Education Consortium for Special Education Justice Matters Latino Elected and Appointed Officials National Taskforce on Education Lawyers» Committee for Civil Rights Under Law Learning Disabilities Association of America Los Angeles Educational Partnership Movement Strategy Center NAACP National Alliance of Black School Educators National Center for Learning Disabilities National Council for Educating Black Children National Council of Teachers of English National Disability Rights Network National Down Syndrome Congress National Down Syndrome Society National Education Association National Latino / a Education Research and Policy Project National League of United Latin American Citizens Parent - U-Turn Parents for Unity Philadelphia Education Fund Public Advocates Inc..

Prior to joining the foundation, she worked as an independent consultant to a number of education funders and ngos on projects including strategic planning and advising, monitoring and evaluation, grant - making support and due diligence, advocacy and policy change work, and grantee network facilitation and support.

According to the American Diploma Project (ADP)-- a partnership of three education advocacy groups, including the Education Trust — more than 70 percent of high school graduates go immediately to two - or four - year colleges or univeducation advocacy groups, including the Education Trust — more than 70 percent of high school graduates go immediately to two - or four - year colleges or univEducation Trust — more than 70 percent of high school graduates go immediately to two - or four - year colleges or universities.

In 2007, four school districts participated in a student action research program as part of the Education and Advocacy Project.

During the annual meeting of the Chalkboard Project, an independent Oregon K12 education advocacy group, a video message from Education Secretary Arne Duncan was played for the staff, board, trustees, and affiliateeducation advocacy group, a video message from Education Secretary Arne Duncan was played for the staff, board, trustees, and affiliateEducation Secretary Arne Duncan was played for the staff, board, trustees, and affiliate members.

Panelists Deb Delisle, Assistant Secretary, Office of Elementary and Secondary Education, U.S. Department of Education Dan Losen, Director, Center for Civil Rights Remedies at the Civil Rights Project at UCLA Martens Roc, Policy and Advocacy Associate, Alliance for Excellent Education Karen Webber - Ndour, Executive Director, Student Support and Safety, Baltimore City Schools Darryl Briggs, BSW Candidate, Lehman College

Karega is a former Charter Schools Director with the Indianapolis Mayor's Office; founded and served as Director of the Indianapolis affiliate of Stand for Children, a national educational advocacy nonprofit; and was on the leadership team of Indiana University's Equity Project, housed at the Center for Evaluation and Education Policy.

WEAC and other education advocacy groups have partnered to advance recommendations to the DOJ for project funding that fits within solutions identified during a massive summit on school safety in 2015.

Today, PURE joined with the Washington, D. C. - based legal advocacy group Advancement Project and Voices of Youth in Chicago Education (VOYCE) in a press conference and march to protest the Noble Charter School Network's predatory student discipline policy.

By Moriah Costa, June 12, 2015 «The D.C. Language Immersion Project, a language education advocacy group, is the biggest force behind expanding programs in the District.

Nashville Rise, it turns out, is actually a part of Project Renaissance — an education advocacy group created by former Mayor Karl Dean.

We provided funding for three projects relevant to specific animal advocacy interventions, namely, a humane education field experiment, an experiment testing the effects of real and virtual contact with farmed animals, and a series of focus groups and survey experiments to understand consumer attitudes towards and willingness - to - pay for cultured meat.

Give Me Shelter Project, Inc. is a 501 (c) 3 not for profit animal rescue, education and advocacy group in NYC.

A.W.A.R.E — Our World, Our Water - Project AWARE Foundation is a nonprofit organization working with divers to conserve underwater environments through education, advocacy and action.

Support for this series provided by the Department of Planning and Community Design in Tyler School of Art's Division of Architecture and Environmental Design, the Office of Institutional Diversity, Equity, Advocacy and Leadership, the General Education Program, Philadelphia Parks and Recreation, the Philadelphia Orchard Project, the Jewish Farm School, the Feinstein Center for American Jewish History, the Pennsylvania Horticultural Society, TreePhilly, Village of Arts and Humanities, Asociación de Puertorriqueños en Marcha, the Photography Program at Tyler School of Art, the New Kensington Community Development Corporation, The Humane League, Philadelphia Zoo, and Audubon Society.

This is not a wild and woolly free - for - all blogosphere site, it's an education and advocacy project with a point of view.

Project Coyote, a national non-profit organization based in Northern California, is a North American coalition of scientists, educators, ranchers and citizen leaders promoting compassionate conservation and coexistence between people and wildlife through education, science and advocacy.

Climate Science Watch: Climate Science Watch is a non-profit public interest education and advocacy project dedicated to holding public officials accountable for the integrity and effectiveness with which they use climate science and related research in government policymaking, toward the goal of enabling society to respond effectively to the challenges posed by global warming and climate change.

Project Coyote, a national nonprofit organization headquartered in Northern California, is a North American coalition of wildlife educators, scientists, ranchers, and community leaders promoting coexistence between people and wildlife, and compassionate conservation through education, science and advocacy.

ACWA, a project of the Earth Island Institute (formerly the Campaign to Safeguard America's Waters (CSAW)-RRB-, works to prevent the degradation of public waters through advocacy, education, litigation, legislation and market campaigns in support of the fundamental goals of the federal Clean Water Act: (1) all Alaska waters should protect aquatic life and be safe for recreation, (2) the discharge of all pollutants into public waters should be eliminated.

Pesticide Action Network North America Regional Center (formerly known as Pesticide Education and Action Project) is an Oakland, California - based 501c3 non-profit campaigning, regulatory and advocacy...

Special Services Units: Addressing particular legal problems or the needs of specific vulnerable communities — Foreclosure Prevention Unit, Foreclosure Consequences Advocacy Team, Medical Legal Partnerships, Veterans Project, Reentry Initiated through Services and Education (RISE) Project, Integrated Rural Legal Assistance Project, Farm Worker Unit, and Native American Unit.

AARP Foundation Litigation, ACLU of Northern California, ACLU of San Diego and Imperial Counties, American Association for Justice, Asian Law Caucus, Asian Pacific American Legal Center, California Alliance for Retired Americans, California Employment Lawyers Association, California Foundation for Independent Living Centers, California Labor Federation, California Reinvestment Coalition, California Teamsters, Public Affairs Council, California Women's Law Center, Center for Justice and Democracy, Coalition of Disability Access Professionals, Consumer Action, Consumer Federation of California, Consumers for Auto Reliability and Safety, Designing Accessible Communities, Disability Rights Advocates, Disability Rights Education and Defense Fund, Equal Rights Advocates, Foundation for Taxpayer and Consumer Rights, Gray Panthers, Law Foundation of Silicon Valley, Lawyers» Committee for Civil Rights of the San Francisco Bay Area Legal Aid Society, Employment Law Center, Legal Services for Prisoners with Children Mexican, American Legal Defense and Educational Fund, National Center for Youth Law, National Consumer Law Center, National Immigration Law Center, National Senior Citizens Law Center, Privacy Rights Clearinghouse, Protection & Advocacy, Inc., Public Advocates, Public Counsel, Public Interest Law Project, Speak Out California, Strengthening Our Lives (LA County Federation), Teamsters Union Local No. 70 Utility, Consumers» Action Network, Western Center on Law & Poverty, Women's Employment Rights Clinic, and the Youth Law Center.

Colorado Farmworkers Project Providing education, advocacy, and legal representation to Colorado's farmworkers.

The Pennsylvania Innocence Project has a four-fold mission to: (1) secure the exoneration, release from imprisonment, and restoration to society of persons who are innocent and have been wrongly convicted; (2) provide clinical training and experience to students in the fields of law, journalism, criminal justice, and forensic science; (3) collaborate with law enforcement agencies and the courts to address systemic causes of wrongful convictions; and (4) strengthen and improve the effectiveness of the criminal justice system in Pennsylvania through public education and advocacy.

Professor Perlmutter has received the National Association of Counsel for Children's 2003 Outstanding Legal Advocacy Award, the Clinical Legal Education Association's 2003 Award for Excellence in a Public Interest Law Case or Project, two Florida Bar Foundation Steven M. Goldstein First Runner - Up Awards for Excellence (in 2001 and 2003), and the Florida Bar Public Interest Law Section's Honorable Hugh S. Glickstein Child Advocacy Award, given to the members of the Florida Bar Commission on the Legal Needs of Children in 2002.

Membership includes invitations to conferences and training programs, education, advocacy and the opportunity to participate on AFCC Ontario chapter committees, task forces and projects.

In addition to the Glickstein Award, which Perlmutter received in 2002, he has received many other honors for his advocacy, including the National Association of Counsel for Children's Outstanding Legal Advocacy Award, the Clinical Legal Education Association's Award for Excellence in a Public Interest Law Case or Project, the C. Clyde Atkins Civil Liberties Award from the Greater Miami Chapter of the American Civil Liberties Union, the inaugural Miami - Dade County Children's Trust Champion for Children Award, and the Mental Health Advocate of the Year Award from the Florida Statewide Advocacy advocacy, including the National Association of Counsel for Children's Outstanding Legal Advocacy Award, the Clinical Legal Education Association's Award for Excellence in a Public Interest Law Case or Project, the C. Clyde Atkins Civil Liberties Award from the Greater Miami Chapter of the American Civil Liberties Union, the inaugural Miami - Dade County Children's Trust Champion for Children Award, and the Mental Health Advocate of the Year Award from the Florida Statewide Advocacy Advocacy Award, the Clinical Legal Education Association's Award for Excellence in a Public Interest Law Case or Project, the C. Clyde Atkins Civil Liberties Award from the Greater Miami Chapter of the American Civil Liberties Union, the inaugural Miami - Dade County Children's Trust Champion for Children Award, and the Mental Health Advocate of the Year Award from the Florida Statewide Advocacy Advocacy Council.

He is also a coordinator of the Child Advocacy Pro Bono Project (a Joint Initiative of BLG, the Chi ldren's Legal Education Resource Centre, and Pro Bono Law Alberta) and a past chair of the Volunteer Lawyers» Service.

May 4,2018 - PROJECT DESCRIPTIONThe ACLU's Women's and Reproductive Rights Project («WRRP» or «Project») seeks, through coordinated litigation, public education, and legislative and regulatory advocacyPROJECT DESCRIPTIONThe ACLU's Women's and Reproductive Rights Project («WRRP» or «Project») seeks, through coordinated litigation, public education, and legislative and regulatory advocacyProject («WRRP» or «Project») seeks, through coordinated litigation, public education, and legislative and regulatory advocacyProject») seeks, through coordinated litigation, public education, and legislative and regulatory advocacy, to...

About Blog The One Woman Project is a youth - led, non-for-profit organisation dedicated to education about and advocacy promoting gender equality.

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Pennsylvania, USA About Blog The Women's» Law Project is dedicated to advancing the rights and status of all women through high - impact litigation, advocacy and education.

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Through litigation, advocacy, and education, this project works to uphold the rights of individuals to decide freely, without governmental hindrance or coercion, whether or not to bear a child.

Jennifer Esterline is the founder of and project consultant for the Texas Education Grantmakers Advocacy Consortium, a collaboration of private, corporate and community foundations across the state working to promote, protect and improve Texas public education through advocacy and publiEducation Grantmakers Advocacy Consortium, a collaboration of private, corporate and community foundations across the state working to promote, protect and improve Texas public education through advocacy and publicAdvocacy Consortium, a collaboration of private, corporate and community foundations across the state working to promote, protect and improve Texas public education through advocacy and publieducation through advocacy and publicadvocacy and public policy.