Sentences with phrase «leaders group organized»

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While they had great success defeating prepaid doctor groups, AMA leaders realized that that if they continued knocking down private attempts to organize health care, government officials would step in to manage the medical economy.

«Truth be told, leaders shouldn't wait for something negative to happen,» said Cristobal Alex, president of the Latino Victory Project, a group that promotes Latino political organizing.

The letter campaign was organized by the group Fwd.us, which urges changes in immigration law and was founded by tech leaders including Mr. Zuckerberg.

Friend of Brian's I'm sorry to burst your bubble here, but every major heresy that has inflicted God's people for the last 2,000 years has come from organized groups with «leaders» who thought they knew God's mind better than anyone around them.

In June, Perry secretly met a group of nearly 80 conservative Christian leaders at a gathering organized by evangelist James Robison.

Former Pakistani lawmaker Ikramullah Shahid told demonstrators protesting the movie in Peshawar on Monday that he'd pay $ 200,000 to anyone who kills the filmmaker, according to Siraj Ul Haq, a senior leader of the religious group that organized the rally.

Last Easter, the Drug Policy Alliance organized a conference for a group of Christian leaders to discuss the issue.

In l956 the leaders of most of the former colonies of the world met in Bandung to organize a «nonaligned» movement which established their group as a buffer between the proponents of capitalism (First World) and those of communism (Second World).

Because their church had an organized diaconate with trained leaders, Redeemer was able to distribute assistance much more efficiently than groups arriving after the event.

In addition, I trained three of these five to serve as leaders of what I called peer - led discussion groups (focus groups organized and led by teens for which I was not present) and then directed three more focus groups with parents of teens.

June 6 - 7 Chicago: American Packaging Summit 2018, brings together leaders from across all industry sectors: food and beverage, CPG, cosmetics, pharma, retail, toys and more — involved in the business of packaging, discussing current trends, strategic insights and best practices in packaging innovation, design, materials and branding at the Hyatt Regency O'Hare, organized by Toronto - based company the Generis Group.

Sulo is a nonprofit group organized by IRRI that helps women become effective leaders in the local community.

Campers are organized into groups of three or four campers and are assigned a specialized group leader who supports them through their day.

If he was n`t organizing basketball tournaments and refereeing the games himself, he was coaxing local businessmen, politicians and community group leaders to support a tiny park that had been a big magnet for gangs.

The Bridging Gowanus community planning process was convened by the local elected officials representing the Gowanus area, organized together with community leaders from resident, civic, environmental, business, arts and housing groups, and facilitated by the Pratt Center for Community Development.

At the war's end, following the October Revolution, American authorities saw the threat of Communist revolution in the actions of organized labor, including such disparate cases as the Seattle General Strike and the Boston Police Strike and then in the bombing campaign directed by anarchist groups at political and business leaders.

In other districts informal civic groups will organize a slate of «reform» candidates for school board, and in at least one exurban Colorado school district, a bunch of people who were also leaders in the county Republican party where the school district was located put together a slate of unofficially Republican school board candidates to square off against a teacher's union slate of candidates.

A group called Rebuild New York Now is creating a coalition of government leaders, organized labor and private business to urge Albany to spend the windfall on fixing the state's declining infrastructure.

NEW YORK, NY (05/11/2012)(readMedia)-- Early this afternoon, a team of welfare recipients, unemployed New Yorkers looking for work, public housing residents, and people living with HIV / AIDS — members of the grassroots organizing groups Community Voices Heard (CVH) and Voices of Community Activists and Leaders (VOCAL - NY)-- led other New York residents in a series of actions in Lower Manhattan to highlight the inequality prevalent in our City today, and lift up the need to restore critical programs currently proposed to be cut in Mayor Bloomberg's Fiscal Year 2013 budget.

The programme brought together traditional leaders, organized groups, market women, departmental heads and stakeholders in WASH to brainstorm and to strengthen the capacities of local CSOs to effectively contribute to sustainable water, sanitation and hygiene activities.

«We are asking our city's mayor and our city's leaders to put an end to education inequality,» said Joe Herrera, of Families for Excellent Schools, a pro-charter group, which organized the rally.

In December 2010, City of Buffalo's Mayor Byron W. Brown formally asked the Buffalo - Niagara Partnership to organize and manage a group of experienced business leaders and economic development professionals to make recommendations to build on The Queen City Hub Planand improve the competitiveness of downtown Buffalo.

Cuomo said he tapped Timothy Cardinal Dolan to organize an interfaith group of religious leaders and congregations to highlight the commonalities in the different faiths.

Researchers from the Perelman School of Medicine at the University of Pennsylvania, in partnership with ORGANIZE — a non-for-profit organization based in New York which leverages health data to end the organ donor shortage by applying smarter technologies, utilizing social media, building more creative partnerships, and advocating for data - driven policies — The Bridgespan Group — a global nonprofit organization that collaborates with mission - driven leaders, organizations, and philanthropists to break cycles of poverty and dramatically improve the quality of life for those in need — and Gift of Life Donor Program — an OPO which serves the eastern half of Pennsylvania, southern New Jersey, and Delaware — evaluated the metrics and criteria used to measure OPOs across the country, and found significant discrepancies in how potential donors are evaluated and identified.

In a series of seminars led by Harvard Graduate School of Education faculty Richard Murnane, Kathryn Boudett, and Elizabeth City, the group developed an eight - step Data Wise cycle as a means to help school leaders organize the work of school improvement around a process that has specific, manageable steps.

The Scope of this project is to: - Provide seed funding and support pilot implementation of ideas resulting from the June 2014 design workshop on improving outcomes for babies in foster care; - Launch pilots of co-designed strategies for working collaboratively with parents in creating daily, regularized family routines in four sites and evaluate executive function skills, child development, child literacy and parental stress levels of participants pre -, during, and post-intervention; - Build a core group of leaders to help set the strategic direction for Frontiers of Innovation (FOI) and take on leadership for parts of the portfolio; - With Phil Fisher at the University of Oregon and Holly Schindler at the University of Washington develop a measurement and data collection framework and infrastructure in order to collect data from FOI - sponsored pilots and increase cross-site and cross-strategy learning; Organize Building Adult Capabilities Working Group to identify, measure and develop strategies related to executive function and emotional regulation for adults facing high levels of adversity and produce summary report in the fall of 2014 that reviews the knowledge base in this area and implications for intervention, including approaches that impact two generatgroup of leaders to help set the strategic direction for Frontiers of Innovation (FOI) and take on leadership for parts of the portfolio; - With Phil Fisher at the University of Oregon and Holly Schindler at the University of Washington develop a measurement and data collection framework and infrastructure in order to collect data from FOI - sponsored pilots and increase cross-site and cross-strategy learning; Organize Building Adult Capabilities Working Group to identify, measure and develop strategies related to executive function and emotional regulation for adults facing high levels of adversity and produce summary report in the fall of 2014 that reviews the knowledge base in this area and implications for intervention, including approaches that impact two generatGroup to identify, measure and develop strategies related to executive function and emotional regulation for adults facing high levels of adversity and produce summary report in the fall of 2014 that reviews the knowledge base in this area and implications for intervention, including approaches that impact two generations.

He organizes and supports a group of state education leaders called Chiefs for Change; and, with former West Virginia governor Bob Wise, he's pressing another initiative, Digital Learning Now!

She already had the class organized into groups, and she already had leaders for each group.

Dan Leeds is the founder and president of the National Public Education Support Fund, which organizes the Education Funder Strategy Group and international study tours of high performing education systems for policy makers, practitioners, business executives and philanthropic leaders.

The groups organized by Hunt developed a «messaging tool kit» that included sample letters to the editor, op - ed pieces that could be tailored to individuals depending on whether they were teachers, parents, business executives or civil rights leaders.

The multiple linkages model asserts a prominent role for «situational variables» — the size of the work group, organizational policies and procedures, the prior training and experience of members — which mediate what the leader is able to do.131 For example, the size of the school will have a significant effect on how well teachers know other teachers; it also will affect the way in which teachers form workgroups or departments to talk about their work.132 The fragmented nature of professional communities, rather than size per se, becomes a constraint on how principals try to organize professional communities to focus on instruction and student learning.

The role of the leader is to organize the work; help provide the resources; push to ensure that the group stays focused on the mathematics; help them work together and mediate the tensions that arise from conflicting views on how the lesson should proceed; and ask questions to make sure the lesson «hangs together» and that the mathematics is correct.

The school leaders you invite can organize the classes as well, and of course, you can add classes or groups at any time.

Leaders of the Recovery School District organized the meetings, originally invitation - only, as that state agency decides which groups will land space in the seven schools RSD runs in north Baton Rouge.

Along with a detailed explanation of each indicator area, the guide explains how the Framework can help different audiences advance the work of community organizing for school reform: for foundation program officers, through learning how to recognize and understand the accomplishments of community organizing groups; for educators, through appreciating how community organizing can complement their efforts and what it can accomplish that is outside the realm of professional educators; and for organizers and leaders, through gaining a vocabulary for describing their achievements and criteria for assessing their work.

In - person workshops («group trainings») can be organized by school leaders, green building advocates and practitioners, or anyone interested in empowering schools to improve their learning environments.

I like taking photos of wildlife, writing, reading, traveling, (sometimes cooking), hanging out with friends, organizing HSP Trait Workshops and Discussion Groups, and later participating in the newly forming «Global Cooperative for Sensitive Leaders».

A definitive, step - by - step guide to starting your own book club, written by a professional reading group leader who has organized and lead groups - face - to - face and even on - line - for over twenty years.

Juan Saldana from Descubre Tijuana organized a jam packed couple days for a group of San Diego travel writers that included the two leaders of the San Diego chapter of travel massive — Elaine Masters — who was also my guest on Eps # 13 and founder of the blog Trip Wellness and Katherine Belarmino, founder of the blog Travel the World and a co-founder of the Passports and Cocktails blog.

Group experiences with companies such as these allow new digital nomads to sit back and relax as the program leader organizes lodging, travel details, and experiences.

Jerome Ringo (The Apollo Alliance & NWF)- Jerome Ringo is chairman of the board of the National Wildlife Federation, the first African American in such a leadership position at a major national environmental group and was recently named president of the Apollo Alliance, a coalition of organized labor, environmental, business and civil rights leaders determined to free the United States of dependence on foreign oil.

This week, leaders from all the major countries and cities have been gathering at a semi-annual event, Better Air Quality» 08, organized by the Clean Air Initiative for Asian Cities, a group recently spun off from the Asian Development Bank.

People in my hometown really threw down to make sure this would never be built, as did so many inspiring groups I've organized with and frontline communities leaders I've learned so much from.

The CCL volunteers included Susan Bizeau, the founding member and first Group Leader of Southern Oregon CCL, Sherrill Rinehart, the current Group Leader of southern Oregon CCL, and Forrest Roth, who organized this Grant Pass event.

As we call upon political leaders to make stronger climate action commitments, we must also support and reinforce the efforts of migrant justice groups that have been organizing for years to improve Canada's refugee inclusion policies.

The session is organized by a unit of the LMA called the chief marketing officer's special interest group — a select gathering of more senior decision makers in leading law firms — and is open to senior in - house marketing and business development leaders of law firms and other professional services firms.

Managing partners and members of executive committees in the more financially and professionally successful law firms that are organized into substantive departments and / or practice groups for the delivery of legal services strongly support the concept of having practice leaders assume a major role in their firm's efforts to: (1) increase the productivity levels of all timekeepers within their practices, (2) increase the economic contribution of their practices to the firm and (3) assume primary responsibility for communications to and from members of their practices about firm economics, priorities and business issues, as well as practice growth and client development initiatives.

The group leader can arrange organized tours or a tour agent can take on the job.

Creating scheduling and providing guidance to group leaders and counselors, as well as organizing meetings and daily goals

Learned how to be an effective team leader, organize groups efficiently, and developed great interpersonal skills.