Sentences with phrase «members of advocacy groups»

You can ask people to serve as liaisons for individual schools (ideally, there would be a liaison at every school in the district) or as subcommittee members of your advocacy group.

«Based on their track record, those proposals will include cutting pensions and destroying collective bargaining rights and cutting salaries,» said Julio López Varona, a member of advocacy group Hedge Clippers.

Martínez, who is a member of the advocacy group Make the Road New York (MRNY), said that the elderly and the sick figure among the most vulnerable on the U.S. territory devastated by Hurricane Maria.

«When a rent stabilized tenant moves out of an apartment, through the eviction bonus and preferential rent, which I have, the rent skyrockets,» said Cora Perceval, a member of advocacy group Tenants and Neighbors.

Members of advocacy group Save Inwood Library, which has organized numerous protests against the plan, were in attendance.

«Today, we're calling on Mayor de Blasio and Governor Cuomo to stop having us beg every year for funding,» said Saundrea Coleman, a resident of Stanley Isaacs Houses and member of the advocacy group Community Voices Heard (CVH).

«Public assistance is not that much money to take care of the family,» said Lee, a member of the advocacy group VOCAL - NY, prior to a City Council committee hearing on the issue Monday.

«We need real housing, permanent housing that's actually affordable to homeless people,» said Lisa Milhouse, a member of advocacy group Picture the Homeless and a resident of one of the affected buildings.

Skandera is a core member of the advocacy group Chiefs for Change, created by Bush in 2008 to highlight leaders of the so - called education reform movement.

Not exact matches

Barden is one of the co-founders of Sandy Hook Promise, an advocacy group started by some of the family members of the shooting victims.

Joy Schoffler, principal of Leverage PR and board member of CFIRA, the crowdfunding industry's advocacy group, says the SEC and Congress members need to be reminded to ignore the naysayers.

Zuckerberg, who has been making political headlines with his political advocacy group, FWD.us, has been lobbying members of Congress to push for comprehensive immigration reform.

Most recently, the advocacy group held a Blockchain Education Day event in Washington, DC, in which members of Congress mingled with representatives from more than 70 leading companies in the blockchain industry to promote the use of new innovations like blockchain and distributed ledger technology.

These Advocacy Groups are made up from leading MNCs in each area plus Committee representatives from our European Chamber of Commerce members.

The recommendation is part of a comment letter signed by 58 people who are, in the words of the petition, «business persons; members of angel groups, trade associations and advocacy groups; partners and associates of venture capital funds; startup founders; individual angel investors; and other persons interested in the health and vibrancy of America's startup ecosystem.»

CNN: Expectations high for first Hindu member of Congress Just days after Democratic Rep. Tulsi Gabbard of Hawaii was sworn in as the first Hindu member of Congress, Hindu American advocacy groups made it clear that they hope Gabbard will help represent the nation's wider Hindu community, on top of her Hawaiian constituents.

People for the American Way, a liberal advocacy group and dedicated Bachmann opponent, resurfaced the petition earlier this month after news that the congresswoman would remain on the high - profile panel despite spearheading a controversial campaign against Muslim members of President Barack Obama's administration last year.

By contacting every congregation in 15 of its 31 member denominations, the NCC Child Advocacy Working Group gained a clearer picture of the role of the church in providing child care.

As of now (hours after the president's tweet), the official defense.gov website says, «Transgender Service members may serve openly, and they can no longer be discharged or otherwise separated from the military solely for being transgender individuals» and «This policy was crafted through a comprehensive and inclusive process that included the leadership of the Armed Services, medical and personnel experts across the Department, transgender Service members, outside medical experts, advocacy groups, and the RAND Corporation.»

«There are a number of Democratic members of Congress who are calling themselves pro-life, but it's hard to do that after voting for healthcare, which was the largest expansion of abortion we've seen,» says Tom Minnery, senior vice president of CitizenLink, a conservative advocacy group connected to Focus on the Family that is also spending money this cycle.

Her organization, an advocacy group representing a growing number of nontheistic Americans, recently conducted a silent poll of members of Congress about their faith and personal beliefs.

Controversy first flared when Mr Lee, a member of the LGBT advocacy group Queer Space, requested a cake featuring Sesame Street puppets Bert and Ernie for a private function marking International Day Against Homophobia.

Controversy first flared when Mr Lee, a member of the LGBT advocacy group Queer Space, ordered a cake featuring Sesame Street puppets Bert and Ernie for a private function marking International Day Against Homophobia.

We are made up of individuals and members from other Chicago area breastfeeding advocacy groups and ILCA affiliates:

«If we want to fix childhood obesity, chocolate milk is just one of the things we need to get rid of,» said Jeff Anderson, a parent of three students at Wolftrap Elementary in Vienna and a member of Real Food for Kids, a Fairfax area advocacy group.

He also serves as a member of the executive committee of the National Fatherhood Leaders Group, which promotes responsible fatherhood policy, research, advocacy and practice.

The group solely exists to serve as a voluntary vigilante assemblage of hard core and die - hard members of the New Patriotic Party to help the party win elections through constant advocacy, research and defence of the traditions and records of the party in the Ghanaian and international media or any other appropriate forum.

Now, plenty of advocacy groups try to get their members and employees active online, and the question of whether NOM's activities cross any lines seems pretty much up in the air, based on what's in the article itself.

We, the members of SAVE NPP NOW, a youth advocacy group within the NPP are scandalized with the unprintable insults which were recently heaped on a female radio presenter by the Member of Parliament for Assin Central, Mr. Kennedy Agyapong.

An new report from an education advocacy group accuses members of the state Senate's eight - member IDC of betraying traditional public schools in exchange for campaign donations from charter school supporters.

At 12:30 p.m., the New York Housing Conference, Rep. Joe Crowley, members of Congress, advocacy groups, and local public housing residents, will hold a press conference to oppose Trump's proposed budget cuts to affordable housing and launch the #TrumpRentHike Calculator, Woodside Houses Park, 50th Street between Newtown Road and Broadway, Woodside, Queens

Advocacy groups, beware: Facebook may not be as welcoming a venue for online activism as you expect: As the number of Facebook members signed up for the «Boycott Target Until They Cease Funding Anti-Gay Politics» page neared 78,000 in recent days, Facebook personnel locked down...

Two members of the billionaire's family are top officers in the 4 - year - old government advocacy group Reclaim New York.

Advocacy groups including No Labels, the National Resources Defense Council and Washington Conservation Voters are current clients, according to Myers, who has also been pitching the service to sitting members of Congress.

But unlike many nonprofits and advocacy groups, OFA has a grassroots base in every state, and they have enough members to actually get a decent showing at events in a lot of districts.

«It's just member items by another name and process,» said Dick Dadey, executive director of Citizens Union, a good government advocacy group.

The announcement, a rally of sorts, included Charles King, the CEO of Housing Works who is also the member of ACT UP New York, an - anti-AIDS advocacy group.

The video, which features IDC Leader Jeff Klein speaking directly into the camera about the eight conference members, comes as the conference is under pressure from liberal advocacy groups to return to the fold of mainline Democrats in the Senate and deliver a working majority for the party.

Elected officials joined in Manhattan Sunday with advocacy group Riders Alliance and Metropolitan Transportation Authority board member Allen Cappelli over the weekend with their eyes on the new state dollars made possible through the 2013 - 14 budget passed last month, which included an increase of more than $ 358 million for transit.

Members of a new advocacy group, Brooklyn Voters Alliance Action, gathered outside Governor Andrew Cuomo's New York City office Tuesday afternoon to deliver a petition urging the governor to take action on voting reforms.

She's also a member of Make the Road Action Fund, a grassroots advocacy group which works among working class Latino communities to promote policy solutions.

Representatives of several good government advocacy groups also joined the Council members at the press conference to promote the plan.

Alan taught the first - ever college course on digital politics (1995), created and built the Center for American Progress's social media program (2007 - 13) and has trained more than 15,000 people across the world in digital & social media strategy, including civil society leaders across the Arab world in 2009; key staff at leading advocacy groups and news media outlets; Members of Congress and their staff; as well as political and business leaders from several countries, including a couple future kings.

At 11 a.m., members of progressive advocacy groups will deliver turkeys stuffed with cash to the Trump building on Wall Street, «highlighting how Trump's tax plan will take massive sums of money from working people to benefit the richest Americans,» 40 Wall St., Manhattan.

At noon, Assemblyman David Weprin, Chair of the Assembly Committee on Correction, will be joined by fellow Elected Officials, members of clergy, and advocacy groups to speak out against the Executive Budget proposal to reduce visitation days for inmates at New York State's maximum - security prisons.

Furlong is an activist from Queens and a founding member of Make Queens Safer, an advocacy group that aims to make the neighborhood's streets secure.

Congressman Serrano Joins Members of NYC Congressional Delegation, Labor and Advocacy Groups to Oppose TPP Fast Track Legislation

Members of several good government, fiscal watchdog and education advocacy groups Wednesday took issue with the bill, saying it benefits mainly rich donors, and violates the separation of church and state.

The Public Interest Advocacy Group has called on the Joe Ghartey committee to make public, the report on its investigation into the bribery allegations made against the Minister of Energy, Boakye Agyarko and some members of Parliament's Appointments Committee.

Day lobbied the County Executives of America, an influential non-partisan advocacy group of which he is a board member, to pass a resolution calling for New York to change its policy of requiring counties to pay for Medicaid