Sentences with phrase «sna leadership»

It was a move that clearly rattled the SNA leadership: within just 24 hours of my posting the letter, the board sent an «urgent message» to its entire 55,000 member base urging them not to sign it.

Former SNA President Dorothy Caldwell, who has been on the front lines of child nutrition for 37 years, said she is worried SNA leadership has been «naive» in its approach, allowing the National School Lunch Program to be unnecessarily politicized as it was during Newt Gingrich's effort to block the grant program during the Clinton administration, when she was a USDA official.

This invitation - only event provides the opportunity for those members serving in SNA leadership positions the chance to come together and discuss the future of the Association.

It doesn't appear that SNA leadership is supportive of dissenting opinions from members.

The SNA leadership has a loud megaphone, to be sure, but it's unclear to what degree the association's rank - and - file members agree with it.

Finally we headed off to the first general session, where we were reacquainted with SNA leadership — including a fabulous group of past presidents!

Not exact matches

I don't think we can achieve this goal without SNA, and Jean Ronnei's move into the leadership role is a giant step in the right direction.

There are many ways that the SNA's leadership could have proceeded when some school districts had difficulties implementing the standards.

«I think it's really cool that SNA is interested in improving leadership skills.

Nineteen past SNA presidents took the extraordinary step in May of breaking with the association's leadership by writing their own open letter to Congress urging it to stay the course on healthier school food.

SNA's leadership employs a public relations staff and a high - powered lobbying firm to make its views known, so we created the open letter to offer any interested SNA members a mechanism to express their concerns about those views.

Times political reporter Nicholas Confessore does an excellent job of exploring the factors leading to this stunning reversal, which include a recent change in SNA's leadership, its choice of a new lobbying firm and its decision to use more aggressive legislative tactics to advance its agenda on Capitol Hill.

If you are a current or former SNA member who believes your leadership is on the wrong track, please take a moment to sign and share this letter.

You say that you DID ask SNA's leadership to seek more funding from Congress, but clearly your voice wasn't heard as this is not the approach SNA chose.

I feel I have every right to assist the many SNA members who do not agree with their leadership's request for waivers and nutritional roll - backs.

And in October, I and fellow advocate Nancy Huehnergarth created an open letter to allow rank - and - file SNA members who also disagree with their leadership to express their views publicly.

Within 24 hours of our release of this letter, however, the SNA's leadership sent an «urgent message» to all 55,000 of its members pressuring them not to sign.

If you're a local or state SNA chapter leader, don't miss this annual interactive, informative and fun event featuring topics such as developing a strong leadership team, planning effective and engaging meetings, building membership and more.

But not all SNA members agree with their leadership.

The organization's stunning about - face was examined in depth in a New York Times story last fall; the factors leading to the reversal include a recent change in SNA's leadership and its choice of a new lobbying firm.

Each year, SNA's top leadership works with staff to establish an Annual Plan of strategies and tactics to meet the goals and objectives set out in its multi-year Strategic Plan, which identifies four core areas:

Houston is also a longtime, active member of SNA, and has held numerous leadership positions, including Southwest Regional Director and President of Texas SNA; again, Jody credits Applebaum's influence, saying:

At a 2012 SNA meeting, a Schwan executive and other industry advocates pushed for the group's leadership to be more aggressive in asking for changes in the school lunch program, according to a person who witnessed the exchange but requested anonymity because he was not authorized to talk about it.

The winning candidates for the Board of Directors will be installed this summer during SNA's Annual National Conference (ANC) in Las Vegas, Nevada, and will serve under the leadership of incoming President Gay Anderson, SNS.

New leadership was elected for the SNA Board of Directors and the Leadership Development Committee.

Each year, SNA's top leadership works with staff to establish an Annual Plan of strategies and tactics to meet the goals and objectives set out in its multi-year Strategic Plan, which identifies four core areas: