Sentences with phrase «advocacy efforts now»

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Now, in his role at Starbucks, he works on a range of veterans» efforts including the Military Family Store Program, military - focused benefits programs, partnerships with veteran service organizations and veteran advocacy and campaigns.

This advocacy effort appears to be gaining even more momentum than the movement to release Church of Iran pastor Youcef Nadarkhani (which CT covered regularly), especially now that 80 members of Congress «from both parties signed a Feb. 12 letter urging Secretary of State John Kerry to «exhaust every possible option to secure Mr. Abedini's immediate release.»»

The organization began as a parent - led effort more than 60 years ago and is now one of the Bay Area's most respected nonprofit organizations, dedicated to improving the quality of life of the people it serves through life skills training, community integration, advocacy and referral information.

And the governor donated the more than $ 110,000 he received in campaign contributions from disgraced Hollywood executive Harvey Weinstein to Women's Justice NOW, NOW - NYC's charitable partner organization that supports public education and outreach efforts and offers legal advocacy and referrals for women.

But since ESEA reauthorization is now overdue by the age of a third grader, with lots of false starts along the way, stakeholders haven't known when to ramp up and focus their advocacy efforts.

The Texas Charter School Association (TCSA) is excited about an important new development for 2016: We have taken bold action to bring new momentum to our advocacy efforts and authorized the creation of a new, affiliate organization: Charter Schools Now, a 501 (c)(4) non-profit corporation.

After a brief mention from Dunn about the on - going work of Charter Schools Now, the 501 (c)(4), Veronica Garcia, the Vice President of Government and Public Affairs, gave an overview of TCSA's advocacy efforts including city - based regional grassroots coalitions, legislative engagement, parent / advocate trainings, and communications.

ConnCAN, the charter school advocacy group that was set up by Achievement First, Inc., the charter school management company, which was created by Connecticut education commissioner Stefan Pryor and his «education reform» colleagues, now reports that they actually spent half a million dollars in their recent effort to pass the «reform» legislation proposed by Governor Malloy and Commissioner Pryor.

Democrats for Education Reform (DFER) is known as one of the most anti-union, anti-teacher «education reform» advocacy groups in the country and, according to a recent job posting, they are now «looking for a dynamic and «jack of all trades» state director to lead its CT expansion efforts.

Education Reform Advocacy Now Inc. is part of the massive three - headed corporate education reform behemoth that includes Education Reform Advocacy Now, Inc.; Education Reform Now, Inc. and Democrats for Education Reform, the related Political Action Committee that donates directly to pro-corporate education reform candidates and supports opponents of candidates who don't support the reformer's efforts to turn schools into little more than testing factories, while diverting scarce public funds away from real public schools and redirecting them to privately owned charter schools.

As a result of our advocacy efforts, we now meet regularly with members of the state department of education, and they have been extremely supportive of our work toward revising the Social Studies Framework.

These and many subsequent advocacy and technical activities focused on the now - successful effort to get auto manufacturers to begin mass producing plug - in vehicles.

Now, in order to «present a unified solar industry voice in all advocacy efforts at the state level,» the Solar Energy Industries Associations (SEIA) and the Solar Alliance officially merged on January 3rd.

In this capacity for seven years, she has launched and now leads advocacy efforts on U.S. leadership in international reproductive health and rights, linking the work in Washington, D.C. to advocacy work in Africa and Latin America.

Based in part on your advocacy efforts, the USDA newly - ineligible area maps for Rural Development Single Family Housing and Multi-Family Housing programs have been adjusted and would now expand eligibility for these programs in Montgomery County.