Sentences with phrase «advocacy organizations changing»

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Roth says the advocacy group has completely changed the organization.

In recognition of National Breastfeeding Month (NBM), each year the USBC hosts a social media advocacy and / or outreach campaign inviting breastfeeding coalitions, member / partner organizations, and individual supporters to join online actions and conversations to build support for the policy and practice changes needed to build a «landscape of breastfeeding support.»

Nasima focuses on collation building and utilizing capacity building technologies and tools to make midwifery advocacy organizations stronger, more effective and able to create the change needed in our broken maternity care system.

The Internet Advocacy Center was launched in partnership with turner4D in 2005 to provide leading edge digital and social media consulting to advocacy groups, media outlets and other organizations seeking to leverage online channels to change policy and public awAdvocacy Center was launched in partnership with turner4D in 2005 to provide leading edge digital and social media consulting to advocacy groups, media outlets and other organizations seeking to leverage online channels to change policy and public awadvocacy groups, media outlets and other organizations seeking to leverage online channels to change policy and public awareness.

If Care2 and Change are any indication, creating a platform for advocacy and political groups to pay to run petitions is a good business model — petition - signers can opt - in to the sponsoring organization's list, and many advocacy groups and political campaigns on the Left have found Care2 and Change to be extremely cost - effective ways to recruit supporters.

The event is organized by a trio of transit advocacy organizations: Riders Alliance, New York Communities for Change and the NYPIRG Straphangers Campaign.

Nonprofit organizations increasingly use social media as an essential communications and advocacy tool for policy and social change.

The ad is being paid for by the two liberal advocacy organizations: Progressive Change Committee and Democracy for America.

As 2015 winds down, we're grateful to the dedicated volunteers and advocacy organizations who achieved victories in many areas, the Fight for $ 15, climate change, prison and sentencing reform among them.

While environmental advocacy organizations have taken credit for prompting these changes at some of the world's top banks, the shift coincides with crashing commodity prices in oil, coal and natural gas markets worldwide.

McDowell foresees two groups working in the organization: «one that is effecting advocacy and communication between junior scientists and the rest of the community; and another that is working with data about the system and driving evidence - based policy changes.»

«Sometimes they produce gas just to burn it and get some CDM money, and it's not at all an honest way of behaving,» said Chaim Nissim, an engineer with Noe21, a Geneva - based climate change advocacy organization that has researched carbon offsetting projects at industrial gas companies.

EWG is the nation's most effective environmental nonprofit advocacy organization and uses game - changing research...

Ms. Glickstein is on the Board of Project Kesher, a women's advocacy organization creating sustainable change in building civil society in Russia, Ukraine, Belarus, Moldova, and Georgia.

About Blog - The Sink or Swim Project is an educational and advocacy organization focused on climate change and sea level rise in Miami and around the world Frequency - about 2 posts per month Since - Feb 2015

Ironically, the advocacy and organizing approach of these organizations mirrors the early work of the PTA, which was part of a nascent progressive political reform movement that changed the world of child welfare and children's education programs.

Advocacy Groups Empower Parents to Act as Catalysts for School Reform A growing number of nonprofit organizations bypass PTAs to force change in public education

Before arriving at Edutopia, Nora was the editorial director at Fenton, a social change communications firm, where she worked across the agency managing content and multimedia projects for leading foundations, nonprofits, and advocacy organizations.

Whether you are leaving here to begin or return to teaching; to become a school leader or to start a school, to work in federal, state or local government; to be a counselor, to work in an advocacy organization; to work here in the U.S. or abroad, to work in higher ed, preK, or an ed tech start up; you will some day soon change the world.

People for the American Way, a national civil - liberties advocacy group founded by the television producer Norman Lear, began working to have the procedures changed last year after it was denied the opportunity to testify in favor of textbooks criticized by Mel and Norma Gabler of Education Research Analysts, a nonprofit organization...

Tran spoke at Wednesday's public meeting on behalf of Children Now, a nonprofit advocacy organization that was part of a coalition that had sent a letter to the state board before the meeting asking for «greater transparency» in the process of changing the dashboard.

We believe that change can happen when we harness the collective influence and voices of a diverse group of civil rights and education advocacy organizations across the state.

The organization has scored some huge advocacy wins at the state legislature in recent years to benefit charter schools including changes to zoning laws, impact fees, property taxes and the transferring of academic credits between charters and districts.

As the state's leading charter school advocacy and support organization, GCSA commissioned these Impact Papers to illuminate the ways that charters are changing the educational landscape in Georgia:

But the Connecticut Coalition for Justice in Education Funding, a statewide coalition of municipalities, local boards of education, education associations, unions, pro-education advocacy organizations, parents, public schoolchildren and taxpayers, are working to change that once and for all.

«With the support of Mitsubishi Motors we are able to fund cutting - edge research, drive change through advocacy, facilitating professional education, collaborate with MS organizations around the world, and provide programs and services designed to help people with MS and their families move their lives forward,» said Richard Israel, President of the National MS Society.

This issue explores advocacy through coalitions and how teaming up with other organizations and stakeholders can affect real change for school librarians.

Margaret Gates Root is the founder of the Feline Nutrition Foundation, a non-profit advocacy and educational organization dedicated to changing how people feed cats.

New York — Pets Alive, one of the nation's oldest and largest no kill animal rescue and advocacy organizations has officially launched Pets Alive Puerto Rico a rescue project that is working with residents in moving the local culture towards progressive and lasting permanent change in the humane treatment of animals.

Our collaboration with animal advocacy organizations, rescue groups, conservation organizations, and government agencies are aimed at bringing about social, legislative, and public - policy changes that will improve the lives of captive birds and help protect birds in the wild.

After years of researching the Korean dog meat trade with the long - term intention of bringing it to an end, she'd recently co-founded the Change For Animals Foundation, a small international animal welfare organization that works to create positive and lasting change for animals throughout the world through research, advocacy, campaigns, and strategic partnerships with other like - mindedChange For Animals Foundation, a small international animal welfare organization that works to create positive and lasting change for animals throughout the world through research, advocacy, campaigns, and strategic partnerships with other like - mindedchange for animals throughout the world through research, advocacy, campaigns, and strategic partnerships with other like - minded NGOs.

TAPS teaches the public about spay / neuter and other animal issues; advocates for animals through the Animal Law Guild, a think tank of attorneys and law students whose mission is to change the world for animals through legal advocacy; protects animals in any way they can; and supports other like - minded organizations to help save as many lives as possible.

Pertschuk is the Director of a small advocacy organization called Grassroots Change.

WASHINGTON, DC — Vote Hemp, the nation's leading grassroots hemp advocacy organization working to change state and federal laws to allow commercial hemp farming, has released a statement in response to the undue and wrongful raid of industrial hemp crops on the sovereign land of the Menominee Indian Tribe by the Drug Enforcement Administration, which occurred Friday October 23, 2015.

The Citizens» Climate Lobby is a non-profit, non-partisan, grassroots advocacy organization focused on national policies to address climate change.

Both Romm and advocacy organizations such as Media Matters for America raise their financial support and define their professional roles as watch dogging the mainstream media, asserting that consistent false balance in mainstream coverage at leading outlets such as the NY Times or the Washington Post remains a major barrier to political action on climate change and that conservative media like Fox News have a powerful impact on wider public opinion.

Response (2 - 11): The implication that the credibility of IPCC's statement on African crop yields is diminished because the IPCC's source (Agoumi, 2003) for the statement was published by an advocacy organization or an organization with a «declared political interest in climate change» is unsupported.

Citizens» Climate Lobby is a non-profit, non-partisan, grassroots advocacy organization focused on climate change.

Shortly thereafter, and with help from Cohen Milstein, Walker issued a sweeping, overly broad and sloppily drafted subpoena that demanded any and all communications between ExxonMobil and no less than 90 different think tanks, non-profits and «and any other organizations engaged in research or advocacy concerning Climate Change or policies.»

«Of all the states in the United States, Alaska's certainly on the front lines [of climate change] as the only state in the Arctic,» said Bob Shavelson, the advocacy director for Inlet Keeper, an environmental organization based along Alaska's Cook Inlet, to Earther.

Oil Change International is a research, communications, and advocacy organization focused on exposing the true costs of fossil fuels and facilitating the coming transition towards clean energy.

WASHINGTON, DC — Vote Hemp, the nation's leading grassroots hemp advocacy organization working to change state and federal laws to allow commercial hemp farming, has released final estimates of the size of the 2016 U.S. retail market for hemp products.

«If the cap is above what power plants are emitting, we won't see any change in their behavior,» said Derek K. Murrow, director of policy analysis for Environment Northeast, a nonprofit research and advocacy organization.

WASHINGTON, D.C. - Vote Hemp, the nation's leading grassroots hemp advocacy organization working to change state and federal laws to allow commercial hemp farming, has successfully worked with the National Conference of State Legislatures (NCSL) to secure the inclusion of a pro-hemp farming position in the conference's permanent agriculture policy.

Oil Change International is a research, communication, and advocacy organization focused on exposing the true costs of fossil fuels and facilitating the coming transition towards clean energy.

GM vehicle buyers have posted online comments objecting to the GM Foundation's gifts of $ 30,000 in the past two years to the Heartland Institute, a free - market advocacy organization that publicizes its disagreement with prevailing scientific views about evidence of climate change.

It should not surprise that advocacy organization IPCC would use advocacy press WWF and Greenpeace to push their climate change policy agenda.

In essence, SLAPPs are lawsuits, or the threat of a lawsuit, directed against individuals or organizations, in order to silence and deter their public criticisms and advocacy for change.

Today, after years of advocacy by HIV, disability and migrant rights organizations, the Minister of Immigration, Refugees, and Citizenship announced changes to the rules that exclude would - be residents of Canada based on projected «excessive demand» on health and social services.

John Pollock: The Public Justice Center is an impact advocacy organization based in Maryland that works to bring litigation and legislative efforts that will affect change at the systemic level in Maryland, and it works on a number of different fronts.