Sentences with phrase «advocacy organizations use»

Animal advocacy organizations use undercover1 investigations, sometimes just referred to as investigations, to document animal abuse and raise awareness of various forms of suffering and injustice against animals.

Animal advocacy organizations use online advertisements, sometimes referred to as veg ads or just online ads, to inspire viewers to adopt more animal - friendly behaviors and attitudes.

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«Li & Fung claims to be monitoring factory conditions, but they don't publicly release their investigation reports or even the full list of the factories they use, so it's impossible for independent organizations to assess the effectiveness of their monitoring,» said Tim Connor, a former labor rights advocacy coordinator for Oxfam.

Detailed profiles created with users» information can be used by government agencies to identify surveillance targets, by financial service companies to determine creditworthiness, and by businesses and other organizations (including advocacy groups and political campaigns), which can target people with advertisements and marketing campaigns tailored to their profiles.

CIFF has indicated a significant interest in funding up to 50 % of Living Goods» costs for 2015 - 2018, with the condition that Living Goods raises approximately $ 1 for every $ 1 CIFF contributes.152 Regardless of CIFF's decision, Living Goods is actively seeking funding from new and existing donors to fill its funding gap and plans to use these funds to support scaling up in Uganda and its partnerships and advocacy team's efforts to help organizations replicate the model in other places.153

According to a post on the Facebook Business blog, the site has been working with experts in privacy, data ethics and civil rights, along with charitable and advocacy organizations, to keep advertisers from misusing Facebook's ad targeting capabilities, specifically the ability to discriminate by using exclusion targeting.

As with any employee advocacy software, when you turn on a tool, a lot of people use it at first, but then quickly fall out of the program, unless the organization implements thoughtful reinforcement that creates clear benefits to the employees.

Through online petitions created by The Humane Society of the United States and consumer advocacy organization SumOfUs, a quarter million people have urged Tyson Foods, the world's second - largest meat processor and major pork supplier, to develop plans for ending the use of gestation crate confinement of pigs in its supply chain.

Our hope is to have the U.S. government, in partnership with the many stakeholders in the food system, including producers, manufacturers, retailers, non-profits and food advocacy groups, faith organizations as well as leaders from state, tribal, and local government, join in using the Call to Action as an opportunity to further individual and collective actions on preventing food waste.

Check out this great use of Google Maps for advocacy, sent in by anti-political-robocall activist and social media enthusiast Shaun Dakin — it takes the contents of his organization's robocall database and displays them visually through a Maps interface, making them easy to browse through and to take in at a glance.

But earlier this year, several of the e-advocacy consulting firms and service providers released a joint study of the use of email for advocacy, communications and fundraising by nonprofit organizations.

I don't expect nonprofits, community groups, advocacy organizations and political campaigns to force themselves into an ideal world where everyone uses open - source tools because it's the Right Thing To Do.

Good advice from our friend Laura Packard at PowerThru Consulting on how organizations and campaigns can use online advocacy to build their lists.

Using his more than ten years of experience at the cutting edge of online advocacy and communications, Colin Delany will help you to craft a web - based strategy to retool your campaign or organization for the 21st century.

Specializing in online advocacy and its integration with other communications channels and with action in the real world, he helps organizations and campaigns use the internet to build support, spread messaging, influence Congress and other decision - makers, raise money, get votes and motivate people to act on their behalf.

Twitter as Campaign Tool The increased use of Twitter by political office holders, candidates, and issue advocacy organizations and campaigns was arguably the most important — if not hyped — advancement in digital politics in 2009.

E-Voter Institute is the only non-partisan organization with the express mission of promoting the use of online tools in political and advocacy campaigns.

The Collactive folks claim that their system will be easier to use than existing advocacy solutions and also imply that it will be cheaper for sponsoring organizations to install.

Check out this great use of Google Maps for advocacy, sent in by anti-political-robocall activist and social media enthusiast Shaun Dakin — it takes the contents of his organization's robocall database and displays them visually through a Maps interface, making them easy to browse...

Why is taxpayer money being used to fund a private 501 (c)(4) organization, NYAGV, which engages in political advocacy and lobbying at the state and local level?

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

The class - action lawsuit was brought against the TLC by two people who use wheelchairs and advocacy organizations.

A coalition of environmental and advocacy organizations and Assembly members met via conference call on Thursday to express their dismay over the approval by the New York State Environmental Facilities Corporation to use, for the first time, clean water funds for a transportation project.

The resolution goes on to criticize «firearms ownership advocacy organizations» like the NRA, claiming that the groups «have irresponsibly pushed to make the use of firearms an accepted response to anger and fear» and «recklessly advocated the use of firearms as a simplistic answer to an array of social problems.»

The African Heights Foundation is a not - for - profit organization, based in Accra, Ghana, dedicated to using the tools of education, advocacy and civic participation to raise leaders and active citizens excelling in various sectors of society in Ghana and Africa.

The Union of Concerned Scientists, an advocacy organization, estimated that almost 42 percent of U.S. households are already in a position to use electric vehicles based on their access to power sources and parking space, and their current travel patterns.

«That means there would be tremendous benefit to patient advocacy groups, health care organizations, providers and policymakers working together to develop clear guidelines and policies around the responsible, positive use of open recordings.»

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

This piece limits its focus to three organizations that use parent mobilization and advocacy to catalyze district sector and charter sector reform: Parent Revolution, Education Reform Now, and Stand for Children.

Although an advocacy organization may have an incentive to understate the strength of these laws, it is unlikely that any overall downward bias would create problems for our assessment of states relative to one another (and, in fact, these scores have been used in a number of other scholarly studies).

Manna uses the concept of «policy entrepreneurship» to examine the characteristics and priorities of many of the newly formed education advocacy organizations in the US, how they operate and influence policy, and factors associated with their success.

The league, one of the oldest pro-public education advocacy organizations in the United States, uses its annual affair at the AASA national conference to install new officers and board members for the coming year.

Effective group advocacy requires individuals to be knowledgeable, organize, define goals and objectives, understand the organization and structure of the local school system, use existing local and state systems, be committed, and be persistent and patient.

Charles uses his expertise as an educational justice organizer, strategist, advocate, and fundraiser to support Education Cities» member organizations with their approaches to community engagement and advocacy, with a special emphasis on lifting up the voices and influence of the parents and families most impacted by educational inequity.

As states transition from No Child Left Behind to using their new authority under ESSA, Anne Wicks and William McKenzie of the George W. Bush Institute write in The 74 that it is critical for all stakeholders — federal officials, advocacy organizations, and policymakers — provide proper oversight to...

Local Control Funding Formula: Led by Governor Jerry Brown (D) and advocacy organizations such as Children Now, California enacted a historic Local Control Funding Formula (LCFF) in 2013 that targets considerable resources to high - need students and enables far greater local discretion over the use of funds.

As states transition from No Child Left Behind to using their new authority under ESSA, Anne Wicks and William McKenzie of the George W. Bush Institute write in The 74 that it is critical for all stakeholders — federal officials, advocacy organizations, and policymakers — provide proper oversight to make sure states «implement their plans with fidelity and support the education leaders who use accountability as a key tool to help all kids achieve.»

The LEE fellowship provided me with an opportunity to work with an organization that would allow me to become more familiar with both of these and to see how people are using policy and advocacy to influence life in the classroom.

Primary Function of Organizational Unit: The College of Education is a learning centered organization that prepares educational and human service leaders who create, use, and share knowledge on equity, access, and advocacy in local, national, and global communities.

Our intern will have the opportunity to get in on the ground floor of building an effective membership and advocacy organization through the use of a wide variety of communications tools.

DQC is an advocacy organization based in Washington, DC, working to ensure that students, parents, educators, and policymakers have access to high - quality education data and the tools to use this information to improve student achievement.

«It's really hard to say exactly how much your credit score is going to affect your premiums, because every insurance company uses this score differently,» says Bob Hunter, former Texas Insurance Commissioner and current director of insurance at the D.C. - based Consumer Federation of America, a consumer advocacy organization.

Animal industry use organizations also have emphasized for years that HSUS does not provide significant funding to local humane societies, but the HSUS incorporated purpose was always to conduct advocacy at the national level.

We use the term corporate outreach to refer to any campaign where an activist or animal advocacy organization seeks to directly influence the behavior of a corporation.

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The framework of assessment they have described to us includes important concerns such as opportunity costs, supporting the animal advocacy movement, and alignment with Open Cages» overall strategy.132 Their assessment process also involves asking important questions related to measuring success and failure, such as how they plan to evaluate the program, how long they plan to pilot it, and whether they already have data indicating that they should rethink their strategy.133 Metrics that they use to help evaluate specific programs include the number of restaurants that agree to provide vegan meals in response to their restaurant outreach, as well as the amount and overall sentiment of right - wing press discussion of their legal initiatives.134, 135 These metrics provide useful information, but we think an organization prioritizing among many different interventions could benefit from the use of metrics that are more directly related to their ultimate goals, rough estimates though they may be.

Adam Sugalski — executive director of OneProtest, a Florida - based advocacy organization perhaps best known for its high - profile, successful effort to help halt the Florida bear hunt — recalls how he first stepped into the role of advocate when, as a professional artist, he was invited to a circus protest and realized the appearance of the signs and other materials used at that demonstration could be made sharper, and more effective.

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