Sentences with phrase «advocacy strategies which»

Ann Cook and Phyllis Tashlik of the New York Standards Consortium discuss the challenges persented to performanced - based assessment by the New York State Department of Education, Steve Jubb of BayCES talks about how to create alliances to change district policies and Albuquerque's Amy Biel High School details their communication and advocacy strategies which have helped them meet stragic legislative goals.

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The Proxy Preview 2015 report was produced via collaboration between As You Sow, a nonprofit organization that promotes corporate responsibility through shareholder advocacy and innovative legal strategies; the Sustainable Investments Institute (Si2), which conducts impartial research on social and environmental share - holder proposals; and Proxy Impact, a shareholder advocacy and proxy voting service for foundations, endowments and socially responsible investors.

So, one of the pieces of the project I was working on this week (which is different from the project I was working on LAST week) was to put together a quick online advocacy strategy overview for a website I'm designing and spec» ing out (another company is building it in Drupal).

Last week, a coalition of biomedical research advocacy groups and a Washington, D.C. — based think tank released a report outlining a number of strategies for sustaining the more than $ 30 billion budget of the National Institutes of Health (NIH), which provides about one - half of all U.S. funding for basic research.

Pollitt will oversee NSBA's Federal Advocacy & Public Policy group which develops policies and strategies to secure legislation and regulations that enhance public education and support more than 50 million students in public schools.

Bloomberg's long - time chief adviser is now in charge of political strategy for the charter advocacy group called Families for Excellent Schools, the entity that is paying for the pro-charter school television ads that have been running in Connecticut and the group that organized the recent pro-charter school rally at the State Capital in Hartford... the one in which charter schools students and parents were bused in from as far away as New York and Boston.

FES and Success, which work in tandem on advocacy issues, paused their collective rally strategy last winter after they showed diminishing policy returns.

Pollitt will oversee NSBA's Federal Advocacy & Public Policy group which develops policies and strategies...

Training staff, interns, and volunteers is a key part of THL's strategy of helping to grow the animal advocacy movement by increasing the number of committed, trained, animal advocates.189 THL has large and structured volunteer, intern, and campus outreach programs designed in part to help participants become better advocates ready for positions of greater responsibility.190, 191 THL also tries to promote professional development among staff through structured training for managers and opportunities to attend relevant conferences and trainings.192 THL tells us that they try to promote from within as much as possible, and we have observed this in several cases.193 In our conversations with staff, we heard that while staff, interns, and volunteers all have opportunities for training and skill development, such opportunities tend to be much less structured for staff and more reliant on the staff member to take the initiative, which may lead to less overall growth.194

Effective WTO advocacy requires, in addition to a comprehensive knowledge of WTO law, an understanding of the multilateral institutional context in which WTO dispute settlement occurs, the ability to devise effective strategies within a system that does not allow for monetary or retrospective remedies, and the capacity to present arguments in a manner which WTO adjudicators (who are drawn from a wide variety of professional backgrounds and legal cultures) will find convincing.