Sentences with phrase «as advocacy which»

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While it's unclear so far which group, exactly, will be leading the charge, Inc. has confirmed the existence of at least one: BayShare, which describes itself as an «advocacy organization in the San Francisco Bay Area whose mission is to make the Bay Area the best place on the planet for sharing.»

Framing the issue as one of self - advocacy — that it's on women alone to lean in and pull themselves up the corporate ladder — absolves employers of their responsibility to create environments in which women are not punished for doing so.

Federal borrowers facing periods of low or no income can also file for Income Based Repayment (IBR) or Pay As You Earn (PAYE), which cap your monthly payments to a percentage of what you earn, not what you owe, according to Gary Carpenter, CPA and Executive Director of National College Advocacy Group, which supplies information regarding student loans.

Rather, it cited something called the Restaurant Opportunities Centers United, which it describes as «an advocacy group focusing on the restaurant industry.»

Robin Silvester served as Chair of the Greater Vancouver Board of Trade in 2016 - 17, a year in which the organization integrated findings of the Greater Vancouver Economic Scorecard 2016 into its advocacy efforts and continued to build on the strength of its four Signature Programs.

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.

After four decades of shareholder advocacy, we are bolstered in the knowledge that as the field of corporate social responsibility which ICCR members helped to promote in the early 1970s continues to evolve, so does the work of our growing coalition of active shareowners as they refine their methodology and design newer and more effective models for corporate engagement.

GFI has a number of expert advisors from a variety of fields, which reflects their strong connections to the fields such as food tech, animal advocacy, and entrepreneurship.

Release International is an advocacy movement on behalf of the persecuted church, formerly known as Christian Mission to the Communist World which is part of the International Christian Association, a global alliance of fifty ministries working among the persecuted church These organisations will often urge readers to write to their MP or the appropriate ambassador to register concern at the way human rights are being flouted.

Speciesism is universally condemned within the animal rights movement (as distinguished from animal welfare advocacy), which holds, in the words of PETA's Ingrid Newkirk, «There is no rational basis for saying that a human being has special rights.

U.S. policy toward Latin America has fluctuated between open support of dictatorships and hostility toward movements of liberation, and advocacy of a «restricted democracy,» in which a limited amount of political space is allowed so long as it does not rock the boat too much internally and in the hemisphere.

As for the «narrow public witness» against which John Murdock rightly cautions, I really don't think «prioritizing» equals «ignoring,» such that to prioritize the defense of religious freedom and the right to life excludes other issues from the Church's social witness and public policy advocacy.

It was not 1776 or 1787 - 89 but the period that followed which led Jon Butler to see Americans Awash in a Sea of Faith, Nathan Hatch to write of The Democratization of American Religion, me to write of the Protestant experience as an advocacy of a Righteous Empire, Robert Handy to describe A Christian America and Mark A. Noll, Nathan 0.

I complained to HR about this and in a meeting with the executive director of the organisation was told what I had practiced was «self - appointed advocacy» which he regarded as a conduct issue and talked of the easiest solution being for me to resign.

Intellectually, there are growing numbers of scientists, technicians, philosophers, and scholars who practice an «advocacy science and scholarship» which challenges head - on conceptions of science, technology, and scholarship as value neutral activities of pure and disinterested elites.

I note this with particular importance because one of the dangers, which, I hope, the ecumenical movement and the churches should avoid, is that of being «sucked» into the glib use of this word as part of the rhetoric of «political advocacy», or as a euphemism for things we do not like or have been opposed to in the past.

This claim is often punctuated by advocacy for rigid, hierarchal gender roles based on stereotypes in which all men are described as being «wired» one way (as providers, leaders, and fighters), and all women are described as being «wired» another way (as followers, nurturers, and homemakers).

They are so wedded to this connection that when President Trump reinstated the Mexico City Policy, which denies American aid to any NGO that provides, counsels, or refers for abortion, or that promotes a change in a country's laws towards permitting access to abortion, not a single NGO (as far as I am aware) agreed to sever its contraception work from its abortion advocacy.

In this area of law, prosecutors work closely with experts in this field as part of a multi-disciplinary team, which includes law enforcement, social services, child advocacy centers, medical and mental health providers, the school system and many other partner agencies.

«We decided to conduct these activities on the occasion of the world food day celebration because we want to generate a strong public opposition against golden rice which we believe is a poison disguised as food,» said Diego Dela Cruz, chairman of the advocacy committee of MASIPAG.

The following principles guide and define our approach to learning and teaching: • Every child is capable and competent • Children learn through play, investigation, inquiry and exploration • Children and adults learn and play in reciprocal relationships with peers, family members, and teachers • Adults recognize the many ways in which children approach learning and relationships, express themselves, and represent what they are coming to know • Process is valued, acknowledged, supported, nurtured and studied • Documentation of learning processes acts as memory, assessment, and advocacy • The indoor and outdoor environments, and natural spaces, transform, inform, and provoke thinking and learning • School is a place grounded in the pursuit of social justice, social responsibility, human dignity and respect for all THE CREFELD SCHOOL 8836 Crefeld Street Philadelphia, PA 19118 215-242-5545 www.crefeld.org 7th - 12th grade The Crefeld School is a small, independent, coeducational school, serving approximately 100 students in grades 7 - 12.

In addition to October 15 begin declared a remembrance day, October is also National Pregnancy and Infant Loss Awareness Month thus making it an excellent time to reflect on your feelings, to do a little something to remember your baby, or to get involved in an pregnancy loss awareness or advocacy event, such as one of the many Walks to Remember around the nation, which raise money for nonprofit organizations or support research into preventing miscarriage and stillbirth.

Breastfeeding Task Force of Greater Los Angeles: I served 3 years as president of the Breastfeeding Task Force of Greater Los Angeles, which is the largest professional breastfeeding task force in the U.S., offering education and advocacy for breastfeeding in Los Angeles County and beyond.

This clarification was necessitated when our Global Council, on behalf of IBFAN, had to take a strategic decision whether or not and under what conditions IBFAN should participate in two new initiatives by UNICEF and WHO, WHO NetCode, and the UNICEF Breastfeeding Advocacy Initiative, both receiving funding from the BMGF, which has direct links and gets its returns from the baby food industry and also engages with entities such as the Global Alliance for Improved Nutrition (GAIN) that create situations of risk of conflicts of Interest in infant and young child feeding.

Our campaign will use images of King's midwives breastfeeding, which also points to our commitment as a community of women together — midwives and women — and hopefully steer away from some of the negative feelings around midwives» use of «advocacy rhetoric» which women can unfortunately sometimes experience as pressure and judgment.

He also serves as a member of the executive committee of the National Fatherhood Leaders Group, which promotes responsible fatherhood policy, research, advocacy and practice.

The bill, which would require surrogates to undergo medical and psychological screenings and intended parents to have a join consultation with a mental health professional, reflects input from various community groups, including LGBT advocacy organizations such as the Gay and Lesbian Activists Alliance (GLAA), the Human Rights Campaign (HRC), the Family Equality Council, and the National Center for Lesbian Rights (NCLR).

All the while that King was Sharpton's official sidekick, he also was a registered lobbyist as the principal of a couple of companies of his, one actually named The Movement Group, which is what you call yourself when advocacy goes corporate.

Which advocacy actions were popular and could be used as a fundraising hook?

The proposal was framed as an effort to push back against the «anti-worker» policies of President Donald Trump's administration, which comes as the IDC itself has been accused by liberal advocacy organizations and some fellow Democrats for enabling Senate Republicans in Albany.

My own panel, «How to Act Like Obama Online When You DO N'T Have a Billion in the Bank» (which will talk about applying Obama 2012 lessons to this year's advocacy and electoral campaigns), is coming together nicely — we just signed up Ethan Roeder, Obama's chief data manager for the presidential race and who's now gone back over to the New Organizing Institute, as a speaker.

CM Reyna opposed the no - bid deal and promoted Los Sures, a rival development organization which, like Ridgewood - Bushwick, originated in the early 1970s as a Latino tenants» rights advocacy group.

The folks behind a dead anti-spam service called Blue Frog have decided to adapt their technology as an advocacy tool, which they're calling Collactive (get it?).

One excellent point from today's Politics Online panel on email advocacy and fundraising: James Wong described email as the hub around which the social media world revolves.

But more than a dozen advocacy organizations — including the Electronic Frontier Foundation, New York Civil Liberties Union and Sunlight Foundation, as well as New York - based good government groups — sent a letter to the governor late last month, arguing his policy was technologically unnecessary and out of step with the federal government, which saves emails from rank - and - file employees for seven years.

The video, which features IDC Leader Jeff Klein speaking directly into the camera about the eight conference members, comes as the conference is under pressure from liberal advocacy groups to return to the fold of mainline Democrats in the Senate and deliver a working majority for the party.

But Jenkins lamented that the commission, now full of Astorino political appointees, is not acting proactively as it was intended to, lacks a full - time executive director and added that he would work to re-establish advocacy offices for minority groups, which, he said, have also been marginalized under the Astorino administration.

Bomb threats, which turned out to be unfounded, were reported all over the Eastern United States yesterday, at as many as 16 Jewish community facilities, one advocacy group estimated.

As for the DREAM Act, no matter how much supporters would like to see a «clean» bill pass, at least one member of the immigrant advocacy community recognizes the reality of the situation, which is that letting the measure come up for a vote in the Senate is likely a recipe for disaster — an all - but certain repeat of the bill's 2014 failure.

This group, which gets funding from the Council to provide various services to immigrants (literacy classes, «outreach» on rights, etc.), controversially makes its clients attend organizational and advocacy meetings as a condition of receiving services.

Stressing the importance of his appointment as co-Chair of Advocacy Group of Eminent Persons for SDGs, which was announced on 11th April, 2017, by the Secretary General of the United Nations, António Guterres, President Akufo - Addo indicated that the appointment was not about him, but rather about Ghana as a mark of trust in her leaders.

At the ceremony, which was also held to commemorate the President's appointment as co-Chair of the Advocacy Group of Eminent Persons by UN Secretary General, António Guterres, President Akufo - Addo charged the Committee to discharge its duties efficiently, and ensure that Ghana becomes a shining example for the implementation of the SDGs.

With the late Jim Owles, Roskoff founded the nation's first gay Democratic club, and today he leads the Jim Owles Liberal Democratic Club — which he describes as his proudest achievement — joining LGBTQ progressives, straight allies, and party officials in reform - focused advocacy.

The timing of the CEP's proposed undoing — 16 months before the state's next election — was a source of alarm for several advocacy groups, which interpreted the move as Republican jockeying for more seats.

The Brooklyn comptroller candidate's campaign has accused Liu of not moving the bill, which has the support of several environmental and transportation advocacy groups as well as the mayor, forward to prevent Yassky from touting it as an accomplishment prior to the September Democratic primary.

These included her advocacy of the abolition of «conspiratorial groups» such as MI5 and Special Branch in the late 1980s, both of which she said had been successfully reformed.

At the ceremony, which was also held to commemorate the President's appointment as co-Chair of the Advocacy Group of Eminent Persons, President Akufo - Addo also inaugurated a 15 - member Inter-Ministerial Committee for the implementation of SDGs.

The group, known as SWAN, is joining the #bFair2DirectCare advocacy campaign, which is backing an expedited funding plan in the budget for direct care workers» pay.

The letter comes as gun control advocacy groups and some Republican lawmakers who voted no blast the law, which tightens the state's assault weapons ban, limits the number of rounds in a high capacity magazine and tightens criminal penalties for illegal weapons.

A number of upstate lawmakers, along with gun rights advocacy groups, were pulling for DeFrancisco, who voted against a strict gun control measure known as the SAFE Act, which is largely unpopular upstate.