Sentences with phrase «as grassroots advocacy»

If you are public education advocate on social media, you have probably seen some of the aggressive «truthiness» that has been masquerading as grassroots advocacy on this issue.

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Billed as a «grassroots Christian disarmament movement,» 2FP's goal is to educate the broader evangelical community about the possibility of a future world without nuclear weapons and to provide ideas and avenues for advocacy.

As Campaign Manager of The Big Push For Midwives Campaign, Katherine has worked with advocacy groups in multiple states, providing guidance and other assistance on such areas as drafting legislation, building strong grassroots networks, and utilizing savvy legislative strategies to advance and pass legislation to license and regulate CPMAs Campaign Manager of The Big Push For Midwives Campaign, Katherine has worked with advocacy groups in multiple states, providing guidance and other assistance on such areas as drafting legislation, building strong grassroots networks, and utilizing savvy legislative strategies to advance and pass legislation to license and regulate CPMas drafting legislation, building strong grassroots networks, and utilizing savvy legislative strategies to advance and pass legislation to license and regulate CPMs.

As the mother of two twice - exceptional children, Sundstrom has been a guest speaker on Grassroots TV in Aspen, Colorado, and offers her support and advocacy to special needs families all over the country.

According to the event's organizers, the coalition plans to bring more than 2,000 advocates and supporters to the Capitol for what is being described as a «massive grassroots» day of lobbying and advocacy.

If I remember correctly, back in the late»90s Grassroots burned through a few tens of millions of investor dollars before reinventing itself as an advocacy tool provider and consulting firm.

One of the problems with using Facebook as an advocacy tool is the grassroots nature of the tool.

«We're still contemplating a variety of measures including grassroots mobilization, advocacy, engagement with local and state officials and even litigation to oppose what we view as unlawful and discriminatory executive orders,» Cahn said.

Parents and students across New York, including grassroots activists organized by education reform advocacy organization StudentsFirstNY and Derrell Bradford, executive director of NYCAN, view Governor Cuomo's reforms as critical to improving public school options.

While the money donated to the state party housekeeping account can not be used directly on campaigns, it can be used as part of the coordinated House effort for things like polling, field work, issue advocacy, and digital and grassroots organizing, officials said.

Forcing Leaders to Lead Although corporations need to shoot all their efficiency and renewable energy bullets trying to reduce their own carbon footprint, it's most important that they use their own business as a club to batter legislators with advocacy, use their influence over customers to create a grassroots movement and allocate advertising dollars to a climate campaign aimed at a broad audience.

While at the AAS, Bethany managed the public policy activities including, creating and managing a federal and local grassroots advocacy program designed to work with association members to effectively communicate with policy makers and successfully leading a coalition, working with Congressional leaders, and drafting legislation to secure millions of federal dollars appropriated for the restarting domestic production of Plutonium - 238 as a fuel source for planetary exploration.

Because opt - out is a grassroots phenomenon, communities varied in the extent of their participation, based in part on factors such as: 1) degree of parental involvement in the local schools, 2) whether the local PTA had an organized advocacy committee, 3) parental awareness of school - reform issues, and 4) access to the Internet and social media.

After months of advocacy meetings with state legislators, as well as grassroots engagement from parents and educators, the bill died in the Assembly Appropriations Committee.

As the State Board of Education considers overruling the MNPS School Board and possibly approving charter schools for Nashville originally denied at the local level, grassroots advocacy group TREE is calling on citizens to take action.

He joined the team after serving as the National Program Director at Stand for Children, a non-profit grassroots advocacy organization dedicated to improving public school education.

TCSA has been able to make significant gains for students as a result of these grassroots advocacy campaigns.

Advocacy can take many forms, ranging from grassroots lobbying, to direct lobbying of legislators, to explicitly political activities such as campaigning.

Established in 1999 as a non-profit organization by a grassroots group of charter school operators, it provides advocacy, support, resources, and networking opportunities to new and existing charter schools, parents and students.

Lift One Lift All serves as a gathering point for grassroots organizations, parents, educators, businesses and advocacy partners working to achieve school equity.

This video series was developed through a partnership with the Hunt Institute as part of National PTA's ongoing effort to provide accurate information about the Common Core State Standards and to assist PTA membership with developing grassroots advocacy skills.

The League created the Colorado Charter Advocacy Network (COCAN), a grassroots initiative made up of thousands of charter school supporters such as parents, teachers, administrators and board members.

I'm honored to be joining Laura, along with Lisa Tudor, Director of Development and Outreach for the Foundation Against Companion - Animal Euthanasia (FACE), at the upcoming No More Homeless Pets Conference as we present Taking It to the Street (Cats): Grassroots Advocacy for Community Cats.

Founded by long - time animal activists Jasmin Singer and Mariann Sullivan, Our Hen House serves as a central clearinghouse for ideas and opportunities to create positive change for animals ranging from grassroots activism to advocacy through the arts.

This could facilitate the success of future animal advocacy tactics such as corporate outreach or grassroots outreach.

That EPA letter certainly played a part — as did sustained grassroots advocacy efforts, exposes on conflicts of interest between State and the pipeline's profiteers, and relentless debunking of false jobs and energy security promises — in the State Department's move to punt the decision for a year, take a fresh look at the proposals, and go back to the drawing board to create a new supplemental environmental impact statement.

The Beijing Energy Network (BEN or 北京能源网络) is a grassroots organization based in Beijing with a mission of promoting networking and collaboration in understanding and tackling China's energy and environmental challenges among individuals and organizations from diverse sectors such as government, finance, industry, media, advocacy, think tanks and academia.

The Edelman strategy documents and work proposals outline a «grassroots advocacy» campaign plan to build support for TransCanada's Energy East pipeline as well as to undermine public opposition to oil and pipelines generally.

Mount Vernon, KY — Vote Hemp, the national single - issue advocacy group dedicated to re-commercializing industrial hemp, and Kentucky non-profit Growing Warriors, have partnered to organize a planting of industrial hemp in Mount Vernon, KY on May 16, 2014, as part of the nationwide grassroots education effort Hemp History Week.

WASHINGTON, DC — Vote Hemp, the nation's leading hemp grassroots advocacy organization, working to revitalize industrial hemp production in the U.S., is excited to report that an amendment to legalize hemp production for research purposes was included in H.R. 2642, better known as the Farm Bill, passed the House by a vote of 216 to 208 yesterday afternoon.

DAI is developing and implementing an advocacy strategy to inform policymakers and the general public about the critical significance of PAS, as well as mobilizing a grassroots parent / youth network to share their compelling stories of the need for benefits and lack of PAS.

Mr. McGraw works in the areas of policy development, contract management and project coordination, as well as collaborates with grassroots peer - advocacy agencies and the CT Department of Corrections.

As Director of Advocacy, Ms. DiLauro leads ZERO TO THREE's advocacy strategy, including the development of grassroots and communications campaigns to improve public policy for infants, toddlers, and their fAdvocacy, Ms. DiLauro leads ZERO TO THREE's advocacy strategy, including the development of grassroots and communications campaigns to improve public policy for infants, toddlers, and their fadvocacy strategy, including the development of grassroots and communications campaigns to improve public policy for infants, toddlers, and their families.

Through Congressional and grassroots advocacy, as well as our own professional development and training programs, Teaching Strategies supports policies and practices designed to create a well - funded, high - quality system of early childhood education.