Sentences with phrase «at education nonprofits»

Prior to PowerMyLearning, Jill served in a variety of development, program, and leadership roles at education nonprofits focused on domestic and international education, including Aim High, Room to Read, Reading Partners, The Future Project, and the International Youth Foundation.

We've highlighted six of them — one per continent (sorry, Antarctica)-- working in schools and districts, at education nonprofits and NGOs, as education entrepreneurs, and with government agencies.

Program when, as a program director at an education nonprofit in Mobile, Ala., he mobilized his community — not just those already working in schools — to tackle together a persistent problem: a too - high dropout rate.

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The nonprofit organization behind the SAT college entrance exam has teamed up with a Silicon Valley pioneer in online education to make test preparation materials available for free starting Tuesday, a move aimed at making the college admissions race less stressful and more fair.

Microsoft, which launched the YouthSpark initiative at last year's CGI to create jobs, education and entrepreneurship opportunities for 300 million young people by 2015, returned with a private dinner for young participants and nonprofit partners to discuss the progress so far.

Even though he was on the fast - track at elite consultancy Bain & Company, he left to launch an education nonprofit — one of the most innovative in the world.

«It's really a fee for using someone else's money,» explains Todd Christensen, director of education at Debt Reduction Services, a nonprofit debt management and credit counseling organization in Boise, Idaho.

You can find lots of basic educational material and helpful links at two nonprofit sites, The American Association of Individual Investors and The Alliance for Investor Education.

Your options: You and your creditor can still work out a payment plan or come up with a hardship plan if your financial situation merits one, says Laura Creamer, a financial education specialist at the nonprofit credit counseling service CredAbility.

Since 2004, employees have logged more than 650,000 volunteer hours and donated more than $ 5.2 million in Grants for Great Hours, which allows PNC employees volunteering at least 40 hours over a 12 - month period at a qualified, early education nonprofit, to donate a $ 1,000 grant to that nonprofit.

At UniVoIP, we provide cloud - based collaborative solutions that drive performance, productivity and efficiency for organizations in a variety of industries including education, legal, finance, nonprofit, real estate and healthcare.

Editor's note: Robert P. Jones is the CEO of Public Religion Research Institute, a nonprofit, nonpartisan research and education organization specializing in work at the intersection of religion, values and public life.

Outpouring of spontaneous generosity at 34th annual fundraiser sets new records 6/8/2014 — St. Helena, CA — The winning combination of renowned Napa Valley wine, talented chefs and stunning scenery inspired bidders from across the country and around the world to open their hearts and wallets, leaving behind $ 18.7 million for healthcare and children's education nonprofits.

Sizzling Generosity Results in $ 14.3 Million Raised During Auction Napa Valley Weekend: The Napa Valley Vintners trade association announced that this year's Auction Napa Valley has raised $ 14.3 million for children's education and community health nonprofits during a weekend of feverish bidding and Latin - infused fun at the annual celebration of the best of America's leading wine region...

-- April 22, 2009 — Child safety experts, policymakers, leaders in the nonprofit sector and the wireless industry joined together today at the Wireless Online Safety Conference, co-hosted by the Family Online Safety Institute (FOSI) and The Wireless Foundation, to discuss the challenges kids face in a mobile online environment and the vital role education plays in keeping them safe.

WEEKEND WEDDING — «Marnie Kaplan, Michael Smallberg» — Times: «The bride, 34, is a senior analyst at Bellwether Education Partners, a nonprofit organization focused on changing education for underserved Education Partners, a nonprofit organization focused on changing education for underserved education for underserved children.

In addition to the special education program BOCES is also working with a nonprofit group to host a mental health program at the building.

At 10:45 a.m., First Lady Michelle Obama nonprofit visits Global Kids Inc. to learn about its global education and digital media programs, 37 E 25th St., Manhattan.

At the time, the state faced a lawsuit filed in 1993 by the nonprofit group Campaign for Fiscal Equity, which argued that the state's education funding formula was unconstitutional.

Anticipating the mayor's austerity executive budget that if approved would slash education and social services while leaving the wealth of city banks, corporations and rich New Yorkers untouched, the UFT joined progressive City Council members and a coalition of unions, community groups and nonprofit service providers at City Hall on May 4 to release an alternative «people's budget.»

This year, the commission includes Fritz Schwarz, Jr., the Chief Counsel at the Brennan Center for Justice, who will chair the Commission; Jill Bright, Chief Administrative Officer at Condé Nast; and Paul Quintero, Chief Executive Office at ACCION EAST, Inc., a nonprofit that works to empower low - to moderate - income business owners with access to capital and financial education.

Andy Smarick, a partner at Bellwether Education Partners, a nonprofit education reform organization, said Mr. Cuomo was unusual among current and recent Democratic governors of big states in his fidelity to reform priorities, noting that Martin O'Malley, the departing governor of Maryland, and Deval L. Patrick, the former governor of Massachusetts, were closer to teachers»Education Partners, a nonprofit education reform organization, said Mr. Cuomo was unusual among current and recent Democratic governors of big states in his fidelity to reform priorities, noting that Martin O'Malley, the departing governor of Maryland, and Deval L. Patrick, the former governor of Massachusetts, were closer to teachers»education reform organization, said Mr. Cuomo was unusual among current and recent Democratic governors of big states in his fidelity to reform priorities, noting that Martin O'Malley, the departing governor of Maryland, and Deval L. Patrick, the former governor of Massachusetts, were closer to teachers» unions.

Supported by a grant from the U.S. Department of Education's Institute of Education Sciences, the unit was designed in collaboration with curriculum developers at the nonprofit Biological Sciences Curriculum Study (BSCS).

Prior to joining Scientific American, Musser served as editor of Mercury magazine and of The Universe in the Classroom tutorial series for K — 12 teachers at the Astronomical Society of the Pacific, a science and science - education nonprofit based in San Francisco.

His relationship with the magazine helped lead the way to his joining the board of directors for its parent organization, Science Connected, a nonprofit aimed at creating equal access to science education and providing resources to science teachers.

While completing his master's at Cornell University, which he finished in 1993, he discovered a paper by a researcher at the Education Development Center, an independent nonprofit institute in Newton, Massachusetts.

Other authors are postdoc Amy Finn; graduate student Julia Leonard; Drew Jacoby - Senghor, a postdoc at Columbia Business School; and Christopher Gabrieli, chair of the nonprofit Transforming Education.

Barbara Kantrowitz is a senior editor at the Hechinger Report, a nonprofit news organization focused on education journalism.

«I don't think you can look at education from the point of view of whether it works or doesn't work, as if it's a lightbulb,» says Joseph Merlino, president of the 21st Century Partnership for STEM Education, a nonprofit in suburban Phileducation from the point of view of whether it works or doesn't work, as if it's a lightbulb,» says Joseph Merlino, president of the 21st Century Partnership for STEM Education, a nonprofit in suburban PhilEducation, a nonprofit in suburban Philadelphia.

She knew a physicist who did educational outreach (but had just lost his grant, so he couldn't offer me any work), who knew a space scientist (who did no outreach or education at all), who knew a geologist (who occasionally volunteered in the schools), who knew an evolutionary ecologist (who worked for a nonprofit with no money at all), who knew the director of another local nonprofit educational company.

Tyre is a visiting scholar at the McCourt School of Public Policy at Georgetown University and is director of strategy at the Edwin Gould Foundation, which houses the EGF Accelerator, the U.S.'s premier incubator for education nonprofits.

In 1999, RCT formed the Frederick Gardner Cottrell Foundation to provide financial support for significant research and education programs at qualified nonprofit organizations.

In last week's issue of Science, Andrew Zucker, a senior researcher with the Concord Consortium, a Concord, Mass., nonprofit that studies the use of technology in schools, and Daniel Light, a senior scientist at New York City — based Education Development Center, Inc.'s Center for Children & Technology, pointed out that the falling cost of technology is helping computers get a better foothold in the classroom but cautioned that the impact of classroom PCs is still unknown.

«There has been a dramatic contraction of the prison education system, particularly those programs focused on academic instruction versus vocational training,» said Lois Davis, the study's lead author and a senior policy researcher at RAND, a nonprofit research organization.

Pattie began her career in philanthropy at the American Express Foundation in education and child care, attended Syracuse and Pace Universities (NY), and served as a board member of several state and national nonprofit organizations.

While at NYU, Brennan has been actively involved in youth development through Arts in the Community, which attempts to bring college students together with local NYC arts education nonprofits, and through Peer Health Exchange, which focuses on teaching health to ninth graders around NYC.

I also spent the past three and a half years years working at a nonprofit organization doing food education with low - income children and families.

Worldwide About Blog National At - Home Dad Network is a nonprofit that provides advocacy, community, education & support for fathers who are the primary caregivers of their children.

The grant will support the creation of the National Adult Literacy Center at HGSE, a collaborative effort between HGSE and World Education, a nonprofit economic and social development organization with expertise in programs for adult literacy.

Mark Moore, a leading expert in criminal justice, police, management, nongovernmental organizations and nonprofit management, has been appointed the first Herbert A. Simon Professor in Education, Management, and Organizational Behavior at the Harvard Graduate School of Education effective July 1, 2009.

Some great options for classroom audiobook access can be found at Learning Ally, a nonprofit provider of human - read audiobooks; OverDrive Education, another provider of human - read audiobooks; and Bookshare, a provider of computerized audiobooks (free for students with an individualized education Education, another provider of human - read audiobooks; and Bookshare, a provider of computerized audiobooks (free for students with an individualized education education program).

Celina Marie Benavides Human Development and Psychology Current city: Claremont, California Current job: Director of nonprofit, Project Vistas — Family Child Care Higher Education Academy, which provides family child care providers in Los Angeles County access to higher education and professional development training; doctoral student in Positive Developmental Psychology at Claremont Graduate University Career highlights: At Project Vistas, assisting a marginalized, nontraditional student group, while overseeing budget, managing program operations, coordinating staff, and fulfilling targeted outcomes; Basic Research Scientist of the Year award by the AS&F Foundation and Claremont Graduate UEducation Academy, which provides family child care providers in Los Angeles County access to higher education and professional development training; doctoral student in Positive Developmental Psychology at Claremont Graduate University Career highlights: At Project Vistas, assisting a marginalized, nontraditional student group, while overseeing budget, managing program operations, coordinating staff, and fulfilling targeted outcomes; Basic Research Scientist of the Year award by the AS&F Foundation and Claremont Graduate Ueducation and professional development training; doctoral student in Positive Developmental Psychology at Claremont Graduate University Career highlights: At Project Vistas, assisting a marginalized, nontraditional student group, while overseeing budget, managing program operations, coordinating staff, and fulfilling targeted outcomes; Basic Research Scientist of the Year award by the AS&F Foundation and Claremont Graduate Universiat Claremont Graduate University Career highlights: At Project Vistas, assisting a marginalized, nontraditional student group, while overseeing budget, managing program operations, coordinating staff, and fulfilling targeted outcomes; Basic Research Scientist of the Year award by the AS&F Foundation and Claremont Graduate UniversiAt Project Vistas, assisting a marginalized, nontraditional student group, while overseeing budget, managing program operations, coordinating staff, and fulfilling targeted outcomes; Basic Research Scientist of the Year award by the AS&F Foundation and Claremont Graduate University

David R. Zarowin has been named the executive director of WIDE World, a nonprofit program based at Harvard University's graduate school of education in Cambridge, Mass., that provides online professional - development courses to K - 12 educators.

Frank is an education consultant and instructional coach in School Services at RTI International, an independent, nonprofit research institute.

The Education Testing Service (ETS), the world's largest private testing and educational measurement organization, and the Advertising Council, a nonprofit organization of advertising professionals that does pro bono work, have aimed this campaign at children 10 to 14 years old.

Since its founding in 1990, TFA — a nonprofit organization aimed at reducing education inequity by placing young graduates into low - income communities in the U.S. to teach for at least two years — has had its fair share of criticism in the media and education field, mostly for not providing proper training and turning people off from education careers.

students who wish to pursue an entrepreneurial career, whether nonprofit or for - profit, by providing important tools and services to schools and districts, will develop a much deeper understanding of the systems and processes that exist in K — 12 education that they want to improve or replace, and are better at finding points of leverage that will make a big difference for educators and students.

Written in collaboration with HGSE alumni of the IEP Program, One Student at a Time provides a series of alumni accounts of their work experiences, covering a wide array of careers in schools, governments, international organizations, and nonprofits and demonstrating the impact of HGSE on the global education movement.

13, is a veteran Black Hawk Army pilot, a Thai nonprofit worker, and recent graduate of the Technology, Innovation, and Education Program at the Harvard Graduate School of Education.

The 13 master's programs at the Harvard Graduate School of Education attract extraordinary students from every imaginable background: classroom teachers, district leaders, nonprofit workers, public policy researchers, social entrepreneurs, and software engineers.