Sentences with phrase «backed by a nonprofit group»
That case, brought on behalf of several public school students in Southern California, was backed by a nonprofit group calling itself Students Matter, founded by Silicon Valley entrepreneur David Welch.
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These government efforts have been supported and supplemented by a constellation of nonprofit groups, often backed by philanthropists with deep pockets and an abiding commitment to addressing educational inequality.
Two gun safety groups in Maine are getting more than $ 3 million from a nonprofit backed by former New York City Mayor Bloomberg in preparation for a big gun control measure on the November ballot.
Internal documents show that Cambridge Analytica also provided services to politically active nonprofit organizations that are not required to disclose their donors, including the Colorado - based antiabortion group Centennial Coalition and For America, led by L. Brent Bozell, who founded the Mercer - backed Media Research Center.
The grand jury is seeking a slew of documents from Meeks dating back to 2000 that detail the charities founded by him and Smith, and the status of several nonprofit groups linked to the congressman, the sources said.
Many public agencies and nonprofit groups have worked together to try to bring back the panther — Florida's state animal — since it was first listed as endangered by the federal government back in 1967.
Education Superhighway, a nonprofit advocacy group backed by tech entrepreneurs, estimates that 72 percent of America's schools lack sufficient Internet infrastructure for digital learning.
A 2005 report by the Center for Teaching and Learning, part of the nonprofit educational research group WestEd, said that back then nearly 100,000 teachers in California were more than 50 years old.
The recent case, Doe v. Deasy, was filed in 2010 by several students in the district and sponsored by EdVoice, the nonprofit education reform group backed by billionaire Eli Broad, Netflix CEO Reed Hastings and Richard Merkin, CEO of the Heritage Provider Network, among others.
Backed by a grant from NewSchools Venture Fund, a nonprofit education reform philanthropy, the group has accumulated about 60 articles for its history platform on topics ranging from ancient China to the American Revolution.
The nonprofit group was similarly neutral in 2010 when libertarian groups backed by industry and conservative donors were flooding scientific agencies and universities with Freedom of Information requests.
A nonprofit research arm sponsored by the American Enterprise Institute, the International Center on Housing Risk is a conservative - leaning group that tends to promote market - based solutions for the housing industry and has been a critic of moves to boost the market share of FHA - backed loans.