Sentences with phrase «based nonprofit research»

In May, Shanghai - based nonprofit research institution, Wanxiang Blockchain Labs, announced a new consortium called the ChinaLedger Alliance.

Wanxiang Blockchain Labs, a Shanghai - based nonprofit research institution which hosted the first Global Blockchain Summit in Shanghai, is to lead an alliance of 11 regional commodity exchanges, equity exchanges and financial asset...

Low - income, African - American, and Hispanic students in the 50 largest districts in Texas are less likely to attend schools with experienced teachers than high - income and white students in those same districts, concludes a report by the Education Trust, a Washington - based nonprofit research and advocacy organization.

In December, a New York - based nonprofit research organization called Public Agenda released a report about trustee engagement that concluded that most board members believe their role is to select and support a good institutional leader rather than directly question administrators or initiate reform.

The study, conducted by Public / Private Ventures, a Philadephia - based nonprofit research firm, examined nine such conservation and service programs across the country.

The North Dakota Policy Council, a North Dakota - based nonprofit research organization which describes itself as «liberty - based», published the North Dakota Legislative Review, a comprehensive report on how state legislators voted during the 2011 legislative session.

According to a new study for the Labor Department conducted by Sanat Monica, California - based nonprofit research firm the RAND Corporation, nearly half of U.S. employers with a minimum of 50 workers offered workplace wellness programs in 2012, while 90 percent of companies with greater than 50,000 workers offered the programs over the same period.

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Also, Recorded Future's report is based on a limited dataset from April 1 to July 6, provided by its intelligence partner, Team Cymru (a nonprofit Internet security research group).

The Sustainable Investments Institute (Si2), a nonprofit research organization based in Washington, D.C., conducts impartial research and publishes reports on organized efforts to influence corporate behavior on social and environmental issues.

A nonprofit membership organization providing unbiased information and research on broad - based employee stock plans

Matt Therian of Renaissance Capital, an IPO research firm based in Greenwich, Conn., noted that Zipcar has a relatively «capital intensive» business model, but its strong brand image and its head start in the car - sharing market — where it competes in some markets with for - profit rivals and such nonprofit entrants as Chicago's iGo and the San Francisco area's City Car Share, in addition, of course, to traditional rental incumbents like Hertz HTZ, -9.08 % and Avis Budget Group CAR, -11.56 % — give it an inside track with investors.

So I've been working on a project related to maternal health for the Nashville - based, nonprofit organization Hope Through Healing Hands, and in my research, I bumped into this very cool 2012 TED Talk from Melinda Gates about the importance of access to contraception worldwide.

Their nonprofit endorses specific parenting strategies based on attachment theory and supported by academic research.

Idealware's Nonprofit Social Media Decision Making Guide will use research - based findings to help nonprofits answer these types of questions.

(2) to supplement and complement the efforts of States, the local school systems and other instrumentalities of the States, the private sector, public and private educational institutions, public and private nonprofit educational research institutions, community - based organizations, parents, and students to im - prove the quality of education;

Ronald Deutsch, executive director of the Latham - based Fiscal Policy Institute, an independent, nonpartisan, nonprofit research and education organization committed to improving public policies and private practices to better the economic and social conditions of all New Yorkers, is equally dissatisfied with the status quo.

(announced Dec. 3, 2015) Chairman and CEO of the Lincoln Institute of Public Opinion Research, Inc., a nonprofit public policy foundation based in Harrisburg.

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 changes mirror guidelines set forth by the Washington, D.C. - based nonprofit think tank, Police Executive Research Forum, or PERF, which has advised the police department on ethics reforms as part of a three - year, $ 675,000 contract with the county.

The U.S. Public Interest Research Group, a consumer - focused nonprofit organization based in Washington, D.C., released its annual report on state transparency websites in March 2015.

The Idaho Freedom Foundation, an Idaho - based, nonprofit educational research institute, released its «Idaho Freedom Index» in 2013.

Based in Alaska, a nonprofit research institute founded and run by a group of independent researchers has permitted decades of scientific work.

Some midsized nonprofit organizations that hire biomedical researchers include SRI International (a nonprofit scientific research institute focused on innovative technologies) and the Institute for OneWorld Health, the world's first nonprofit pharmaceutical company, both based in California.

«I understand that smoking is bad,» says neuroscientist Maryka Quik, program director of the Neurodegenerative Diseases Program at SRI International, a nonprofit research institute based in California's Silicon Valley.

And in May, a week after Massachusetts Sen. Edward Kennedy was diagnosed with a glioma, The EMR Policy Institute, a Marshfield, Vt. — based nonprofit organization that supports research on the effects of electromagnetic radiation, released a statement linking his tumor to heavy cell phone use.

Unfortunately, the mealybug is equally capable of traveling via a human vector — and it is now devastating the cassava (aka manioc or yucca) crop on some 200,000 hectares in Thailand, where some 60 percent of global exports (worth $ 1.5 billion) are grown, according to the International Center for Tropical Agriculture (CIAT), a Colombia - based research nonprofit focused on reducing hunger and poverty via sustainable agriculture.

Already half of China's coastal wetlands have disappeared over the past 50 years, enclosed by seawalls or overrun by ports and other development, according to the analysis, released here Monday by China's State Forestry Administration (SFA), the Chinese Academy of Science's Institute of Geographic Sciences and Natural Resources Research, and the Paulson Institute, a nonprofit based in Chicago.

The Antarctica Project has brought together staff from Stanford University, teachers from the San Francisco Bay area and researchers from the Institute for Research on Learning (IRL), a nonprofit - making organisation based in Palo Alto and founded by Xerox in 1987 to «rethink learning».

In early March, Battelle Memorial Institute, a large research nonprofit based in Columbus, quietly withdrew plans to drill two holes up to 5 kilometers deep into the granite bedrock beneath the rolling prairie there.

«Our findings suggest that e-learning can provide an efficient and scalable approach to training large numbers of clinicians in new evidence - based treatments,» said Dr. Bradley D. Stein, the study's lead author, a practicing psychiatrist and a senior scientist at RAND, a nonprofit research organization.

program, run by the nonprofit International Association for Human Values, includes yoga - based breathing practices, among other techniques, and the research findings show that a little bit of breathing can go a long way.

The health - care initiatives deployed by MSF in developing countries are informed by the Paris - based, nonprofit health and epidemiology research center Epicentre.

The research was conducted in partnership with the International Council on Clean Transportation, a Washington, D.C. - based nonprofit organization, and Environmental Health Analytics LLC.

Working to alleviate that problem is Friends of Landau - Kleffner Syndrome (FOLKS), a U.K. - based nonprofit organization dedicated to providing information and promoting research studies, which they publish online.

Early this year, the agency tapped Battelle Memorial Institute, a large research nonprofit based in Columbus, to lead the effort.

Climate Central is a nonpartisan and non-advocacy nonprofit based in New Jersey that researches and reports on the changing climate.

The Cancer Research Institute (CRI), established in 1953, is the world's leading nonprofit organization dedicated exclusively to transforming cancer patient care by advancing scientific efforts to develop new and effective immune system - based strategies to prevent, diagnose, treat, and eventually cure all cancers.

The Institute for Systems Biology is a nonprofit biomedical research organization based in Seattle.

NEW YORK, October 16, 2013 — The Cancer Research Institute (CRI), a New York - based nonprofit committed to developing immune system - based cancer treatments, was given a $ 1 million donation from tech entrepreneur and philanthropist Sean Parker at CRI's 27th annual awards gala on Sept. 30.

The Jackson Laboratory is an independent, nonprofit biomedical research institution based in Bar Harbor, Maine, with a facility in Sacramento, Calif., and a new genomic medicine institute in Farmington, Conn..

A separate $ 13 million nonprofit drug discovery program, this time funded by Families of SMA, an Illinois - based research and advocacy organization, yielded the compound being advanced by Repligen, a small biotech located in Waltham, Massachusetts.

The Institute for Systems Biology is a nonprofit biomedical research organization based in Seattle, Washington.

The American - Italian Cancer Foundation (AICF) is a US - based nonprofit organization that funds post-doctoral research fellowships for outstanding young Italian scientists who perform groundbreaking res -LSB-...]

«The approval of a vaccine to treat cancer is a victory in the history of cancer therapy, and signals the beginning of a new era in cancer medicine,» said Jill O'Donnell - Tormey, Ph.D., executive director of the U.S. - based Cancer Research Institute (CRI), a nonprofit organization founded in 1953 that has provided decades of significant support to cancer immunology researchers around the world so that the development of cancer immunotherapies such as Dendreon's Provenge might one day be possible.

«But our nonprofit partner's model is based on being able to sell full garments, and brands were giving us fabric scraps and mutilated items that they had used for research.

He also is director of the T. Colin Campbell Center for Nutrition Studies, a nonprofit organization in Ithaca, New York, which promotes optimal nutrition through science - based education, advocacy, and research in partnership with eCornell, Cornell University's online course provider.

Obese workers cost private sector employers in the U.S. an estimated $ 45 billion annually in medical expenditures and lost productivity, according to a 2008 report co-authored by Barrington and produced by the Conference Board, a nonprofit business research organization based in New York City.

The Environmental Working Group, a nonprofit organization working to protect human and environmental health, publishes the Dirty Dozen Plus and the Clean Fifteen, based on years of independent research on chemical levels of produce.

Truvada «would always be part of a more comprehensive prevention strategy,» says Timothy Mastro, M.D., coauthor of a study published today and a researcher at FHI 360, a nonprofit research organization based in Durham, N.C.

Florence - based brand @ermannoscervino is planning a fashion show to support nonprofit organization Corri la Vita Onlus, a charity that supports medical research and helps fight breast cancer.