Sentences with phrase «by a nonprofit group called»

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.

I first dropped in at the Centro Communitario Educativo, run by a nonprofit group called Entramigos (Among Friends), headed by an expat named Nicole Swedlow.

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The event, called Catalyst Canada Honours, is run by Catalyst — a nonprofit organization that is focused on expanding opportunities for women in business — and the group has been researching woman at work since its inception in 1962.

Land trusts are typically community - based nonprofit groups that protect land by acquiring the land outright, or by entering into legal agreements called conservation restrictions, where landowners do not give up ownership, but instead agree to reduce the development potential of their land, generally in return for cash payment, tax advantages, or both.

Attorney General Eric Schneiderman has issued subpoenas to the nonprofit Parent Information Network Inc., which is run by Huntley's daughter Pamela Corley, and another group called Parent Information, which the senator created before she was elected to office in 2006 and was formerly run by one of her staffers, the Associated Press reported.

Attorney General Eric Schneiderman has issued subpoenas to the nonprofit Parent Information Network Inc., which is run by Huntley's daughter Pamela Corley, and another group called -LSB-...]

The Network for Public Education, a nonprofit education advocacy group co-founded by historian Diane Ravitch, is calling for a national «opt out» of high - stakes standardized testing.

Prosecutors said Seabrook funnelled hundreds of thousands of dollars in discretionary funds to friends and family, including more than $ 300,000 to nonprofit groups owned by his mistress at the time, Gloria Jones - Grant, a woman prosecutors called «incompetent,» according to reports.

Leibell doled out $ 6.5 million in so - called «member items,» funded by taxpayer dollars, to nonprofit groups that he himself controlled between 2005 and 2010, according to the New York Times.

Susan Lerner, executive director of the watchdog group Common Cause New York, called the nonprofit, which predates the de Blasio administration but was not previously run by the mayor's wife, a «backdoor way to curry favor.»

But by August of that year, she had co-founded a nonprofit group called Angiosarcoma Awareness with Lauren Ryan — who had started that eight - person Facebook page.

Inspired by leading educators such as Robert Marzano and Mike Schmoker and working with the nonprofit group Great Minds, she led a two - year effort to design what would eventually be called the KIPP - Wheatley curriculum.

The major groups involved in developing the standards include a nonprofit called Achieve, which was founded by a group of business leaders and governors in 1996 (long before Common Core).

The model for these new instructional roles came from an initiative called Opportuni - ty Culture, developed by the North Carolina - based nonprofit group Public Impact.

It was commissioned by StudentsFirst and Better Education for New Jersey Kids, two nonprofit groups that promote the sort of changes that Christie is calling for.

by: Diane Ravitch March 7, 2017 A nonprofit parent - led group called Fund Education Now created a fact sheet about Florida's Corporate Tax Credit plan, which was designed to evade the state constitution's explicit ban on using public money to fund religious or private education.

The project, funded by the Queens Museum of Art and a nonprofit arts group called Creative Time, also involved opening a storefront in New York where Bruguera wanted to hold arts workshops for immigrants, but found that most of the people who came to the store were interested in learning English or needed help finding employment or legal aid.

Our gathering was funded by a group called Invoking the Pause, a small nonprofit that provides modest grants to «foster creativity and «out - of - the - box» thinking... for innovative and potentially scalable ideas» to, among other things, advance public understanding of climate change.

Or you could call the Scientists Institute for Public Information, S.I.P.I, a nonprofit group founded in 1963 and mainly paid for by media companies and foundations to provide, in essence, directory assistance for journalists seeking scientists.

He has called for an investigation into a nonprofit energy research group headed by Shukla.

Rising Tide North America, a loose - knit group of students and workers for nonprofit organizations, posed as phony public relations officials and targeted energy reporters around the world on Monday with e-mails and telephone calls claiming that a legitimate group of 33 businesses and environmental groups, the United States Climate Action Partnership, had agreed to slash emissions, blamed for warming the earth, by 90 percent by 2050 and had called for a moratorium on new coal plants, Reuters reports.

Meanwhile, the Katoomba Incubator that supports innovative ecosystem service projects in Latin America and Africa is working with the private, nonprofit group called Amazonicos por la Amazonia, loosely translated as For Amazon by Amazon or AMPA, to develop a forest - carbon policy, region - wide baseline and accounting framework.

Kalb took to Twitter, where she has 172,000 followers, and called out GOP lawmakers by tweeting what she said were the amounts in contributions they had received from the National Rifle Association, a nonprofit gun advocacy group.

The biggest blunder made by job applicants is the tendency to jump to the issue of compensation too quickly,» says Deb Koen, vice president of a nonprofit group called Career Development Services.