Sentences with phrase «by leading advocates»

After earning her M.S.W, Madeline practiced as a clinical social worker providing therapy to child sexual abuse victims for six years, and later shifted her energies to working on systems change for greatest impact by leading advocates and bringing coalitions together to advocate in unison at the state capitol.

Their alternative proposal, which had been presented by the leading advocates to the mayor ten days prior, calls for a radical investment in building new housing for low - income families, especially seniors, which critics say has largely been left out of the mayor's current housing strategy.

World Nomads» scholarships program has been recognised by a leading advocate of youth travel, the British Educational Travel Association.

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Kaeser is a staunch advocate for what corporate America calls «leading with purpose,» or how businesses can do well by doing good.

I'm a major advocate of leading by example and modeling the behavior that you expect from your team, but many entrepreneurs take this idea too literally and push it too far.

Better Markets, a non-profit organization that advocates for the public interest on Wall Street, says a potential promotion by Williams to lead the Federal Reserve Bank of New York would reward failure - because the San Francisco Fed failed to prevent widespread customer abuses at San Francisco - based banking behemoth Wells Fargo & Co. (WFC), which it's supposed to supervise.

The SMART Box is a first - of - its - kind model pricing disclosure and comparison tool launched by the ILPA in partnership with the Association for Enterprise Opportunity (AEO), the leading advocate for microbusiness in the United States.

Demonstrators at the March for Our Lives in Los Angeles on Saturday, one of hundreds of events nationwide led by students and activists advocating stricter gun control.

Generate high - value leads by using sophisticated behavioral analysis and turn them into customer advocates.

Smync's RoA tracking tracks results from your advocate community to an individual, community and content level through dark social to show the sales volume generated by your advocate community, how many leads were generated, what valuable content was viewed and who signed up for your emails.

Lead the way to the future with greater transparency and by advocating more responsible practices on your marketplace.

Flynn was seen by some officials in Europe as one of the Trump administration's leading advocates of closer ties to Russia and a hardline opponent of the 2015 nuclear deal between Iran and western powers.

Her resourcefulness as an advocate has been significant on many issues, most recently in the long process leading to the fiduciary rule adopted by the Department of Labor.

The Charlotte Chamber is a membership, volunteer - led organization that creates competitive advantage by growing the economy, advocating pro-business public policies and delivering innovative programs and services.

By comparison, Open Doors, a leading advocate for the persecuted church which verifies every death through witnesses when possible, counted just 1,207 Christians killed for faith - related reasons during the reporting period for its 2017 World Watch List.

On February 1, a group of 51 faith - based, human rights and civil rights organizations, led by Muslim Advocates, called on House Speaker John Boehner and Minority Leader Nancy Pelosi to urge King and his committee to address all forms of religious extremism rather than focusing on Islam.

Forty - five leading pro-life advocates, including Gary Bauer of the Family Research Council, James Dobson of Focus on the Family, Clarke Forsythe of Americans United for Life, Wanda Franz of the National Right to Life Committee, and Ralph Reed of the Christian Coalition, signed a much heralded joint «Statement of Pro-Life Principle and Concern» published in First Things in 1996 in which the primary legal complaint was made that Roe «wounded American democracy» by removing the issue of abortion from «democratic concern.»

Advocates of intelligent design claim that anyone can be led to belief in an intelligent designer by a scientific study of nature.

What is new is that women in the diaconate will be the explicit focus of a commission set up by the Congregation for the Doctrine of the Faith, that half of the theologians named by the Pope to serve on it are women, and that a leading advocate for women's admission to the diaconate, Professor Phyllis Zagano of Hofstra University, is one of the members.

The separationist model of church - state relations, even in its moderate form advocated by Kelley, leads ineluctably to a more secular, less diverse and pluralistic society.

We need to advocate for women by exposing dynamics that lead to harassment long before abuse occurs.

The government of Myanmar — led by a mysterious military junta — has denied the appeal of the country's leading democratic advocate, Daw Aung San Suu Kyi.

The problem with this blog is that LGBTQ advocates, encouraged by the lead author have attempted to redefine the Bible to accept LGBTQ marriage and coitus as Christian Orthodoxy... unfortunately it falls short.

Each of these has biblical precedents and each has been advocated by some of the leading thinkers in the tradition.

Led by Lloyd Schofield who is part of a Bay Area «inactivist» group, the advocates want to eliminate the surgery and liken it to «male genital mutilation.»

With the purpose to build and support a farmer - led national organic farmer movement and national policy platform by: developing and advocating policies that benefit organic farmers ¹; strengthening and supporting the capacity of organic farmers and farm organizations; and supporting collaboration and leadership among state, regional and national organic farmer organizations.

Gestation crates, used throughout Tyson Foods» supply chain, have come under fire by McDonald's, Burger King, Wendy's, Costco, Safeway, Kroger, Oscar Mayer, Jimmy Dean, Sysco and other nearly 50 other leading food companies, as well as from veterinarians, farmers, animal welfare advocates, scientists, consumers and others.

Led by Albert Straus, his company Straus Family Creamery became an organic farming advocate and dairy innovator more than 20 years ago when it became the first 100 percent certified organic creamery in the country.

As the leading advocate for female consumers, WomenCertified Inc. is delighted to honor SweetLeaf ® with the Women's Choice Award ® based on extraordinary recommendations from their female customers in a customer satisfaction survey conducted by WomenCertified Inc. using the company's customer database.

In addition, masterclasses led by Wine & Spirit Education Trust (WSET) will be offered on topics such as «The language of wine: a Systematic Approach to Tasting» by Jude Mullins, DipWSET — International Development Director, «A world of Sherry» by Jon Chan, WSET Educator, Wine Language as well as an «Austrian Wine Seminar» by Robert Parker's Wine Advocate led by Stephan Reinhardt, a German journalist specializing in wine (his book «The Finest Wines of Germany» was selected as «Best international wine book of the year 2013» by the Louis Roederer International Wine Writers» Award).

And it's deeply disheartening, in my opinion, that the SNA — arguably one of the most influential voices on school food issues — is not leading the charge to obtain this funding but is instead essentially throwing in the towel by advocating a return to the old school food rules on fruits and vegetables.

This move has been decried by many health advocates, including the American Heart Association, which said in a press release, «Children who eat high levels of sodium are about 35 percent more likely to have elevated blood pressure, which can ultimately lead to heart disease or stroke.

We do not advocate that all homebirth practices follow our lead, but we argue against the statement that NICUs are sustained by the admissions of home born babies and rather, hospital births and their subsequent NICU admissions need further investigation.

Led by the Milk Processor Education Program and the National Dairy Council, the program aims to «keep chocolate milk on the menu in schools nationwide», in light of «lunch advocates [who] are calling [to remove chocolate milk from the lunch line, a decision that could] cause more harm than good when it comes to children's health.»

The Academy is one of many programs provided by the National Alliance for Youth Sports (NAYS), America's leading advocate for positive and safe sports for children.

«Trying to get students to consume calcium by drinking chocolate milk is like getting them to eat apples by serving them apple pie,» said Ann Cooper, a leading advocate for healthy school lunches.

Last week at McDonald's annual shareholder's meeting, CEO Don Thompson got caught off - guard when a team of 15 advocates, led by Corporate Accountability International, descended upon corporate headquarters to question the fast food leader's relentless exploitation of children and communities of color.

Getting the Word Out About Summer Meals Thursday, April 5, 2018, 1:00 pm ET State agencies, summer programs, and advocates can boost participation by utilizing different strategies for spreading the word about the availability of summer meals to families leading up to summer and once programs begin.

In the late 1980s, Margaret Brodkin of Coleman Advocates for Children and Youth led a campaign that established the Children's Fund to ensure permanent funding for vital services for kids, and the city's Department of Children Youth and their Families was created, to make sure that children's issues were handled by a department focused solely on their unique needs.

Promote the safe use of baby slings and carriers (as advocated by leading international medical and evidence - based practice.

«This is like asking your kids to eat more apples by giving them apple pie,» said Ann Cooper, a leading advocate for healthy school lunches.

a list of situations in which the development and implementation of policies advocated by the CIP involve interactions between governments and non-State actors (mainly private sector) which may lead to conflicts of interest;

I honestly like most Ghanaians and press freedom advocates I have interacted with did not expect this outcome especially after the profuse remorse showed by the gentlemen and their lawyers and the fact that the BNI had assured the nation that there was no credible lead or capacity by the affected persons to carry out their threats upon arrest and interrogation.

In the context of the European political axis, India was given independence by the British in reaction to a movement lead by a fairly «left - leaning» activist that advocated multiculturalism, localism, and socialism - something akin to the Green parties in Europe.

Several protests, led by the Let My Vote Count Alliance (LMVCA) which advocates for fair elections and a new voters registry, ended in violence when police shot rubber bullets and tear gas canisters into the crowd, beat protesters with horsewhips and batons, and arrested those who did not disperse.

As a leading intellectual and advocate of democratic governance in China, Professor Yu has a number of honorary titles at many universities and was selected as one of the «30 most influential figures in the past 30 years since the reform in China» in 2008 and ranked in the «2011 Global Top 100 Thinkers» by Foreign Policy in the US.

At 1:30 p.m., a coalition of community advocates led by the Drug Policy Alliance will join Sen. Liz Krueger and Assemblywoman Crystal Peoples - Stokes to announce reintroduction of the Marijuana Regulation and Taxation Act, which would authorize recreational use of marijuana, Senate chamber, 3rd Floor, State Capitol, Albany.

Public Advocate Bill de Blasio, one of the leading members of the Working Families Party, made a sharp and unexpected break yesterday with his left - leaning colleagues by vigorously opposing higher taxes on Wall Street.

Schneiderman was endorsed by Marriage Equality New York, Empire State Pride Agenda, Equality Long Island, Gay and Lesbian Independent Democrats, LAMBDA Independent Democrats, Lesbian and Gay Democratic Club of Queens and Gay City News among other leading «Toeiva» advocates in the State.

BY NATHAN RILEY A solemn ceremony bringing together leading AIDS organizations and advocates as well as public officials will mark World AIDS Day 2016, with the dedication of the New York City AIDS Memorial at the St. Vincent's Triangle Park.