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Digitalundivided is a nonprofit that helps provide networks, coaching, and access to capital to tech startups led by women of color.

SinglePlatform has signed an agreement to be acquired by Constant Contact, a leading provider of online engagement marketing tools for small businesses and nonprofits.

When it comes to total shares, however, fast - moving consumer goods led the pack, followed by the nonprofit and travel sectors.

I built a career around the marketing of good deeds, working with a lot of great organizations, from Points of Light to Share our Strength, led by Billy Shore, who I think is probably one of the originally nonprofit entrepreneurs.

The company, led by CEO Richard Levin, former president of Yale University, has also recently established partnerships with a number of governments and nonprofit organizations to bring education to those in the greatest need.

Ethereum was developed in 2014 by a nonprofit organization led by Vitalik Buterin, a programmer involved with Bitcoin, and Mihai Alisie, Anthony Di Iorio, and Charles Hoskinson.

NaVOBA is an independent 501 (c)(3) nonprofit organization led by Corporate Supplier Diversity professionals.

A nonprofit led by former Representative Gabrielle Giffords and her husband, Mark Kelly, arranged for more than 200 people from the Parkland area to attend Saturday's march in Washington, and said it had worked with the owner of the New England Patriots, Robert Kraft, to use the N.F.L. franchise's plane to bring some people to the capital.

Upbring is a leading Texas - based, faith - inspired nonprofit organization working to break the cycle of child abuse by empowering children, families and communities.

«Chief Collaboration Officer Rodney Youckton, as well as other executive team members, leads by example and sit on local nonprofit boards such as Community Youth Services, the Boys & Girls Club, Big Brothers Big Sisters or United Way,» Miles says.

It's notable to me that even the Food Research and Action Center (one of the nation's leading anti-hunger nonprofits), strongly opposes the recent efforts by Iowa Congressman Steve King to repeal the calorie caps.

AblePlay was developed by the nonprofit National Lekotek Center, the leading authority on toys and play for children with disabilities.

CEO Deborah Lahey joined the students for a Q&A followed by lunch, and a series of museum staffers answered questions about nonprofit work after leading the students on a museum tour.

In an emotional essay published by the Fed is Best Foundation, a parent - led nonprofit founded to push back against the social pressure to exclusively breastfeed, Johnson writes that despite multiple consultations with lactation experts and nurses, no one caught on to the fact that her son was hungry, and that she wasn't producing enough breastmilk.

That so many working moms and their families are hungry is something we all need to take responsibility for by contributing to and volunteering at food banks, supporting nonprofits like No Kid Hungry, and encouraging our employers to follow the lead of Kellogg's, General Mills and Sodexo to lend their might to the fight as well.

Having just celebrated its 30th anniversary in 2017, Postpartum Support International (PSI) is at an exciting point in its development as the leading global nonprofit organization serving families affected by perinatal mood and anxiety disorders.

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.

Sections of Harris Field, a heavily - used park sandwiched between Bronx High School of Science and Lehman College, were found to have four times the federally - established legal limit of lead contamination for public play areas, according to documents obtained by the Norwood News with the help of the nonprofit New York City Park Advocates.

A coalition of advocacy groups led by the Federation of Protestant Welfare Agencies, the Fiscal Policy Institute, and the Human Services Council are leading an effort to have state - funded nonprofits pay workers at least $ 15 / hour.

ALBANY — Two years ago, Shahking Gomez was unemployed when his job search led him to the Soundview HealthCare Network, a group of nonprofit health clinics in the Bronx operated by the State Senate majority leader, Pedro Espada Jr..

The aim is to «increase the number of women in leading positions» in academe, government, industry, nonprofit organizations, and elsewhere by «rais [ing] the visibility» of outstanding women, said Ingrid Wünning Tschol, senior vice president for health and science at the Robert Bosch Stiftung, in a speech to the first European Conference for Science Journalists at the Euroscience Open Forum on 22 July.

A recent report by two leading nonprofits, the Rocky Mountain Climate Organization and the Natural Resources Defense Council, details how the 11 U.S. western states together have experienced an increase in average temperature during the last five years some 70 percent greater than the global average rise.

And «last month... The New York Times reported that a $ 1.5 million gift from Coke had helped create a new nonprofit organization called the Global Energy Balance Network (GEBN), led by researchers at multiple universities.»

One coal project, led by the giant Indian conglomerate Tata, was rejected by the CDM, but nonprofit watchdogs say that application is being resubmitted.

But the debate flared last month when The New York Times reported that a $ 1.5 million gift from Coke had helped create a new nonprofit organization called the Global Energy Balance Network (GEBN), led by researchers at multiple universities.

Women have a higher success rate than men, and a majority were led by students, found scholars who wrote the study for The National Bureau of Economic Research (NBER), a nonprofit group in Cambridge, Massachusetts, that supports economics studies relevant to public policy.

But no hospital has invested substantially in home remediation to eliminate triggers, a proven strategy supported by the HUD secretary and promoted by Green and Healthy Homes Initiative, a Baltimore nonprofit that works to reduce asthma and lead poisoning.

«As prohibitions on marijuana ease and sales of marijuana become more visible, it's important to think about how we need to change the way we talk to young people about the risks posed by the drug,» said Elizabeth D'Amico, lead author of the study and a senior behavioral scientist at RAND, a nonprofit research organization.

A particular type of stem cell found in muscle can give rise to new muscle tissue, so a team led by geneticist Luis Garcia of Généthon, a nonprofit biotechnology firm in Évry, France, investigated whether these cells could be used to reverse the dystrophin problems.

«A recent study by RAND found that the majority of Americans» cost - burden for dementia is caused by long - term care,» said Regina A. Shih, the study's lead author and a senior behavioral scientist at RAND, a nonprofit research organization.

The press releases led to a slew of media coverage of the disorder; according to an analysis in 2006, one fifth of all articles written about it referred readers to the nonprofit Restless Legs Syndrome Foundation for more information, an organization that was then heavily subsidized by GlaxoSmithKline.

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.

«A big part of this upswing also was due to aggressive marketing by drugmakers and other advocates,» says Andrew Kolodny, M.D., a psychiatrist and medical director of Phoenix House, the nation's leading nonprofit provider of substance abuse treatment and prevention services.

The Public Library of Science (PLOS) is a nonprofit publishing, membership, and advocacy organization with a mission to accelerate progress in science and medicine by leading a transformation in research communication.

The Delaney Collaboratory to Cure HIV - 1 Infection by Combination Immunotherapy (BEAT - HIV Collaboratory) is a consortium of more than 30 top HIV researchers from leading academic research institutions working with government, nonprofit organizations, and industry partners to test combinations of several novel immunotherapies under new preclinical research and clinical trials.

AWFJ, a nonprofit organization of leading female film journalists with active members in the United States, Canada and the United Kingdom, recognizes outstanding achievements by women filmmakers by presenting its prestigious EDA Awards at year's end and at select film festivals.

AWFJ, a nonprofit organization of leading female film journalists with active members in the United States, Canada and the United Kingdom, recognizes outstanding achievements by women filmmakers by presenting its prestigious EDA Awards at select film festivals around the world, and at year's end.

Hilarity for Charity ® (HFC) is a nonprofit movement, led by Seth Rogen and Lauren Miller Rogen, dedicated to raising awareness, inspiring change, and accelerating progress in Alzheimer's care, research, and support through the engagement of millennials.

PARK CITY, UT — Sundance Institute and Mahindra Group today announced a multifaceted agreement that showcases the commitment to and support of independent cinema around the world both by the Mahindra Group, one of the largest companies in India known throughout the world for its commitment to excellence and to social responsibility, and of the nonprofit Sundance Institute, one of the world's leading cultural organizations

Harvard and MIT Release Working Papers on Open Online Learning Harvard Gazette, 1/21/14 «Led by Andrew Ho of Harvard's Graduate School of Education and Isaac Chuang of MIT's electrical engineering and computer science and physics departments, the effort was in service of a mutual goal — «to research how students learn and how technologies can facilitate effective teaching both on - campus and online» — part of a mission statement established when MIT and Harvard joined to form edX, a nonprofit online learning platform, in May 2012.»

Several groups, led by the Campaign for Fiscal Equity (CFE), a nonprofit legal advocacy organization, filed suit in 1993 claiming that New York State was depriving New York City public school students of their constitutional rights to a «sound basic education,» a standard that had been prescribed in 1982 by the state's highest court (in New York, the Court of Appeals).

Achieve the Core, an initiative of Student Achievement Partners and nonprofit founded by the lead writers of the Common Core, is a website that shares free, open - source resources to support Common Core implementation.

The nonprofit corporation was formed in 1991 by the chief executives of some of the country's leading businesses to establish a «new generation of American schools.»

It's led by district staff and supported by the EMERGE nonprofit organization, which provides training and support and leads our alumni persistence efforts.

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.

But another group — nonprofit foundations — also exerts influence on the process and outcomes of reform efforts by supporting initiatives that lead to specific changes in the system.

The event, which took place November 3, 4, and 5 at HGSE and the Sheraton Commander Hotel on Garden Street in Cambridge, brought the AME conference together, for the first time, with the annual meeting sponsored by Harvard Law School (HLS) and Facing History and Ourselves, a nonprofit organization that helps increase student and teacher awareness of racism, prejudice, and anti-Semitism by examining the historic conditions that led to examples of collective violence such as the Holocaust.