Sentences with phrase «by nonprofit advocacy»

Those ratings, by the nonprofit advocacy group National Council on Teacher Quality, which has been a vocal critic of teacher preparation programs, were based heavily on education school curriculum and selectivity.

When I worked for a politician I was responsible for deleting all of the mass - emails sent by nonprofit advocacy groups.

Not exact matches

But earlier this year, several of the e-advocacy consulting firms and service providers released a joint study of the use of email for advocacy, communications and fundraising by nonprofit organizations.

Some details about what advocacy groups can get by joining the YouTube Nonprofit Program:

So: a single fundraising email sent by a nonprofit to a single subscriber was less likely to be opened and less likely to generate a click, an advocacy action, or a donation.

Records show that Melius» foundation gave a total of $ 293,000 in grants to more than 170 nonprofit organizations in 2014, among them the FBI Agents Association, an advocacy group for current and retired FBI agents in Alexandria, Virginia; the Pat Cairo Family Foundation, which is run by North Hempstead Republican leader Joseph Cairo; and the Raj & Rajeshwari Foundation, which was run by the family of indicted restaurateur Harendra Singh.

Most nonprofits that conduct online advocacy campaigns are aware that Capitol Hill offices are overwhelmed by the volume of constituent communications.

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.

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.

With an emphasis on the gubernatorial and U.S. Senate races, the environmental advocacy nonprofit and political action committee created by San Francisco philanthropist Tom Steyer announced Wednesday it will also focus on key congressional districts currently held by Democrat Stephanie Murphy in Central Florida, Republican Brian Mast in the Treasure Coast, and two competitive seats in South Florida — CD 26 and 27.

They include American Crossroads, the super PAC founded by Karl Rove; American Action Network, a nonprofit advocacy group, and the National Republican Congressional Committee, which is the campaign arm for the House GOP.

In March 2001, MoveOn joined forces with the nonprofit advocacy site Generation Net, an online advocacy organization headed by Peter Schurman.

The group, a nonprofit advocacy organization formed in 2001 and historically funded by teachers unions, has long offered itself as a voice for parents and communities of color and, as such, has also been a thorn in the side of successive state and city governments, consistently pushing for more funding in the state budget to meet the needs of underserved schools and fighting against school closures and charter schools.

Perry points out that the bill is further confusing because the areas of law regarding political spending by groups like Super PACs and nonprofit advocacy groups are completely separate and yet the bill puts them side by side.

The nonprofit advocacy group ScienceDebate.org has posted candidates» responses online at http://sciencedebate.org/20answers. (On the website, visitors can jump to individual answers by appending» # 1» through» # 20» to the link.)

Today's decision in the Washington Alliance case demonstrates that this is not true,» says a statement by Dale Wilcox, executive director of the Immigration Reform Law Institute (IRLI), a nonprofit «public interest legal education and advocacy organization dedicated to advocating for the rights and interests of United States citizens in immigration - related matters,» according to its website.

As reported in Mother Jones in 2002, the posters were sponsored by the Social Anxiety Disorder Coalition, a partnership between several nonprofit advocacy groups and SmithKline Beecham.

October 25, 2016 UChicago Medicine designated as first cavernous angioma center of excellence Angioma Alliance, the nation's only patient advocacy nonprofit for individuals impacted by cerebral cavernous angiomas, has designated the University of Chicago Medicine as its first Clinical Center of Excellence for treatment and research into the rare disease.

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.

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.

Whatever time that remains in her busy schedule is devoted to nonprofit organizations focusing on families affected by cancer, helping children, environmental advocacy, planet protection and the Mars Movement.

Advance and promote the discipline by participating in partnerships with government agencies, foundations, and / or nonprofit organizations, such as funding agency grant panels or other advocacy / advisory boards to contribute to the advancement and promotion of the discipline.

Companies purchase the simulation gloves to test out their own wares, and then apply to have their products reviewed by the Arthritis Foundation, a nonprofit advocacy organization based in Atlanta.

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).

Beginning later this year, several elementary and secondary schools in Chicago, Moscow, and Amsterdam will take part in «Project Metropolis,» a collaborative effort funded by International Movement Towards Education, a nonprofit advocacy group.

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.

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.

The report by the nonprofit Grantmakers for Education, issued last week, also notes a growing interest in collaboration among funders, as well as increased attention to fueling educational innovations and providing dollars to support advocacy and public - policy work.

People for the American Way, a national civil - liberties advocacy group founded by the television producer Norman Lear, began working to have the procedures changed last year after it was denied the opportunity to testify in favor of textbooks criticized by Mel and Norma Gabler of Education Research Analysts, a nonprofit organization...

We provide additional support to E4E and other nonprofits by providing research and information on emerging education advocacy efforts and trends, which we offer through America Forward - New Profit's policy arm.

America's Promise Alliance Founded by General Colin Powell, America's Promise Alliance is comprised of corporations, nonprofit organizations, foundations, policymakers, advocacy groups, and faith groups.

For example, a report released recently (by the ACLU SoCal and Public Advocates, a nonprofit law firm and advocacy group) found that more than 20 percent of all California charter schools have enrollment policies that violate state and federal law.

Across the nation, 604 charter schools, or 12 percent, operate with unions, and more than half of them must do so under state laws, according to data compiled for the last school year by the National Alliance for Public Charter Schools, a nonprofit advocacy organization.

The lack of progress in the younger grades trickles up: More than half of English learners now in California high schools are «long - term English learners,» meaning they have been in public schools for six years without learning English, according to a 2010 report by Californians Together, a nonprofit advocacy group.

A coalition of education - advocacy groups behind the effort is seeking a maximum of 40 public charter schools over five years, operated by qualified nonprofits and overseen by a local school board or a special state commission.

By Joshua P. Starr I recently attended a meeting with about 40 people involved in K - 12 public education at multiple levels: academics, state and district leaders, heads of nonprofit and advocacy groups, -LSB-...]

Asked for his response, Ryan Smith, executive director of the Education Trust — West, a nonprofit advocacy organization, said: «I was troubled by those comments because although we have local control, it's up to all of us at both the state and local level to ensure that LCFF has positive results.

It was written by former award - winning high school principal Carol Burris, who is now executive director of the nonprofit Network for Public Education advocacy group.

Only onefourth of teenagers in households with less than $ 35,000 in annual income said they had their own laptops compared with 62 percent in households with annual incomes of $ 100,000 or more, according to the report, to be published on Tuesday by Common Sense Media, a nonprofit children's advocacy and media ratings group based in San Francisco.

Public Advocates Inc. is a nonprofit law firm and advocacy organization that challenges the systemic causes of poverty and racial discrimination by strengthening community voices in public policy and achieving tangible legal victories advancing education, housing and transit equity.

Those challenges are why Lester's principal, Antonio Burt, a second - year principal trained by the national nonprofit advocacy group, New Leaders for New Schools, opened the doors to a visitor.

The nonprofit New Teacher Project (TNTP), an alternative teacher - certification and advocacy group, surveyed more than 10,500 teachers in three large public school districts and one charter school network to assess whether teacher development programs organized by the districts have helped teachers improve.

These foundations have clear agendas and are using their money to enlist allies in their causes, whether it's through funding advocacy groups (they're mostly blocked from direct lobbying due to their nonprofit status) or by tying their dollars directly to desired changes in policy and personnel.

Previously, she served as Director of Technical Assistance at the State Collaborative on Reforming Education (SCORE), a nonprofit and non-partisan advocacy and research institution, founded by former U.S. Senate Majority Leader Bill Frist.

Former U.S. Secretary of Education, John B. King Jr, now President & CEO of Education Trust, a national nonprofit advocacy organization that promotes high academic achievement for all students at all levels, particularly for students of color and low - income students, delivered the keynote address at the fall 2017 convening of the By All Means consortium.

Founded in 2006, Raise Your Hand Texas is a non-partisan nonprofit organization working to advance public education by igniting fiercely innovative leadership and advocacy for our state's 5 million + students.

Allensworth, whose research will be featured Tuesday, April 7, in a national webinar sponsored by California's Attendance Institute, a nonprofit school advocacy group based in Sacramento, offers up the educational experience of two fifth graders that might finish the year both with good attendance records, say 97 percent.

The analysis, done by the Center for Media and Democracy, a nonprofit liberal watchdog and advocacy agency based in Wisconsin that tracks corporate influence on public policy, says that four companies — Pearson Education, ETS (Educational Testing Service), Houghton Mifflin Harcourt, and McGraw - Hill — collectively spent more than $ 20 million lobbying in states and on Capitol Hill from 2009 to 2014.»

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