Sentences with phrase «campaign of advocacy groups»

The one - house budget resolutions being voted on Thursday by both chambers backs $ 45 million in funding for direct care workers, money that has been long sought for a campaign of advocacy groups pushing for the fundnig.

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That's according to a report Tuesday by the Wall Street Journal that's based on an analysis of 329 research papers identified by the Campaign for Accountability advocacy group as linked to Google in some way.

Further, if the payment were a loan from Cohen, Trump may have had a duty to report it in his June 2017 financial disclosure form to the Office of Government Ethics, said Trevor Potter, a former Republican FEC commissioner and founder of campaign finance advocacy group Campaign Legal Center, in a stcampaign finance advocacy group Campaign Legal Center, in a stCampaign Legal Center, in a statement.

Dogwood's criticism of B.C.'s lax donation system began in 2001 with the group's advocacy for public disclosure of campaign contributions.

People for the American Way, a liberal advocacy group and dedicated Bachmann opponent, resurfaced the petition earlier this month after news that the congresswoman would remain on the high - profile panel despite spearheading a controversial campaign against Muslim members of President Barack Obama's administration last year.

Consumer advocacy group CHOICE has launched a campaign against a proposal seeking the removal of quantity statements from the front of pack on consumer goods packaging.

Consumer advocacy group CHOICE has today launched a campaign calling on Kellogg's and six other food manufacturers to roll out the front of pack health star rating on their products.

As Campaign Manager of The Big Push For Midwives Campaign, Katherine has worked with advocacy groups in multiple states, providing guidance and other assistance on such areas as drafting legislation, building strong grassroots networks, and utilizing savvy legislative strategies to advance and pass legislation to license and regulate CPMs.

To remedy that, advocacy groups and government officials are waging a publicity campaign to inform poor families of the program and recruit new sponsors to support it.

Illinois and other states should legalize and license lay midwives to ensure women have safe and affordable choices for maternity care, according to a coalition of advocacy groups that launched a national campaign Thursday in Chicago.

Rumpler of the advocacy group and others have led campaigns to educate parents and school administrators about lead exposure risks, including the school - based initiative Get the Lead Out.

Democrats also benefit from the growth of progressive nonprofit advocacy campaigns over the past decade: not only have advocacy groups experimented with just about every tool or tactic in the book, but the existence of so many independent groups clamoring for effective technology has created a vibrant market.

The Obama campaign's email strategy, and like so much else the campaign did online, built on the experience of previous political campaigns and nonprofit advocacy groups, relying on incremental improvements over past practice.

A frequent speaker and acknowledged expert in the field of internet communications, Delany has worked for two decades to help advocacy groups, companies and political campaigns leverage the power of online tools.

For campaigns and advocacy groups, the trend presents both problems and opportunities: problems in that it dilutes the effectiveness of mainstream - site advocacy, opportunities in that it creates targets for niche marketing and issue - based recruiting.

The online advertising world is moving so fast that I can't hardly keep up with it — just in the last few days, the MarketingVox e-newsletter has delivered a slew of stories that suggest new opportunities for campaigns and advocacy groups to spread their messages online:

As of January 1, I left my day job at the National Environmental Trust to devote my time to helping a diverse array of advocacy groups, companies and campaigns use the «net to help spread their messages and achieve their political and communications goals.

These results are obviously useful for the campaigns themselves, but they can also help issue advocacy groups that are trying to piggyback off of the high level of political interest this year.

To get more out of it, try adding links to your individual campaigns (if you're an advocacy group) or to more information about each of your issues.

Just a preview of the myriad ways campaigns and advocacy groups can screw themselves up when they try to use the internet for politics.

But it's what works: the experience of many campaigns, advocacy groups and corporate brands is that good content regularly posted can keep a page's fans engaged enough that Facebook will keep dropping its posts into their newsfeeds.

An new report from an education advocacy group accuses members of the state Senate's eight - member IDC of betraying traditional public schools in exchange for campaign donations from charter school supporters.

Candidates have used blogads for fundraising, advocacy groups to build their email lists, authors and publishers to promote books, and campaigns of all stripes to publicize their positions and to help launch viral campaigns.

Political campaigns and advocacy groups typically recruit people through a relatively low - commitment action (signing a petition, for instance) and move them up the ladder to higher levels of involvement by offering them opportunities to donate time, money and energy in greater and greater amounts.

The key takeaway from the report: Here's yet another example from an advocacy group pushing for an overhaul of the state's campaign finance laws.

With another election year on the way, it's time for a «Winning in 2012» follow - on to the 2010 book, for a start, along with plenty of drive - by potshots at candidates, campaigns and advocacy groups in the blog pages.

New Yorkers Against Corruption, a nonprofit advocacy group that opposes a convention, had $ 616,893 in its campaign account as of Oct. 6, after spending $ 431,292 since July, according to state campaign finance records.

Other groups such as Progressive Congress News are similarly trying to use Twitter to raise the profile of content that's otherwise at risk of getting buried, something that I suspect we're going to see much more of in advocacy campaigns to come.

On Wednesday, during the strategy session, the governor will meet with Christine C. Quinn, the speaker of the City Council, who is openly gay; Brian Ellner, who is pushing for same - sex marriage in New York for the Human Rights Campaign, a national advocacy group; Ross D. Levi, the head of the state's leading gay rights organization, the Empire State Pride Agenda; and Richard Socarides, a former Clinton administration official and president of Equality Matters, a new advocacy group.

Advocacy groups are encouraged by recent statements made by the co-chairman of Gov. Andrew Cuomo's anti-corruption commission, who says he now favors public financing of political campaigns.

The online advertising world is moving so fast that I can't hardly keep up with it — just in the last few days, the MarketingVox e-newsletter has delivered a slew of stories that suggest new opportunities for campaigns and advocacy groups to spread their messages online: Social...

And online fundraising isn't just a game for presidential campaigns: sites like ActBlue on the left and Slatecard on the right are extending internet fundraising to candidates at all levels, while nonprofit advocacy groups have access to a broad array of tools to build supporter lists and plumb them for cash.

Brent Ferguson of The Brennan Center for Justice said that he believed Cuomo's legislation would only cover nonprofit advocacy groups, a certain class of 501 (c) 4s, if they engage in «political activity» during campaign season.

Jaqi Cohen, the campaign coordinator for the Straphangers Campaign, an advocacy group, called it «one of the biggest wins for our city's 2.5 million daily bus riders in more than half a centurycampaign coordinator for the Straphangers Campaign, an advocacy group, called it «one of the biggest wins for our city's 2.5 million daily bus riders in more than half a centuryCampaign, an advocacy group, called it «one of the biggest wins for our city's 2.5 million daily bus riders in more than half a century.»

The Campaign for Youth Shelter, a coalition effort by a number of advocacy groups, are pressing the state and city to grow the supply of emergency beds each year by 100 until waiting lists at shelters around the city disappear.

Advocacy groups are encouraged by recent statements by the co - chair of New York State Governor Andrew Cuomo's anti-corruption commission, who says he now favors public financing of political campaigns.

Advocacy groups are encouraged by recent statements by the co - chair of Governor Cuomo's anti corruption commission, who says he now favors public financing of political campaigns.

«Drastic funding cuts have inevitably led to service cuts for Nassau County residents who often have no alternative means of transportation, meaning even longer waits and longer commutes,» said Vincent Pellecchia, associate director of the tristate Transportation Campaign, a nonprofit advocacy group in Manhattan.

«I want to thank the unprecedented alliance of elected officials, led by Governor Cuomo and Mayor de Blasio, as well as the representatives of organized labor and New York's advocacy groups, for campaigning so effectively that the will of the people be properly recognized,» she said.

The Democratic Congressional Campaign Committee has engaged both Nicole Hockley and Mark Barden, the co-founders of Sandy Hook Promise, a gun control advocacy group, in discussions about the race.

Brian Ellner, head of the marriage initiative for the gay advocacy group Human Rights Campaign, said that the Republican's remarks were insensitive given a recent swirl of news about suicide in the gay community and antigay violence.

In a statement, Stewart - Cousins thanked the «unprecedented alliance of elected officials, led by Governor Cuomo and Mayor de Blasio, as well as the representatives of organized labor and New York's advocacy groups, for campaigning so effectively that the will of the people be properly recognized.»

«We're thrilled,» said Adrienne Esposito, executive director of Citizens Campaign for the Environment, an advocacy group.

A coalition of environmental advocacy groups is swinging their weight behind an effort that's making end - of - session push for an overhaul of campaign finance laws this year.

In 2012, Google and Facebook had separate salespeople dedicated either to Republicans, Democrats or Independent expenditure and advocacy groups — aka Super PACs — to ensure knowledge about media buys and spending plans didn't leak to opponents or, in the case of Super PACs, to like - minded groups that were legally prohibited from coordinating with the official candidate campaigns.

A new advocacy group called Blind Justice is launching a national advertising campaign calling for prosecutor accountability and the importance of conviction integrity.

The coalition of advocacy groups backing publicly financed campaigns in New York is happy that Gov. Andrew Cuomo plans to include a donor - matching system in his 2014 - 15 budget proposal.

It's a reduction of $ 15 million from 2011, the first since 2000 as lobbying groups and advocacy campaigns pulled back dramatically on advertising spending.

It also comes as Cuomo comes under increasing pressure from liberal and progressive advocacy groups that are part of a well - funded campaign to push for public financing.

New Yorkers for Students» Educational Rights, an education advocacy group, is suing Gov. Andrew Cuomo, the Board of Regents and state Education Commissioner John King, claiming the state has systematically shortgaged the public school system by failing failing to comply with an agreement that followed the landmark Campaign for Fiscal Equity Ruling of 2006.