Sentences with phrase «citizens group working»

Transportation Alternatives, a 5500 - member New York City - area non-profit citizens group working for better bicycling, walking and public transit, and fewer cars, is giving you the opportunity to do so.

Laura Clemons, city liaison to a citizens group working to build a dog park.

Not exact matches

There are many groups — governments, non-profits, concerned citizens — working on these issues.

In fact, a group of local citizens have been working behind the scenes to try and forge an agreement for electoral cooperation to run a single progressive candidate.

The long - term vision is a country in which citizens, specialists, professionals, academics, community groups and even businesses can work together, developing innovative information access and visualization tools, better decision - making models, and more tools responsive to the needs of the citizens.

With courts increasingly willing to nullify popular legislation and proclaim new rights, legislators are encouraged to avoid their responsibility for tackling controversial issues; interest groups are encouraged to take their cases to the courts rather than to try to persuade their fellow citizens; and citizens get the feeling that they have no say in setting the conditions under which they live, work, and raise their children.

These citizens groups are working to improve care of the mentally ill.

In Chick - Fil - A's case they are funneling millions of dollars to hate groups who are working to get the government of this country to deny civil rights to citizens.

Those who do not want to curtail their research work can find opportunities as citizens, in church and civic groups, and in political parties.

Even though resistance takes many different forms (against the MAI, towards a jubilee year in 2000, for the Tobin tax, seeking alternatives, etc.), and even if the struggles are specific in their aims (farmers, workers, indigenous or coloured people, citizens, ecologists or women, the urban poor, etc.) and though the various co-ordination groups are numerous (Peoples Power for the XXI Century in Asia, São Paulo Forum in Latin America, etc.), all of these have a common thread: they all work to highlight the unacceptable nature of the current economic system.

Mr Foye, a US citizen, will be based in Shanghai and report directly to Treasury chief executive Mike Clarke, who worked with Mr Foye earlier in his career when they were both at the soft drinks group.

Baby Milk Action is the UK member of IBFAN (the International Baby Food Action Network), a global network of over 270 citizens groups in more than 160 countries that has been working since 1980 to stop misleading marketing by the baby feeding industry.

Mass Audubon's Advocacy department works with other organizations, legislators, and citizen groups to shape and strengthen environmental laws and regulations.

Fred Featherstone, a 26 - year resident who was on the citizens committee, said the group wanted the center to have broad appeal, a place where mothers could work out while their children were in class.

Mass Audubon's Advocacy department works with other conservation organizations, legislators, and citizen groups to shape and strengthen environmental laws and regulations.

Today, Reinvent Albany, submitted joint testimony with fellow NYC Transparency Working Group member organizations NYPIRG, Citizens Union and Common Cause / NY to the NYC City Council Technology Committee oversight hearing on open data:

Today, Reinvent Albany, submitted joint testimony with fellow NYC Transparency Working Group member organizations NYPIRG, Citizens Union and Common Cause / NY to the NYC City Council Technology Committee oversight hearing on open data: In addition, TWG members BetaNYC and Jessie Braden of Pratt's SAVI provided testimony.

NY 19 Votes is uniting #Resistance, Indivisible, SwingLeft and long standing activist groups, Democratic and Working Families Party members and concerned citizens across the district.

A Green party spokesman said: «The citizen's income is one of the items the manifesto working group are looking at.

You can't take a group, any group of citizens and say well you don't have the rights guaranteed under the constitution because you work on a farm.

Dick Dadey, executive director of Citizens Union, a nonpartisan good - government group in Manhattan, said Terry's background should have disqualified him from government work.

Jamison Dague, director of infrastructure studies for the Citizens Budget Commission of New York, a nonprofit government watchdog group, said the MTA has long wanted to abolish some of the work rules.

The Localism Bill does not just devolve power to local councils but it also ensures that local citizens and community groups will have the power to shape and influence the places where they live and work and thus fully play their part in building the Big Society.

The other partners in the effort are the Sunlight Foundation, good government group Citizens Union, Socrata, web - developer coder training program Dev Bootcamp, and Ontodia, an open data solutions firm that has experience working with scraping PDFS and making them machine - readable.

Additional participants in the Jamaica Now Planning Initiative include: 165th Street Business Improvement District, 180th Street Business Improvement District, Jamaica Center Business Improvement District and Sutphin Boulevard Business Improvement District, A Better Jamaica, A Better Way Family & Community Center, Addisleigh Park Civic Association, Alliance of South Asian American Laborers, America Works, Antioch Baptist Church, Brinkerhoff Action Associates, Inc., Center for Integration & Advancement for New Americans, Center for New York City Neighborhoods, Chhaya Community Development Corporation, Citizens Housing & Planning Council, Community Healthcare Network of New York City, Cultural Collaborative Jamaica, Damian Family Care Center, Edge School of the Art, Exploring the Metropolis, Farmers Boulevard Community Development Corporation, First Presbyterian Church in Jamaica, Fortune Society, Goodwill Industries of Greater New York & New Northern New Jersey, Greater Allen Development Corporation, Greater Triangular Civic Association, Indo Caribbean Alliance, Jamaica Center for Arts & Learning, Jamaica Hospital, Jamaica Muslim Center; Jamaica Performing Arts Center, Jamaica YMCA, King Manor, LaGuardia Community College Adult & Continuing Education, Mutual Housing Association of New York, Neighborhood Housing Services Jamaica, New York Alliance for Careers in Healthcare, Queens College, Queens Council on the Arts, Queens Economic Development Corporation, Queens Hospital, Queens Legal Services, Queens Library; Queens Workforce1 Center, SelfHelp, Sikh Cultural Society, Sunnyside Community Services, Inc., The Jamaica Young Professionals, The Jamaica Youth Leaders, The Tate Group, Upwardly Global, Visiting Nurse Service of New York, and Y - Roads.

What would now be good to see from governments is more explanation to their citizens of how the tax system actually works, so the public can makes up its mind with all the facts, such as that corporation tax is paid on profits and not sales and it is legitimate for a subsidiary to pay for the use of intellectual property owned by another group company.

A group of determined citizens has been working to save a bit of Western New York's green space, and now it's time for the New York State Parks to build on that work with a $ 279,000 grant to help purchase 60 acres of farmland.

The group works to help working families, senior citizens and youths.

«The governors» special panel should not cancel out the good work done so far with these unanimously supported bistate bills,» said Dick Dadey, executive director of Citizens Union, a government watchdog group in New York.

The Conflicts of Interest Board probe stems from a complaint made by the watchdog group Citizens Union over pro-bono work Mark - Viverito received in late 2013 from The Advance Ggroup Citizens Union over pro-bono work Mark - Viverito received in late 2013 from The Advance GroupGroup.

If Labour does want to regain its former levels of support from working class citizens (who remain objectively the largest social group in society), the party must adopt the politics of hope and ambition — the hope and ambition to make the mass of citizens» lives better through regulating the processes and outcomes of the market.

The Open Houses area a follow - up to a series of Scenario Planning Mapping Workshops held from November, 2013 through March, 2014 across Erie and Niagara counties where citizens worked together in groups to map a future vision for land use, development, housing and transportation in Buffalo Niagara.

New York's Working Families Party was first organized in 1998 by a collation of labor unions, community organizations, and the variety of public interest groups such as Citizens Action of New York.

The foundation is affiliated and shares governance with Citizens Union, a good government group founded in 1897, which works to make democracy work for all New Yorkers.

Maurice Glassman's acceptance of a peerage is a coup for Ed Miliband given how hard the Tories have courted London Citizens, the community organising group that Glassman works with.

Dick Dadey, executive director of the good - government group Citizens Union, said the action shows JCOPE — the first ethics watchdog to have independent oversight over the Legislature — works.

Capitalizing on the unique expertise of its members, the IAU through its Public Naming of Planets and Planetary Satellites Working Group has now developed a project in partnership with Zooniverse — home to the internet's largest, most popular and most successful citizen science projects [1].

I've looked high and low, but I've found little money for non-permanent-resident trainees working at U.S. universities, except for certain targeted groups (citizens of NATO partner countries, citizens of newly independent eastern European nations, etc.).

Founded in the 1950s, the group is currently run by two solid - citizen scientists with commercial aims, Don Griffith and Mark Solak, who have spent their careers working in privately funded weather modification efforts around the country and the world.

Novocell's proposal was selected for funding by CIRM's governing board, the Independent Citizens Oversight Committee (ICOC), with advisement from the Scientific and Medical Research Funding Working Group.

These organizations have recently teamed up to form EIROFORUM, whose working group on outreach and education will work with the European Union to provide a bridge between the organisations, the European Union and the citizens of Europe.

At a certain age, every citizen is tested and assigned to a group representing and living that one facet of human personality — and she fails the test (or it just doesn't work on her), making her a Divergent.

In Colorado, for instance, Lieutenant Governor Barbara O'Brien started getting feedback on the state's application by creating work groups on the four reforms, and other citizens can submit ideas in writing to her office anytime.

In 1949, he took charge of the newly created National Citizens Commission for the Public Schools, which, by the end of the 1950s, helped spur the creation of more than 15,000 citizen groups focused on working with local district officials to improve local school problems.

One month after the South Dakota Legislature approved Gov. William J. Janklow's education - reform package, a group of law and citizens is working on a petition drive to put the bill up to public vote in next November's election.

«The only way you make something like this work is to fully inform parents what their options are and how to exercise their options, and school superintendents aren't doing that,» says William L. Taylor, chairman of the Citizens Commission on Civil Rights, a liberal advocacy group.

One group of local citizens — teachers and other employees of the school district — has an intense interest in everything the district does: how much money it spends, how the money is allocated, how hiring and firing are handled, what work rules are adopted, how the curriculum is determined, which schools are to be opened and closed, and much more.

An influential citizens» advocacy group in Kentucky last week strongly urged the governor and state lawmakers to set aside their differences and begin work on a comprehensive school - reform program.

After nearly 15 months of work, the plan was approved by State Board on March 15 and signed by Governor Bruce Rauner, after a series of three public drafts, approximately 100 listening forums throughout the state, and over 3,500 comments from parents, teachers, administrators, citizens, and other stakeholder groups.

The initiative is an extension of the Prichard Committee for Academic Excellence, an independent citizens» advocacy group that works to improve Kentucky schools.