Sentences with phrase «coalition with community»

West Coast LEAF, in coalition with the Community Legal Assistance Society, intervened in that case to argue that evidence requirements for discrimination cases should not unfairly disadvantage already marginalized people.

This week, West Coast LEAF, in coalition with the Community Legal Assistance Society, intervened in a case that will determine how difficult it will be for a marginalized group — in this case, homeless people — to address discrimination Read More

This week, West Coast LEAF is at the BC Court of Appeal in coalition with the Community Legal Assistance Society (CLAS) speaking out for homeless people's right to access justice under the BC Human Rights Code.

West Coast LEAF (Women's Legal Education and Action Fund) intervened in the case in coalition with the Community Legal Assistance Society (CLAS) at both the BCSC and BCCA levels to highlight the impact of harassment, removals and exclusions on the marginalized population of street homeless in Vancouver and on the need for a flexible and contextual approach to proving discrimination in human rights law.

For Immediate Release — October 5, 2016 VANCOUVER — Today, West Coast LEAF in coalition with the Community Legal Assistance Society (CLAS) is at the BC Court of Appeal (BCCA) in an appeal concerning discrimination against Vancouver's street homeless Read More

VANCOUVER — Today, West Coast LEAF in coalition with the Community Legal Assistance Society (CLAS) is at the BC Court of Appeal (BCCA) in an appeal concerning discrimination against Vancouver's street homeless population.

«Our priority is to work in coalition with community groups, advocacy organizations, unions and elected officials across the state including Mayor de Blasio and Governor Cuomo to win a Democratic - Working Families Senate Majority.

I have always worked on organizing people around issues and policy in coalition with community partners.

«Our priority is to work in coalitions with community groups, advocacy organizations, unions and elected officials across the state — including Mayor de Blasio — to win a Democratic - Working Families Senate Majority,» he said.

As Donald Trump and his racialized rhetoric have seized the national stage, we've led on issues of racial justice with forums around the city and coalitions with community.

Not exact matches

The global health community and a coalition of public - private initiatives has successfully begun taming the scourge, with a 21 % decrease in its global incidence and 29 % drop in mortality rate between 2010 and 2015; still, there were 212 million malaria cases worldwide and nearly 430,000 deaths from the disease in 2015, according to the latest World Health Organization (WHO) figures.

The Global EIR Coalition is excited to partner with University of Missouri, St. Louis, to build a community of global entrepreneurs pursuing their American Dreams and creating jobs.

Kim also serves as a board member with the following: the Canadian Coalition for Good Governance, the Community Business Diversity Council, the Women's College Hospital Investment Committee, and the United Corporation (a listed closed - end fund).

I debated whether to engage a post that is just as disturbing as the title suggests, but after speaking with an editor and several writers at The Gospel Coalition, as well as some of my gay and lesbian friends, I've decided it's important to offer an alternative to the attitude presented in this post and, perhaps more importantly, to explore / discuss how Christians ought to respond when we encounter homophobia in our own faith communities.

The Daily Mail says a spokesperson from The National Council of Resistance of Iran, a political coalition which opposes the government, said: «The silence of the world community, especially of western countries, vis - à - vis these medieval punishments under the excuse of having nuclear talks with Iran has intensified the brutal and systematic violation of human rights in Iran.

In describing and accounting for the lives of the Religious Right, which we define simply as religious conservatives with a considerable involvement in political activity, the book and the series tell the story primarily by focusing on leading episodes in the movement's history, including, but not limited to, the groundwork laid by Billy Graham in his relationships with presidents and other prominent political leaders; the resistance of evangelical and other Protestants to the candidacy of the Roman Catholic John F. Kennedy; the rise of what has been called the New Right out of the ashes of Barry Goldwater's defeat in 1964; a battle over sex education in Anaheim, California, in the mid-1960's; a prolonged cultural war over textbooks in West Virginia in the early 1970's — and that is a battle that has been fought less violently in community after community all over the country; the thrill conservative Christians felt over the election of a «born - again» Christian to the Presidency in 1976 and the subsequent disappointment they experienced when they found out that Jimmy Carter was, of all things, a Democrat; the rise of the Moral Majority and its infatuation with Ronald Reagan; the difficulty the Religious Right has had in dealing with abortion, homosexuality and AIDS; Pat Robertson's bid for the presidency and his subsequent launching of the Christian Coalition; efforts by Dr. James Dobson and Gary Bauer to win a «civil war of values» by changing the culture at a deeper level than is represented by winning elections; and, finally, by addressing crucial questions about the appropriate relationship between religion and politics or, as we usually put it, between church and state.

For example, several ISEAL members have come together to form the Global Living Wage Coalition, and ISEAL is working in partnership with The Sustainable Food Lab and GIZ on the Living Income Community of Practice.

About Gulf Seafood Marketing Coalition The Coalition provides a framework for the seafood community to coordinate marketing efforts among the Gulf States with emphasis on working with tourism boards, restaurants, retailers and chefs.

The company then partnered with farmers, government agencies, international development groups, individual investors, angel investors, U.S. wholesalers, non-profit organizations, including the Community Coalition for Haiti (CCH), a non-profit dedicated to supporting economic improvement in Haiti.

To get onto Baby Buds» email list, [email protected] • Our Family Coalition, The Bay Area Gay & Lesbian Family Group, 415-981-1960, PO Box 13505, Berkeley, CA 94712 - 4505, www.ourfamily.org • Gay and Lesbian Parents of Los Angeles, # 109 - 346,7985 Santa Monica, West Hollywood, CA 90046, [phone] • Lesbian Mothers & Our Children c / o GLCSC, 1625 N. Schrader Blvd., Los Angeles, CA 90028, 213-993-7608 • The Pop Luck Club, P.O. Box 69865, West Hollywood, CA 90069, tel: [phone], [email protected], www.popluckclub.org • Billy DeFrank LGBT Community Center of Santa Clara County's support / social group for Mothers and Fathers with younger children.

• Lesbian and Gay Community Center of New Orleans 2114 Decatur Street New Orleans, LA 70116 - 2013 Phone: [phone] Email: [email protected] Maine • Mothers & Kids Group PO Box 2235 S. Portland, ME 04116 • The Diversity Center c / o The Robinson Loring Job Corps Center RR # 1 Box 1727 Limestone, ME 04750 - 9743 Phone: [phone] Email: [email protected] • Equality Maine PO Box 1951 Portland, ME 04104 Phone: [phone] Fax: [phone] Email: [email protected] Website: www.equalitymaine.org / • Gay and Lesbian Community Services Center of Northern Maine PO Box 990 Caribou, ME 04736 Phone: [phone] • GLBT Parents Support Group of Maine Timothy Richardson PO Box 10901 Portland, ME 04104 Email: [email protected] Maryland • Gay and Lesbian Parenting Coalition of Metropolitan Washington 14908 Piney Grove Court North Potomac, MD 20878 • Families With Pride, Baltimore Contact Jodi Kaye by email: [email protected] or phone [phone] • Equality Maryland 1319 Apple Avenue Silver Spring, MD 20910 Phone: [phone] Toll - free: 888-440-9944 Fax: [phone] Email: [email protected] Website: www.equalitymaryland.org / • GL Parenting Coalition of Metro Washington 14908 Piney Grove Court North Potomac, MD 20878 Phone: [phone] • The GLBT Community Center of Baltimore 241 West Chase Street Baltimore, MD 21201 Phone: [phone] Fax: [phone] Email: [email protected] Website: www.glccb.org / Massachusetts

Mass Audubon, the Central Massachusetts Regional Planning Commission (CMRPC), Horsley Witten Group, Inc., and the Blackstone River Coalition teamed up to assist communities in the Blackstone watershed with:

Breastfeeding Support www.breastfeedventura.org The Coalition is comprised of health care providers, community leaders, policy makers, and parents, as well as public and private organizations with the common goal of promoting and supporting breastfeeding as the culture norm in Ventura County.

We partner with Maternal Mental Health Coalition of Ventura County, Community Memorial Hospital and now Santa Barbara Planned Parenthood.

The Northumberland Breastfeeding Coalition is comprised of members from our community, who have come together with a common goal of supporting breastfeeding moms.

Baby Rest Stop is a community outreach project created by the Shelby County Breastfeeding Coalition to provide parents with a shady spot to change diapers and feed children at area festivals.

She works in partnership with schools, community groups, and coalitions such as the Baltimore Partnership to End Childhood Hunger.

With your help, the Pennsylvania Breastfeeding Coalition will help to facilitate community and statewide efforts to protect, support and promote breastfeeding as the cultural norm across the Commonwealth.

Current and Past Projects: Breast pump rental, purchase, and supplies; FREE walk - in breastfeeding clinic during regular business hours; monthly prenatal breastfeeding classes and monthly breastfeeding support group (support group starting January 2015); collaboration with Central Kansas Breastfeeding Coalition; annual community women's event in August for celebration of World Breastfeeding Week.

If you don't have a local coalition, this might be the perfect time to form one as you work with health care providers and others in your community on WBM activities!

The Nevada Statewide Maternal and Child Health Coalition works with community partners to advocate for preconception health, developmental screening, breastfeeding, physical activity, and more for mothers and children.

Its practical application, and that of the Coalition's Localism Bill, can be seen to have shifted responsibility for delivering services and managing budgets onto the local and community level, while effectively withholding power through enforcing cuts and strengthening government oversight, as with Gove's current dominion over education provision.

In coalition with Let NY Vote, we ask Governor Cuomo to commit to helping ensure constitutional rights across all of our communities by including funding for early voting in the Executive Budget.»

Still, he acknowledges he's been flooded with entreaties in recent months, from fellow leaders of the city's black community as well as wealthy white donors, that he's got the best shot at spearheading a coalition to oust the embattled de Blasio.

Enhancing skills of coalition members and the community by Increasing there skills to deal with underage drinking and drug issues.

HAMILTON >> Hamilton Area Community Coalition and University Chrysler Dodge Jeep Ram partnered with STOP - DWI NY and the Hamilton Police Department to promote safe driving and reduce drunk driving in the Hamilton community during Alcohol Awareness Month Community Coalition and University Chrysler Dodge Jeep Ram partnered with STOP - DWI NY and the Hamilton Police Department to promote safe driving and reduce drunk driving in the Hamilton community during Alcohol Awareness Month community during Alcohol Awareness Month in April.

She has been active in NYC Opt Out and Change the Stakes, a grassroots coalition of parents, teachers and community members who are concerned with the destructive use of high - stakes standardized testing.

Cantor acknowledged that even with the «transformational coalition» of de Blasio, labor unions, environmental and community organizations and the governor all pulling together, plus the infusion of additional resources, it's not a foregone conclusion that the Democrats will run the table and win back a clean majority.

East Side members also voted Sunday to team up with Pledge 2 Protect, a coalition of community groups that recently launched a campaign against the East 91st Street project — and has vowed to keep any pro-MTS politician out of office.

Community Voices Heard, a community activist organization started by single mothers on public assistance in NYC more than two decades ago, was at the forefront of the #NoCuts Coalition rally, along with U.S. Senate Minority Leader Charles E. Schumer, State Senator Marisol Alcantara (D - 31st Senate District), and the leaders of several dozen grassroots, civic and labor organCommunity Voices Heard, a community activist organization started by single mothers on public assistance in NYC more than two decades ago, was at the forefront of the #NoCuts Coalition rally, along with U.S. Senate Minority Leader Charles E. Schumer, State Senator Marisol Alcantara (D - 31st Senate District), and the leaders of several dozen grassroots, civic and labor organcommunity activist organization started by single mothers on public assistance in NYC more than two decades ago, was at the forefront of the #NoCuts Coalition rally, along with U.S. Senate Minority Leader Charles E. Schumer, State Senator Marisol Alcantara (D - 31st Senate District), and the leaders of several dozen grassroots, civic and labor organizations.

Clare Bairstow, 32, a university lecturer who was arrested during Monday's protest said: «We are simply insisting that he sits down and engages with this coalition of community groups.

HCR joined the Community Preservation Corporation (CPC) and Rockland Housing Action Coalition, along with county and local officials recently to celebrate the completion of Hyenga Lake Senior Housing.

There are wider problems with basing economic development on tourism, said Sam Magavern, co-director of the Partnership for the Public Good, a coalition of 178 community groups based in the Buffalo metropolitan area.

INWOOD — An Uptown coalition composed of local organizations and community groups hosted a public hearing with City Council members to discuss the mayor's plan to rezone city neighborhoods to create and preserve affordable housing.

Our partnership with the Community Preservation Coalition, delivers a win for the state pension fund and for New York families.»

This is shaping up to be a showdown between the developer, The Related Companies (and other powerful developers with similar interests) who will be backed by the Bloomberg administration and a coalition of Bronx elected officials and community groups.

And the community has begun to respond, with letters pouring in from a variety of important players demanding that a new position be funded to ensure that Kawamoto remains the keystone of this painstakingly built coalition — what New Paltz Police Department chief Joseph Snyder terms «the captain of the ship.»

Diaz, the entire Bronx Council delegation, along with members of the Northwest Bronx Comnunity and Clergy Coalition and the city's biggest retail workers union, fought for living wage jobs as part of a Community Benefits agreement with the developer, the Related Companies, but a deal couldn't be worked out.

A white paper issued by the Community United for True Affordable Housing, a coalition of Upper Manhattan elected officials and community leaders who took part in Sunday's rally near a vacant lot on West 172nd Street and Amsterdam Avenue, said the city should provide the area with the same level of housing provided in other Manhattan comCommunity United for True Affordable Housing, a coalition of Upper Manhattan elected officials and community leaders who took part in Sunday's rally near a vacant lot on West 172nd Street and Amsterdam Avenue, said the city should provide the area with the same level of housing provided in other Manhattan comcommunity leaders who took part in Sunday's rally near a vacant lot on West 172nd Street and Amsterdam Avenue, said the city should provide the area with the same level of housing provided in other Manhattan communities.

To reconnect with millions of voters lost since 2001, we need to reassert the coalition between working - class communities and liberal - minded professionals.