Sentences with phrase «community organizers»

A new movement erupted in the 1990s when lone caregivers became community organizers along with their veterinarians.

This presentation is designed for community organizers and advocates working with politicians to develop dog laws that encourage sage and humane communities.

Madigan, a staunch defender of student loan borrowers, invited education advocates and community organizers to the student loan forum.

The conversations can occasionally turn hostile, but the community organizers are always ready to stop in and make sure things stay on track.

At a community organizers meeting, Hays was asked to help form a news outlet that specifically catered to and addressed life in East Palo Alto, and the EPANow project got underway.

Community organizers with the Overpass Light Brigade demonstrated outside Thursday's meeting, with a message that read No Takeover in LED lights.

We are currently looking for: - Part and full time teachers (artists, farmers, community organizers please apply!)

These community organizers have come together under the banner of the national Journey for Justice Alliance, a coalition of grass - roots organizations.

A number of other states, often at the behest of community organizers, have already introduced or plan to introduce legislation this year to support community schools, including California, Georgia, Maine, Minnesota, Missouri, Ohio, Texas, and Wisconsin.

All that talk is a just a sales tool.They have 2 full time «community organizers» at $ 50,000 each Guess I'll have to vote against bonds in the future.

Innovate is paying for Facebook and Twitter ads and hiring «community organizers» to convince parents of color that charter schools are on their side.

Texas Forums maintains a network of over 400 people in Central Texas and around the country who are trained deliberative democracy moderators, skilled issue framers, innovative community organizers, and respected scholars and researchers of public deliberation.

She currently serves as an Operations Associate, where she provides extensive support to the Choice4LA Program and Parent Revolution's team of community organizers.

CHICAGO: This week, community organizers and labor partners in Chicago passed a non-binding ballot initiative calling for the city's schools to be returned to the control of an elected school board.

In the midst of it all, the Alliance to Reclaim Our Schools brought together 100 labor and community organizers from 16 states for a national convening in Chicago on Tuesday.

Historically, schools have used home visits as interventions to problems, but the PTHV model was created by parents and community organizers with the aim of building cooperation across the board, without targeting «problem students.»

Attendees included school district leaders, community organizers, parent leaders, nonprofit partners, student leaders, and more!

Through one - on - one coaching, fellowships, workshops and resources, LEE works to develop and inspire its members individually and collectively across all disciplines — as policy makers, advocates, elected leaders and community organizers.

We're educators, school leaders, community organizers, journalists, policy nerds, programmers, artists, and more.

Hosts Brendan Sargent and Cyndi Reyes talk to educators, lawmakers, community organizers, and other stakeholders about their own educational journeys, and about the myriad opportunities to advocate for educational equity at union, district, state, and federal levels.

These foundational services, whose roots were nurtured by the community organizers of the 1960s, helped level the playing field so American schools became the greatest in the world.

For their final project, they organized a public festival called «Sanctuary,» with teachers, the SPACE artist, local community organizers, and neighbors, to create community - wide dialogue and imagine possibilities for change.

Their successes have led community organizers and a growing number of education policymakers to see California's fledgling community schooling movement as a holistic, bottom - up reform that can restore equality of opportunity and the democratic promise of the state's system of universal public education.

In a raucous meeting, parents, community organizers and students from as far away as California detailed how school closings are disrupting lives and destabilizing neighborhoods.

he Brown Foundation for Educational Equity, Excellence and Research was established in 1988 to serve as a living tribute to the attorneys, community organizers and plaintiffs in the landmark U.S. Supreme Court decision of May 17, 1954, Brown v. the Board of Education.

With doses of historical presidential vignettes integrated, the HFRP paper, Taking the Lead in Family Engagement: A Message to Our Followers on Presidents» Day, highlights the commentaries of several leaders who represent a diversity of perspectives; from university researchers to parental and community organizers.

Countless number of experts and community organizers has expressed the notion that children...

Community organizers create social change, and sometimes social movements, by building a base of concerned people, mobilizing these community members to act, and developing leadership from and relationships among the people involved.

Maro: «Átiko13 are five social workers, and there are also community organizers; there are monitors of leisure time; a recent addition of a degree in geography has also long been living in Mexico and has many ideas in music; there are musicians; we have psychologists; a social educator, designer, and artist... Apart from that, everyone then has a master's degree in Journalism, a master's degree in Human Rights, a more or less promising career in music and art in general... Right now, we are 11, with two recent additions.

They also interviewed community organizers, parents, community center workers, and church leaders.

In New York City, the Educational Video Center (EVC) is working with teachers, parents, and community organizers to teach students video documentary production as a path to media analysis.

You will contribute in so many ways — as researchers, teachers, principals, superintendents, literacy specialists, community organizers, higher education administrators, art specialists, policy analysts, leaders of education organizations, and leaders in government.

Over 120 people attended the conference, which was held to bring together community organizers, parent leaders, education researchers, and educators to focus on community organizing and school reform in low - income communities.

Community organizers, another addition, will now join the teams already working with these area superintendents; they will focus on building family networks and training school staff.

The conference brought community organizers, education researchers, youth, educators, funders, and other stakeholders together to discuss the contributions of community organizing to school improvement and equitable education policy.

Directed by Oscar - nominee Steve James (Hoop Dreams), The Interrupters is a riveting documentary which chronicles the efforts of several intrepid community organizers over the course of a year, including Ameena Mathews, Tio Hardiman and Cobe Williams.

In the shadow of Altgeld Gardens, in a church on the South Side, a lanky, charismatic, 28 - year - old lawyer addresses a small group of community organizers.

Jessica was previously the Director of Communications at Just Vision, where she produced films for seven years with director Julia Bacha and led communications strategy in support of Palestinian and Israeli community organizers and human rights defenders.

Local residents, artists and community organizers share firsthand accounts of police brutality, the «65 Watts riots, the rise of LA street gangs and the «92 incident.

«When disasters occur, mental health professionals — community organizers, social workers, case managers and counselors — often work in partnership with local, state and federal organizations to respond,» said Jennifer First, doctoral candidate in the MU School of Social Work and disaster mental health program manager with the Disaster and Community Crisis Center.

The Nehemiah home was an early 1980s cooperative effort between local churches, community organizers and the city to build affordable single - and two - family brick townhouse homes in Brownsville, East New York and Spring Creek (the Starrett City area).

Organized by Housing Here and Now, a coalition of non profit affordable housing providers, tenant groups, and community organizers, the rally called for the New York State Assembly and Senate to pass legislation to end this loophole.

At a forum Thursday night, a cadre of elected officials and community organizers, including State Sen. Adriano Espaillat and Assemblymen Denny Farrell and Guillermo Linares, made the case to a group of more than 100 people at the Church of the Intercession on 155th Street.

Both Bill and Doug are long - time community organizers and are exactly what Baltimore needs to break the stranglehold the Democratic party machine has had for decades as well as the pay - to - play system that benefits wealthy developers and political insiders and leaves the citizens of this city out in the cold.

The mayor, who recently launched his reelection campaign, was joined by singer Cher, filmmaker Michael Moore, actors Mark Ruffalo, Julianne Moore and Rosie O'Donnell, as well as a number of community organizers, union leaders, and others.

She sat down yesterday with Susan Arbetter, host of the program Capital Pressroom in Albany and said she's meeting with activists and community organizers.

An over-flow crowd showed up to meet the candidates at Flynn's Garden Inn, and when it came time for the candidates and other community organizers to deliver their remarks, the gathering had to move to a larger space in an outside patio that was still not large enough to accommodate the huge turn - out.

«As community organizers and advocates, our job has been to push hard and raise our voices for the real affordability and good jobs that low - income New Yorkers so desperately need,» Maritza Silva - Farrell, campaign director of Real Affordability for All, said in a statement.

On a snowy day in Syracuse, union activities and community organizers gathered to rally at the state office building in Syracuse against the governor's budget plan

White Plains - Community organizers and elected officials Rallied Saturday 12 noon - 2P.