Sentences with phrase «dollars on advocacy»

But organizations that include both charities and trade associations reported that they are more likely today to spend dollars on advocacy, marketing budgets and member programs than in the past few years.

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No dollar figure has been attached to the costs that will be borne by the brands, but according to labour advocacy groups they will be apportioned based on the amount of business each does in Bangladesh.

Elected officials joined in Manhattan Sunday with advocacy group Riders Alliance and Metropolitan Transportation Authority board member Allen Cappelli over the weekend with their eyes on the new state dollars made possible through -LSB-...]

The liberal health care advocacy group Save My Care is launching a TV and digital advertising campaign worth more than half a million dollars on Monday that will run this week.

Elected officials joined in Manhattan Sunday with advocacy group Riders Alliance and Metropolitan Transportation Authority board member Allen Cappelli over the weekend with their eyes on the new state dollars made possible through the 2013 - 14 budget passed last month, which included an increase of more than $ 358 million for transit.

Tuesday's rally on the Capitol's Million Dollar Staircase was part of a $ 7K Advocacy Day during which adjuncts met with legislators.

ALBANY — Glenwood Management, the real estate developer at the center of two former legislative leaders» federal corruption trials, gave half a million dollars in 2011 to an advocacy group that focused solely on supporting Gov. Andrew Cuomo's agenda.

Those against the budget are basing their opposition mostly on misleading information supplied by advocacy groups and service providers who are merely looking to maintain their stranglehold on taxpayer dollars.

One day before the state ethics commission is to hold hearings on new rules for lobbying disclosures, there are more revelations about a multi million dollar advocacy group associated with Governor Andrew Cuomo.

«A decade ago, New York's highest court ruled that our state must hand over billions of dollars to improve public education — but that money has not materialized,» said Zakiyah Ansari, the advocacy director of the Alliance for Quality Education, which organized the Jan. 10 press conference on the City Hall steps to kick off the lobbying push.

September 12, 2012 • As conservative advocacy groups ike Americans for Prosperity shuffle their ad dollars, they are focusing on key swing states like Colorado.

«For the first time, we have put dollar figures on what has always been known anecdotally: The unions exert a great deal of influence on domestic policy, due to the sheer amount of money they spend on political advocacy, and at times pushing political agendas that are at odds with those of their members.»

In recent years, countless advocacy organizations and interest groups have urged policymakers to increase appropriations to public colleges based on the view that those dollars would flow to students through lower tuition.

An education advocacy group founded by two New York City teachers and backed financially by Bill Gates is launching a public - relations push to pressure the city and the local teachers union to strike a deal on a new teacher evaluation system, two weeks before a state - mandated deadline that could cost the city millions of dollars in education funding.

During that time, the coal, oil and gas conglomerate Koch Industries, ExxonMobil, and other companies lavished tens of millions of dollars on a network of think tanks, advocacy groups and academic centers to sow doubt about climate science and attack renewable energy.

But here we are, with numerous high traffic climate blogs, vast amounts of research and advocacy dollars being spent, and elections globally turning in part on the issue.

Membership is limited to attorneys who have demonstrated exceptional skill, experience and excellence in trial advocacy and who have obtained recoveries on behalf of their clients in excess of $ 1 million dollars.

On Wednesday, the FDA campaign may have died out altogether, as U.S. District Judge Richard Leon granted summary judgment in favor of five tobacco companies who objected that the proposed warnings would violate their free speech rights, cost millions of dollars to print and require them to feature anti-smoking advocacy more prominently than their own brands.

A new company called Polychain Capital has raised $ 10 million in capital for a hedge fund made up of cryptocurrencies such as bitcoin; The state of Global Blockchain Consortia; Non-profit advocacy group called the Blockchain Association of Ireland (BAI) will launch on Dec14; The Central Bank of Ireland recently granted Facebook Payments International Limited (FBPIL) an e-money license, which effectively allows Facebook to facilitate peer - to - peer payments on its platform; Bitgive Launches Blockchain Transparency Platform Givetrack; Dollar debt issuance soars as central banks take a back seat: BIS report;

What makes the additional funding critical, Whatley says, is the 2010 Supreme Court decision in Citizens United v. Federal Election Commission that companies could spend corporate dollars on political advocacy.