Sentences with phrase «donor system for»

The candidates selected will need to take a position on hard issues, like the five outlined at reform.to, which provide concrete plans to create a small donor system for campaign financing: matching citizen contributions and providing voters with vouchers.

Advocates spent a million dollars on television ads and countless hours lobbying and holding demonstrations in favor of adopting a publicly funded, matching small donor system for statewide races, including the governor and the legislature.

Not exact matches

The UC system was also a top donor for the Obama administration in 2012.

«Investment in resources helps strengthen the charitable meal system, making it possible for food banks to accept more food from donors, whether from Walmart or any other business or organization that wants to relieve hunger in Canada.»

Our clear positioning against agribusiness and the industrial food system, and for food sovereignty, causes many mainstream donors staying away from us.

Donors and major development agencies, particularly the Food and Agriculture Organization of the United Nations (FAO), the United Nations Conference on Trade and Development (UNCTAD) and the International Fund for Agricultural Development (IFAD) to support and help accelerate the uptake of organic agriculture and other agroecological systems as they are crucial to ensuring healthy food for all in the 21st century.

Climate change - ready rice Hybrid rice Aerobic rice Disease - and pest - resistant rice Healthier rice varieties Rice for intensive production systems Breeding informatics Improved donors and genes

So I was sent home with a supplemental nursing system and a bottle of donor milk and a serious grudge against the hospital and its ineffectual breastfeeding support services (so much for BFHI!).

For these reasons, the development of a community - based donor breastmilk system might not be considered universally appropriate.

«Voters indicated their overwhelming support for a small donor matching fund system that would limit the influence of CEO campaign contributors and allow every voice to be heard.»

I don't blame the donors for that, I blame the system for that and that's why we need to change the system.»

The Brennan Center for Justice released a study this morning pointing to the racial and economic diversity of political donors in a public financing system.

Donors should further focus on reforming top - down systems and middle - level processes of service delivery rather than inciting bottom - up demand for discrete projects.

Thursday's filings lay bare those donations and other jaw - dropping financial details of the first modern presidential campaign in which donors could give unlimited contributions for political ads and in which both major party candidates declined to participate in a Watergate - era public financing system designed to limit fundraising.

Governor Andrew Cuomo has introduced legislation that seeks to enact a system of small donor matching funds for state elections, along with a number of other provisions designed to reduce corruption and special interest influence.

Amidst the media's recent focus on independent redistricting, New York City Council member Dan Garodnick encourages New Yorkers not to lose sight of the importance of campaign finance reform, highlighting the many benefits that the New York City public matching funds system has created for small donors, candidates for public office, and the voting public.

The CFB report demonstrates the benefits of a public matching system for small donors, supporting the view that the New York City system could be a valid model for the rest of the nation.

Eldridge notes that New York's antiquated campaign finance system is built for big donors, not average voters.

A December report by the state's anti-corruption commission highlighted the problems with the current system: poor oversight, high contribution limits, and extensive loopholes for major donors.

Governor Cuomo Introduces Campaign Finance Reform Legislation with a Public Financing Option Governor Andrew Cuomo has introduced legislation that seeks to enact a system of small donor matching funds for state elections, along with a number of other provisions designed to reduce corruption and special interest influence.

The small donor matching system, which provides $ 6 for every $ 1 raised by a candidate up to $ 175, allowed Ulrich to effectively compete against an incumbent by building a broad base of grassroots support, he said.

Off topic questions the Long Island Railroad and possible strike, the City's contingency plans and role in the event of a strike, whether the petitions supporting continued operation of horse carriages, with 40,000 signatures recently delivered to City Hall affect his thinking on the topic, what the 66 donors to Campaign for One New York expect from the mayor, whether he plans to take any additional vacations this year, what initiatives Campaign for One New York will next focus on, the status of the review of the 911 system upgrade and, concerning his trip to Italy, whether he is packed, whether he's packing his own bags and what food he is most looking forward to.

In preparation for the launch of the Fair Elections for New York campaign, a series of events in Albany and across the state are being held to call attention to state legislators» reliance on out - of - district campaign contributions — further evidence of the need for a state public campaign finance system that relies on small donors and local money.

Both Koch and Zimroth view New York City's small donor matching funds system as a good model for financing state elections.

The budget proposes a public financing system for the comptroller's race that would create a 6 - to - 1 donor matching system.

The most successful country in the world for organ donation — Spain — doesn't actually have a donor card system in place.

They would like the state to adopt New York City's system of government funded matching grants for candidates, who collect small donations for individual donors.

The Democrat said Tuesday he would begin touring the state to argue for a system of public matching funds that will blunt the influence wealthy donors have on the political system.

New York City's exemplary small - donor matching fund system should serve as a model for reform in New York State.

Meanwhile, the Brennan Center for Justice at New York University Law School plans to push for a system of public funds to match smaller donations as a way to limit the influence of big money donors in campaign fundraising.

The current system is set up as a farce, with a lot of phony «community charity» organizations being set up as phony grass - roots organizations when they are actually conduits for corporate and wealthy donors.

David Weprin: Well, clearly when you're dealing with an opponent that is not part of the system, who has unlimited funds, as the recent election we just went through with the mayor of the city of New York, I would remove the individual cap on contributions for donors and go to a much higher cap similar to the one that's at the state level for the governor of the state of New York.

Sen. Liz Krueger, whose Upper East Side Senate district is one of the wealthiest in New York, has teamed up with Democratic donor / New Roosevelt Initiative founder Bill Samuels to propose using cash generated by the proposed casino expansion to pay for a publicly - funded campaign system.

Cuomo said in his State of the State addresss in January that he backs a public matching system for campaigns, along with a new donor disclosure law.

«What Albany needs are Senators like Cece Tkaczyk who'll stand up to big donors and fight for reforms of our broken campaign finance system.»

He argued this would encourage reform of the party funding system by creating a greater incentive for a broader base for party funding, rather than the current reliance on a smaller number of bigger donors.

While the Democratic incumbent for State Comptroller, Tom DiNapoli, has rejected the pilot public finance program as flawed and unworkable, the newly announced Republican Candidate for Comptroller, says he's going to take advantage of the public matching small donor system.

New York Times: Most Fundamental Reform Missing from State Budget Governor Andrew Cuomo and state legislative leaders passed New York's 2014 - 15 budget last week without a comprehensive small donor public matching system — instead establishing a very limited pilot public financing program for the state comptroller's race in 2014.

The report notes the ongoing campaign to institute a similar system for New York State elections, suggesting that small donor public financing could increase the diversity of the donor base for state elections.

She says she's also for a public matching donor campaign system, but does not recommend candidates set up their own systems.

Neither he nor most of the group's major donors would comment on their support, though Mr. Jones said in a statement, «Maintaining the status quo is unacceptable, and that's why StudentsFirstNY and others are fighting for reforms that can give parents more choices, ensure that only the best teachers are in the classroom and make sure that the best interests of the children in the system are put first.»

In the midst of a prominent campaign by the Queens Public Library for private donations so the institution can buy new books, representatives of the system recognized one of their largest donors Friday.

Cuomo more or less rejected an idea floated by Democratic donor / advocate Bill Samuels and Sen. Liz Krueger, a Manhattan Democrat, to see casino revenues to pay for a public campaign finance system.

Ironically, the scandals that have dogged this mayor largely revolve around donations outside the city's system: already - illegal straw donors as well as pay - to - play issues with legal «gifts» to his pet non-profits and to de Blasio - backed candidates for state office.

De Blasio has drawn criticism from good government groups for his use of the Campaign for one New York, which allowed donors with business before the city to give in amounts far greater than the small dollar limits imposed by the city's campaign finance system.

New York must establish a small donor matching system for campaigns — modeled on New York City's public financing system.

The governor announced that he would seek an array of good government reforms from the State Legislature, a number of them familiar: preventing donors from circumventing contribution caps through the creation of shell limited liability corporations; enhancing personal financial disclosures; creating a public financing system; and instating constitutional amendments to establish term limits for Albany lawmakers (though not Cuomo and the current class of legislators), extend the legislative session from six months to year - round and ban outside income.

The governor also proposed a public campaign financing system, based on New York City's model, and he wants greater disclosure of donors to new Super PACS that currently use not for profit loopholes to hide contributors» identities.

«One, is the gerrymandering that occurs allowing lawmakers to draw their own district lines... [two is] a disgraceful campaign finance system that allows them to hit up special interests for ridiculous amounts of money,» said Blair Horner, executive director at the New York Public Interest Research Group, referring to a lack of «pay - to - play» restrictions on campaign donors with government business.

The only avenue left for an alternative to campaigns funded by wealthy donors, she says, is a voluntary publicly funded matching donor system.