In 1988, NAR Executive Vice President Bill North recognized the efforts of tens of thousands of REALTORS ® who were at the forefront of changing «a century of bias recognized as law» in
their education and advocacy efforts.
The Producers Guild has more than 5,700 members who work together to protect and improve their careers, the industry and community by providing members with employment opportunities, seeking to expand health benefits, promoting fair and impartial standards for the awarding of producing credits, as well as other
education and advocacy efforts such as encouraging sustainable production practices.
«Yet, despite increased public
education and advocacy efforts, vaccination rates against HPV remain unacceptably low.»
The Genentech Foundation, established in 2002, provides financial support to carefully chosen local and national not - for - profit patient
education and advocacy efforts in the United States.
As Time goes on, do intend to consciously feature other sides from their own camps because it «feels» to be a really good tool for determining where
education and advocacy efforts might be effectively focused at any given moment..
Not exact matches
The foundation's mission is, as stated on its website, «to prevent Virginia Tech - type shootings through
education and advocacy; to employ comprehensive educational
efforts to expand community
and student awareness of campus safety issues;
and to offer compassion, support,
and hope to those affected by violence.»
Through a collaborative
effort to provide more than 23,000 members with One ConnectionTM to tools
and resources for professional
education, business success,
advocacy and community, FPA has become an indispensable force in the advancement of today's CFP ® professional.
The mission of Lamaze International is to promote, support
and protect natural, safe
and healthy birth through
education and advocacy through the dedicated
efforts of professional childbirth educators, providers
and parents.
Support the March of Dimes research, community programs,
and advocacy and education efforts by making a donation today.
The first lady informed that the association was in the state to launch the Lagos chapter adding that in spite of the
effort of government, a lot need to be done in terms of
education and advocacy to address breast cancer issue in the country.
New York State United Teachers, with local unions
and advocacy groups, announced Thursday an upcoming
effort to lobby Gov. Andrew Cuomo, the state Legislature, the state
Education Department
and the Board of Regents to end testing in pre-kindergarten through second grade.
And the governor donated the more than $ 110,000 he received in campaign contributions from disgraced Hollywood executive Harvey Weinstein to Women's Justice NOW, NOW - NYC's charitable partner organization that supports public education and outreach efforts and offers legal advocacy and referrals for wom
And the governor donated the more than $ 110,000 he received in campaign contributions from disgraced Hollywood executive Harvey Weinstein to Women's Justice NOW, NOW - NYC's charitable partner organization that supports public
education and outreach efforts and offers legal advocacy and referrals for wom
and outreach
efforts and offers legal advocacy and referrals for wom
and offers legal
advocacy and referrals for wom
and referrals for women.
Co-sponsored legislation
and supported
efforts to combat the Heroin
and Opioid crisis, including a policy to raise additional revenue for
education and prevention, creating a Family Advocate to help individuals
and families navigate insurance
and other issues while seeking treatment
and supporting local
advocacy groups.
Collaboration will support Partnership's Next Wave Center
and business attraction
efforts,
and GSA's industry outreach,
advocacy,
education and membership recruitment initiatives The Saratoga County Prosperity Partnership (Saratoga Partnership), the county's designated economic development agency,
and the Global Semiconductor Alliance (GSA), a leading voice for the worldwide semiconductor industry, today announced the establishment of a strategic partnership + Read More
In the last six months of 2015, two key
education factions pulled back their
advocacy efforts as imminent threats to unions subsided
and charter groups dialed back their lobbying
efforts in accordance with Cuomo's shifting priorities.
«This data provides potential leverage points for both community - level interventions
and advocacy for this population, particularly related to transactional sex
and education,
and will aid HIV prevention
efforts that seek to address the contextual constraints on individual risk behavior,» said Stevens.
The Mars Society is pleased to announce that it has joined the online Marspedia project started by two other space
advocacy groups - The Mars Foundation
and The Moon Society - in an
effort to build out a great resource for people of all ages to learn more about the planet Mars, promote the human
and robotic exploration of the Red Planet
and encourage STEM
education.
The University of Chicago Celiac Disease Center is an international center of excellence providing comprehensive patient
and professional
education, expert diagnosis
and treatment for both children
and adults, groundbreaking bench
and clinical research,
and active leadership in
advocacy efforts.
SAN DIEGO
and SAN FRANCISCO, February 23, 2017 — ViaCyte, Inc., a privately - held regenerative medicine company,
and Beyond Type 1, a not - for - profit
advocacy and education group for those living with type 1 diabetes, today announced a grant from Beyond Type 1 to support ViaCyte's
efforts to develop a functional cure for type 1
and other insulin - requiring diabetes.
Prior to joining the department, Cator directed Apple's leadership
and advocacy efforts in
education.
Despite these obstacles, Russo contends the ED in ’08 ultimately set the groundwork for future
advocacy efforts and had a powerful impact on the Obama administration's
education agenda:
The awards recognize individual
efforts related to the
advocacy, support, mentoring, encouragement,
and successful advancement of women
and minorities in
education.
The Washington - based
advocacy organization cites a range of what it perceives as offenses related to
education, such as
efforts by the Bush administration to zero out funding for the Women's Educational Equity Act
and to «weaken Title IX protections for female athletes,»
and its failure to investigate the exclusion of females from certain
education programs.
Beginning later this year, several elementary
and secondary schools in Chicago, Moscow,
and Amsterdam will take part in «Project Metropolis,» a collaborative
effort funded by International Movement Towards
Education, a nonprofit
advocacy group.
Along with attendance, testing, GPA checks,
and tracking their students post-high school, Build SF uses rubrics for student projects, develops peer assessments,
and asks mentors to fill out formal exit surveys on students, based on skills developed by the Partnership for 21st Century Learning, an acclaimed
advocacy group dedicated to infusing twenty - first - century skills into
education through collaborative community
efforts.
We provide additional support to E4E
and other nonprofits by providing research
and information on emerging
education advocacy efforts and trends, which we offer through America Forward - New Profit's policy arm.
This tailored list of legal
and federal
advocacy resources includes: a guide for school board members; a Q&A co-authored by NSBA's Center for Public
Education and the Data Quality Campaign;
and a Phi Delta Kappa magazine article that offers insight on student data privacy
efforts as of February 2015.
The president of Washington's largest teachers» union said the
effort had one other positive result: fruitful collaboration between the governor, the Legislature, parents, other
education advocacy groups, local school districts and the Washington Education Association, representing
education advocacy groups, local school districts
and the Washington
Education Association, representing
Education Association, representing teachers.
CO ASCD's
efforts to support teacher voice in
education decision making include hosting online conversations with policymakers (see Education Issues in Focus at www.coascd.org), conducting policy summits, inviting policymakers and educators to write policy - related blogs or articles for our newsletter, connecting with other organizations in the state that promote education advocacy (for example, Commissioner Anthes» Teacher Cabinet http://www.cde.state.co.us/cdecomm/teachercabinet), providing information about policy priorities in Colorado (for example, State Board of Education priorities (http://www.cde.state.co.us/cdeboard/sbe2017legpriorities), and participating in ASCD education advocacy ac
education decision making include hosting online conversations with policymakers (see
Education Issues in Focus at www.coascd.org), conducting policy summits, inviting policymakers and educators to write policy - related blogs or articles for our newsletter, connecting with other organizations in the state that promote education advocacy (for example, Commissioner Anthes» Teacher Cabinet http://www.cde.state.co.us/cdecomm/teachercabinet), providing information about policy priorities in Colorado (for example, State Board of Education priorities (http://www.cde.state.co.us/cdeboard/sbe2017legpriorities), and participating in ASCD education advocacy ac
Education Issues in Focus at www.coascd.org), conducting policy summits, inviting policymakers
and educators to write policy - related blogs or articles for our newsletter, connecting with other organizations in the state that promote
education advocacy (for example, Commissioner Anthes» Teacher Cabinet http://www.cde.state.co.us/cdecomm/teachercabinet), providing information about policy priorities in Colorado (for example, State Board of Education priorities (http://www.cde.state.co.us/cdeboard/sbe2017legpriorities), and participating in ASCD education advocacy ac
education advocacy (for example, Commissioner Anthes» Teacher Cabinet http://www.cde.state.co.us/cdecomm/teachercabinet), providing information about policy priorities in Colorado (for example, State Board of
Education priorities (http://www.cde.state.co.us/cdeboard/sbe2017legpriorities), and participating in ASCD education advocacy ac
Education priorities (http://www.cde.state.co.us/cdeboard/sbe2017legpriorities),
and participating in ASCD
education advocacy ac
education advocacy activities.
A coalition of
education -
advocacy groups behind the
effort is seeking a maximum of 40 public charter schools over five years, operated by qualified nonprofits
and overseen by a local school board or a special state commission.
The Prichard Committee Student Voice Team is comprised of over 100 self - selected students, fifth grade through college, working to integrate young people as
education research,
advocacy,
and policy partners in
efforts to improve Kentucky schools.
Alice Cardona was a Puerto Rican whose
advocacy for women's rights
and bilingual
education, as well as her
efforts as founder of various organizations for Latinas, have distinguished her in New York activist communities.
Jan. 10, 2018 - LANSING, Mich. — The National College Access Network (NCAN) has awarded the Michigan College Access Network (MCAN) a State Member
Advocacy Grant to help bolster
efforts to educate legislators
and support policies that strengthen
education and postsecondary
efforts.
Our series of papers is meant to inform state school chiefs, state
education agency staff, governors
and legislative staff,
and state
advocacy groups about how to support the most promising local improvement
efforts.
Prior to her role at Expect More Arizona, Adriana expanded her role in
education advocacy and policy as the operations
and development manager at Stand for Children Arizona, where she managed partnerships with Latino organizations, led volunteer outreach
efforts,
and oversaw events
and grant writing.
These grants are designed to advance the capacity of partner organizations across the state to become leading voices in
education advocacy efforts, especially on behalf of communities
and students of color.
RSCT
efforts include
education, research,
advocacy,
and building the capacity of grassroots leaders
and community - based organizations to positively impact rural school reform.
With initiatives like the ASCD Emerging Leaders program, Teach to Lead, the ASCD Student Growth Center,
and the Whole Child for the Whole World program, ASCD is cultivating the
education leaders of tomorrow
and broadening its
advocacy efforts to promote awareness of
and support for the comprehensive needs of students.
E4E was thrilled to be able to work with such a wide range of
education advocacy groups in this effort, including United Way of Los Angeles, Education Trust — West, Teach Plus, Parent Revolution, Alliance for a Better Community and man
education advocacy groups in this
effort, including United Way of Los Angeles,
Education Trust — West, Teach Plus, Parent Revolution, Alliance for a Better Community and man
Education Trust — West, Teach Plus, Parent Revolution, Alliance for a Better Community
and many others.
We strive to promote a closer relationship between school attorneys
and their school board clients,
and encourage the on - going professional development of our members by offering continuing legal
education, specialized publications, web resources
and opportunities to work closely with NSBA on legal
advocacy efforts.
In an
effort to break the stalemate between Los Angeles Unified
and union leaders, several
education advocacy groups have come forward with their own proposals for teacher evaluations.
Parent Revolution, an
education advocacy group that has led the parent trigger
effort in California, will host the meet
and greet...
More recently, I was awarded the NAGC Annemarie Roeper Global Awareness Annual Award, the National Association of Gifted Children (NAGC) Community Service Award, the Pennsylvania Association for Gifted
Education (PAGE) Neuber - Pregler Award for Outstanding
Advocacy Efforts to Assure Quality
Education for the Gifted,
and the SENG Service Award for exceptional volunteer service to SENG.
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and highlight outstanding
efforts in music
education advocacy from its national network of advocates working to keep music
education strong.
At the same time, some
education officials
and advocacy groups fear the opt - out movement will reverse a long - term
effort to identify teachers
and schools —
and students — who are not up to par, at least as far as their test performance goes.
ConnCAN, the charter school
advocacy group that was set up by Achievement First, Inc., the charter school management company, which was created by Connecticut
education commissioner Stefan Pryor
and his «
education reform» colleagues, now reports that they actually spent half a million dollars in their recent
effort to pass the «reform» legislation proposed by Governor Malloy
and Commissioner Pryor.
Mayor Villaraigosa has been an outstanding force in the
education reform
efforts in Los Angeles, a great support for
advocacy efforts with his support of the Public School Choice initiative,
and an advocate for school facilities under Proposition 39.
Ralph Smith, managing director of the Campaign for Grade - Level Reading, a collaborative
effort of political,
education, business
and advocacy leaders to close the nation's literacy gap, said «We shouldn't be at all surprised by the NAEP scores... we can point to nothing substantial in terms of interventions or programs that would have made that number different.»
There are several myths about gifted
education and gifted students that complicate
advocacy efforts.
He also coordinated the
effort of a Los Angeles coalition of civil rights,
education and community
advocacy groups — known as Communities for Los Angeles Student Success, or CLASS — to use the state's new K - 12 local funding law to improve achievement for minority
and low - income students.