Sentences with phrase «education nonprofit which»

He is also chair of the board for UnboundEd, a national education nonprofit which provides high - quality standards, resources, and trainings for educators, with a focus on underserved communities.

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Microsoft, which launched the YouthSpark initiative at last year's CGI to create jobs, education and entrepreneurship opportunities for 300 million young people by 2015, returned with a private dinner for young participants and nonprofit partners to discuss the progress so far.

The nonprofit Flyers Rights, which invests in the airlines through its education fund, has filed shareholder proposals requesting a report from each one that includes an analysis of how its profit margin and stock price could be affected by these trends.

Since 2004, employees have logged more than 650,000 volunteer hours and donated more than $ 5.2 million in Grants for Great Hours, which allows PNC employees volunteering at least 40 hours over a 12 - month period at a qualified, early education nonprofit, to donate a $ 1,000 grant to that nonprofit.

Other subcategories include Education, which can be universities, as well as some K - 12 institutions; International, which include aid agencies and micro-lending nonprofits.

Tres Bonne Annee, French for «a very good year,» is a nonprofit, charitable corporation which exists solely to raise funds to advance the arts, culture and education through a series of wine and food events held annually.

The consortium, which also includes the Chicago Community Trust and Blue Cross and Blue Shield of Illinois, plans to tackle some of the «gold» requirements by training parents to be recess monitors, enlisting nonprofits to supplement nutrition and physical education, and helping principals make school policy changes.

Join us to help benefit the Sharon Springs Rescue Squad and nonprofit Hero Fund America, which supports education and training for first responders.

The Education Fund is the nonprofit research and public education affiliate of Citizen Action, which has a political action committee that works to support Democratic takeover of the state Senate, and is a key player in the labor - backed Working FamiliEducation Fund is the nonprofit research and public education affiliate of Citizen Action, which has a political action committee that works to support Democratic takeover of the state Senate, and is a key player in the labor - backed Working Familieducation affiliate of Citizen Action, which has a political action committee that works to support Democratic takeover of the state Senate, and is a key player in the labor - backed Working Families Party.

The event is sponsored by Education Reform Now, a group that has ties to Taveras: the New York - based 501 (c) 3 nonprofit is helping support the national Mayors for Educational Excellence Tour, which is meant to highlight new educational efforts in four specific U.S. cities.

For several years Levy, a native of Cincinnati, Ohio, with an African - American mother and Jewish father, ran nonprofit Black and Latino AIDS Coalition, which focused on AIDS education for heterosexual black and Latino communities in New York.

Joined by area politicians and community leaders, the parents, students and teachers rallied in support of the Education Investment Tax Credit which would increase support for public and religious schools by creating a tax incentive for individuals and corporations to donate to scholarship programs administered by nonprofit educational organizations.

At the time, the state faced a lawsuit filed in 1993 by the nonprofit group Campaign for Fiscal Equity, which argued that the state's education funding formula was unconstitutional.

Most of the cash, which goes towards assisting hundreds of nonprofit groups citywide, is earmarked for progressive causes like bilingual education services, legal services for immigrants and aid for gay, bisexual and transgender persons.

CEO for the anti-corruption nonprofit Mayday PAC; She's an antitrust and media expert, covered extensively in her book, Corruption in America: From Benjamin Franklin's Snuff Box to Citizens United; Director of Internet Organizing for Howard Dean's campaign; Cofounded «A New Way Forward», designed to break up big banks «too big to fail» which damaged small businesses after the 2008 crash; Involved with Occupy Wall Street; National director of the non partisan Sunlight Foundation which works to make Congress more transparent; Works to support education and backs the teachers and parents in the anti common core opt out movement; Helped to organize the movement to ban fracking in NYS;

As a member of the Education & Workforce committee, I strongly oppose recent efforts to reduce federal funding in these areas, and I am the author of H.R. 258, the STEM Master Teacher Corps Act, which would award competitive grants to school districts or states to partner with colleges and universities or nonprofit organizations to establish a program which will develop, support and retain exceptional teachers in the STEM disciplines.

While completing his master's at Cornell University, which he finished in 1993, he discovered a paper by a researcher at the Education Development Center, an independent nonprofit institute in Newton, Massachusetts.

Yesterday, President Barack Obama embraced the PCAST report during a White House ceremony during which he applauded corporate and private - sector CEOs for forming Change the Equation, a nonprofit organization that has pledged to bring «best practices» in STEM education to 100 needy high schools and communities.

Tyre is a visiting scholar at the McCourt School of Public Policy at Georgetown University and is director of strategy at the Edwin Gould Foundation, which houses the EGF Accelerator, the U.S.'s premier incubator for education nonprofits.

CSC is a nonprofit company owned by the Finnish Ministry of Education, the aim of which is to provide IT computational support to universities and research institutes.

While at NYU, Brennan has been actively involved in youth development through Arts in the Community, which attempts to bring college students together with local NYC arts education nonprofits, and through Peer Health Exchange, which focuses on teaching health to ninth graders around NYC.

He also is director of the T. Colin Campbell Center for Nutrition Studies, a nonprofit organization in Ithaca, New York, which promotes optimal nutrition through science - based education, advocacy, and research in partnership with eCornell, Cornell University's online course provider.

Established the nonprofit Milagro Foundation in 1998, which supports disadvantaged youth in the areas of arts, education and health.

Longoria is founder of «The Eva Longoria Foundation» dedicated to helping Latinas build better futures for themselves through education and entrepreneurship; co-founder of «Eva's Heroes,» which enriches the lives of adolescents with developmental disabilities; and is national spokesperson for «Padres Contra el Cancer,» a nonprofit that is committed to improving the quality of life for children with cancer.

These days, the success of the Harlem Children's Zone goes hand - in - hand with Canada's success, which, for a guy running an education nonprofit, has come in some surprising places.

Two of the fastest - growing trends in online education converge in the Performance Learning Center project, which is why I called Communities in Schools, a nonprofit dropout - prevention program that devised the model in Georgia in 2002.

Celina Marie Benavides Human Development and Psychology Current city: Claremont, California Current job: Director of nonprofit, Project Vistas — Family Child Care Higher Education Academy, which provides family child care providers in Los Angeles County access to higher education and professional development training; doctoral student in Positive Developmental Psychology at Claremont Graduate University Career highlights: At Project Vistas, assisting a marginalized, nontraditional student group, while overseeing budget, managing program operations, coordinating staff, and fulfilling targeted outcomes; Basic Research Scientist of the Year award by the AS&F Foundation and Claremont Graduate UEducation Academy, which provides family child care providers in Los Angeles County access to higher education and professional development training; doctoral student in Positive Developmental Psychology at Claremont Graduate University Career highlights: At Project Vistas, assisting a marginalized, nontraditional student group, while overseeing budget, managing program operations, coordinating staff, and fulfilling targeted outcomes; Basic Research Scientist of the Year award by the AS&F Foundation and Claremont Graduate Ueducation and professional development training; doctoral student in Positive Developmental Psychology at Claremont Graduate University Career highlights: At Project Vistas, assisting a marginalized, nontraditional student group, while overseeing budget, managing program operations, coordinating staff, and fulfilling targeted outcomes; Basic Research Scientist of the Year award by the AS&F Foundation and Claremont Graduate University

residency with BPE, a Boston - based education nonprofit that includes the Boston Teacher Residency program, which was launched in 2003 by then - Boston Superintendent Tom Payzant.

NLNS recruits all have teaching expertise, but are drawn from a range of sectors — private industry, education, nonprofits, law, the military — and are put through a yearlong boot camp, which includes weekly classes and a hands - on, medical residency - style apprenticeship with a mentor principal.

Lastly, take a look at the types of organizations with which HGSE is partnering; these school systems, nonprofit organizations, mission - based for - profit organizations, and government agencies are pushing the boundaries of what is possible in preK - 12 education.

Beyond that, exposure to different cultures will keep TFA «open to new ways of doing things,» which can be a challenge for young companies, Jon Schnur, a co-founder of two education nonprofits, America Achieves and New Leaders for New Schools, told me.

A team - oriented approach to teaching, one that encourages educators to think about the success of a student well beyond the year they spend in a particular classroom, is a vital part of education, agreed panelist Tim Daly, president of the education nonprofit TNTP, which addresses issues of teacher quality.

People point to our network — which uses an independent nonprofit management organization to support Catholic schools that were at risk of being closed — as a model for the future of parochial education.

«Maybe the federal government has taken pity on the state of education funding here,» said Ms. Pedersen, president of the nonprofit, nonpartisan group, which advocates for improved education funding.

Though he lost a close race for the governorship to incumbent Lawton Chiles in 1994 (the same year brother George won the Texas gubernatorial bid), Bush set up a nonprofit, the Foundation for Florida's Future, which would keep him focused on public policy and education until the next election, in 1998, which he won handily.

He even created the nonprofit Yurt Foundation, which focuses on research, education, and dissemination of yurt living.

Learning Through Libraries, a nonprofit started by Harvard Graduate School of Education students, has been selected as semifinalists in the Pitch for Change contest, which awards individuals and teams for their new social enterprise venture.

The nonprofit behind this digital push, Bush's Foundation for Excellence in Education, is funded by online learning companies: K12 Inc., Pearson (which recently bought Connections Education), Apex Learning (a for - profit online education company launched by Microsoft co-founder Paul Allen), Microsoft and McGraw - Hill Education amonEducation, is funded by online learning companies: K12 Inc., Pearson (which recently bought Connections Education), Apex Learning (a for - profit online education company launched by Microsoft co-founder Paul Allen), Microsoft and McGraw - Hill Education amonEducation), Apex Learning (a for - profit online education company launched by Microsoft co-founder Paul Allen), Microsoft and McGraw - Hill Education amoneducation company launched by Microsoft co-founder Paul Allen), Microsoft and McGraw - Hill Education amonEducation among others.

Phillip Lovell, vice president of federal advocacy at the nonprofit Alliance for Excellent Education, which focuses on high school reform, says that there are simply not enough good charter school providers to take the place of all the low - performing, large urban high schools.

Critics on the right, meanwhile, worry such a plan would increase the federal role in education and pressure states to standardize state tax credit programs, many of which now allow nonprofit groups to prioritize a particular type of school, such as those of particular religious denominations, for instance.

Indeed, Levesque serves at the helm of two education charities, the Foundation for Excellence in Education, a national organization, and the Foundation for Florida's Future, a state - specific nonprofit, both of which are chaired by education charities, the Foundation for Excellence in Education, a national organization, and the Foundation for Florida's Future, a state - specific nonprofit, both of which are chaired by Education, a national organization, and the Foundation for Florida's Future, a state - specific nonprofit, both of which are chaired by Jeb Bush.

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.

Just hours after his death, we at the nonprofit Character Education Partnership — which he helped to found in 1993 — learned that Sandy had bequeathed a very generous sum to our national organization.

CSDC was the lead catalyst, architect and advocate for the establishment of a $ 25 million Congressional demonstration program in 2001, the forerunner to the Credit Enhancement for Charter School Facilities Program administered by the U.S. Department of Education, which has provided several hundred million dollars in grants nationally for credit enhancement and revolving loan programs operated by nonprofit organizations and state agencies.

Formula Revamp Represents an Opportunity to Make Education More Student - Centered October 31, 2016 by Grant Callen Last month it was announced that the legislature has hired the nonprofit EdBuild to review the state's current education funding formula, which is now nearly two decEducation More Student - Centered October 31, 2016 by Grant Callen Last month it was announced that the legislature has hired the nonprofit EdBuild to review the state's current education funding formula, which is now nearly two deceducation funding formula, which is now nearly two decades old.

Education Week, To Fight Inequity, Empower the Families It Harms Most At RISE Colorado, an education nonprofit founded in 2012, we've created a model in which we train school leaders and teachers to educate families about the opportunity gap and their role in overcEducation Week, To Fight Inequity, Empower the Families It Harms Most At RISE Colorado, an education nonprofit founded in 2012, we've created a model in which we train school leaders and teachers to educate families about the opportunity gap and their role in overceducation nonprofit founded in 2012, we've created a model in which we train school leaders and teachers to educate families about the opportunity gap and their role in overcoming it.

PEJ is an affiliate of the national education nonprofit 50CAN: 50 - State Campaign for Achievement Now, which advocates at the local level for a high - quality education for all kids, regardless of their address.

Teach For America is a national education nonprofit that places professionals — a majority of which are recent college graduates — in high - need schools.

The education nonprofit, which provides after - school programs, designed its own blended learning model and apps to work anywhere in the world.

Marie Hubley Alcock (left), is president of Learning Systems Associates, an education consulting company, and founder of Tomorrow's Education Network, which is a nonprofit association dedicated to improving literacy deveducation consulting company, and founder of Tomorrow's Education Network, which is a nonprofit association dedicated to improving literacy devEducation Network, which is a nonprofit association dedicated to improving literacy development.