Sentences with phrase «efforts for a nonprofit group»

An animal welfare group that has been lobbying Mayor Bill de Blasio to ban carriage horses from city streets confirmed Friday that it had received a subpoena from federal prosecutors seeking documents related to its fundraising efforts for a nonprofit group created to advance the mayor's policy agenda.

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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.

In the future, the effort will include training programs for women and partnerships with outside groups and nonprofits that also primarily support women.»

The fundraising haul represents a significant lift for the state Democratic Party, which Mr. Cuomo has turned to for support as another deep - pocketed source of help, the Committee to Save New York, a business - backed nonprofit group, has pulled back its efforts this year.

The governor personally attended one meeting on Monday with nonprofit groups that handle outreach efforts for the homeless and seemed particularly taken with the idea of tackling street homelessness, the sources said.

One area that he will not instruct it to examine will be the issue of outside nonprofit groups created to take donations to support an elected official's policies, like the Campaign for One New York, which was created for Mr. de Blasio, and whose efforts were later examined by state and federal investigators.

Unions have also blocked efforts to fire abusive workers, and nonprofit groups caring for disabled people were using Medicaid to finance seven - figure compensation packages for executives.

Other targets of the initiative have focused on instituting ways to build collaboration among academic, nonprofit and private sector efforts, including international groups and to increase federal funding, an effort that spurred Congress to pass in December 2016 the 21st Century Cures Act that authorized $ 1.8 billion for the National Cancer Institute.

By spelling out what should be taught, its authors hope to influence nascent efforts by a nonprofit group, Achieve, to develop new science standards for school districts throughout the United States.

Among today's advocates for young people are nonprofit insurgent groups that challenge the education establishment by organizing, educating, and mobilizing parents in a variety of roles and in different ways, empowering them to engage in K — 12 reform efforts.

A joint effort by Mayor Baraka, the Newark City Council, school board members, the leaders of many charter organizations, education - related nonprofit groups, and several local and state representative to procure state aid for both district and charter schools is another sign factionalism is waning.

WASHINGTON — Asserting that children need to be better informed about the food they eat, a private, nonprofit group has announced an effort to develop a voluntary nutritional label for food products aimed at children.

As part of an effort to promote the inclusion of financial education in state standards and required courses, the Washington - based nonprofit group Jump $ tart Coalition for Personal Financial Literacy, and Citi, a global financial - services company, have mapped whether students are required to study financial education.

A small group of education advocates and researchers have been beating the drum about chronic absenteeism for years, gathering evidence that not only is attendance directly linked to achievement, but that comprehensive community efforts — including schools, nonprofit groups, social workers and community health organizations — can yield substantial improvements in school attendance.

A local animal rescue group has begun an effort to transfer 50 dogs and cats a week from Houston's overburdened public animal shelter to nonprofits and adoptive homes in Colorado, where the demand for adoptable pets exceeds the supply.

According to Phelan, this effort allows nonprofit groups to receive payment for paper collection.

Women at some environmentally conscious nonprofits are indignant that a new group overseeing financing for a United Nations climate change effort has 19 members — none of them women.

The Consumer Energy Alliance (CEA) is a nonprofit organization and a front group for the energy industry that opposes political efforts to regulate carbon standards while advancing deep water and land - based drilling for oil and methane gas.

Entanglement's work was part of an effort by the Environmental Defense Fund, a national advocacy group, and the nonprofit Air Alliance Houston to help the city of Houston assess environmental damage from Harvey, protect public health and hold companies accountable for their pollution.

September, 2007 The John Locke Foundation was behind an effort to combat the Center for Climate Strategies, a nonprofit group in Washington trying to reduce greenhouse gas emissions, the Institute for Southern Studies reports.

He served for years as a community organizer for CAUSE, a Ventura based nonprofit, and headed the group's efforts to stop a proposed big - box retail development in Ventura.

Five nonprofit groups were given awards at the NAR Midyear Business Meetings by the Partners in Housing program for their efforts in alleviating low - and moderate - income housing problems.