Sentences with phrase «example of advocacy»

The latest NCA CSSR Report is perhaps the most egregious example of advocacy science in history assembling a series of wild though easily refuted claims.

I'd argue that you won't find a better example of advocacy research anywhere, but if you dig into the details it all falls apart.

One example of this advocacy was the book drive mentioned earlier.

With competition growing for airtime on TV news, more and more elected officials and political candidates will be broadcasting speeches, events, debates and examples of advocacy via mobile device apps and social media networks to reach their constituents and supporters directly.

An article in the new blog Together We Can Make a Difference finds 2,030 videos tagged on YouTube as «non-profit» (an increase from 76 in August) and also collects examples of advocacy videos from around the world.

Getting more involved with rescue and «pit bull» dogs over the last year or so, I've seen many great examples of advocacy through different platforms (see: Project Mickey).

Not exact matches

That's how many examples are on a «list of the harmed,» people who have offered personal stories of harm from fracking, as tallied by the advocacy group Pennsylvania Alliance for Clean Water and Air.

«In many ways,» said Crowdfund Insider's JD Alois,» BrewDog is a perfect example of using the internet to marry fans, ownership and advocacy for a consumer - facing product.»

This is a great example of a company that's scaled its advocacy campaign in order to get advocates coming to them.

Figure 1 shows three more examples of firms that enjoy high relative market share and high rates of customer advocacy.

If you are considering employee advocacy for your organisation but you are not sure how to sustain the participation of your employees on social media, Yekemi's book offers a three - step framework developed through research and real life examples.

Someone at head office in the marketing department, for example, will see an employee advocacy program entirely differently than an employee who spends the majority of their time in front of customers.

Examples are: — the advocacy of a position which the advocate knows or believes to be false or misleading — the advocacy of a position which the advocate does not know to be true, and has not performed rigorous due diligence to ensure the truthfulness of the position — the conscious omission of aspects of the truth known or believed to be relevant in the particular context.

The United Church of Christ's study paper, Christian Faith and Economic Life (1987), for example, declares that the purpose of the church's political advocacy must be «to achieve the biblical concept of economic justice.»

Familiar examples of such action would include the advocacy of social services aimed at the redistribution of material well - being so that there would be some agreed - upon level of affluence for all, including refusal to live above this parity level, unilateral disarmament, pacifism, nonviolent refusal to abide by existing laws that perpetuate injustice with the willingness to suffer the penalties that existing laws demand.

Whether it is to derogate or to defend this advocacy, public discussion tends to be dominated by examples shorn of context.

Churches might also consider advocacy work on behalf of the mentally ill — working, for example, to end the inequities in insurance coverage.

Take, for example, James Cone and his advocacy of black theology and black power.

Several of the topics of the previous proofs, for example where we discussed the Bible's advocacy of slavery, are excellent examples.

The case of Pho and Dock Souvannasane is a good example of a rare successful advocacy.

Serving as a member of a board that supervises the work of a people's advocacy program, for example, offers great possibilities.

It was a great example of top - down and bottom - up advocacy at work.

If you've been around the special - needs parenting block a few times, you'll have come across some political divides that split parents of kids with special needs into warring factions — cure vs. acceptance, for example, or inclusion vs. specialized instruction, or parent advocacy vs. self - advocacy, or special - needs parenting as blessing vs. burden.

For example, because of Annie's advocacy efforts, — and the timing would suggest that it is precisely because of the Nestle firestorm ---LSB-...]

Example: Members of the European Parliament voted to block an unsubstantiated claim about an ingredient added to formula following our email campaign and advocacy — but the European Commission ignored them.

This type of advocacy can be taken into local hospitals, parenting groups, your local church or community ladies» groups, co-ops, and home school meetings, for some more examples.

I constantly hold up your work as a shining example of effective, organized and patient parent advocacy.

Besides the political implications of their project — many advocacy campaigns are using Joomla and similar CMSs to build websites and maintain them easily — political communicators shouldn't ignore the potential of distant collaboration that this example illustrates.

It's really just another example of integrating your tools, with offline marketing helping to drive online traffic of many kinds, from advocacy list - building to product sales to music promotion.

Last week, I sent an innocent messsage out to the Progressive Exchange email list, asking folks to send along examples of good advocacy sites to help with a presentation I was finishing.

Well, the underwear campaign got exposure today in the form of Cindy Skrzycki write - up in the Post's The Regulator column as the featured example of the use of online video as an advocacy tool, so in that sense it's definitely made a splash.

The key takeaway from the report: Here's yet another example from an advocacy group pushing for an overhaul of the state's campaign finance laws.

Email advocacy and fundraising systems are really just specialized examples of CRM (customer / constituent / contact management) software, while blogs and website content management systems are database - driven, as are online ad serving systems.

Yet another example of how just about anybody can use the internet for politics, whether or not they have specialized advocacy software or expertise.

Other maps are here, more good examples of how an advocacy campaign can use mapping applications to illustrate a point.

For examples of social media monitoring in action, check out our weekly CrowdTangle - fueled lists of Top 10 Advocacy Campaign and Top 10 Presidential Campaign Facebook Posts.

ActionSprout is a new example of this kind of social technology, which I saw in demonstration at one of Alan Rosenblatt's Internet Advocacy Roundtable sessions this summer.

At the ceremony, which was also held to commemorate the President's appointment as co-Chair of the Advocacy Group of Eminent Persons by UN Secretary General, António Guterres, President Akufo - Addo charged the Committee to discharge its duties efficiently, and ensure that Ghana becomes a shining example for the implementation of the SDGs.

The advocacy of the union Prospect offers an example.

The Nassau race was «a very perfect example of the fact that this is an unfortunately common practice and has been for quite some time,» said Susan Lerner, the executive director of Common Cause New York, a good - government advocacy group.

The borough president closed his speech by citing Community Board 1's fight to keep the terror trials out of lower Manhattan as a prime example of the power of community advocacy.

These emails are all about empowering birth stories, the importance of talking about sex in pregnancy and new parenthood, a beautiful example of in hospital self advocacy, and a valuable insight from a «non-mom».

It's easy for the characters (and the audience, for that matter) to dismiss the hitchhiker's advocacy of the sledgehammer instead of the automatic, assembly - line air gun as an example of his insane bloodlust, but Hooper is more canny than that.

Yes, DI lessons are scripted, specifying «the exact wording and the examples the teacher is to present for each exercise in the program, which ensures that the program will communicate one and only one possible interpretation of the skill being taught,» according to the National Institute for Direct Instruction (NIFDI), an advocacy organization based in Oregon.

For example, a report released recently (by the ACLU SoCal and Public Advocates, a nonprofit law firm and advocacy group) found that more than 20 percent of all California charter schools have enrollment policies that violate state and federal law.

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 activities.

As I told UrbanFaith's Christine A. Scheller, this is just one more example of the NAACP's biggest problem: An organization which was once proudly and rightfully in the forefront of school reform in the last century lacks an education advocacy road map that supports systemic school reform.

They have made the whole child approach a core pillar of their professional learning and advocacy activities, and passage of the resolution is the latest example of these efforts and of their growing influence in the great state of Texas.»

«There are countless examples of where the appropriate use of technology has had and is having a positive impact on achievement,» said Bruce Friend, the chief operating officer of iNACOL, a U.S. - based advocacy group for increasing the use of technology in education.

So, for example, instead of just utilizing money to arm police officers in schools, we also are allowing individual school communities to make decisions about putting more mental health for students, to provide advocacy in the support system and not just move kids out of school or automatically engage them in the judicial system that we know can happen too often.