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New York City Mayor Bill de Blasio took an unusually personal role in raising money for a nonprofit group backing his political agenda, according to several people who received fundraising appeals from the mayor.
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«Having to hang a diaper to dry and put it back on your baby is really unimaginable for a mother to think about,» says Kelly Sawyer Patricof, the co-president of Baby2Baby, a Los Angeles - based nonprofit group that provides diapers and other necessities to families like Mora's.
The New York Housing Conference Inc., a real estate - backed nonprofit group, has expressed political support for U.S. Rep. Joseph Crowley's housing proposals that pivot the Government's commitment away from public housing and that offers a tax credit solution to tenants facing a rent burden.
Two gun safety groups in Maine are getting more than $ 3 million from a nonprofit backed by former New York City Mayor Bloomberg in preparation for a big gun control measure on the November ballot.
Also last week, the leaders of an affordable housing nonprofit and a labor - backed advocacy group provided statements to reporters chiding Wu for comments he made about internet startup Airbnb.
Internal documents show that Cambridge Analytica also provided services to politically active nonprofit organizations that are not required to disclose their donors, including the Colorado - based antiabortion group Centennial Coalition and For America, led by L. Brent Bozell, who founded the Mercer - backed Media Research Center.
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.
Giving many cause to celebrate the first day back to school in Boston, the Bill & Melinda Gates Foundation announced two grants to HGSE and the nonprofit group Center for Collaborative Education (CCE) on Wednesday, September 6, at the Mission Hill School.
Education Superhighway, a nonprofit advocacy group backed by tech entrepreneurs, estimates that 72 percent of America's schools lack sufficient Internet infrastructure for digital learning.
A 2005 report by the Center for Teaching and Learning, part of the nonprofit educational research group WestEd, said that back then nearly 100,000 teachers in California were more than 50 years old.
«The district came back and said, «We would like a second chance to turn this school around,»» said David Phelps, spokesman for Parent Revolution, the nonprofit advocacy group that bankrolled the 24th Street push and lobbies for parent trigger legislation nationwide.
«For the first time, a group of parents is going to take back power of the educations of their own kids and select a high - quality nonprofit to transform their failing school,» said Ben Austin, executive director of Parent Revolution, the Los Angeles nonprofit that is bankrolling the parent union.
Backed by a grant from NewSchools Venture Fund, a nonprofit education reform philanthropy, the group has accumulated about 60 articles for its history platform on topics ranging from ancient China to the American Revolution.
The Speaking for Spot Gives Back Program shares proceeds from purchase of Speaking for Spot with animal centered nonprofit groups.
The driving force behind the IDL is a group called Fight for the Future, a nonprofit organization that helped organize the protests against the Stop Online Piracy Act (SOPA) and the Protect Intellectual Property Act (PIPA) back in late 2011.
A nonprofit research arm sponsored by the American Enterprise Institute, the International Center on Housing Risk is a conservative - leaning group that tends to promote market - based solutions for the housing industry and has been a critic of moves to boost the market share of FHA - backed loans.
«Basically every state that's been in session has been considering legislation to cut back on eminent domain abuses,» says Dana Berliner, a senior attorney with the Institute for Justice, a private nonprofit group that represented the home owners in Kelo.