Sentences with phrase «founded as a nonprofit organization»

In 1997, The Climate Trust was founded as a nonprofit organization to acquire carbon offsets on behalf of new fossil - fueled power plants regulated by the Oregon Carbon Dioxide Standard, the nation's first legislation to curb emissions of carbon dioxide.

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Founded in 1943 as a nonprofit, nonpartisan organization, NFIB gives small and independent business owners a voice in shaping the public policy issues that affect their business.

Originally founded as The Check Foundation in 2004, The Foundation, a 501 (c)(3) nonprofit organization furthers our mission to serve and support the communities in which Towne Park associates live and work.

«The Decision Education Foundation was founded in 2001 as a 501 (c)(3) nonprofit organization with the mission to improve the lives of young people by empowering them with effective decision skills.»

On June 6, Lysa and I [Barbara] celebrated the official 20th anniversary of Attachment Parenting International's founding, but as we like to say: It took us 20 years of teaching and parenting experience to lead us to a decision to start the nonprofit parenting organization you know as API.

In response to the dramatic trend towards fatherlessness in America, Dr. Ken Canfield founded the National Center for Fathering as a nonprofit, scientific and educational organization.

I've held off on using it as a tool for my nonprofit organization, yet (that's about to change) because: a) most of my audience isn't on Twitter and doesn't get it; b) due to limited staffing, I've found it difficult to keep up with on a regular basis; and c) I haven't had a real goal in mind — something I wanted to accomplish by using it.

NYRA, founded in 1955 as a private nonprofit organization, holds the franchise to operate Aqueduct, Belmont and Saratoga thoroughbred tracks through 2033.

These individuals generally find work at government health agencies such as the U.S. Centers for Disease Control and Prevention, global nonprofit organizations such as Doctors Without Borders, educational institutions and academic centres, and hospitals.

The sport's long road to Beijing began in 1974 when George Esser founded the National Bicycle League as a nonprofit bicycle motocross sanctioning organization.

Focusing on flu outbreaks in the U.S. between 2003 and 2008, Justin Ortiz from the Division of Pulmonary and Critical Care Medicine at the University of Washington and colleagues from CDC and PATH, a Seattle - based nonprofit health organization, found that Google Flu Trends deviated greatest from CDC surveillance figures for laboratory - confirmed flu rates during the 2003 — 2004 flu season, which saw a high number of flu - related deaths in children and, as a result, was a hot topic in the media.

The Institute was originally founded by the late Edwin H. Land in 1980 as The Rowland Institute for Science, a privately endowed, nonprofit, basic research organization, conceived to advance science in a wide variety of fields.

Ms. Samit has also served as founding Chair of the Law & Medicine Section of the San Diego County Bar Association, and as a board member or officer of several San Diego nonprofit organizations.

Since its founding in 1988 as an independent, nonprofit research organization, the Institute has made numerous advances leading towards its goal: life without disease.

«The approval of a vaccine to treat cancer is a victory in the history of cancer therapy, and signals the beginning of a new era in cancer medicine,» said Jill O'Donnell - Tormey, Ph.D., executive director of the U.S. - based Cancer Research Institute (CRI), a nonprofit organization founded in 1953 that has provided decades of significant support to cancer immunology researchers around the world so that the development of cancer immunotherapies such as Dendreon's Provenge might one day be possible.

In 2012, Dr. Bland founded the Personalized Lifestyle Medicine Institute (PLMI), a nonprofit organization based in Seattle, Washington, where he continues to serve as President.

In 2012, Dr. Bland founded the Personalized Lifestyle Medicine Institute (PLMI), a nonprofit organization based in Seattle, Washington, where he continues to serve as president.

Teachers can find some classroom activities at the Web site of the National Flag Day Foundation, Inc., a nonprofit organization committed to educating all Americans about the history and origin of the flag as well as the major people and events in history that have shaped the United States.

As I went onto the Internet to find out the latest research on global warming, I came upon a call for help: Gore had set up a nonprofit organization, the Climate Project, to spread awareness and challenge citizens and governments to take action to combat global warming.

As an emergency outreach counselor immediately following the tragic event — and in her subsequent role as founding executive director of Mustard Seed Generation, a nonprofit organization with a mission of encouraging Korean American youth to develop all aspects of a healthy identity — Kim has addressed an array of mental health issues in the Korean American community, including suicidal tendencies, depression, anxiety, perfectionism, low self - esteem, body image issues, substance abuse, and identity confusioAs an emergency outreach counselor immediately following the tragic event — and in her subsequent role as founding executive director of Mustard Seed Generation, a nonprofit organization with a mission of encouraging Korean American youth to develop all aspects of a healthy identity — Kim has addressed an array of mental health issues in the Korean American community, including suicidal tendencies, depression, anxiety, perfectionism, low self - esteem, body image issues, substance abuse, and identity confusioas founding executive director of Mustard Seed Generation, a nonprofit organization with a mission of encouraging Korean American youth to develop all aspects of a healthy identity — Kim has addressed an array of mental health issues in the Korean American community, including suicidal tendencies, depression, anxiety, perfectionism, low self - esteem, body image issues, substance abuse, and identity confusion.

In 1995, we were founded as an independent 501 (c) 3 nonprofit organization, the Bay Area Coalition for Essential Schools, or BayCES.

Considered a prominent figure in higher education, Coles served as founding executive director of both the Higher Education Information Center at the Boston Public Library, and the Pathways to College Network, a national alliance directed by TERI of over 30 nonprofit organizations and funders committed to advancing college access and success for underserved students.

About The National Commission on Teaching & America's Future (NCTAF) The National Commission on Teaching & America's Future (NCTAF) is a nonprofit organization that was founded in 1994 as a bipartisan effort to engage education policymakers and practitioners to address the entrenched national challenge of recruiting, developing, and retaining great teachers in order to ensure that all students have access to quality teaching in schools organized for success.

The National Commission on Teaching & America's Future (NCTAF) is a nonprofit organization that was founded in 1994 as a bipartisan effort to engage education policymakers and practitioners to address the entrenched national challenge of recruiting, developing, and retaining great teachers in order to ensure that all students have access to quality teaching in schools organized for success.

Since its founding in 2000 as an education nonprofit, Reasoning Mind has established itself as one of the highest - quality blended learning organizations for mathematics in the United States, and now serves well over 100,000 students and 2,500 teachers across several states.

Walker serves as the president and national director of Project Appleseed, the organization he founded as a nonprofit resource and advocate for families engaged in education.

Additionally, all documents related to establishing NSSF as a nonprofit organization such as our 501c3 determination letter, bylaws, articles of incorporation and board policy can be found below.

As schools and districts across the country struggled to find high - quality, well - prepared leadership capable of improving learning, a need emerged to identify and support home - grown, innovative ideas generated by local nonprofit and community organizations, and to create new learning networks through which knowledge about improving leadership could spread to others in the field.

The Education Corps is designed to provide tutoring and after - school support but not necessarily to train future teachers.92 The VISTA program matches corps members with a nonprofit organization to perform capacity building and provides yearlong stipends, but it is not intended for provision of direct services.93 The Professional Corps, which specifies teaching as one of its qualified positions, allows participants to access Segal AmeriCorps Education Awards — which recipients can use either for loan forgiveness or for paying tuition and other qualifying educational expenses — but increases residency program costs because residents are prohibited from receiving stipends through AmeriCorps and must therefore be paid through their program or the school district.94 None of these programs were designed for supported entry specifically; thus, programs dedicated to providing a gradual on - ramp to the teaching profession can sometimes find it hard to meet their definitions and requirements.

In 2009, Elder founded Reading with Pictures, a nonprofit organization devoted to recognizing comics» potential as an educational tool.

The Association of Authors» Representatives (AAR), a nonprofit membership organization founded in 1991, currently lists more than four hundred agents as members, all of whom meet certain experience requirements and abide by an established code of ethics.

Consumer Education Services, Inc. was founded on October 19, 1998, as a nonprofit 501 (C) 3 organization.

A 501 (c)(3) nonprofit animal welfare organization, Boxer Lovers Rescue is dedicated to finding responsible forever homes, where the boxer will thrive as a loyal and loving family member

The Humane Society of the United States is an American nonprofit organization founded by journalist Fred Myers and Helen Jones, Larry Andrews, and Marcia Glaser in 1954, to address what they saw as animal - related cruelties of national scope, and to resolve animal welfare problems by applying strategies beyond the resources or abilities of local organizations.

Atlanta Humane Society (AHS) is a 501 (c) 3 tax exempt nonprofit (IRS Tax ID # 58-0685900) and one of the oldest private charitable organizations in Atlanta, founded in 1873 as a result of an earlier visit to the city by Robert E. Lee.

In 1991, founding members established Ark - Valley Humane Society (AVHS) as a nonprofit organization to humanely care for stray and unwanted pets in northern Chaffee County.

California Chins The California Chinchilla Association was founded by Betti Cogswell, Lani Ritchey, and Roxane Beeman, in the early 1990s, CA Chins is a nonprofit organization dedicated to the study of chinchillas and to educating people about owning chinchillas as pets.

Founded in 1953 and incorporated as a nonprofit organization in 1980, we are Humane Society Executive Directors, Animal Welfare Facility Managers, Shelter Board Members and private citizens.

is a program of Pet Alliance, Inc., founded in 2006, as a private 501 (c)(3) nonprofit organization to create programs to save more animals.

The nonprofit organization was founded in 1888 and serves seven jurisdictions as an open admission shelter, with an intake of 12,000 animals annually, a staff of 50, and an average of 534 volunteers.

Christophe Cox — co-founder and CEO of APOPO, a Tanzania - based nonprofit organization that trains African giant pouched rats to detect landmines and to detect tuberculosis — recounts the genesis of the organization, when co-founder Bart Weetjens began contemplating whether the rodents he kept as pets could be taught to find landmines, and drafted his friend, Cox, to help explore and realize this vision.

As a part of the Michelson Found Animals Foundation nonprofit organization, we're empowered to approach adoptions differently.

Founded in 2014, the Kalalea / Anahola Farmer's Hui is a nonprofit organization created to promote native Hawaiian cultural, educational, nutritional and charitable farming practices in the community of Anahola, as well as revitalize the area's farming community.

The Linda Pace Foundation's mission statement describes the nonprofit organization as «committed to the charitable vision of its founder,» the late artist, collector and philanthropist Linda Pace, who founded Artpace in 1993 and died in 2007.

Founded in 1977 as the nation's first nonprofit investigative journalism organization, The Center For Investigative Reporting (CIR) celebrating its 40th anniversary this year.

In 1989, he and his wife, Eileen, founded the Peter Norton Family Foundation, which supports visual and contemporary nonprofit arts organizations, as well as human social services organizations.

Founded in 1984 in Chicago, the Heartland Institute is a libertarian «think tank» that bills itself as «a national nonprofit research organization dedicated to finding and...

Founded in 1984 in Chicago, the Heartland Institute is a libertarian «think tank» that bills itself as «a national nonprofit research organization dedicated to finding and promoting ideas that empower people.»

As an independent 501 (c)(3) nonprofit organization founded in 2000, the Endowment for Equal Justice is governed by a board of directors comprised of dedicated community leaders and civil justice advocates from across Washington.

The MIP was founded at the University of Missouri — Kansas City School of Law in 2000 as a 501 (c)(3) nonprofit corporation and operates today as an independent organization in partnership with the University of Missouri (Kansas City) and (Columbia) Schools of Law, the University of Kansas and local legal communities.