Sentences with phrase «founded as an advocacy»

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The Air Force Court of Appeals in May 2017 also reversed a conviction in the sexual assault case U.S. v. Boyce after finding that public statements by Sens. Claire McCaskill and Kirsten Gillibrand regarding the «Marines United» scandal earlier this year created «the appearance of unlawful command influence» in the case, as retired Col. Don Christensen, a former Air Force chief prosecutor and current president of the advocacy group Protect Our Defenders, told Task & Purpose at the time.

Robin Silvester served as Chair of the Greater Vancouver Board of Trade in 2016 - 17, a year in which the organization integrated findings of the Greater Vancouver Economic Scorecard 2016 into its advocacy efforts and continued to build on the strength of its four Signature Programs.

Dan has served on the Institute of Brewing Studies Board of Advisors, as director and treasurer of Save the Harbor / Save the Bay, a local environmental advocacy organization, president of the Boston Marine Park Business Association, and founding president of the Massachusetts Brewer's Guild.

According to Christian advocacy group Middle East Concern, Shamiram Isavi Khabizeh, was also found guilty of «organising small groups, attending a seminary abroad and training church leaders and pastors to act as spies».

Founded in 2008, the council serves as a research and advocacy group, conducting and publishing studies on industry trends and offering educational tools and resources online.

I hope that you will find my food allergy mom experiences helpful and enjoyable to read as I write about recipes, cooking techniques, Asian ingredients, and food allergy related awareness and advocacy issues.

You can find the «Get Real» pamphlet as well as several other advocacy items on the RDA Media and Cloth Diapering Advocacadvocacy items on the RDA Media and Cloth Diapering AdvocacyAdvocacy pages.

Advocacy for SM consists of educating oneself, educating others who interact with the child with SM, developing a plan to increase the child's comfort and facilitate improvement at school and other social settings, and finding a treating professional who will help develop appropriate treatment and also serve as an advocate for the child.

As for the broad applicability, we're seeing it every day in the nonprofit world, as plenty of groups are learning to use their supporter lists for more than overnight fundraising and email advocacy — some are finding ways and providing tools to turn supporters into evangelists in whatever communities they're a part of (whether local or notAs for the broad applicability, we're seeing it every day in the nonprofit world, as plenty of groups are learning to use their supporter lists for more than overnight fundraising and email advocacy — some are finding ways and providing tools to turn supporters into evangelists in whatever communities they're a part of (whether local or notas plenty of groups are learning to use their supporter lists for more than overnight fundraising and email advocacy — some are finding ways and providing tools to turn supporters into evangelists in whatever communities they're a part of (whether local or not).

I am in process of founding a nonprofit corporation, classifiable as advocacy, not politics.

Come to tomorrow's Internet Advocacy Roundtable and you'll find out, since host Alan Rosenblatt has organized a great introduction to microblogging as a political advocaAdvocacy Roundtable and you'll find out, since host Alan Rosenblatt has organized a great introduction to microblogging as a political advocacyadvocacy tool.

As plenty of activists in the nonprofit and political advocacy worlds have found, though, actually using online social networks for political outreach can be extremely time - consuming.

And just as direct mail firms adapted methods from commercial marketing, digital advocacy firms are constantly looking to private sector marketing trends for insights and finding innovative ways to apply those methods to their clients goals.

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.

The trouble with «Big Email,» the kind of online advocacy Move.On pioneered, is that even as the Internet makes it easier for us to «find each other,» it makes it harder for us to «bind with each other,» writes Sifry, in «common focus.»

With the late Jim Owles, Roskoff founded the nation's first gay Democratic club, and today he leads the Jim Owles Liberal Democratic Club — which he describes as his proudest achievement — joining LGBTQ progressives, straight allies, and party officials in reform - focused advocacy.

As the accrediting body for the more than 850 Children's Advocacy Centers and Chapters in all 50 states around the country, NCA provides training, financial support, technical assistance, leadership, national advocacy and access to current research findings on a national level to children's advocacy centers around the country as well as numerous developing centers, multi-disciplinary teams and child abuse professionalAs the accrediting body for the more than 850 Children's Advocacy Centers and Chapters in all 50 states around the country, NCA provides training, financial support, technical assistance, leadership, national advocacy and access to current research findings on a national level to children's advocacy centers around the country as well as numerous developing centers, multi-disciplinary teams and child abuse profesAdvocacy Centers and Chapters in all 50 states around the country, NCA provides training, financial support, technical assistance, leadership, national advocacy and access to current research findings on a national level to children's advocacy centers around the country as well as numerous developing centers, multi-disciplinary teams and child abuse profesadvocacy and access to current research findings on a national level to children's advocacy centers around the country as well as numerous developing centers, multi-disciplinary teams and child abuse profesadvocacy centers around the country as well as numerous developing centers, multi-disciplinary teams and child abuse professionalas well as numerous developing centers, multi-disciplinary teams and child abuse professionalas numerous developing centers, multi-disciplinary teams and child abuse professionals.

In its 2012 National Survey on Credit Card Debt in Low - and Middle - Income Households, a survey of low and middle - income American households carrying credit card debt, the public advocacy organization Demos found that among unemployed survey respondents, 1 in 4 recalledthat a potential employer had requested to check their credit report as part of a job application.

«Considering the extent of allegations of personal enrichment at the expense of a political advocacy group, Ms. Conlin, if found responsible, should be certainly as vilified as Pedro Espada has been for his alleged crimes.»

He was relatively unknown in the NCI world, as a clinical researcher who was president - elect of the American Cancer Society (ACS), an advocacy organization founded by surgeons.

This year's Action Award honorees include global leaders in the fight to end cancer as we know it; a world leader in advancing the emerging field of regenerative medicine and game - changing cell therapy medical treatments; the president of a non-profit group focused on developing cures for chronic, debilitating and fatal diseases; a sickle cell and stem cell advocate and founder / science administrator of the Axis Advocacy; and the founding director of the Institute for Integrated Cell - Material Sciences (iCeMS) at Japan's Kyoto University.

Wendy: Our guest today is Morley Robbins, also known as the Magnesium Man and he's the found of the Magnesium Advocacy Group on Facebook.

A consumer advocacy group As You Sow did independent testing on a number of popular brands and found levels to be higher than the safe threshold set by California (though the levels were still within the FDA's limits).

Much as Jennie Livingston did in «Paris Is Burning,» her landmark 1990 portrait of New York's drag - ball culture, Jordenö finds revelatory moments of warmth and intimacy in this stylish, spirited performance space — a public realm that offers acceptance, empowerment and advocacy to those who need it desperately.

Adoniou's methods and advocacy can be seen as an attempt to find a space between two extremes — the conservatives, who are nostalgic for a return to 1950s - style grammar instruction, and the parts of the Academy that still favour obscurantism.

He has founded a national advocacy organization, English for the Children, which promotes English immersion programs as opposed to bilingual education.

Consisting of several new faces as well as loyal supporters from the original founding of the program in the 1990s, this Council counts among its members active artists, cultural philanthropists, and arts educators who put civic engagement and arts education advocacy among their highest priorities.

In a recent analysis I did for a forthcoming book on education and philanthropy, I found that the largest 15 education foundations devote only 5.9 % of their giving to support research, some of which is actually advocacy disguised as phony research.

Michelle Rhee has announced that she will step down as head of StudentsFirst, the Sacramento - based national advocacy organization she founded four years ago after resigning as chancellor of the District of Columbia school district.

He focuses on outcomes anticipated by reformers in areas such as increased innovation and higher levels of achievement, exploring the frequent disconnect between research findings and policy advocacy.

«As soon as I heard about the achievement school district bill, I just knew I had to be a part of it,» said former state lawmaker Marcus Brandon, who founded a charter school in High Point and is now executive director of CarolinaCAN, a state chapter of the national advocacy group 50CAN which works to promote high quality charter schoolAs soon as I heard about the achievement school district bill, I just knew I had to be a part of it,» said former state lawmaker Marcus Brandon, who founded a charter school in High Point and is now executive director of CarolinaCAN, a state chapter of the national advocacy group 50CAN which works to promote high quality charter schoolas I heard about the achievement school district bill, I just knew I had to be a part of it,» said former state lawmaker Marcus Brandon, who founded a charter school in High Point and is now executive director of CarolinaCAN, a state chapter of the national advocacy group 50CAN which works to promote high quality charter schools.

Find advocacy resources and partners in groups such as NNSTOY's Teachers Leading Coffee House (join us there on Facebook!).

«NCEE is the multimillion - dollar Gates Foundation - funded advocacy (read: «lobbying») group founded by Marc Tucker, the godfather of Common Core - style schemes and top - down control masquerading as «reform.»

I also can't forward it as a prez of a gifted ed advocacy group in my school district because of the quote you have «what you often find in gifted programs are academically compatible children».

Sackler also founded the national charter school advocacy group 50 - CAN and sits on a number of other pro-charter school groups, as well as being a founding member of Achievement First, Inc.'s Board of Directors.

«Because of what's taken place, especially in the last two legislative sessions, I don't think we've ever had to place as much importance on [political advocacy] as we find ourselves doing today,» Indiana Federation of Teachers president Rick Muir says.

Karega is a former Charter Schools Director with the Indianapolis Mayor's Office; founded and served as Director of the Indianapolis affiliate of Stand for Children, a national educational advocacy nonprofit; and was on the leadership team of Indiana University's Equity Project, housed at the Center for Evaluation and Education Policy.

Since its founding in 2011 by former ConnCAN Chief Operating Officer Marc Porter Magee, 50CAN has emerged as a vibrant network of locally led and nationally supported education advocacy campaigns that learn and grow together.

Previously, she served as Director of Technical Assistance at the State Collaborative on Reforming Education (SCORE), a nonprofit and non-partisan advocacy and research institution, founded by former U.S. Senate Majority Leader Bill Frist.

Through advocacy and hosting of workshops or how - to lectures, libraries can empower their community to become content creators, and thanks to the library's primary function as an archive, the self - published author can find an immediate home for their work.

This almost 70 page report contains information that those heavily involved in advocacy won't find surprising — it's what we've been trying to raise awareness about for years BUT... for those who have denied that dogs in large scale commercial breeding kennels ARE N'T neglected, aren't denied vet care and aren't suffering, we'll let's just say that we now have official confirmation that the facts, as we've presented them, are indeed true. This report reaffirms the dismal conditions the breeder dogs have now had to endure for DECADES.

Back in late 2009, in a lawsuit filed by a coalition of Los Angeles — area bird advocacy groups against City of Los Angeles Animal Services (LAAS), a Los Angeles Superior Court judge found in favor of the bird groups that LAAS programs in support of trap / neuter / return (TNR) as a community cat management strategy was in violation of the California Environmental Quality Act (CEQA) because the agency had not conducted an environmental impact study regarding the effects on the environment of sterilizing free - roaming community cats.

We do very limited work on advocacy around other specific animal issues such as use of animals in laboratories and companion animal homelessness, because we think good opportunities to help animals are much easier to find in the area of farm animal advocacy (and additionally the less popular area of wild animal suffering).104 The work we do in these areas serves mainly to check our assumptions about the scale, tractability, and neglectedness of various causes.

In addition to her passion for shelter medicine and animal advocacy, every summer she can be found volunteering with HSVMA Field Services (formerly known as RAVS), providing free veterinary care and education to under - served, rural communities.

• We have: o Made TNR mainstream and accepted as the only effective approach to outdoor cat populationso Established the Feral Friends Networko Brought together experts and advocates for the first community cat conference in Americao Transformed shelters through advocacy and guidanceo Established the ongoing Boardwalk Cats Project in Atlantic City, NJo Founded National Feral Day, a national day of action that has grown to include events in all states and many countries worldwide.

Founded by long - time animal activists Jasmin Singer and Mariann Sullivan, Our Hen House serves as a central clearinghouse for ideas and opportunities to create positive change for animals ranging from grassroots activism to advocacy through the arts.

We would like to see deeper critical engagement from THL with regard to important questions in effective animal advocacy, such as how interventions should be prioritized — as well as smaller questions, such as the direct implications of certain study findings.

As the pit reporter for NASCAR on Fox Sports she keeps fans informed of all the action on the race track, and in her private life Jamie Little is a driving force in the world of animal advocacy, helping canines and cats at The Animal Foundation get on the fast track to finding forever families to love.

Indeed, organized pit bull advocacy appears to date from July 17, 1986, when after 25 years of gradually increasing pit bull abundance and attacks, Rowan as founding director of the Center for Animals & Public Policy at Tufts University convened a workshop entitled «Dog Aggression & the Pit Bull Terrier.»

Previously Day has been known chiefly as the apparently biggest single funder behind both her own animal advocacy organization, No Kill Nation, headquartered in Lighthouse Point, Florida, founded in 2009 and the No Kill Advocacy Center, of Oakland, California, founded in 2006 by Nathan Wadvocacy organization, No Kill Nation, headquartered in Lighthouse Point, Florida, founded in 2009 and the No Kill Advocacy Center, of Oakland, California, founded in 2006 by Nathan WAdvocacy Center, of Oakland, California, founded in 2006 by Nathan Winograd.