Sentences with phrase «from advocacy work»

One of our main priorities, from the summit and from our advocacy work in Washington, is to lead the way to ensuring a steady flow of capital for mortgages.

Aside from advocacy work, Charter Awareness Day also served as an opportunity for Connecticut's public charter schools to showcase their diverse offerings.

Lisa's inner drive to help people has led her from advocacy work to matchmaking, and — even after decades in the dating industry — she's still excited by the chance to uncover the diamond within people.

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It's inequitable and it's a concern,» says Elise Torres, staff attorney at TURN, The Utility Reform Network, an advocacy group that works to protect low - income homeowners from high electricity bills.»

In more recent years, our advocacy efforts have also focused on regional issues, from our very public role in the 2015 transit and transportation plebiscite, to our work around Metro Vancouver's proposed Bylaw 280 and regional waste management, our longstanding calls for a mobile business licence program across Greater Vancouver, and our advocacy at all levels of government to invest in roads, bridges, and Pacific Gateway trade infrastructure across the region.

Almost 5 years ago now, Gallup said that if you want to make a business impact from social, social brand advocacy is the only way to make that work.

According to a post on the Facebook Business blog, the site has been working with experts in privacy, data ethics and civil rights, along with charitable and advocacy organizations, to keep advertisers from misusing Facebook's ad targeting capabilities, specifically the ability to discriminate by using exclusion targeting.

Organizing also distinguishes itself from «advocacy,» the kind of work done by church lobbying offices in Washington and state capitals.

Prop is a spoken word artist and musician from Los Angeles on the Humblebeast label known for his advocacy work and heart for justice.

They are so wedded to this connection that when President Trump reinstated the Mexico City Policy, which denies American aid to any NGO that provides, counsels, or refers for abortion, or that promotes a change in a country's laws towards permitting access to abortion, not a single NGO (as far as I am aware) agreed to sever its contraception work from its abortion advocacy.

The other founders of the group who have been working very hard to promote and emphasize the importance of health advocacy made single served pizzas from coconut flour.

Gabor Figeczky, Advocacy manager, IFOAM — Organics International and Alisher Yuldashev, Rural service providerIFOAM - Organics International, ACF (Action contre la Faim / Action Against Hunger), the European Union and the governments of France and Kyrgyzstan shared experiences from their current work on the integration of nutrition challenges in... more

Through food donation, community service, financial investment and advocacy efforts, the FoodShare program is working to help end hunger from all sides.

It will also work to expand advocacy efforts and through new partnerships ensure conservation of entire landscapes in priority regions from India to Indonesia and Brazil to Vietnam.

Dr. Lane has also received awards from the Indiana Perinatal Network for advocacy work within the field of maternal and child health, and as the chair of the Tri-County Breastfeeding Coalition, she was awarded Indiana Breastfeeding Coalition of the year.

After my posts garnered attention (and a retraction) from the USDA, I was contacted by Rep. DeLauro, a long time food safety advocate, and asked if I'd like to work more on this issue along with dedicated advocacy groups like Food and Water Watch and the Center for Foodborne Illness Research & Prevention.

In case you needed proof that homebirth advocacy is «evidence resistant,» homebirth advocates charmingly demonstrate that they work backward from their chosen conclusion and don't even feel it necessary to actually read what they are disagreeing with.

From this eddy I pause amidst the rushing of family, work, and environmental advocacy.

As GOLD Lactation enters its 12th year, we're excited to continue our work of exploring the latest research, trends, new ideas and hot topics in the world of human lactation, along with bringing you cultural perspectives of breastfeeding around the world and updates from advocacy groups and non-profit organizations dedicated to breastfeeding support and promotion.

All proceeds from this event benefit Oak Knoll and Attleboro Springs Wildlife Sanctuaries and the nature education, conservation, and advocacy work Mass Audubon does in the greater Attleboro area.

So, one of the pieces of the project I was working on this week (which is different from the project I was working on LAST week) was to put together a quick online advocacy strategy overview for a website I'm designing and spec» ing out (another company is building it in Drupal).

The nice thing from an advocacy point of view is that both the hard - data and humor / satire approach can work if they're done right.

Join Social Media Club DC for a networking lunch and panel discussion featuring experts from the association and non-profit advocacy space as we talk about the tools and tactics that worked and didn't work in 2012.

Despite years of work by individual senators, representatives and and advocacy groups, global warming bills have always stalled in the Congress, killed off by well organized interest groups, industry coalitions and congressmembers from districts seen as being harmed.

At about the 3 - minute mark, Parker offers «my sincerest apology for my zealous advocacy» to the extent that it «brought commotion and emotion to this house in ways that may distract or divide us, or divert us from the important work the people of New York sent us here to accomplish.»

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An advocacy group for city commuters awarded its first «Worst Commute of the Week» award to a librarian from the borough of Queens for her story of an agonizing two - hour wait in a tunnel one stop from her home after skipping a restroom visit before leaving work.

Since gaining acclaim during the 2008 presidential election through its Obama campaign work, the integrated digital marketing agency has veered away from political candidate campaigns and broadened its clientele to encompass more advocacy groups, non-profits, unions, sporting organizations, educational institutions, and corporate clients.

Freedom from Torture welfare advisors work holistically, providing advocacy, counselling and practical advice for clients, who are an extremely vulnerable group.

Business advocacy groups like Unshackle Upstate were at first skeptical, but worked with Cuomo to, among other things, make sure it didn't allow competitors from other states to put similar New York businesses out of work.

The video, which features IDC Leader Jeff Klein speaking directly into the camera about the eight conference members, comes as the conference is under pressure from liberal advocacy groups to return to the fold of mainline Democrats in the Senate and deliver a working majority for the party.

Today, we serve more than 2,000 at - risk youth each year from more than 300 zip codes in New York and throughout the tri-state area, and an additional 8,000 young people through outreach efforts — as well as countless lives changed by our advocacy, training and capacity building work around the world.

Mauro's leadership at FPI since 1993 has been essential to its development as a credible and effective advocacy organization that helps to shape the debate over key economic and fiscal issues in ways that ensure a voice for working people — from middle income homeowners struggling with high property tax bills to those families whose breadwinners toil in minimum wage jobs to the involuntarily unemployed.

A former staffer in the Texas Legislature, Delany has worked with advocacy groups and political campaigns to maximize their gain from digital communications tools since 1996.

Instead, Kink said, the focus will be on «people power,» organizing a network he estimates will eventually be several million people strong when you count all the unions involved — from 32BJ, CWA, 1199 and the AFL - CIO — to advocacy groups like Citizen Action, Communities for Change and the Center for Working Families.

At 11 a.m., members of progressive advocacy groups will deliver turkeys stuffed with cash to the Trump building on Wall Street, «highlighting how Trump's tax plan will take massive sums of money from working people to benefit the richest Americans,» 40 Wall St., Manhattan.

Newberry said more resources from foundations and other funders would enable civic and advocacy groups to do more work in the community.

Kerin's advocacy for raising the minimum wage earned her the «Friend of Labor» award from the Greater Syracuse Labor Council and was named «Progressive Champion» by the Working Families Party in 2017.

Children's Advocacy Centers (CACs) are child - focused, facility - based programs in which representatives from many disciplines work together to conduct interviews and make team decisions on cases of child abuse.

From his work with low - income communities, to his steadfast advocacy for minority groups, Mr. Perales has demonstrated his outstanding commitment to serving others.

«From sponsoring the veterans» buyback bill and fighting until it became law, to drafting and helping pass legislation ensuring our utility workers are safe from horrific assault, I'm committed to making sure all the working men and women in my communities receive the advocacy they need in AlbFrom sponsoring the veterans» buyback bill and fighting until it became law, to drafting and helping pass legislation ensuring our utility workers are safe from horrific assault, I'm committed to making sure all the working men and women in my communities receive the advocacy they need in Albfrom horrific assault, I'm committed to making sure all the working men and women in my communities receive the advocacy they need in Albany.

Until Thursday afternoon, the governor's campaign website touted 51 endorsements, from prominent labor unions, Democratic clubs, progressive advocacy groups, and political parties like the Women's Equality Party and the Working Families Party.

«His balanced commitment on issues ranging from economic development, to his relentless advocacy for working class families, has been an inspiration to all.

Michael Kink, legislative counsel of Housing Works, an advocacy and service organization for people with AIDS, said the governor «moves health care money towards patients and front - line care providers, and away from big institutions that don't serve many Medicaid beneficiaries.»

Her work has many components: helping community cancer advocacy organizations write research grants, educating community organizations about cancer research, and matching patients from minority communities with clinical trials.

Possibly even more important for Weinberg, the organization has made space for teen advocacy, working with high school students from across the United States and Canada on projects to get youth involved in science.

We are also working to partner with and learn from patient advocacy groups, and from our patients themselves, to listen to their experiences, and put that to use in designing better care in the future.

The all - day meeting showcased the work of more than 100 experts from academia, federal and regulatory agencies, government research agencies, pharmaceutical and biotech industry, and patient advocacy community who have worked together over the past several months to prepare draft consensus recommendations on how to address the regulatory issues around HIV cure research.

With all due respect, let me suggest three principles that might guide your advocacy work — to stand up for what's right for kids while distancing yourself from the worst instincts of the unions:

They assembled «work groups» that included university professors, leaders of education advocacy groups, experts from testing companies, and K - 12 teachers.