Sentences with phrase «from local nonprofit»

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You may also find scholarship opportunities from local nonprofit or service organizations.

Students at Avalon School in St. Paul, Minnesota learn filming from a local nonprofit in the area, and students at Science Leadership Academy in Philadelphia learn from scientists and researchers at the Franklin Institute through mini-courses.

Just as the J - term was ending, all of the students in Weissbourd's module presented their projects to Boston Mayor Thomas Menino, superintendents from Boston and Cambridge, and leaders from local nonprofits.

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It can be particularly advantageous to choose a local nonprofit to benefit from your cause - marketing efforts.

This manpower shuttles still - edible food from dining halls that would otherwise be thrown out to local nonprofits fighting hunger.

AT&T has also spent decades building a national alliance of local government officials and nonprofit groups — particularly from black and Hispanic communities — that it will certainly be asking to weigh in again in Washington, as it tries to get the merger approved.

Read more stories on help coming from local commerce and nonprofits.

Additionally, on one Thursday of eight months every year called Community Day, a local nonprofit organization receives 5 percent of the day's total sales from New Leaf.

Members of the public who attend the full - day Good Food Festival programming have the opportunity to learn directly from experienced farmers and gardeners through long - form DIY workshops and «Good Food Commons» mini-sessions; hear from thought leader panelists about the future of our agricultural system; watch cooking demos, emphasizing local food, by culinary leaders such as Frontera's Rick Bayless and One Off Hospitality's Paul Kahan (both past recipients of FamilyFarmed's Good Food Chef of the Year Award); and engage with more than 150 farmer, food business, and nonprofit exhibitors.

Barron sources local produce from Tennessee farms, including Chattanooga's own Crabtree Farms, a nonprofit farm that supplies produce to the city's restaurants and provides educational outreach to the community.

This survival tool is at the heart of The Empowerment Plan, a Detroit - based nonprofit organization that hires homeless women from local shelters to make this coat, which is gifted to homeless people with no strings attached.

But you can also investigate local volunteer groups (from colleges or faith - based groups) and other nonprofit organizations for respite care options.

AFSCME New York represents 420,000 public and nonprofit services workers across the state, made up of members from CSEA Local 1000, DC 37, DC 1707, Council 35, Council 66, and Council 82.

The Commission on Local Government Modernization - or Consensus, for short - was formed three years ago by six nonprofit civic groups with support from the city and county.

She said she's a 53 - year - old mother of three who has lived in Rosendale for 17 years, has a PhD in political science from Rutgers University in New Jersey, and is director of the nonprofit Citizens for Local Power.

The groups «want to ensure that a significant portion of state savings from staff attrition and facility closures is reinvested into local communities to boost nonprofit services.»

After police expressed frustration at their inability of garner cooperation from the local Latino community, many of whom were undocumented immigrants, a coalition of church and nonprofit groups came up with the idea of local identification cards.

«New York State wants to help build stronger, more vibrant communities from the ground up, and I am proud to be partnering with local governments, community leaders and the nonprofit sector to make it happen.»

It points out that Eldridge's Sep. 22, 2013 campaign announcement video (1:42 mark) appears to use footage (1:54) from the Hudson Valley Economic Development Corporation (HVEDC), a nonprofit aiding local business.

The Fort Drum Regional Liaison Organization, a nonprofit community group that advocates for sustainable growth around the post, collected 7,287 signatures on a petition from local residents supporting the project.

Local volunteers who maintain the garden and formed the nonprofit Friends of Elizabeth Street Garden plan to bring «dozens of residents from Little Italy, Nolita and the surrounding neighborhoods» to the YMCA on Ninth Street between Fifth and Sixth avenues in Park Slope, where de Blasio still exercises even though he lives in Gracie Mansion on the Upper East Side.

Since 2005, REBNY and the 37 companies represented on its powerful Board of Governors have contributed $ 43.9 million to state and local candidates, committees, and PACs, according to a July report from Common Cause New York, a nonprofit that tracks connections between money and politics.

«You can't say you are giving the community something if it doesn't have teeth to it,» said Dawn Phillip, an attorney from NYLPI, at the meeting held at local nonprofit group Inwood Community Services.

The Adirondack Council has viewed Stefanik, a sophomore Republican, as critical in efforts to preserve research grant funding for the Adirondack Lakes Survey Corporation (ALSC) in Ray Brook, a nonprofit laboratory that takes samples from local waterways annually to monitor acid rain recovery.

But schools may seek other strategies such as recruiting health care professionals from local hospitals or clinics or nonprofits to offer occasional sessions on first aid or CPR.

To accomplish this, the foundation funds positions, which are tenured from the start, at local universities and nonprofit research centers.

A more economical option is to inquire about local retailers from a chapter leader of the Weston A. Price Foundation (WAPF), a nonprofit organization that promotes the revival of traditional foods.

We purchase our produce and pasture - raised meat from these local farms, and happily support them through Farm Fresh RI, a nonprofit dedicated to preserving Rhode Island farmland, and reducing the impact of farming on our local environment.

November 16: Indeed We Can x Still Kickin Pop - up + Fundraiser: Indeed Brewery's fundraising initiative, Indeed We Can, donates its net proceeds from one night to local nonprofits, and this time it's Still Kickin's turn.

United Way, the Road Home, and the Utah Humane Society are just a few of the nonprofit organizations and charities in Salt Lake City that can always use some help from local community members.

With support from SASTEMIC, a local nonprofit, the bus launched in 2014, traveling to underserved and rural schools around greater San Antonio that don't have access to STEM and maker resources.

Contributors to the final plan included representatives from the New Orleans Public Schools, state and local government, Louisiana universities, the U.S. Department of Education, the Broad Foundation, the Gates Foundation, the Council of the Great City Schools, IBM, Teach For America, the American Federation of Teachers, New Orleans nonprofits, and the Philadelphia, Norfolk (VA), and Oakland public school districts.

This is why she is trying to stay well connected to her community, in part through a growing network of volunteers, and to the local government — a strategy she learned from John Wood, founder of Room to Read, a nonprofit that helps build libraries in developing countries.

Coached by a grassroots local nonprofit called the Llano Grande Center, their work quickly won respect and cooperation from city officials.

A literacy nonprofit might send volunteers into a school with low reading scores, or a local YMCA might invite teenagers from a poor community to its afterschool program.

Pilot schools are created as the result of a planning process funded by the Boston Foundation, a private charity, with technical assistance from the Center for Collaborative Education, a local nonprofit organization that runs the Boston Pilot Schools Network.

From an experience perspective, I thought it was important to bring experience growing up in public schools on Vandenberg Air Force Base in Lompoc, serving as a senior leader in the central office of a large, complex public school system in Chicago — with over 600 schools serving almost 400,000 students — and as an executive at a nationwide nonprofit working through state agencies and local districts to support public education.

Standing Together for Strong Community Schools, a nonprofit group in the state, views the state - run district and the growing charter sector as a move away from local control.

The three other options included solo proposals from the district and Crown Prep and one from Academia Moderna, a nonprofit charter led by a local teacher.

Most funding for school construction comes from local governments, said Alex Donahue, deputy director for policy and research at the 21st Century School Fund, a Washington - based nonprofit.

The petitions were delivered by representatives from Communities for Los Angeles Student Success (CLASS), a coalition of nonprofits and community groups that fight for equity in local schools, according to organizers.

The authors (from four nonprofit education research groups that compile the report annually) detail several successful efforts that have increased graduation rates, but stress that improvement has come from targeted local interventions, not overarching national initiatives.

The Mind Trust, a local education nonprofit that supports innovative education programs and leaders, today will announce that Carson is the latest recipient, and the first from Indiana, of its Education Entrepreneur Fellowship.

In partnership with civic leaders from the selected cities, EDUCAUSE — the nonprofit organization that manages NGLC — will solicit proposals from local educators for preliminary funding to develop projects that reconfigure an existing school or build a financially sustainable new «breakthrough» school.

The North Carolina Innovative School District is building a network of partners from community groups, nonprofits and local companies, to research institutions and education advocates.

They reviewed a study by the Local Initiatives Support Corporation (LISC), the largest national community development nonprofit, which has analyzed every rated and unrated charter school bond issued from 1998 - 2011.

Oakland Schools has again achieved accreditation from AdvancED, a nonprofit organization that conducts rigorous on - site external reviews of both local school districts and educational service agencies.

But to read local media reports and talk to close observers in the state's largest city, there's really only one plan: a proposal that would wrest direct control of all 34 Kansas City Schools from the district and hand over management to charter operators and nonprofits.

The U.S. Department of Labor will award 25 — 40 grants ranging from $ 2 to 7 million each to local education agencies, public or nonprofit local workforce entities, and nonprofits with education reform experience.