Sentences with phrase «funded by the democracy»

The project is also funded by the Democracy Fund, the John S. and James L. Knight Foundation, and the Markkula Foundation.

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NewsWise was funded by a $ 500,000 grant from Google Canada, which partnered with the Canadian Journalism Foundation and CIVIX, a Toronto - based non-profit that aims to engage young Canadians in democracy.

The initiative is funded by the Laura and John Arnold Foundation, Democracy Fund, the William and Flora Hewlett Foundation, the John S. and James L. Knight Foundation, the Charles Koch Foundation, the Omidyar Network, and the Alfred P. Sloan Foundation.

But Mercer Bullard, professor of law at the University of Mississippi Law School and founder of Fund Democracy, an advocacy group for mutual fund shareholders, told ThinkAdvisor on Thursday that «the plaintiffs have hurt their cause by delaying» filing a suit until now.&raFund Democracy, an advocacy group for mutual fund shareholders, told ThinkAdvisor on Thursday that «the plaintiffs have hurt their cause by delaying» filing a suit until now.&rafund shareholders, told ThinkAdvisor on Thursday that «the plaintiffs have hurt their cause by delaying» filing a suit until now.»

Ms. Taylor was also involved in the Electoral Commission Papua New Guinea project, an Australian Government project managed by CARDNO ACIL and was the Project Manager for The Electoral Reform Project, a European Union (EU) funded initiative operated by Transparency International (PNG) which was aimed at promoting democracy and advocacy for electoral reform.

Other Uses of Funds In view of the near impossibility of replicating the debt cancellations of prior millennia in the modern context, we have re-interpreted the prior objective of seeking to sustain a property - owning democracy in terms of equity participation by the State to enable any (young) person to afford the down - payment for a home, to finance a start - up business, and to benefit (if academically gifted) from tertiary education.

Equating censorship with attacks on the funding of artists by the NEA, she warned that Congress is about «to weaken the very foundation of democracy.»

Vice president for research and studies at the National Endowment for Democracy (NED) Marc F. Plattner represents an organization whose definition of democracy is much more stringent in its demands with criteria of democratic inclusivity (as shown in a short essay by its funding officer, Louisa Greve, citeDemocracy (NED) Marc F. Plattner represents an organization whose definition of democracy is much more stringent in its demands with criteria of democratic inclusivity (as shown in a short essay by its funding officer, Louisa Greve, citedemocracy is much more stringent in its demands with criteria of democratic inclusivity (as shown in a short essay by its funding officer, Louisa Greve, cited below).

But we also think that it's astonishing that nobody has responsibility for the diversity of democracy nationally, and we shall be taking steps to ask government, the Electoral Commission and elections officers to do this, both in terms of providing support for the identification and training of candidates through a Democracy Diversity Fund, and by monitoring who is standing for election in the firdemocracy nationally, and we shall be taking steps to ask government, the Electoral Commission and elections officers to do this, both in terms of providing support for the identification and training of candidates through a Democracy Diversity Fund, and by monitoring who is standing for election in the firDemocracy Diversity Fund, and by monitoring who is standing for election in the first place.

Additional changes recently made by the government to Free School model funding agreement include requiring schools to promote democracy, equality of opportunity, respect, tolerance and the rule of law.

Jonathan Soros (Friends of Democracy) and Eldridge (Protect Out Democracy) are both investing in a push by well - heeled New York Democrats to establish a publicly funded campaign finance system in New York.

The governor can demonstrate his commitment to reinvigorating democracy in New York by funding early voting in his executive budget.»

Now, the idea of representative democracy and state legislatures is that state representatives and state senators are chosen by local voters to represent their interest and generally funded by local interests or, in some cases, state party interests.

It is also why developments in the business of digital journalism matters for democracy, especially in countries like the U.S., where private sector media provide by far the largest share of news coverage of public affairs, because of the low levels of funding for public media — as commercial media organizations in many countries continue to lose revenue and lay off reporters because their legacy platforms (like print) grow less popular by the day, the future of the private media sector, an important part of our democratic systems, depends in part on its ability to find new business models and reinvent itself for a new century and new media world, online and elsewhere.

(Posted 24 December 2011) Significant current scandals, and those yet to come In no particular order Top salaries and bonuses - boardroom and shareholder individual responsibility The multiple between top and average pay Lawyers fees - the cost of the legal process Medical negligence claims against the NHS Care and treatment in the NHS «No win, no fee» personal injury compensation Democracy and the voting system Lords reform Political party funding The domestic energy market and pricing The Tax system and its inefficiencies and complexities Subsidies for new energy generation schemes The amount of crime fuelled by Drugs The availability of drugs in prison.

The Senate candidate is the vice chair of the Citizens for Responsibility and Ethics in Washington (CREW), an organization formerly headed by left - wing activist David Brock and an approved funding group of the progressive Democracy Alliance.

«This attempt to subvert democracy, by using public funds to pay for political campaigning, brings the whole democratic process into disrepute.»

«We write to direct your urgent attention to the destructive role of these companies in the current crisis in Puerto Rico, in which massive hurricane damage and economic loss is being exploited by private equity funds seeking huge profits from human suffering,» says the letter, which was also signed by groups including New York Communities for Change and the Center for Popular Democracy.

- Friends of Democracy, largely funded by Jonathan Soros, the son of billionaire liberal donor George Soros, which has spent $ 672,000 helping Democrats.

Tkaczyk is benefiting from a $ 230,000 advertising campaign from Friends of Democracy, a group funded by Jonathan Soros, the son of billionaire George Soros, which supports the public financing of political campaigns and backed her narrow victory two years ago.

The mailers are being funded by Friends of Democracy, a political action committee funded in part by Soros, the son of liberal billionaire financier George Soros.

The call is being paid for by Friends of Democracy, the super PAC funded by Jonathan Soros in order to elect

Malick told the audience she has pledged to support the full package of reforms championed by Demand Democracy, which includes publicly funded elections, enhanced protection of voting rights, and ethics reform in Albany.

That statistic, and many other chilling ones, can be found in Billion Dollar Democracy, a report by Demos and the U.S. PIRG Education Fund.

The very foundation of democracy is undermined by the potential of replacing equal access to knowledge and learning and the pathway to college with a system that siphons public funds to pay for schools that are not available to all.

The Castle Rock Foundation has granted $ 650,000 to the American Legislative Exchange Council (ALEC) between 1995 and 2011, according to a review of the Bridge Project's Funders data by the Center for Media and Democracy (CMD).

It's the foundation of our democracy and should be the fundamental civil right of every child, funded by our local, state and national governments to ensure that children have the opportunity for a quality public education that prepares them to be successful in their work lives and personal lives, and readies them to be engaged and wise members of our democracy.

Such philanthropy has sparked a debate about whether American democracy is well - served by wealthy people who pour part of their fortunes into their pet projects — regardless of whether they are grounded in research — to such a degree that public policy and funding follow.

Given the powerful, well - funded interests behind the plan, no one would describe it as the kind of grassroots effort the Founding Fathers had in mind when they dreamed of a dynamic democracy driven by engaged citizens.

He has argued that failed banks should not be bailed out, Lehman's collapse was not a disaster, AIG should be declared bankrupt, that naked short selling is not a problem, that backdating isn't so bad, insider trading should be legal, many corporate CEOs are underpaid, global solutions are worse than local solutions, Warren Buffett is overrated, Michael Milken is a great American, the collapse of the hedge fund was not a scandal, hedge funds are over-regulated, education is overrated by the educated, bonuses at successful Wall Street's firms are deserved and possibly undersized, management buyouts are boons to the economy, Enron's management was victimized by an over-zealous prosecution, Sarbanes - Oxley should be repealed, corporate compliance culture is a disaster, shareholder democracy is overrated, hostile takeovers ought to be revived, the market is permanently moving away from public ownership of equity in corporations, private partnerships are on the rise, public ignorance is encouraged and manipulated by governments and corporations, experts overrate expertise, regulatory agencies are controlled by the businesses they supposedly regulate and Wall Street is much more fun than people give it credit for.

Investors who buy index mutual funds through brokers are paying a steep «broker penalty» by being sold funds with much higher operating expense fees even before adding the distribution fees related to the cost of using the broker, according to a major new study by the Zero Alpha Group (ZAG) and Fund Democracy.

Authored by Edward (Eddie) O'Neal, assistant professor, Babcock Graduate School of Management, Wake Forest University and Fund Democracy President Mercer Bullard, the Zero Alpha Group / Fund Democracy study finds: «On a $ 10,000 investment earning an annual return of 10 percent over 20 years, the average investor in no - load, no 12b - 1 fee index funds would pay approximately $ 2,582 in operating expenses.

The exhibition was «A Decade of Democracy: Witnessing South Africa» funded by Sondela, and it opened in New York at the Brooklyn Museum and traveled to other venues in the United States before coming back to South Africa the following year.

The Madison Group, the predecessor to the State Policy Network (SPN)-- which was exposed recently in a Center for Media and Democracy (CMD) report, followed by the release of funding proposals detailing its coordination by The Guardian — was «launched by the American Legislative Exchange Council or ALEC... and housed in the Chicago - based Heartland Institute.»

An anti-Kyoto, Anti-IPCC, anti-regulation lobby group founded and run by Frederick Singer, that has received $ 20,000 from ExxonMobil... as well as having received substantial funds from several other fossil - fuel industry sources including Shell, Unocal, Texaco, Arco, and the American Gas Association (see his sworn affidavit at http://tinyurl.com/2rrqz7; HeatIsOnline at: http://tinyurl.com/yqvozw; and Center for Media and Democracy: http://tinyurl.com/yloyf2).

For more information about the utility and Koch - backed funding of a misleading ballot initiative in Florida, read the recent joint release published by the Center for Media and Democracy and the Energy and Policy Institute.

Others include the billionaire hedge fund manager George Soros and his Open Society, which bolsters democracy by working through non-governmental activists in 100 countries.

At the American Legislative Exchange Council (ALEC) 2015 annual meeting in San Diego, California, dirty energy companies and their supporters — including ExxonMobil, Chevron, and Duke Energy — continue to dominate the funding of activities, according to a list of conference sponsors obtained jointly by the Center for Media and Democracy and Greenpeace.

The memo, which was received and published by the Center for Media and Democracy, was sent by Pyle to a private email list just days before the Trump team announced that it would replace a Koch lobbyist with Pyle, a Koch - funded former lobbyist, to lead the Department of Energy transition team efforts.

In Ohio and other states, ALEC dodges lobby laws through corporate - funded «scholarship» programs that are thoroughly documented by the Center for Media and Democracy through open records requests.

CFACT, a US climate change denial group that espouses the «free - market,» has lost more than two thirds of its funding in the past two years, according to tax filings reviewed by the Center for Media and Democracy.

As the Center for Media and Democracy has documented on our SourceWatch site, CEI has been well - funded by Exxon and other oil companies, and is one of the main U.S. corporate front groups fighting efforts to address global warming and regulate the industry that feeds it funding.

The Committee for a Constructive Tomorrow (CFACT), a US climate change denial group that espouses the «free - market,» has lost more than two thirds of its funding in the past two years, according to tax filings reviewed by the Center for Media and Democracy (CMD).

ALEC Exposed Also run by the Center for Media and Democracy, ALEC Exposed tracks the corporate - funded American Legislative Exchange Council's efforts to undermine the public interest and democracy through lobbying and collaboration between corporations and politicians on «model bills» developed behind closed doors to shift state laws in favor of corporate interests instead of thDemocracy, ALEC Exposed tracks the corporate - funded American Legislative Exchange Council's efforts to undermine the public interest and democracy through lobbying and collaboration between corporations and politicians on «model bills» developed behind closed doors to shift state laws in favor of corporate interests instead of thdemocracy through lobbying and collaboration between corporations and politicians on «model bills» developed behind closed doors to shift state laws in favor of corporate interests instead of the public.

The clinics and programs receiving the funds should be selected by the licensees themselves, through participatory democracy processes.

He has advised on a number of projects funded by the World Bank and USAID regarding judicial reform, human rights, democracy and legal education in Latin America.

The Trust Project is funded by Craig Newmark Philanthropies, Google, the Democracy Fund, the John S. and James L. Knight Foundation, and the Markkula Foundation.

The initiative also includes the Knight Prototype Fund, which fosters accurate information in media and announced a new round of winners in June 2017, and Newsmatch, a partnership with Democracy Fund to support nonprofit news and investigative news outlets with matching grants during the end - of - year giving period; Newsmatch was initially launched by Knight in December 2016.

PunditFact is funded in part by $ 625,000 in grants over two years from the Ford Foundation and the Democracy Fund.

The project is funded by Craig Newmark Philanthropies, Google, the John S. and James L. Knight Foundation, the Democracy Fund and the Markkula Foundation.