Sentences with phrase «funded efforts advocating»

To be sure, there are well - funded efforts advocating around the subject of a constitutional convention, including unions who fear that delegates might revise pension protections for public employees.

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They're calling it «Ten Thousand Nets,» an effort to raise funds for 10,000 bed nets and to rally people all over Denver to lift their voices and advocate for continued U.S. leadership.

In a letter to Toomey in November, Wolde expressed his thanks for the efforts made in his behalf and asked for help in acquiring an advocate for his trial and for funds to help support his wife and two children.

Advocates also brought attention to the fact that any cuts to HFNY funding would disqualify New York from applying for millions in federal aid for home visiting because the state is required to show a Maintenance of Effort in order to receive federal funding.

BY PAUL SCHINDLER Stepping up the effort to press the Cuomo administration to provide more funding to shelter homeless youth, State Senator Brad Hoylman, an out gay Manhattan Democrat, appeared with fellow elected officials and advocates outside of City Hall on February 12 to make the case.

The Mayor's announcement came as a response to a longstanding effort by local elected officials and community advocates to fund and build a continuous esplanade to close the gap.

The Legislature's Majority Caucus recognizes the past and continued efforts of Congressman Chris Collins, Congressman Brian Higgins, Congressman Tom Reed and others who have been advocates for federal funding to protect our Great Lakes.

Sanchez, previously the recruitment director for the Working Families Party, pledges to be a strong advocate for the LGBTQ community, fighting for increased access to, and funding for, mental health services, as well as efforts to put an end to hate crimes in the district.

I commend New York State Independent Democratic Conference Leader, Senator Jeffrey Klein for his continuous efforts on advocating for program funding for the topics which affects the communities within our District.

Mattituck - Cutchogue School District Superintendent Anne Smith said in an email Tuesday that while school districts are just starting to evaluate how the latest proposed tax cap and state aid figures will affect their budgets, efforts are already underway to advocate for more funding.

In this effort to increase funding, the biggest ally of seniors and senior advocates was Council Member Margaret Chin, chair of the City Council Committee on Aging.

Meanwhile, education advocates on Tuesday began their lobbying efforts with a rally calling on more equitable funding for high - needs schools across the state.

«Our efforts are funded by thousands of teachers kicking in a couple dollars a month, or $ 5 or $ 10, to make sure their voices — and the students and parents they advocate for — are heard.

In exchange for the funds, Seminerio, Boyland and Kruger advocated on Rosenâ $ ™ s behalf with state agencies, co-sponsored legislation to benefit MediSys and lobbied on the health systemâ $ ™ s behalf in its effort to acquire St. Johnâ $ ™ s Hospital in Elmhurst and Mary Immaculate Hospital in Jamaica, which at the time were owned by Caritas.

«The grant will fund setting up infrastructure [for efforts to] connect groups and junior scientists around the country with our group and each other; helping local groups organize meetings and workshops by providing full - time logistical support; and beginning to look through the data that exists about the scientific enterprise [so that] we can... advocate for change,» McDowell tells Science Careers by email.

This effort provides transparency for funders, policy makers and HIV / AIDS advocates so they can better understand and track investment flows.

But among the 12 states that advocates say do not operate or fund preschool programs — including Hawaii, North Dakota, South Dakota, and Mississippi — efforts are under way that could yield legislation providing for such services in the future.

This list is not complete and will be revised to reflect the well - funded and developing effort to privatize public education as well as policies public education advocates should pursue in order to reverse this disastrous course.

Trump's recent proposal to eliminate Title II, which was advanced last month by a House Committee on Appropriations, 16 entirely puts at risk these evidence - based reform efforts, which are up to states to implement.17 Advocates must work to minimize cuts to Title II and other federal programs to ensure that states and districts have operating funds and the ability to implement innovative policies and programs with fidelity.

Still, the efforts by CCEA and other public education advocates to lobby for more funding will gain more traction with lawmakers if and when community support steps up.

It's time for education advocates and the funders that support them to invest time, effort and resources in thinking through how to best communicate complicated policy concepts so they are understood by all, without acronyms and academic jargon, and with language that describes achievable change.

New Canaan parent and education advocate Maria Naughton submitted testimony stating «parents, families and children do not have corporate backing, PAC's, large philanthropic organizations or venture capitalists funding our efforts to protect our children.

CFO De La Paz was backing up Superintendent Harris who has been the leading advocate behind the effort to divert New Haven and Connecticut taxpayers funds to Achievement First Inc.'s new «experimental school.»

Advocating for Animals — Animal Legal Defense Fund The Animal Legal Defense Fund marks their first successful effort to halt a Kansas predator derby.

James Perse — High end designer and animal advocate, James Perse, collaborated with The Animal Recovery Mission with a Limited Edition shirt in it's efforts to raise funds for investigations into extreme animal cruelty.

But animal advocates agree that the decrease in euthanasia has been dramatic, driven mostly by successful spay - neuter programs and, more recently, by savvy adoption campaigns, greater efforts to reunite lost pets with owners and the proliferation of advocacy groups both small and large that have swept in to help municipal shelters, often poorly funded and sluggish.

As part of the fundraising effort to benefit Companion Animal Advocates, participants may vie to have their dog crowned Carnivale King or Queen by creating their own fund raising page on www.firstgiving.com/companionanimaladvocates and clicking on the link «Want to Raise Money?.»

Join us in our effort to advocate for your industry by funding research and educational programs via your sponsorship of this event.

In June 2017, visionary arts advocate Agnes Gund announced that proceeds from the sale of a beloved painting would create a fund to support efforts to reform the American criminal justice system.

But Pence shocked advocates when he opted not to seek $ 80 million in federal preschool funding for the effort.

Packard funded the efforts of Jane Lubchenco, a noted marine scientist with dreams of a «new social compact» to convert impartial scientists into dogmatic advocates with policy goals, efforts that led to her appointment by President Obama to head the National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration, where she regulated the New England fishing fleet nearly out of existence.

The increase in support may reflect the public outreach efforts of advocates and agency officials to list the specific transit improvements that would be funded by congestion pricing (in addition to Tri-State and RPA's borough and regional fact sheets, the Campaign for New York's Future now has fact sheets for individual City Council and State Legislative districts).

Our advocacy efforts span the spectrum, from lobbying Congress for our fair share of funding to giving local advocates the tools to win campaigns for bike - friendly policies in your town.

In any case, it is simply an effort to reconcile the rapid rates of warming in the Arctic with the output of the most recent group of global climate models — everyone agrees that global warming is real, except for a very large number of editors and reporters with the U.S. press, who continue to advocate for the positions held by a small number of fossil fuel funded contrarians and insist on giving them «equal time» — a luxury denied to renewable energy experts.

The National Legal Aid and Defender Association (NLADA) established this website to help civil legal aid programs and other equal justice advocates find additional funding to support their efforts to provide legal aid to families and individuals.

Although the aforementioned legislation and policy emphasize the goal of family reunification as much as that of adoption, the number of children who are returned to their biological parents has not risen appreciably.77 Policy advocates assert that the lack of funding for intensive reunification efforts has been a major hindrance to this work.

The Ounce's advocacy efforts include monitoring funding levels, advocating for families to have better access to services, and ensuring coordination of early intervention services with other early childhood programs in the state.

Offering technical assistance, regional and national learning community meetings, funding and more, we support state leaders» efforts to set policy, offer services and advocate for children from birth to age five.