Sentences with phrase «funded lobbying organization»

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Before President Obama took office, his allies at the Center for American Progress Action Fund, a nonprofit organization lobbying for a centrist Democratic agenda *, drafted a whitepaper outlining new priorities for the agency.

«DonorsTrust makes grants only to other publicly supported 501 (c)(3) organizations,» Whitney Ball, the President and CEO of DonorsTrust said via email, «and as a condition of accepting any grant the grant recipient must agree that grant funds will not be used for lobbying or other political purposes.»

The rule — first implemented by President Reagan at a 1984 conference in Mexico City — prohibits international family planning organizations from receiving federal funds unless they agree not to perform or counsel for abortions or lobby in order to liberalize the pro-life policies of foreign governments.

A political organization funded by a top hotel - trades union has helped develop the Share Better campaign — a multifaceted lobbying effort to persuade New York City politicians to curtail Airbnb, according to emails and records reviewed by The Wall Street Journal.

Why is taxpayer money being used to fund a private 501 (c)(4) organization, NYAGV, which engages in political advocacy and lobbying at the state and local level?

At the moment, neither Public Campaign Action Fund or a related organization, Friends of Democracy, has filed an intent to lobby letter with the Joint Commission on Public Ethics — a documented required when the cost of seeking to influence state government is expected to be more than $ 5,000 for any given entity.

The Public Campaign Action Fund, a deep - pocketed organization that backs the public financing of political campaigns, has yet to jump in the lobbying fray this legislative session.

A political organization funded by a top hotel - trades union has helped develop a multifaceted lobbying effort to persuade New York City politicians to curtail Airbnb, according to emails and records reviewed by The Wall Street Journal.

«Without the Pride Agenda doing advocacy and politics I think these issues have suffered,» said Glick, who pointed out that most of the state's LGBT organizations are now local nonprofits that are focused on providing services and sustaining their funding — not lobbying for legislation.

Thousands of nongovernmental organizations (NGOs)-- from the huge World Wildlife Fund to Brooklyn's tiny Friends of the Gowanus Canal — are aggressively educating consumers and lobbying public officials about water issues.

• Stand for Children Oregon, in 2008 - 09, successfully lobbied for funding for a mentoring program for new teachers and worked with other nonprofit organizations on a project to improve teacher professional development.

According to the latest lobbying reports filed by the various corporate education reform lobbying groups with the Office of State Ethics, the corporate - funded advocacy organizations that support charter schools, the Common Core and the absurd Common Core testing scheme spent more than $ 1.9 million lobbying Malloy and the legislature in 2015.

CTA and my organization, CFT, have constantly lobbied to raise school funding and reduce cuts over the years.

Officials with the N.C. Association of Educators (NCAE), a Raleigh - based organization that lobbies for teachers at the General Assembly, expressed concern with the absence of any class - size funding.

New Profit, Inc. also funds Achievement First, Inc., a charter school chain with schools in New York, Connecticut and Rhode Island, and the Achievement Network and Turnaround for Children, two more pro-charter school lobby and public relations organizations.

(Va.) A well - connected lobbying organization closely aligned with conservatives has taken up the cause of charter school funding with an emphasis on facilities.

While «The Big 6» includes the state's major charter school lobbying groups, it also includes three organizations that receive the majority of their funding from taxpayers.

In addition to «The Big Six,» other organizations that are presently lobbying Connecticut legislators in favor of the charter school and «education reform» agenda include the Bronx Charter School for Excellence, the North East Charter Schools Network, Achievement First, Inc., the large charter school chain with schools in New York, Connecticut and Rhode Island, and Families for Excellent Schools, the New York - based lobbing and political entity that bused in charter school students and parents from as far away as New York City and Boston last year to rally in support of Malloy's efforts to hand charter schools even more public funds.

Although the three organizations are funded primarily from local taxpayer funds and are supposed to be advocating for local public schools, all three have spent the last three years lobbying for Governor Malloy's restrictive, centralized and top - down Corporate Education Reform Industry agenda... An agenda that undermines local control of education, seeks to limit the rights of parents, denigrates teachers and turns Connecticut's public schools into little more than Common Core testing factories.

Parents also lobbied state legislators in their Springfield offices as part of a campaign orchestrated by network leaders to persuade the lawmakers to provide the organization with facilities funding.

Mr. Weiser also served as Chairman of the Managed Funds Association, a lobbying organization for the hedge fund industry, from 2001 to 2003.

HSoP Executive Director Tara Wimer said the humane society will also give out four leaf clovers to hang in the lobby for those who donate a dollar or more to the Merlin Fund, which is set up to help the organization pay for lifesaving procedures for animals.

The research was funded by the Pet Leadership Council, which represents organizations including the American Kennel Club and the American Pet Products Association; PetSmart and other large retail stores; and the Pet Industry Joint Advisory Council, which is the legislative and lobbying voice of the pet industry.

American Kennel Club (AKC) is an American association of pure bred dog enthusiasts and a lobbying, industry - funded organization for commercial dog breeders.

The Humane Society Legislative Fund is a social welfare organization incorporated under section 501 (c)(4) of the Internal Revenue Code and formed in 2004 as a separate lobbying affiliate of The Humane Society of the United States.

Illinois is now the most humane state in the U.S., according to the Animal Legal Defense Fund, an organization that fights to protect animals through the legal system, but she says the state wasn't so pet - friendly when she first kicked off her lobbying efforts.

Nor has it lobbied for carbon tax bills in Congress or funded organizations that push for such laws at the federal or state level.

Below are new visual depictions of the forced taxpayer / consumer funding of «green» lobby / activists - literally, billions funneled into anti-democratic organizations with the clear intention of clamping a yoke on the necks of humanity.

The editors at Climate Resistance have written an interesting article about the «Well funded «Well - funded - Denial - Machine» Denial Machine», which details Greenpeace's chagrin on finding that other organizations are lobbying as vigorously as they are, and that these counter-lobbyists actually have funding!

She also maintained a general law practice while representing clients in government affairs before state and municipal adjudicatory boards, and as a registered lobbyist she has lobbied for community organizations and citizens» groups initiatives and funding.

He failed in doing that thanks to bipartisan opposition but one of the things that did happen at that point was that he succeeded in imposing restrictions on LSC - funded organization including bans on lobbying, on class action lawsuits, and on providing assistance to undocumented immigrants.

Specific work elements Leading and managing processes of a strategic advocacy plan; brainstorming with team members at all stages of plan formulation; recruiting and managing advocacy officers; supervising the work of outside consultants and suppliers; setting up financial systems and overseeing project budgets; proposing and lobbying initiatives for the organization; writing, publishing and disseminating advocacy briefs; developing policy work and activities; discussing and implementing organization principles; preparing and marketing proposals for fundraising projects; overseeing the fulfillment of donor - funded advocacy projects; revising policies related to advocacy; and preparing reports, among others.