Sentences with phrase «grass roots group»

The grass roots group is a «citizen driven, non-partisan movement dedicated to informing and engaging Ohioans at the community level to understand, appreciate, and support our system of common public schools.»

The video, featuring South Florida moms praising the legislation, was attributed to a mysterious grass roots group known as the Sunshine Parents.

In order to sustain a large enough grass roots group to keep people on board, you need to say things that are offensive to folks who are trying to keep doors open in the insider power strategy.

Teachout is one of a handful of area politicians who are hoping that the energy of Sanders «political revolution» will reverberate over time and down the ballot as grass roots groups that formed to support the Vermont senator's unexpectedly strong primary run turn their attention to local political contests — and the machinery of the Democratic Party itself.

Grass roots groups have incredible impact.

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From volunteer groups to the rooftop garden club, these emerged from the grass roots and play a very important role in creating a higher level of social inclusion, engagement and communication in the office.

In the U.S. at least, a remarkably varied group of evangelism task forces has been reaching the grass roots since the 1940s.

At the grass - roots level, Christian Scientists articulated their faith before hundreds of religious education groups in mainstream churches yearly.

These organizations grew from small grass - roots groups to highly professionalized, slick lobbying operations with the aid of Atlantic money, and all were prominent in the campaign to pass this referendum.

In them we find clearly articulated such themes as the importance of the communidades de base («grass - roots «Christian groups); Jesus as the liberator from hunger, misery, oppression and ignorance; the refusal to separate Christian sanctification from «temporal» tasks; challenges to capitalism (as well as to Marxism); the theory of «dependency» on inhuman economic systems; the need for liberation from neocolonialism; the need for «conscienticization»; the need for the church to support the downtrodden; the correlation of peace and justice; and the reality of «institutionalized violence.»

The United Nations is partnering with faith based organizations and their vast network of donors, development groups, and grass roots organizers to bring aid to developing countries around the world.

In countries in the South, faced with the alliance between international capital, the comprador bourgeoisie and part of the middle class, the alternative consisted in using joint programmes and actions to bring together the different grass - roots groups such as workers, peasants, the informal sector, movements of the urban poor, co-operatives, minority ethnic groups, and also the vulnerable middle classes, students, etc..

Conflict after conflict, U.S. Jewish groups and citizens have wielded grass - roots political clout to garner American support for Israel.

Crucially important to winning support for these reforms has been a grass - roots group on «faith and learning» which meets regularly to reflect on the college's religious character and to support efforts to strengthen it.

Opportunity for grass - roots participation in the evaluation and replanning process can do wonders for the spirit of a church group.

There now seems to be more willingness amongst the grass roots of the game to get their feelings heard, and Liverpools mass walkout last week could be just the beginning of more widely orchestrated protests amongst fan groups.

- The club's grass roots ticket initiative, designed to encourage groups of young people to watch live football at Elland Road increased in popularity with nearly 13,000 fans attending during the 2016 - 17 season.

Having sacked a multimillion - dollar Naperville Park District referendum proposal last month, a grass - roots group now hopes to change its focus and become a two - pronged organization that will act as a district adviser and watchdog.

While I will not be able to participate in the roundtable, it is probably just as well because, with MomsTEAM Institute's SmartTeams Play Safe summit in Boston in my rear view mirror, I am devoting all my energies the rest of the fall sports season to working with an incredibly talented and dedicated group of certified athletic trainers at the grass roots level on our SmartTeamTM pilot program, which is helping parents, coaches, administrators, and more than 800 athletes in youth football programs in six states play safe by being smart.

Smith and other members of a grass - roots organization working to create a park district scored their biggest victory to date on Friday, when McHenry County Associate Judge Haskell M. Pitluck validated the group's petitions, allowing the question to be placed on the March ballot.

Many pediatricians, encouraged by such grass - roots groups as La Leche League, now believe the breast is better than the bottle because it offers baby greater immunity, better regulates weight and allows for deeper bonding with the mother.

They began a grass roots organisation that continues to offer breastfeeding information, encouragement and support to mothers worldwide through a network of thousands of Leaders and Groups.

is a voluntary group of loyalists, supporters, Polling Station Executives, Constituency Executives, Regional Executives and grass root members of the New Patriotic Party (NPP) in the Republic of Ghana.

At virtually the [same] time, there was an email exchange between a relatively small group of bloggers and a couple of representatives from grass - roots organizations in which the same idea arose: finding a Senator who would be willing to place a «hold» on the Rockefeller immunity bill.

At noon, the #NoCuts Coalition, an alliance of dozens of grass - roots groups, civic organizations, faith leaders and labor unions rally against the Trump administration's proposed budget cuts to the U.S. Department of Housing and Urban Development, 26 Federal Plaza, Manhattan.

AARP, a grass - roots lobbying group with 37 million members aged 50 and up, backed Obama's healthcare plan against Republican critics.

Other groups, some even more marginal, have filled the mailboxes of grass - roots conservatives with similar high - decibel appeals.

What was once a balanced group of grass - roots activists affiliated with groups like Citizen Action and the Long Island Progressive Coalition and labor unions has tilted a bit toward the activists.

These groups have grass - roots memberships, but they have also spent millions of dollars on election activity in recent years.

But this year, business groups including the new coalition called the Committee to Save New York are airing statewide ads and a grass roots campaign is planned by the state Conservative Party, all to support Cuomo's fiscal plan.

Also at 11 a.m., New York elected officials, unions, advocates, community organizations, grass - roots groups and impacted consumers hold a press conference to discuss the impact of the U.S. Senate's health care bill, state Capitol, Albany.

The political activist group Citizen Action has endorsed Democratic gubernatorial candidate Cynthia Nixon — the second grass - roots organization to endorse the New York City actor in two days.

«Volunteers, activists and grass - roots supporters are pulling together for Cruz, knowing this is careening toward New York in an important way,» said Jason McGuire, executive director of New Yorkers for Constitutional Freedoms, an evangelical lobbying group that represents 640 churches.

Bryan Erwin, 41, of Mattituck and Washington, D.C., used his experience working for former Sen. Tom Daschle (D - S.D.) and in the Obama administration to form a nonprofit that works with grass - roots groups on voter outreach in Suffolk County.

Now, Pellegrino, a reading teacher from West Islip who helped found a grass - roots activist group of former Bernie Sanders supporters, had a county executive, a county party chairman and the state comptroller at a fundraiser where the turnout, at 150, more than doubled what organizers had anticipated.

New grass - roots Long Island groups that backed Pellegrino hope it's a harbinger of future victories in local, state and national elections.

Last week, she traveled through the city in a compact car, meeting with grass - roots community groups in old - age homes and a Brownsville, Brooklyn pizza parlor.

Liberal groups are employing top - shelf political tactics in their grass - roots advocacy campaigns, driven by the memory of being outflanked by conservative activists in the summer of 2009.

Grand Council Chairman Charles Billups, told BW, that his group decided to support English because of her history of working with youth, ex-offenders, and her economic development efforts with grass root organizations.

The most recent nod came early Friday, when Make the Road Action — a grass - roots immigrant rights group that receives ample funding from labor — said it would back Ms. Nixon because of «her strong progressive platform and her commitment to passing and implementing the full protections and supports that our communities need and deserve.»

This Saturday, grass roots Sanders groups from around New York are expected to meet in Albany to form a statewide organization to support progressive candidates.

«We want to do the grass - roots work — training people on speaking to community groups, going to civic associations, block associations, lawmakers.

That discomfort left some uncertainty as to how closely the new White House - aligned mobilization in the states would coordinate its grass - roots efforts with those of unions and other liberal groups that are planning to mobilize their forces ahead of the negotiations.

The I.D.C. consists of eight Democrats who collaborate with Republicans in the Senate, a situation that has allowed Mr. Klein and his group to enjoy perks like increased pay from committee chairmanships, but has deeply vexed grass - roots progressive groups both in the state and nationally.

The failed effort to sink her nomination was led by policy - minded groups, not «the political left that took the lead on defeating the GOP Obamacare repeal plan,» they write, noting that the policy groups «weren't as well - equipped to mobilize grass - roots pushback.»

The city's corporate and real - estate classes, accustomed to a place of influence under previous administrations, were unable to salvage the bid of their preferred candidate, Daniel R. Garodnick, an establishment Manhattan Democrat, who found himself outmaneuvered by labor and grass - roots groups eager to reassert their strength in local government.

Unlike GOP primaries, where a handful of big spending conservative groups can influence races, the Democratic grass roots — including liberal groups like the Progressive Change Campaign Committee and Democracy for America, which is pleading with Sen. Elizabeth Warren (D - Mass.)

Sean Ryan [email protected] A grass - roots group's legal victory over the state is giving similar organizations statewide ammunition to fight highway and rail projects.

Seven Koch - backed groups spent roughly $ 77 million on television advertising, officials said, including 11 Senate races, and almost double that amount on grass - roots organizing.

Domenici's announcement that he was amending his nuclear energy bill to delete the uranium provisions came at the end of a week - long visit to Washington, D.C., by representatives of the two groups that had led grass - roots opposition to the uranium legislation and to HRI's mining plans - Eastern Navajo Diné Against Uranium Mining (ENDAUM) and Concerned Citizens of T'iists «óóz Nídeeshgizh (CCT).