Sentences with phrase «grassroots efforts like»

Grassroots efforts like the recent Operation Rainfall have been successful in pleading for official localization and redistribution of little - known games The Last Story, Xenoblade Chronicles, and Pandora's Tower for Western audiences, revealing that there does exist a tangible audience receptive to this idea.

State Senator Gustavo Rivera said grassroots efforts like UptownUNIDOS were essential, as he considered the federal government's response to be «an utter failure.»

So, we coupled the event with grassroots efforts like our social media check - in challenge, # 30to24 (30 days to 24 - hour Challenge), and prizes were awarded to the # 30to24 winner, top individual fundraiser, and the top team fundraiser.

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Recently, Notre Dame facilitated a grassroots effort with other like - minded Indiana colleges and universities called the Indiana College and University Food Alliance.

While the money donated to the state party housekeeping account can not be used directly on campaigns, it can be used as part of the coordinated House effort for things like polling, field work, issue advocacy, and digital and grassroots organizing, officials said.

The movement for LGBT workplace equality in the scientific enterprise and beyond has been driven predominantly at the grassroots level and on an institution by institution basis through the collective efforts of organizations like NOGLSTP, Out & Equal Workplace Advocates, and Federal GLOBE.

It's not the first time sequel rumors have been swirling, so it might be Crowe trying to ignite a grassroots effort, but we're in a climate of reboots and sequels long after the fact, so it doesn't seem like the project is necessarily DOA.

He said that through grassroots efforts, and conversations like these, change could come.

While the letter of the law in the draft of the proposed regulation doesn't specifically mention authors, it is this vast open - endedness that has anti-censorship advocates and grassroots organizations like Right2Know working to stop this effort.

Like Thomas Paine, Thomas Jefferson, and other pamphleteers who used the written word to rouse people to action during the American Revolution, animal advocates the world over are inspiring people into taking action for animals through grassroots efforts.

Reducing Brevard County's abandoned / community cat population takes efforts from many organizations, including other grassroots animal welfare organizations, county animal services and law enforcement, local businesses, and citizens like yourself!

Over the weekend, a slew of more than 40 local and visiting artists, as well as organizations like the Chinatown Art Brigade (a grassroots effort tackling the divisive issue of gallery - led gentrification in their neighborhood) demonstrated that preservation doesn't have to be backward - looking.

Most of ALEC's 2013 efforts were defeated through lobbying and grassroots initiatives undertaken by renewables advocates and climate change activists like Greenpeace and the Natural Resources Defense Council.

Thanks to the efforts of grassroots campaigners like Yu, the human and environmental costs of a proposed mega-dam project on the Salween (Nu) river led Beijing to call off that project in 2004.

It's worth acknowledging at the outset that these amendments, including the minimum wage indexing and other amendments which are beyond the scope of this post, would not have been won without the diligent efforts of grassroots organizations like the Workers» Action Centre and the Migrant Workers Alliance for Change.

As part of our grassroots level relationship building effort, we would like to be able to share information of any issues / concerns relating to home ownership and the real estate industry with the aim of advancing support on County and State levels.