Sentences with phrase «grassroots events»

PPFA has partnered with Congress to fix the issue legislatively, and local Planned Parenthood affiliates as well as more than 220 Planned Parenthood campus chapters in 40 states have organized grassroots events to raise awareness of this issue.

Local affiliates as well as Planned Parenthood campus chapters have organized grassroots events to raise awareness of this issue.

• Provided assistance to facilitate organized fundraising and grassroots events for candidate with strong incumbent.

The Huffington Post is looking for citizen journalists to attend the fake grassroots events taking place across the country that are designed to fool the American public into thinking that there are organic rallies going on against clean energy and

grassroots events, and lobbying Congress hard to pass (or more often, stall) policies amenable to their heavily polluting industrial operations, and so on and so forth.

Grassroots Events This year's campaign will include over 150 grassroots events nationwide, as well as a new program to bring hemp education programming to over thirty college campuses around the country.

Specific details about grassroots events will be announced in early April on the Hemp History Week Web site.

Between public grassroots events, the UN Summit on Climate Change, film openings, and demonstrations there certainly was a lot of activity.

As an established cultural institution, their grassroots events attract thousands of visitors throughout the tri-state area and have been recognized by funding agencies, including the Connecticut Commission on the Arts, corporate and private sponsors.

The competitive fighting game scene has been fueled by grassroots events for decades and that won't change with the introduction of Street Fighter 5.

Learn more about HSUS grassroots events, including Effective Animal Advocacy, Lobby 101s and Humane 101s.

Our free grassroots events show you ways to help protect animals in your state and give you tools to become an effective citizen lobbyist.

I got my start 11 years ago doing grassroots events with SCCA and fell down the slippery slope, so I'm excited to share that experience with new drivers now.»

Since edcamps are grassroots events, these kinds of items are generally unnecessary, so it is up to the organizing team whether they are present or not.

His campaign consisted of a combination of aggressive grassroots events organized in part by his campaign manager Doug Friedline and original television spots, designed by quirky adman Bill Hillsman, using the phrase «Don't vote for politics as usual.»

Ventura was the Reform Party candidate in the Minnesota gubernatorial election of 1998, running a low - budget campaign centered on grassroots events and unusual ads that urged citizens not to «vote for politics as usual».

According to Common Cause NY, which is providing the data employed by local groups in these grassroots events, two of every three dollars Saland has received since 2005 came from donors who live outside his Hudson Valley district, and 96 percent of his contributions were higher than $ 200.

I began as a woman who advocates to inform citizens through grassroots events.

Other commemorative grassroots events took place across Canada the same day.

Builders looking to send a message to Congress that it needs to take action to keep housing and the economy moving forward should mark their calendar now for the most important grassroots event of the year — the 2017 NAHB Legislative Conference.

The meetings were part of NAHB's national Bringing Housing Home ™ week - long grassroots event.

For the last four years, I've been lucky enough to work with hundreds of volunteers around the world to create an annual grassroots event that highlights cloth diapering.

I wanted to create an grassroots event and #ClothCommunityDay was born!

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Enthusiast Gaming Live was «Toronto's Largest Gaming Communities At An eSports Grassroots Event at The International Center,» and it was being held this past weekend on Saturday and Sunday.

Today, September 29, AAMFT is holding an unprecedented Capitol Hill grassroots event focusing on the inclusion of MFTs in Medicare reimbursement, and we want you to be a part of it.

Not exact matches

My local colleagues and friends were happy to recommend the best bookstores to do readings, and the same people became my grassroots advocates when it came to hyping up my events.

Prior to Black Friday, Patagonia announced that it would donate 100 percent of its global retail and online sales from the shopping event straight to grassroots organizations that work in local communities to «protect our air, water and soil for future generations».

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.

We are proud to be the signature sponsor of the Leith Wheeler Stanley Park Open, the largest grassroots public court tennis tournament in North America and British Columbia's premier tennis event.

The Leith Wheeler Stanley Park Open is the largest grassroots public court tennis tournament in North America and is British Columbia's premier tennis event.

We plan to attract new members through a combination of awareness campaigns, including advertising, public relations, search engine marketing, member referrals, and grassroots community events.

As the general public, entrepreneurs, regulators, small businesses, educators, students and industry groups become more aware of the facts about crowdfunding and the impact that it can have at the grassroots level for every small business on every street corner to the highest levels of government and regulation, a groundswell of interest has emerged sparking dialogue and events bringing crowdfunding education, awareness and issues into the spotlight.

As a grassroots community organizer, I spend a lot of time in coalition and task force meetings, working groups and speaking events.

Today, an emerging grassroots preterist movement is finally taking notice of the correspondence between the New Testament's picture of «the end» and the events of the latter part of the first century, giving renewed weight to the arguments of Origen, Chrysostom, and other ancient fathers.

National Kale Day is a public event of grassroots volunteers established for the celebration and promotion of the health benefits and culinary versatility of kale.

We are committed to supporting community - minded athletic events and grassroots gatherings across the country.

The event, which is supported by the NFL, MLB, NBA, NHL, MLS and WNBA, will bring together representatives of more than 75 professional teams from around the world, along with league officials, business and government figures and grassroots entrepreneurs to share information, ideas and positive practices.

I only ever played football at Sunday grassroots level but got physically knocked to ground on only relative rare occasions — something you would remember from match to match as an «event» — not something that has to happen every time an opposing player looks at you.

Throughout every tour, we seek to engage at grassroots level through our comprehensive and authentic youth coaching programmes, as well as immersing ourselves in the local culture.As always we shall look to provide our fans with a host of opportunities to see the team up close through our range of supporter and community events, details of which shall be announced in the lead up.

The eight - year partnership seeks to embrace communities nationwide and will work across the sport from participation at the grassroots to major organised cycling events through to the highest level of performance with the Great Britain Cycling Team.

The HSBC UK Let's Ride series of events is designed with grassroots cycling in mind, giving people the opportunity of seeing some of our finest cities on a closed road circuit, with additional events for all the family.

As Development Manager and Special Events Logistics Specialist for a non-profit foundation, Molly forged partnerships with grassroots organizations, volunteers, and large corporations and oversaw large - scale events and fundraising Events Logistics Specialist for a non-profit foundation, Molly forged partnerships with grassroots organizations, volunteers, and large corporations and oversaw large - scale events and fundraising events and fundraising plans.

Also in support of Farm to School, Slow Food USA launched a Time for Lunch campaign yesterday, to organize a national day of action on September 7 with grassroots Eat - Ins around the country, reminiscent of their monumentally successful event in San Francisco last year.

Michelle Dominguez, Executive Director & Event Coordinator Implements the projects and campaigns as directed by the Board of Directors, reaching out to the grassroots where the important work is done.

MP says he has been to several Tea Party events with his family and says the grassroots efforts are crucial for changing the way government operates.

These events are a great example of how multi-faceted a modern grassroots political movement can be.

According to the event's organizers, the coalition plans to bring more than 2,000 advocates and supporters to the Capitol for what is being described as a «massive grassroots» day of lobbying and advocacy.

But unlike many nonprofits and advocacy groups, OFA has a grassroots base in every state, and they have enough members to actually get a decent showing at events in a lot of districts.

At our training event, you'll develop a deeper understanding of what makes the most sense for your union local, civic engagement project, nonprofit, advocacy campaign or grassroots organizing effort.