Sentences with phrase «grassroots groups for»

White House Office of Management and Budget Director Jacob «Jack» Lew wrote in an opinion article for The New York Times that Obama is willing to cut financing in half, saving $ 350 million, for community service block grants that cities and towns that allocate to grassroots groups for them to provide basic necessities for poor people.

Dear E3MN Members, From the beginning, we have been a grassroots group for teachers and by teachers.

If you can not find one, you may want to create a network of like - minded cat caregivers or possibly a grassroots group for your town.

Not exact matches

As part of its overall mission, Patagonia donates 1 percent of its total annual sales to grassroots environmental groups — as part of its membership of the «1 % for the Planet» initiative.

Since meeting for the first time in 2007, this grassroots group has grown to 107 members across the country.

She previously served as vice president of global partnerships for the group and launched grassroots efforts such as Nothing But Nets, a campaign to fight malaria, and the Shot@Life global vaccines campaign.

«Elimination of caucuses and conventions would mean nuclear war with the grassroots, social conservatives, the Ron Paul movement and Tea Party Republicans,» said John Tate, a senior Paul advisor who now runs the Campaign For Liberty, a libertarian grassroots lobbying group.

NELP combines deep policy chops with tangible action — via partnerships with grassroots groups and leadership on advocacy campaigns around the nation — to fight for real reforms that change lives.

A grassroots group, the New Citizens Movement, uses the Internet and small demonstrations to press for greater transparency.

Facebook has helped give greater legitimacy to controversial organizations like ACT for America, a self - described national security grassroots advocacy group that has been accused of promoting Islamophobia, according to Beirich.

Alberta Can't Wait, the grassroots group calling for unification of the Alberta conservative parties, will be speaking at the Monday September 17 membership meeting hosted by the Peace...

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.

In the late 1980s there were, for example, in Bangladesh 1200 indigent grassroots movements, in Brazil 100,000 Christian communities with three million members committed to land reform and the elimination of poverty, and in Indonesia 600 independent groups working on environmental protection (Durning 1989).

Despite Zuckerberg's (and Haley Barbour's) «Americans for A Conservative Direction» group and the Republican National Committee's embrace of amnesty, most grassroots conservatives did not embrace the Gang of Eight immigration proposal.

PEAR started as a grassroots group of adoptive and prospective adoptive parents who came together to discuss the lack of a unified, respected voice for adoptive families.

As Campaign Manager of The Big Push For Midwives Campaign, Katherine has worked with advocacy groups in multiple states, providing guidance and other assistance on such areas as drafting legislation, building strong grassroots networks, and utilizing savvy legislative strategies to advance and pass legislation to license and regulate CPMs.

• Assumptions about different cultural groups and how they impact breastfeeding support • Shoshone and Arapaho tribal breastfeeding traditions shared through oral folklore • Barriers to decreasing health disparities in infant mortality for African Americans • Effects of inflammation and trauma on health disparities that result in higher rates of infant mortality among minority populations • Barriers to breastfeeding experienced by Black mothers and how lactation consultants can support them more effectively • Social support and breastfeeding self - efficacy among Black mothers • Decreasing pregnancy, birth, and lactation health disparities in the urban core • Positive changes in breastfeeding rates within the African American community • Grassroots breastfeeding organizations serving African American mothers

For the primary campaigns of Zephyr Teachout and Tim Wu, they're relying on a combination of grassroots support and labor groups that have endorsed them.

On December 1st, the New Organizing Institute and the Center for American Progress hosted a discussion among four participants in campaign 2006: Benjamin Rahn from ActBlue, Megan Matson from Mainstreet Moms Organize or Bust (a grassroots group), Tom Matzzie from MoveOn and Jessica Vanden Berg, Jim Webb's campaign manager.

MSI is interested in hearing from any group or grassroots organisation interested in becoming a «country page contributor» for any country currently not assigned one.

We have to act together in any and all capacities that we can, whether as grassroots groups, community organizations, charities, unions, activists, universities and, most of all, as citizens, without asking for permission or waiting for public funding.

With a keen focus on entrepreneurialism, CDF is leveraging its national reach into tens of thousands of grassroots community groups to a wider audience for the benefit of communities.

Another group, Catholics For Independent Action, transferred $ 250,000 on April 6 to New Yorkers For A Balanced Albany, the political action committee arm of StudentsFirstNY, a grassroots organization that has pushed for education reform policies and charter school suppoFor Independent Action, transferred $ 250,000 on April 6 to New Yorkers For A Balanced Albany, the political action committee arm of StudentsFirstNY, a grassroots organization that has pushed for education reform policies and charter school suppoFor A Balanced Albany, the political action committee arm of StudentsFirstNY, a grassroots organization that has pushed for education reform policies and charter school suppofor education reform policies and charter school support.

Unions have been major contributors to grassroots groups like Citizen Action, Make the Road Action and New York Communities for Change, which all endorsed Nixon last week.

Rachel is also a grassroots progressive leader, active in groups including Uplift Syracuse, the CNY Solidarity Coalition, and the Campaign for New York Health, which advocates for a single - payer healthcare system across New York State.

On December 1st, the New Organizing Institute and the Center for American Progress hosted a discussion among four participants in campaign 2006: Benjamin Rahn from ActBlue, Megan Matson from Mainstreet Moms Organize or Bust (a grassroots group), Tom Matzzie from MoveOn and Jessica Vanden Berg...

Plus, we went into Ready For Hillary's own GOTV work as well as the implications of a «grassroots superPAC» like RFH to change the way independent expenditure groups do business in the future.

So we started to create bylaws for a group that was called «Solidarity — a coalition of the grassroots movements.»

On top of the online reporting system for damage from the BP spill we looked at earlier, here's more crowdsourcing from the Gulf: a group called Grassroots Mapping is helping folks on the coast map the extent and at least some of the effects of the oil slick.

Spokesperson for the group Kojo Hamenya Keglo accused party officials of affluence and neglecting the grassroots supporters of the party.

Also published on The Huffington Post On top of the online reporting system for damage from the BP spill we looked at earlier, here's more crowdsourcing from the Gulf: a group called Grassroots Mapping is helping folks on the coast map the extent and at least some of the effects of the oil...

Democracy for America said it would mobilize its grassroots supporters for Kingson, whom the group chose over Democratic rivals Colleen Deacon, of Syracuse, and Steve Williams, of Baldwinsville, in the 24th Congressional District primary.

Labour First, shadowy right - wing Old Labour group run by John Spellar got in first (though the mouth of former Labour national executive member Luke Akehurst), describing the new group as «a slap in the face for grassroots campaigners ``.

For this reason, we decided to join the growing number of grassroots groups pushing Gov. Cuomo's conservative fiscal reform by contacting our Senator and Assemblyman.

Groups like Save New York have become increasingly common in Albany, as lobbying as morphed into a collection of «grassroots» third - party coalition that Common Cause has knocked for lacking transparency by hiding donors.

Garvin and Gooran launched a new version last November, and just signed two big clients: Howard Dean's grassroots group, Democracy for America, and the labor - backed Working Families Party.

That's exactly what Ralph Garvin hopes to bring to the table with Organizer, a new political software suite that just landed two big, early clients, the labor - backed Working Families Party and Howard Dean's grassroots group, Democracy for America.

The group, he said, is planning to swap its small protests for a grassroots offensive, which will include canvassing outside subway stations and across Democratic neighborhoods.

It also comes as mainline Democrats show support for the Occupy movement, a more or less grassroots demonstration that captured public sentiment on income inequality and taxes after more traditional liberal groups failed to do so.

The Zongo for NDC is a grassroots group, whose main aim is to mobilize support for the party in all Zongo communities across the country.

Around the same time as the letter emerged today, Tory MP Peter Bone moved to publicise a third group campaigning for Brexit, to be called Grassroots Out.

Good government groups are organizing a grassroots effort to advance the push for nonpartisan redistricting reform a concept at the center of a several statewide platforms, including one advanced by Democratic gubernatorial hopeful Andrew Cuomo and another by former NYC Mayor Ed Koch.

The largest donations to political candidates or groups was a $ 6,000 consulting fee paid to the Unity Coalition, a political group on Buffalo's East Side, followed by $ 2,260 for Byron Brown for Mayor and $ 1,360 for print advertisements and donations to the Grassroots political organization, a longtime supporter of the mayor.

(WBEN) A grassroots effort to re-name the city's «Barkyard» Dog Park at LaSalle Park in honor of fallen Buffalo K - 9 Officer Craig Lehner is gathering thousands of signatures on Change.org, and inspiring the private group that operates the park for the city to consider making the change.

The video is a part of the group's grassroots and digital #ForOpportunity campaign to bring together parents advocating for fundamental reform to fix New York's broken education system.

PLATTSBURGH A grassroots progressive group has sent candidates running for New York's 21st Congressional District questionnaires asking about them their «top two environmental concerns and proposed solutions.»

group calling itself NPP Grassroots for Power 2016 has descended heavily on the Editor - in - Chief of the New Crusading Guide, Abdul Malik Kwaku Baako for what they describe as his persistent transit from lies to a wicked propaganda against the suspended NPP chairman Paul Afoko.

The latest drive for Solarize CNY is the largest campaign the grassroots solarize group has tackled, moving beyond Onondaga County into surrounding counties.

Balter, 41, of Syracuse, has jumped into the public spotlight this year as an organizer for the CNY Solidarity Coalition, a local coalition of grassroots groups that formed after Donald Trump won the presidential election.

The Central New York Solidarity Coalition, a grassroots group opposed to the agenda of President Donald Trump and the Republican Congress, gave Katko some credit for his vote Thursday, but said it wasn't enough.