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DDC Public Affairs and NextWave are bipartisan advocacy groups that launch grassroots political campaigns on issues ranging from energy, healthcare, taxes, and defense.

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.

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).

On Monday, representatives from the Council on American - Islamic Relations - a national Muslim advocacy group - met will sympathetic Capitol Hill staffers to discuss communications strategy and grassroots organizing to counter IslamophiOn Monday, representatives from the Council on American - Islamic Relations - a national Muslim advocacy group - met will sympathetic Capitol Hill staffers to discuss communications strategy and grassroots organizing to counter Islamophion American - Islamic Relations - a national Muslim advocacy group - met will sympathetic Capitol Hill staffers to discuss communications strategy and grassroots organizing to counter Islamophia.

It accomplishes this on a grassroots level through its Support Groups and accredited volunteer Leaders around the world, as well as its more than 20,000 members and a number of partnerships.

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.

Save Buffalo Grove is a grassroots group of citizens concerned about the proposed development of a Downtown Buffalo Grove (pictured) on 65 acres of the Buffalo Grove Golf Course.

• 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.

Hon Nii Lante Vanderpuye who is known as a grassroot man and the longest serving Assembly Member in the Accra Metropolitan Assembly used the occasion to engage opinion leaders from the various ethnic groups in the Old Fadama and Kokomba Yam Market community and members of the National Democratic Congress in his constituency to share ideas on how to mobilize people and make the Party more appealing to the constituents.

It's speculation that was reignited this week after a group of Richards supporters started a grassroots campaign to re-elect him on their own.

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 support.

At 11:15 a.m., legal organizations, family members and grassroots community groups present a letter to NYPD Inspector General, Philip Eure, demanding a probe into the department's anti-gang methods, including how people end up on «gang» databases, City Hall steps, Manhattan.

Obama's 2008 campaign remains the prime example, but many other groups on all parts of the political spectrum are building up grassroots donor bases with an eye toward repeating his success on behalf of their own issues.

Traditional nonprofits and activist groups are happy to get in on the act, but the energy is coming straight from the grassroots.

Of course, you still need the right candidates and the right messages, but this new grassroots emphasis is a promising change from the brain - dead TV - buying - by - the - numbers strategy we saw from Crossroads GPS, the Romney campaign and so many other groups on the Right in 2012.

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...

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 slicOn 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 slicon the coast map the extent and at least some of the effects of the oil slick.

Last week I had the privilege of going on Karen Jagoda's Digital Politics Radio show, where we talked at length about the DSCC and other Democratic groups» grassroots outreach and media spending to try to salvage the 2014 elections, largely funded by small - dollar online donors.

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.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.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.on the coast map the extent and at least some of the effects of the oil...

Local campaign staff and candidates, staff at union locals labor organizations not based in DC, community organizing groups that aren't part of national networks, grassroots groups that aren't getting funding from the main backers of community organizing and progressive causes, staff working in local government, and the list goes on and on.

The groups against the nuclear power plant bailout have begun a grassroots movement that they liken to the successful anti-fracking efforts that led to a state ban on the natural gas extraction process.

A progressive grassroots activist group has started a postcard campaign calling on Cuomo to reunite the fractured state Senate Democrats.

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.

Jane Golding is chair of British in Europe, a coalition of grassroots groups representing around 35,000 UK nationals living on the continent, as well as a practicing lawyer who lives in Germany and works across the EU.

Jon Lansman is founder of the grassroots campaign group Momentum and a long - standing pal of Corbyn who helped out on his successful leadership campaign.

The two groups — on one side Leave.EU and its offshoot Grassroots Out, on the other Vote Leave — have today submitted detailed applications to the Electoral Commission.

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.

Martz, who resigned as deputy director of the Adirondack North Country Association on Tuesday, has been involved in progressive activism since last fall's election, and formed a grassroots group called Now What?

After years of pressure from grassroots advocacy groups, the MTA board voted unanimously to ban advertising of alcoholic beverages on New York City buses, subway cars and stations, contending that the social benefits of deterring underage drinking outweighed the loss of revenue.

The progressive grassroots activist group Rise & Resist has started a post-card campaign calling on Cuomo to reunify the fractured state Senate Democrats, focusing on the «destructive relationship» between the governor and the IDC.

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 donation shows the strong link between Rock Services and Grassroots Out (GO), the anti-EU group which is hoping to win «lead» designation from the Electoral Commission as the main leave campaign in the referendum on Europe.

The speaker is scheduled to arrive in Columbus, Ohio on Sunday for a meeting with the One ID Columbus Coalition — a grassroots group which includes labor unions and faith based groups that have pushed for the city to install a municipal identification program.

The groups against the nuclear power plant bail out have begun a grassroots movement that they liken to the successful anti fracking efforts that led to a state ban on the natural gas extraction process.

In the summer of 2015, McKenzie helped organize «Ulster for Bernie,» a grassroots group that made calls and knocked on doors on behalf of Sanders primary campaign.

Clinton's campaign said the leadership group will help build a «grassroots - driven volunteer team» to support her bid for the Democratic nomination in the New York presidential primary on April 19.

NEW YORK, NY (12/06/2011)(readMedia)-- The New Deal for New York — a coalition of grassroots groups in Niagara Falls, Buffalo, Syracuse, Albany, Poughkeepsie, Newburgh, Yonkers, and New York City — today joined with allied organizations to support a progressive taxation plan that would create new tax brackets on the highest income earners and generate about $ 5 billion for the state.

ChangetheStakes.org, a citywide grassroots organization, is one of the groups helping to promote an important discussion on high stakes testing, the Common Core curriculum and teacher evaluations this Wednesday at Lehman College in the Bronx.

Gov. Cuomo says he'll leave punishing grassroots groups and the Working Families Party that endorsed his primary opponent up to God on Thursday as those same groups blasted Cuomo as a «bully,» a «gangster» and a «demon.»

That was one of the take - home messages of a Wednesday phone briefing from the grassroots Research Partnership on Women in Biomedical Careers, which grew out of the National Institutes of Health (NIH) Working Group on Women in Biomedical Careers.

Last week, a group of grassroots organizers officially announced that a March for Science would be held on 22 April in Washington, D.C..

He denied he had talked about Tea Party tactics or organising» grassroots» groups on the web, but said he spoke at its conference in May.

Associate Professor Mark Warren and Lecturer Karen Mapp introduced a new Special Interest Group (SIG) this week focused on grassroots organizing at the American Education Research Association (AERA) annual meeting in New York City.

The Obama administration's proposal to make federal funding for disadvantaged students contingent on states» adoption of reading and math standards that prepare students for college or a career has drawn sharp criticism from groups representing grassroots educators and state lawmakers, even as some governors and members of Congress appear open to the idea.

We quickly realised that the vast majority of school halls, pitches, classrooms and theatres were lying empty and unused on evenings and weekends, while at the same time grassroots sports and community groups were crying out for affordable, accessible venues to host their activities.