Sentences with phrase «grassroots movement of»

In 1953, The North Shore Child Guidance Association was officially incorporated as the result of a grassroots movement of parents seeking to fill the gap in mental health services for children.

Cambridge, MA About Blog The Family Dinner Project is a start - up grassroots movement of food, fun and conversation about things that matter.

Investment expectations have been surpassed, and the grassroots movement of everyday people behind the «People's cryptocurrency» is in full swing.

Legal Hackers is a global grassroots movement of designers, entrepreneurs, lawyers, policy advocates, researchers, students, teachers, and technologists who explore and develop creative solutions to issues at the intersection of law and technology.

Sunrise is a grassroots movement of young people working to make climate change a decisive issue in the 2018 elections & challenging our representatives to stand for people over profits.

Learn about the successes and next steps for the US Beyond Coal Campaign, a grassroots movement of 100 + NGOs that has retired half of US coal plants.

Moving Beyond Coal to Clean Energy: How a Grassroots Campaign is Decarbonizing the US Power Grid Friday, November 10th 12:00 - 13:00 Fiji Dome Learn about the successes and next steps for the US Beyond Coal Campaign, a grassroots movement of 100 + NGOs that has retired half of US coal plants.

But this post is not meant to upset but rather rejoice in support of the grassroots movement of pet stores FINALLY going commercial with rescues in Montreal.

On the other side of the aisle, another grassroots movement of liberal teachers, parents, and activists has grown vocal in opposition to the Common Core.

StudentsFirst is a bipartisan grassroots movement of nearly 300,000 members in California and more than 2 million members nationwide working to focus our education system on what's best for students.

Integrated Schools is growing a grassroots movement of, by and for parents who are intentionally, joyfully and with humility enrolling their children in integrating schools.

I am the executive director of Achieve60AZ, a grassroots movement of over one hundred community education, business, and government members.

Advocates describe opt - out as a grassroots movement of parents concerned about overtesting, teaching to the test, and a lack of transparency.

The first community labs opened three years ago and became embodiments of the nascent Do - It - Yourself Biology community, a grassroots movement of enthusiasts seeking to popularize biotechnology just as programmers working from their garages popularized computing in the 1970s.

The senator's guest for the speech was a representative of a grassroots movement of young women holding Congress and the system accountable for keeping college campuses safe.

This is a grassroots movement of Americans fighting for new and stronger solutions to lax gun laws and loopholes.

Its mission is to cultivate and lift up a grassroots movement of local groups to defeat the Trump agenda, elect progressive leaders, and realize bold progressive policies.

Give Kids A Smile ® is a grassroots movement of dental healthcare professionals to help children across the United States with dental care.

I went to a site called Faith Freedom International, a grassroots movement of ex-muslims, which would say otherwise.

When the Church first got started, it was a grassroots movement of working class citizens in an occupied nation in a small corner of the Roman Empire.

During the 1970s and 80s, many thought that the theology of liberation would strengthen the Catholic Church through the grassroot movement of the CEBs, and that the CEBs, in turn, would raise the consciousness of the popular classes, bringing about serious social change.

His art and activist practices are influenced by the grassroots movements of Cesar Chavez and Dolores Huerta, as well as the formal and conceptual strategies of post-minimalist artists.

Not exact matches

«As the hottest year in history comes to a close, the success of the global fossil fuel divestment movement is undeniable,» said May Boeve, executive director of 350.org, the grassroots climate organisation that has played a leading role in the campaign.

In particular, he cited the power of the network's grassroots movement in Wisconsin, noting that they have more activists than the state's members of the teachers union.

The Rise of the Fourth Economy The movement is grassroots but it's organized.

«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.

While I'm often skeptical of the power of grassroots movements, this is one I love.

Trucking Moves America Forward aims to establish a long - term industry - wide movement to create a positive image for the industry, to ensure that policymakers and the public understand the importance of the trucking industry to the nation's economy, and to build the political and grassroots support necessary to strengthen and grow the industry in the future.

Kevin Burch is co-chair of Trucking Moves America Forward which describes itself as an «industry - wide movement to create a positive image for the industry, to ensure that policymakers and the public understand the importance of the trucking industry to the nation's economy, and to build the political and grassroots support necessary to strengthen and grow the industry in the future.»

For the record: the movement for Black lives (inclusive of all the various national & local orgs & grassroots movements) was accused of not having clear policy initiatives.

The mission of Trucking Moves America Forward is to establish a long - term industry - wide movement to create a positive image for the industry, to ensure that policymakers and the public understand the importance of the trucking industry to the nation's economy, and to build the political and grassroots support necessary to strengthen and grow the industry in the future.

She is joined by a growing list of musicians who have dabbled with Christian labels only to find true liberty in underground grassroots movements.

Peacemaking is a grassroots movement that begins to sow seeds of hope that ripple positively into our global village.

Lay movements arose, among them the Union of Orthodox Fellowships, which brought together grassroots Christian initiatives from all over Russia in the fields of mission, charity, and youth work.

Using a variety of media, can the Church also present Christianity as a cause, a dynamic, grassroots Jesus movement; where participation is encouraged, where activism is valued and where hope is reborn?

He is also the founder and director of Alongsiders International, a grassroots movement for vulnerable children in Asia and Africa.

Rieff writes: «Human rights workers sometimes talk of their movement as an emblem of grassroots democracy.

Phyllis Schlafly and Grassroots Conservatism illustrates the extent to which the conservative revolution percolated up from the bottom: «without grassroots activists to give political substance and energy to conservative ideas, conservatism as a political movement would have remained largely the province of a handful oGrassroots Conservatism illustrates the extent to which the conservative revolution percolated up from the bottom: «without grassroots activists to give political substance and energy to conservative ideas, conservatism as a political movement would have remained largely the province of a handful ograssroots activists to give political substance and energy to conservative ideas, conservatism as a political movement would have remained largely the province of a handful of writers.

Much of the media coverage has followed the Tea Party movement's own narrative, which describes it as a grassroots group of libertarian - leaning and independent - minded Americans who have grown disgusted with Washington - a group not beholden to either party, willing to buck conventional politics to get things done.

The 15 people who make up the Emergent Coordinating Group may constitute the organizational heart of the movement, but the Emergent conversation itself happens primarily at the grassroots level through Web sites, Web logs (or «blogs»), regional cohorts and conferences.

They speak to the fact that there is a grassroots movement afoot that transcends old labels and that may very well give us a glimpse of the future of Christianity in America.

The idea is not entirely new, but echoes what the mass movements of the indigenous, environmentalists, feminists and all grassroots people have been saying for a long time.

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.

«Occu - pew Church» — a movement away from counterfeit «Church - ianity,» cult of personality and religion toward authentic grassroots personal faith, based on living and loving like Jesus.

The coalition is drawing attention because it has the potential of providing the infrastructure for a grassroots conservative movement that now includes tea party activists and social conservatives.

Why the former head of the Christian Coalition is drawing attention as a leader in the grassroots conservative movement.

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).

Grassroots movements have led to the formation of new political parties as witness the «Greens» in the German Federal Republic and the Ecology Party in Britain.

The recent grassroots movements popping up are showing that people are tired of deception.

Ziegler writes: «[F] or the better part of a decade after the Court's decision, the vast majority of lawyers, law professors, and grassroots activists in the antiabortion movement opposed efforts to strip the Court of its authority or to return the abortion question to democratic politics....