Sentences with phrase «grassroots network of»

While the CBO estimate helped open the door, the ONE Campaign and its grassroots network of roughly 2 million Americans have been pressuring members to step through it.

With a global movement more than 5 million strong and a grassroots network of trained Climate Reality Leader activists, we are spreading the truth about the climate crisis and building popular support for clean energy solutions.

Sara Alize Cross founded the grassroots network of rescuers, fosters and volunteers in 2011 and has since found homes for some 900 dogs sprung from shelters in the rural south.

This work is made possible by the personal and financial support of a grassroots network of supporters and community partners across the nation.

Komen for the Cure is the world's largest grassroots network of breast cancer survivors and activists fighting to save lives, empower people, ensure quality care for all and energize science to find the cures.

A grassroots network of women known as the National Breast Cancer Coalition was the driving force behind lobbying for the $ 210 million allocated to breast cancer.

The Global Lakes Ecological Observatory Network is a grassroots network of more than 600 members in 50 + countries conducting innovative science to understand, predict, and communicate the role and response of lakes in a changing global environment.

«It's about making sure parents understand that we are still in this right now, and it's still very important to show solidarity in this movement,» said Jeanette Deutermann of North Bellmore, founder of Long Island Opt Out, a grassroots network of parents and educators that has spearheaded calls for reform.

An anti-GM group, «Take the Flour Back», describing itself as «a grassroots network of individuals», said it was extremely concerned about both the risk of cross-contamination of wild and domestic plants and the unknown health and environmental impacts.

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The network will spend the first half of the year engaging in paid media ads — «before anyone else is on air,» said Seidel — and will begin deploying a grassroots effort in the late summer and early fall.

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.

Spokesman James Davis said the network would spend between $ 300 million and $ 400 million ahead of the 2018 elections, much of it devoted to the organization's nationwide grassroots organization to help educate voters and hold elected officials accountable.

NFIB's powerful network of grassroots activists sends their views directly to state and federal lawmakers through our unique member - only ballot, thus playing a critical role in supporting America's free enterprise system.

He led the grassroots effort that became Task Force X, a driven network of experts and advisors that evaluate talent and develop entrepreneurs and businesses.

As Kinnaman puts it, «which model [does] the Church most resemble — the established monolith or grassroots network — and what might that mean for its relevance in the lives of a collaborative, can - do generation that feels alienated from hierarchical institutions?»

The Islamists contended in response that «Islam is the solution», and in the 1980s built up networks of grassroots support, becoming a political threat to governments in North Africa, Egypt and the Gulf.

I love the idea that we can harness the power of social media and combine it with a grassroots, community - based distribution model, including a network of home - based Ambassadors as well as retailers and schools, to create a global lifestyle brand around the concept of living Barefoot, and bringing art and story to children from all walks of life.

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.

They provided fertile ground, so to speak, for early discussion of assisted reproduction and the formation of grassroots donor - insemination networks.

Fundraising: Speaking of money, online fundraising is where it's at, whether you're building a network of small - dollar grassroots donors or trying to increase the efficiency of your big - money bundlers.

The 19 - year - old twins are the co-founders, along with 62 - year - old Kentucky volunteer Bill Goins, of Hucksarmy.com, an until - recently under - the - radar national grassroots effort that is growing into a powerful component of Huckabee's support network.

One of the more prominent supporters was the American Action Network, a conservative dark money organization that spent roughly $ 28 million for activities that included «carrying out grassroots organizing at town halls to build momentum for a tax system that lowers rates and prioritizes working families and jobs creators.»

Lauren WindsorLauren Windsor is the executive producer of The Undercurrent, a grassroots political news program on The Young Turks Network, and the creative director of American Family Voices, a progressive non-profit focusing on banking and campaign finance reform.

AAN may have carried out «grassroots organizing,» but a crucial section of the network's tax return shows the money for that organizing didn't come from grassroots sources such as local activists or small dollar donors.

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.

While the net has certainly enabled lots of local grassroots organizing, and the Tea Party activists are definitely using the available technology to create a very decentralized and interesting network, the available data suggests that there may be only around 75,000 to 250,000 Tea Party online activists, a far cry from the seven - figure numbers we often hear floated.

Well, maybe — but plenty of people not named Barack Obama and not boosted by a vibrant and extensive network of active supporters also won on November 4th, and it strains credulity to think that every race for city council, school board or even Congress will swing on which candidate most effectively mobilizes an internet - driven grassroots army.

If Palin does make a stab at presidential politics, she'll have a natural following among Tea Party activists, whose grassroots network is fueled by anger over the growth of the federal government and President Barack Obama's policies.

The rally was co-sponsored by members of the Let NY Vote coalition, which includes over thirty organizations, nonprofits, and labor unions, including Common Cause / NY, Public Citizen, New York State United Teachers, SEIU 32BJ, RWDSU, CWA District 1, as well as the statewide NAACP and the National Action Network, grassroots organizations, faith groups, civil liberties, reproductive and immigrant rights, criminal justice and re-entry groups, New American, and the LGBTQ community.

Mark Ferguson, editor of the grassroots network LabourList, has been to a boxing ring to give his take on how the Labour leader has been doing.

We got information from grassroots activists from all over the country as well as some senior bods in Party HQ, which meant we were very often ahead of the TV networks.

An estimated 100 students will participate in a variety of workshops and issue briefings; listen to advocates speak about grassroots activism and social change; and network with peers from across the state.

The national Democratic grassroots network Organizing for America, which is run out of the Democratic National Commmittee, backed Boyd in the race, while Meek did not endorse either candidate.

The same GIMPS software just uncovered a flaw in Intel's latest Skylake CPUs, and its global network of CPUs peaking at 450 trillion calculations per second remains the longest continuously - running «grassroots supercomputing» project in Internet history.

If city governments want to sponsor grassroots Fon networks — and thus waive the $ 80 fee for the Aliens — they could use those opening screens to build new kinds of awareness of local services and events.

Howard Dean, for example, has risen from obscurity to national recognition on the back of his Web - based grassroots fund - raising approach, and campaign supporters of all types have learned to use a social - networking site, Meetup.com, to arrange political gatherings.

The network has grown in a grassroots way, based on a handful of pervasive protocols and aloof guidance from the World Wide Web Consortium, a forum based at M.I.T. for Web developers.

The ASBMB aims to develop and support sustainable hubs of regional science advocates throughout the U.S. Delegates become the regional link to ASBMB, building networks and mobilizing local grassroots efforts for national ASBMB advocacy campaigns.

Partners of the Americas, an international grassroots network that connects volunteers, institutions, and communities to serve and to change lives, will implement the 2012 - 2013 Senior ECPA Fellows program.

Alex Jack is founder and president of Planetary Health, Inc.; sponsor of Amberwaves, a grassroots network devoted to promoting whole grains and other natural foods; and codirector of the Macrobiotic Summer Conference.

Cynthia is the Board Treasurer for the Canadian Epilepsy Alliance (CEA), a Canada - wide network of grassroots organizations dedicated to the promotion of independence and quality of life for people with epilepsy and their families, through support services, information, advocacy, and public awareness.

And yet there are more and more grassroots examples of people working together to create small and growing networks to challenge the power — model.

We've come from many backgrounds, worked at every level of the public education system from the classroom to administrative leadership, taught in both school district and public charters, from grassroots to national networks.

-- Grassroots Consultations — Grassroots Trainings (Charter 101, Story of Self, Civic Education)-- Strategic planning around parent engagement (recruitment, enrollment, advocacy)-- Opportunities to network with peers and share best practices — Legislator Outreach Support — Online Bilingual Advocacy Website / Database — Legislative one - pagers — Portable Professional Translation Equipment

Established in 1999 as a non-profit organization by a grassroots group of charter school operators, it provides advocacy, support, resources, and networking opportunities to new and existing charter schools, parents and students.

Many of the community groups involved are part of the Alliance to Reclaim Our Schools network and the Grassroots Education Movement.

He noted NSBA's partnership with its state associations and the important grassroots advocacy work of individual school board members who participate in the Federal Relations Network (FRN), with FRN membership rising exponentially from 1,600 to 53,000 in just two short years.

Through our grassroots organizing for parents in struggling district schools, GO Public Schools Oakland engages a network of family advocates who are demanding for improvements in schools across Oakland.

Establish a network of contacts with grassroots community leaders, practitioners, non - profits / advocates and individuals;

32) Think Tanks: The pro-privatization Center for Education Reform is launching a «grassroots» advisory network, which includes a number of CEOs and COOs of charter school chains, and Will Cain of CNN's The Blaze.