Sentences with phrase «in national advocacy groups»

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These numbers were determined by the National Transgender Discrimination Survey (NTDS), conducted by the advocacy groups the National Gay and Lesbian Task Force and the National Center for Transgender Equality, and reported in the UCLA study.

«Jeb Bush has a big interest in Latin America, and I expect he would follow in the footsteps of [his] father and brother in being more internationally focused on trade issues,» says Todd McCracken, president and chief executive of the National Small Business Association, a business advocacy group.

In its complaint, the Ottawa - based consumer advocacy group says the blocking — approved by Quebec's National Assembly in May — is an unconstitutional threat to Internet freedom, and beyond the province's jurisdiction in any casIn its complaint, the Ottawa - based consumer advocacy group says the blocking — approved by Quebec's National Assembly in May — is an unconstitutional threat to Internet freedom, and beyond the province's jurisdiction in any casin May — is an unconstitutional threat to Internet freedom, and beyond the province's jurisdiction in any casin any case.

The National Rifle Association has released a series of reimagined Brothers Grimm fairytales in which the gun advocacy group tones down the stories» violence with the help of firearms.

While attending Princeton, where he majored in public policy and international affairs, he founded the National Youth Association, an advocacy group for Millennials that now has 750,000 members.

The efforts of the New York Taxi Workers Alliance and App - Based Drivers Associations in Washington, New Jersey and California have also been cited by Rebecca Smith, deputy director of the National Employment Law Project, an employment advocacy group.

An advocacy group that also fights porn, the National Center on Sexual Exploitation, has been pushing the message that Cosmo's content is sexually objectifying, and it framed Walmart's decision as being in line with the #MeToo moment.

He sits on the board of the center - right National Association of Evangelicals, the country's biggest evangelical organization, as well as of the progressive advocacy group Faith in Public Life.

The extradition was welcomed by lawyers for a legal advocacy organisation, The Guernica Group, and the Spanish Association for Human Rights, who in 2008 filed a criminal complaint before the National Court on behalf of the victims.

The best way to get involved and develop skills in the field of animal advocacy, is to join our national volunteer group the Action Network.

I am sure that with such powerful advocacy from hon. Members and from groups and organisations throughout the country, National Breastfeeding Week will be a huge success in raising even greater awareness among parents.

«Sometimes, what looks good on paper doesn't work on the ground,» said Katherine Shek, a legislative analyst for the National School Boards Association, which praised Obama's commitment to school nutrition but joined two other national education advocacy groups — the American Association of School Administrators and the Council of the Great City Schools — in opposing the legiNational School Boards Association, which praised Obama's commitment to school nutrition but joined two other national education advocacy groups — the American Association of School Administrators and the Council of the Great City Schools — in opposing the leginational education advocacy groups — the American Association of School Administrators and the Council of the Great City Schools — in opposing the legislation.

The National PTA is the oldest and largest child advocacy group in the world and you can be a part of it.

Illinois and other states should legalize and license lay midwives to ensure women have safe and affordable choices for maternity care, according to a coalition of advocacy groups that launched a national campaign Thursday in Chicago.

In fact, the group, along with the National Alliance for Breastfeeding Advocacy, went as far as to petition the Food and Drug Administration in 2008 to require warning labels on omega - 3 — fortified infant formulaIn fact, the group, along with the National Alliance for Breastfeeding Advocacy, went as far as to petition the Food and Drug Administration in 2008 to require warning labels on omega - 3 — fortified infant formulain 2008 to require warning labels on omega - 3 — fortified infant formulas.

So yesterday the SNA went to Capitol Hill for a «national day of action» to protest the block grant proposal, and it was joined by a number of prominent congressional Democrats, the Food Research & Action Center, the Center for Science in the Public Interest, the Center on Budget and Policy Priorities and other advocacy groups.

National Alliance for Breastfeeding Advocacy is the IBFAN group in the United States of America www.naba-breastfeeding.org.

(Reuters)- The National Rifle Association on Friday sued New York Governor Andrew Cuomo and the state's financial regulator for engaging in what it said was a «blacklisting campaign» aimed at swaying banks and insurers to stop doing business with the gun advocacy group, according to a complaint.

In February 2014, Harman denied allegations that she had supported the Paedophile Information Exchange (PIE) when the advocacy group was affiliated with the National Council for Civil Liberties (NCCL), while she was the pressure group's Legal Officer from 1978 to 1982.

On Wednesday, during the strategy session, the governor will meet with Christine C. Quinn, the speaker of the City Council, who is openly gay; Brian Ellner, who is pushing for same - sex marriage in New York for the Human Rights Campaign, a national advocacy group; Ross D. Levi, the head of the state's leading gay rights organization, the Empire State Pride Agenda; and Richard Socarides, a former Clinton administration official and president of Equality Matters, a new advocacy group.

Following the August on - air shooting death of Roanoke television journalist Alison Parker and her cameraman, Adam Ward, a national gun control advocacy group sought to spend $ 700,000 in advertising in the open District 10 race in October.

Republicans have been helped by $ 1.6 million in spending by New Yorkers for a Balanced Albany, which was founded by the national charter school advocacy group StudentsFirst.

A new report from a labor - backed advocacy group — the National Employment Law Project — claims a $ 15 - an - hour minimum wage could be outdated in Westchester by 2021.

National political strategist L. Joy Williams, who was recently appointed as a senior adviser for education activist and actress Cynthia Nixon's gubernatorial campaign, weighed in on what made her join the Nixon campaign and her thoughts on Nixon's advocacy toward people of color and other marginalized groups, on Tuesday night.

Diane Russell, a Portland state representative who had promoted ranked choice across the country for Fair Vote, the national election reform advocacy group, helped convince officials in her home city to embrace it for mayoral elections in 2010, and began pushing for it at the State House.

Tuesday marked the deadline for presidential candidates to express interest in attending an aspirationally bipartisan Iowa presidential forum sponsored by The Progressive Agenda Committee, the national advocacy group founded by de Blasio, New York City's liberal Democratic mayor.

The number of national interest groups has increased, as have their tools to connect their supporters with Congress, in what Goldschmidt calls «one - click advocacy.»

Last week the committee released a survey done by a private advocacy group that found that many of the country's leading research labs do not follow voluntary guidelines for the humane treatment of animals issued in 1992 by the Indian National Science Academy.»

In response to the misleading messages delivered by Scientific American Mind and elsewhere by the media, scientific experts, advocacy groups and national medical organizations have released statements to the effect that no amount of alcohol consumed during pregnancy can be considered safe.

All have been affected by mental illness and its stigma and have been brought together as part of a national public awareness campaign sponsored by McLean Hospital, in collaboration with Boston Logan International Airport and several mental health advocacy groups.

CalCars is a nonprofit PHEV advocacy group that acts as a networking hub for engineers, investors and entrepreneurs... «Our first goal is to make PHEVs a contender in the national policy debate arena,» says Kramer.

In the late 1980s, it merged into a group that is now known as the National Space Society, an advocacy organization that promotes the idea of forming civilizations beyond Earth.

September 4, 2015 UChicago Medicine earns prestigious pancreas center designation The University of Chicago Medicine has been named a National Pancreas Foundation Center, one of only 30 facilities in the county to receive the prestigious designation from the health advocacy group.

PCOS Advocacy Day is a two - day PCOS Challenge event in Washington, D.C. where a passionate group of patients, supporters, healthcare providers, researchers, community and industry partners unite on Capitol Hill to meet with members of Congress to urge them to make polycystic ovary syndrome (PCOS) a national priority.

Some home - school advocacy groups have attempted to secure a federal law or Supreme Court ruling that would establish uniform national guidelines grounded in First or Fourteenth Amendment rights, but to date such efforts have failed (to the great relief of home - school advocacy groups that oppose this strategy).

Child - nutrition programs in the United States are plagued by underfunding, «bureaucratic red tape,» and misconceptions that limit their scope and potential, a report published by a national advocacy group charges.

Test scores in many of America's urban school districts are inching upward at rates that often outpace those of their states as a whole, according to a report released here last week by a national advocacy group for city schools.

Memoirs should be written only by extraordinary people, and as we read Radical, Michelle Rhee's chronicle of her Korean American upbringing, college years, Teach For America experience, tenure as D.C. schools chancellor and now as head of a national advocacy group, we should keep in mind what makes her noteworthy in the education world.

The study was produced by the End Child Poverty Coalition, a group of 12 charities in the U.K., and the National Children's Bureau, a London - based advocacy group for child welfare.

But there's no significant parent voice in the national online conversation, just as there's no national parent advocacy group in Washington.

The Quality Education for Minorities Network, a Washington - based advocacy group, announced the program this month; it was planned in partnership with several organizations, including the American Federation of Teachers and the National Urban League.

In the 2013 — 14 school year, 651 new charter schools opened around the country, and 202 charters closed, a 3 - to - 1 ratio that has held steady for the past five years, according to the National Alliance for Public Charter Schools, an advocacy and research group.

Sam Davidson, California field director of the national advocacy group Trout Unlimited, says of the school's efforts to protect trout habitat in California, «There is wide acknowledgment that without involvement in these efforts by young people, we will ultimately fail or fall short of the results needed to sustain our state's remarkable fish heritage.»

The Common Core national standards had their origins in several Washington, D.C. - centric lobbying and policy - advocacy groups — namely, the National Governors Association (NGA), the Council of Chief State School Officers (CCSSO), and Achienational standards had their origins in several Washington, D.C. - centric lobbying and policy - advocacy groups — namely, the National Governors Association (NGA), the Council of Chief State School Officers (CCSSO), and AchieNational Governors Association (NGA), the Council of Chief State School Officers (CCSSO), and Achieve Inc..

Many school districts are taking the slow approach to better nutrition and may not be in compliance with the National School Lunch Program's new guidelines for several years, according to a report released last week by the advocacy group Public Voice for Food and Health Policy.

In the group's own words: «The American Federation for Children is the leading national advocacy organization promoting school choice, with a specific focus on advocating for school vouchers, scholarship tax credit programs and Education Savings Accounts.»

People for the American Way, a national civil - liberties advocacy group founded by the television producer Norman Lear, began working to have the procedures changed last year after it was denied the opportunity to testify in favor of textbooks criticized by Mel and Norma Gabler of Education Research Analysts, a nonprofit organization...

«The students, their families, the educators (and indeed the entire country) need a national independent, democratically organized charter advocacy group to advocate for independently managed, financially transparent, community oriented public charter schools as articulated in our manifesto.»

(District of Columbia) Legislation to repeal and replace Obamacare could have resulted in the elimination of benefits to millions of low - income children, shifting some of those services to schools, according to analysis from a national advocacy group.

In last week's Communiqué, Antonucci's weekly newsletter, he tells us, «An Education Intelligence Agency analysis of NEA's financial disclosure report for the 2009 - 10 fiscal year reveals the national union contributed more than $ 13 million to a wide variety of advocacy groups and charities.