Sentences with phrase «include chambers of commerce»

Types of these nonprofits include Chambers of commerce, retail merchants associations and real estate boards.

Not exact matches

That includes meetings with the House and Senate Judiciary Committees, as well as the commerce and intelligence committees of both chambers.

These include cold calling and interviewing from the phone book, professional references from other business owners, or through the professional organizations to which the company belongs (like the local chamber of commerce or any sector association).

The stakeholder alliance is made up of 19 different groups, including ones representing farmers, hoteliers, power producers, and regional chambers of commerce.

Over 200 members belong to the organization including cities, chambers of commerce and fairs.

Other potential Orange County mayoral candidates including Orange County Commissioner Pete Clarke, Orange County Property Appraiser Rick Singh, Orlando chamber of commerce president Rob Panepinto, former Senate President Andy Gardiner, and Orange County School Board Chairman Bill Sublette.

Speakers at the Masterclass come from a range of both legal and technical expertise, including solicitors from International firms such as Pinsent Masons, CMS Cameron McKenna, barristers from Keating and Atkin chambers, and technical experts from chambers of commerce, Hill International and Cadogans Consultants.

Given the breadth of economic development work, our members are employed in a wide variety of settings including local, state, provincial and federal governments, public - private partnerships, chambers of commerce, universities and a variety of other institutions.

In the early 1990s, the superintendent, the school board, the chamber of commerce, and corporate leaders formed an alliance to implement several reform initiatives, including an active, project - based curriculum designed to connect school directly with real - life experiences.

Who's for and against: Much of the education establishment and the business community, including the state's chamber of commerce, have strongly backed the new standards.

Save for a few instances, such as the initial efforts of Southern governors (including Alexander during his tenure as Tennessee's governor) and chambers of commerce during the 1970s that spurred what became the modern school reform movement, it has been the federal government that has been the driving force in coaxing states to take full responsibility for the districts they control as part of their constitutional provisions requiring them to provide education.

In any case, the reality is that most states were moving toward embracing common curricula standards anyway, largely because of the successful advocacy of reformers (including politicians, chambers of commerce and families) on the ground.

The effort, in turn, builds upon the decades - long efforts of standards and accountability activists within the school reform movement — including conservative outfits such as the Thomas B. Fordham Institute and its president, Checker Finn — to improve the quality of curricula in schools; this began in the 1970s with the work of southern governors and chambers of commerce, accelerated during the Eighties with the Reagan administration's release of A Nation at Risk, and supported by Ronald Reagan's successor, George Bush, during his tenure as president.

Video footage of a closed - door webinar provided to CMD reveals Frank Luntz» firm instructing state chamber of commerce lobbyists to ignore polling that shows Chamber members across the country overwhelmingly support progressive workplace policies including raising the minimum wage, providing paid sick days, and more.

To counter criticism of the business community from college campuses, business organizations such as the Chamber of Commerce should support scholars who will defend the free enterprise system, develop speakers and support speakers» bureaus that will counter the liberal rhetoric coming from college campuses, subject textbooks to ideological review, insist on equal time for speakers exposing the views of the business community for speakers on campuses, insist that college faculties be balanced by those who will defend the free enterprise system, request that graduate schools of business include courses that support the free enterprise system, encourage local chambers of commerce to provide the views of the business community in high schools, establish staff who work with the media to communicate to the general public the views of the business community, monitor and criticize television programs that unfairly criticize the free enterprise system and where appropriate file complaints with the Federal Communications Commission, monitor radio and other media and pressure them to cover the views of defenders of the free enterprise system, support scholars who support the free enterprise system to publish in scholarly journals, establish incentives for scholars to publish defenses of free enterprise in books, papers, and pamphlets, spend more money on advertising that expressly supports the free market system.

The letter to Congress is signed by public and private organizations from every state, including community development organizations; nonprofit service providers; banks and credit unions; state and national trade associations and chambers of commerce, including the American Bankers Association and other groups representing thousands of members; affordable housing organizations; schools, universities and education nonprofits; city governments, state and local elected officials and agencies; and many other businesses, ranging from very large businesses to small, family - owned businesses.

Their responsibilities include chairmanships of national and state committees of the American Bar Association; presidents of Inns of Court and state and local bar associations; presidents of trade and law associations and chambers of commerce; and board members of corporations, academic institutions, charities, and special legal organizations.

That includes House and Senate judiciary committees, as well as the commerce and intelligence panels of both chambers.

That includes meetings with the House and Senate Judiciary Committees, as well as the commerce and intelligence committees of both chambers.

Managed community relations program including tours for more than 1,000, community involvement events and providing Air Force input to chamber of commerce meetings; increasing positive perception of Air Force, special forces awareness

«I was president of a couple of chambers of commerce, including the San Fernando County chamber,» he says.

This includes letters or official documents from state real estate commissions, local chamber of commerce, or notable business organization or association.