Sentences with phrase «larger nonprofit project»

It's part of a much larger nonprofit project known as the Harlem Children's Zone, which aims to build a stronger community that helps parents nurture and direct their kids.

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Open Secrets, a project of the nonprofit Center for Responsive Politics, ranks the American Federation of Teachers and the National Education Association — the nation's largest teachers unions — as the 9th and 11th most generous givers to Democrats out of more than 18,000 super PACs during the 2016 election cycle.

Representatives of the private nonprofit developer will make a presentation on its work at the Ludlow Mills — the largest brownfield mills redevelopment project in New England.

«There are many, many different kinds of citizen science projects, everything from large - scale, global, data - drive, researcher - driven investigations to community - based, community - driven questions that address a critical problem, and citizen science exists in almost every scientific discipline,» said Jennifer Shirk, interim executive director of the Citizen Science Association, a nonprofit that seeks to support practitioners of citizen science.

To calculate the impact of these processes, we consulted the results of the Paper Task Force, a joint project of the nonprofit group Environmental Defense, Duke University, and several large corporations.

But NEON Inc., the Boulder - based nonprofit that manages the project, vowed in a statement that «the project will remain positioned to meet the goal of transforming continental scale ecology,» adding that large NSF - funded projects «commonly require adjustments of scope and in this regard NEON is not exceptional.»

It is fun being a connector and seeing corporations and nonprofits show their brand and missions to a larger public because they teamed up on a project that excites both of them.

A 2005 study by the New Teacher Project, the national nonprofit organization that works with school districts to recruit high - quality teachers, examined five urban districts and concluded that seniority - based transfer privileges written into contracts often force principals «to hire large numbers of teachers they do not want and who may not be a good fit for the job and their school.»

These include large urban school districts like Atlanta, Boston, Chicago, Denver, Philadelphia, and New York, and nonprofit education - focused groups such as Achieve, Jobs for the Future, KIPP, the New Teacher Project, the New Schools Venture Fund, and Teach For America.

Andrea Guengerich Education Policy and Management Hometown: Austin, Texas Experience: High school teacher in Brownsville, Texas, one of the largest cities along the Texas - Mexico border; position at Breakthrough Austin, a community - based organization that provides a path to college, starting in middle school, for low - income students who will be first - generation college students; director of University of Texas Programs for Breakthrough; chair of the College Advising for Undocumented Students Taskforce, a collaboration between six nonprofit organizations and the public school district in Austin Future plans: Teaching 6th grade at a project - based learning school in Mexico City that seeks to educate the whole child

Second, after two years of work on campus, each student enters a mandatory field placement, at venues ranging from large urban school districts (Atlanta, Boston, Chicago, Denver, New York, etc.) to nonprofit organizations such as the New Teacher Project, the New Schools Venture Fund, and Teach For America.

The nonprofit New Teacher Project (TNTP), an alternative teacher - certification and advocacy group, surveyed more than 10,500 teachers in three large public school districts and one charter school network to assess whether teacher development programs organized by the districts have helped teachers improve.

«We wanted to extend our reach and give teachers more feedback at a classroom level without always having to send in a large team of people,» said Karla Oakley, senior strategist with The New Teacher Project (TNTP), a nonprofit that started offering virtual coaching in 2013, augmenting the in - school support services they have provided for nearly two decades.

The Old National Bank Foundation makes contributions to nonprofit organizations to fund large scope and large impact programs and / or projects.

ATLANTA, GA --(October 8, 2015) LifeLine Animal Project, the nonprofit that launched the first and largest program to assist feral and stray cats in Atlanta, will hold a feral cat food drive and fundraiser from October 11 through October 17, in honor of the 15th Annual National Feral Cat Day on October 16.

Meyers, founder and President of The Puppy Mill Project (TPMP), a grassroots nonprofit in Chicago that works to educate the public about puppy mill cruelty, realized that this national issue was much larger in scope than TPMP alone could resolve.

She has a background in large - scale TNR projects as a member of the Hudson County Animal League, an all - volunteer nonprofit in New Jersey, where she also serves as president and veterinary coordinator.

After this first successful foray, the next Factory Direct project took place in New Haven, Connecticut in 2005 at the nonprofit Art Space on a larger scale.

Now for her first solo show in Miami she presents PORE at Locust Projects, a nonprofit based in Miami's Design District, where visitors can examine her large - scale tactile pieces.

She has extensive experience managing screening programs for large nonprofit organizations specializing in complex implementation and system integration projects.