Sentences with phrase «leads a nonprofit group»

You can advocate for a cleaner electricity grid, responsible natural gas production, and an end to fossil fuel subsidies by supporting leading nonprofit groups like 350.org.

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Sara Sutton Fell led a competency workshop on «Mobilizing Your Remote Workforce» as well as a discussion group on Digital Changes in Society focused on Employment to an international group of leaders from corporate, nonprofit, NGO, and educational organizations.

«Children will have different needs and different ways of expressing their grief at different ages,» observed Susan Giambalvo, the director of programs and operation for The Center for Grieving Children — a nonprofit, volunteer - led program that provides free, peer - led support groups in Portland, Maine, not far from where I live.

I've also been able to manage the White House faith - based office, leading a phenomenal team that expanded partnerships with faith - based and nonprofit groups around the country.

The president of the nonprofit Heritage Innovation Preservation Institute — the group that led the project — told The Los Angeles Times, «What we are sure about is that this big void is there.

Washington, USA About Blog Group Health is one of the nation's leading nonprofit health systems, recognized for its consumer - governed cooperative origins and innovative solutions for improving care.

December 7, 2009 - The Family Online Safety Institute (FOSI), a leading international nonprofit group dedicated to protecting kids on the Internet, today announced that social network giant, Facebook, will join the organization.

In one case, dirty diapers led to the creation of the National Diaper Bank Network, a system of nonprofit groups that helps to provide about 98 million diapers annually to needy families who can't afford them.

Washington DC — December 7, 2009 - The Family Online Safety Institute (FOSI), a leading international nonprofit group dedicated to protecting kids on the Internet, today announced that social network giant, Facebook, will join the organization.

Yellow and green items were the most likely to have high lead levels, says Judy Braiman, president of the Empire State Consumer Project, a nonprofit group that lab - tests consumer products for lead and other heavy metals.

Organizing 2.0 leads online organizing and new media skills training for members and staff at community organizations, labor groups, and local campaigns and nonprofits.

«Drastic funding cuts have inevitably led to service cuts for Nassau County residents who often have no alternative means of transportation, meaning even longer waits and longer commutes,» said Vincent Pellecchia, associate director of the tristate Transportation Campaign, a nonprofit advocacy group in Manhattan.

«There is motion now in Republican - controlled legislatures to support an amendment,» said Jonah Minkoff - Zern, co-director of the Democracy Is For People campaign at Public Citizen, a nonprofit group that led a coalition of advocates calling on state lawmakers to support an amendment.

Internal documents show that Cambridge Analytica also provided services to politically active nonprofit organizations that are not required to disclose their donors, including the Colorado - based antiabortion group Centennial Coalition and For America, led by L. Brent Bozell, who founded the Mercer - backed Media Research Center.

A coalition of advocacy groups led by the Federation of Protestant Welfare Agencies, the Fiscal Policy Institute, and the Human Services Council are leading an effort to have state - funded nonprofits pay workers at least $ 15 / hour.

ALBANY — Two years ago, Shahking Gomez was unemployed when his job search led him to the Soundview HealthCare Network, a group of nonprofit health clinics in the Bronx operated by the State Senate majority leader, Pedro Espada Jr..

«I think it's important to make sure that the way we do this doesn't lead to the same kind of abuses we saw in the Empire Zone program,» said Rob Simpson, president of CenterState CEO, a nonprofit business development group.

Physicians with the nonprofit group Doctors Without Borders, which led early efforts to combat the epidemic, agonized about whether to treat him with ZMapp.

Women have a higher success rate than men, and a majority were led by students, found scholars who wrote the study for The National Bureau of Economic Research (NBER), a nonprofit group in Cambridge, Massachusetts, that supports economics studies relevant to public policy.

Cities are responsible for 70 % of global carbon dioxide emissions, says Wee Kean Fong, who led development of the GPC at the World Resources Institute — a nonprofit based in Washington, D.C. — in partnership with the C40 Cities Climate Leadership Group and Local Governments for Sustainability (ICLEI).

The Institut Curie (IC) is a private nonprofit organization created in 1909 which combines a leading European cancer research center with a hospital group.

PARK CITY, UT — Sundance Institute and Mahindra Group today announced a multifaceted agreement that showcases the commitment to and support of independent cinema around the world both by the Mahindra Group, one of the largest companies in India known throughout the world for its commitment to excellence and to social responsibility, and of the nonprofit Sundance Institute, one of the world's leading cultural organizations

Several groups, led by the Campaign for Fiscal Equity (CFE), a nonprofit legal advocacy organization, filed suit in 1993 claiming that New York State was depriving New York City public school students of their constitutional rights to a «sound basic education,» a standard that had been prescribed in 1982 by the state's highest court (in New York, the Court of Appeals).

The Washington - based nonprofit group hired an executive director this past summer to lead the organization through its crossroads: G. Thomas Houlihan, who had served as chief education adviser to former Gov. James B. Hunt Jr. of North Carolina.

The White House launches the New American Schools Development Corporation, a nonprofit, business - led group seeking to raise $ 150 million to $ 200 million in private money to finance research in support of President Bush's education - reform plan.

Inspired by leading educators such as Robert Marzano and Mike Schmoker and working with the nonprofit group Great Minds, she led a two - year effort to design what would eventually be called the KIPP - Wheatley curriculum.

But another group — nonprofit foundations — also exerts influence on the process and outcomes of reform efforts by supporting initiatives that lead to specific changes in the system.

The success of that first venture led to the group's incorporation as Editorial Projects in Education, a nonprofit 501 (c)(3) organization, and the production of further reports and publications oriented to higher education.

In math, the five for - profits had strongly positive impacts in all years, while the nonprofits had decidedly negative ones, leading to very large, statistically significant differences between the two groups of schools in all years.

GCI, a 501 (c)(3) nonprofit organization, is a centrist think tank led by a bipartisan group of former state lawmakers, economists, community leaders and academicians.

Students from disadvantaged communities are more likely to attend schools with substandard Internet connections, according to a November report from the Alliance for Excellent Education and the Leading Education by Advancing Digital (LEAD) Commission, nonprofit education policy groups.

That decision was a major defeat for a coalition of state education groups, including the CTA, the state PTA and the California School Boards Association, along with advocates for minority students, led by the nonprofit law firm Public Advocates, which brought the related lawsuits six years ago.

HTLA was conceived as a model school for the 21st Century by education entrepreneur Roberta Weintraub in partnership with the Los Angeles Unified School District, a group of leading high - tech firms and nonprofit foundations.

Candice Burns has led marketing strategies for nonprofit groups, political campaigns and corporations over a career spanning nearly 20 years.

In 2008, Canter joined Mississippi First, a nonprofit she heads as executive director, that has been leading the charge to introduce charter schools to the state (the group is also developing sex - education curricula for public schools) and to advocate for systemic public - school reform.

He has served as lead administrator for numerous charter schools and continues to support scholar achievement in his new role as CEO of EdVantage Education Group, a newly formed nonprofit organization, focused on supporting and improving charter schools through a partnership model of collaboration.

by: Diane Ravitch March 7, 2017 A nonprofit parent - led group called Fund Education Now created a fact sheet about Florida's Corporate Tax Credit plan, which was designed to evade the state constitution's explicit ban on using public money to fund religious or private education.

Earlier this week, a group of about 100 principals, deans of students and other school leaders gathered at Alverno College's Sister Joel Read Center for a summer training session led by the local nonprofit Schools That Can Milwaukee.

A nonprofit parent - led group called Fund Education Now created a fact sheet about Florida's Corporate Tax Credit plan, which was designed to evade the state constitution's explicit ban on using public money to fund religious or private education.

This includes nonprofits, parents, student - led education organizing groups, and others.

Led by President Bruce Morrison and Vice President Sandra Maroney, members of the nonprofit group hope to take over where the task force left off.

Prior to that J. Mark served as the lead Senior Manager of the Northern California Not - for - Profit Services Group of Deloitte & Touche, where he coordinated local nonprofit training programs, including roundtables for clients and friends of the firm.

This point, frequently made by lawyers from Earthjustice, a nonprofit environmental legal group, combined with widely expressed public opposition to any more coal - fired power plants in Florida, led to the quiet withdrawal of four other coal plant proposals in the state.

The Government Accountability Project, a 29 - year - old nonprofit public interest group, is the Nation's leading whistleblower protection organization.

The Climate Group is an international nonprofit that specializes in bold, catalytic and high - impact climate and energy initiatives with the world's leading businesses and regional governments.

Washington, USA About Blog Group Health is one of the nation's leading nonprofit health systems, recognized for its consumer - governed cooperative origins and innovative solutions for improving care.

Led content development for the nonprofit's extranet, which serves 9,300 corps members and 24,000 alumni with more than 30,000 content items including classroom tools, career advice, and hundreds of discussion groups and videos.