Sentences with phrase «lobbying organization which»

Missouri Alliance for Animal Legislation is a nonprofit 501 (c)(4) grassroots lobbying organization which works to enact, strengthen and protect state animal welfare laws.

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There have been some attempts to redesign the food pyramid to improve this problem, but several lobbying organizations always get involved in the process, which limits the influence of these efforts.

While it's true that our letter relates to the activities of an organization of which Nancy and I are not members, let's not forget that SNA's lobbying efforts, if successful, will have an impact extending well beyond the organization's «family» of 55,000 school food workers.

Yesterday, the School Nutrition Association (SNA) concluded its three - day Legislative Action Conference, for which over 900 school food professionals travelled to Washington, D.C. to lobby for the goals set out in the organization's 2017 position paper.

Whatever you may think of the scientific validity of their positions, or the degree to which they have, or have not, been influenced by the nefarious dairy lobby (and I offer no opinion on either point), here are some leading organizations that currently support flavored milk in schools: the American Academy of Pediatrics, the American Heart Association, the American Dietetic Association, the National Medical Association, the National Hispanic Medical Association and the School Nutrition Association.

The law enacted last year covers the good - government organizations, which are also registered as lobbying entities.

In addition, although the investigation of independent expenditure groups was part of the commission's mandate, the governor's staff allegedly told commissioners not to mention a pro-Cuomo organization, the Committee to Save New York — which spent more than $ 16 million on lobbying and elections without fully disclosing the source of its contributions — in their final report.

Why is taxpayer money being used to fund a private 501 (c)(4) organization, NYAGV, which engages in political advocacy and lobbying at the state and local level?

There are also citizen organizations which engage in lobbying activity, like environmental or consumer rights groups.

The NRA, an influential lobbying group with more than 5 million members nationwide, declined to comment on Tenney's previous tweet about the organization, which has been deleted from her Twitter account.

Recently, Ms. Moskowitz and a charter lobbying organization with which she is closely associated, Families for Excellent Schools, have criticized the Education Department as not doing more to address violence and physical abuse by teachers in the city's regular public schools.

Connor: I think Cuomo's very beholden to corporate interests, particularly individuals from the finance sector of New York City who have donated tens of thousands of dollars to his campaigns — directly to Cuomo himself but also to his affiliated organization, the Committee to Save New York, which is this opaque lobbying organization that has fought for his various budget proposals.

The settlement included provisions to increase transparency and reduce loopholes through which these organizations lobbied New York City officials.

During the summer, Glover's job prompted a heated debate, when several nongovernmental organizations urged Juncker to scrap the single - headed role, which they deem opaque and vulnerable to industry lobbying; in response, many scientists told him to save Glover's post.

«The survey shows that sequestration is already eroding America's research capabilities at universities across the country,» according to a statement issued by the two organizations and by The Science Coalition, which lobbies for academic research.

Also available in each office are publications issued by Independent Sector on a variety of topics related to the Tax Reform Act of 1976 and subsequent actions by the congress and the IRS which are concerned with lobbying limitations for non-profit organizations.

Research organizations are lobbying national governments and the European Parliament, which is set to vote on the bill in March, to change the text.

The CFE, which had begun as a modest public - interest group in 1993 by Robert Jackson, then president of one of the city's 32 community school boards, and Michael Rebell, the attorney for the same school board, had grown into an impressively powerful education lobbying organization.

Here there is fault in our unions and our professional associations, which for too long have served as top - heavy lobbying organizations.

It funnels millions of dollars to Teach for America, Jeb Bush's Foundation for Excellence in Education (which pushed for the Florida tax credit program that NC lawmakers studied), and numerous organizations around the country that lobby for charter school expansion.

The same Jonathan Sacker who set up ConnCAN's unknown sister organization called the Connecticut Coalition for Achievement Advocacy Inc. which poured more than half a million dollars into legislative lobbying over the past few years helping to get Achievement First more money and a special law exempting charter schools from having to have all their teachers certified.

The name of the organization clearly references Democrats for Education Reform (DFER), which has helped deliver millions to anti-union candidates and lobbied for policy changes across the country, including a right - wing effort to crush unions in California, which voters rejected in 2012.

And three months after that, Jonathan Sackler and Alexander Troy set up ConnCAN's sister organization, the Connecticut Coalition for Achievement Advocacy, Inc. (ConnAD), which immediately became the lobbying arm of ConnCAN.

Of course, none of those organizations should be confused with Connecticut's other Pro-Charter School and Corporate Education Reform Industry lobby groups which include Connecticut Council for Education Reform (CCER) or their new front - group called the Connecticut School Finance Project.

Another famous strategy targeting the anti-breeding legislation is the so - called «Oscar's Law,» which is actually a non-profit volunteer organization lobbying for the complete eradication of puppy mills.

Currently, the Oscar's Law movement comprises the organization and a lobbying of a party aiming at several targets like the export of puppies and the Gwydir Puppy Factory, which with the assistance of the organization was refused the permit to operate completely in December, 2015.

HSoP Executive Director Tara Wimer said the humane society will also give out four leaf clovers to hang in the lobby for those who donate a dollar or more to the Merlin Fund, which is set up to help the organization pay for lifesaving procedures for animals.

The research was funded by the Pet Leadership Council, which represents organizations including the American Kennel Club and the American Pet Products Association; PetSmart and other large retail stores; and the Pet Industry Joint Advisory Council, which is the legislative and lobbying voice of the pet industry.

The wording in this and the linked articles capitalizes «The Humane Society» and does not specify whether they are referring to a LOCAL Humane Society, or the horrible lobbyist organization The Humane Society of the United States, which spends most of their donations in court lobbying to have Animal Rights bills tacked on to legislation and keep people from owning pets, while at the same time putting down any animals they get their hands on instead of finding them proper homes.

«Further, as a nationwide, non-profit organization, the Center for Canine Welfare, which operates Canine Care Certified, is prohibited from legislative, regulatory or lobbying activity.

Video - game executives who attended the meeting Thursday included Robert Altman, the CEO of ZeniMax, the parent company for games such as Fallout; Strauss Zelnick, the chief executive of Take Two Interactive, which is known for Grand Theft Auto, and Michael Gallagher, the leader of the Entertainment Software Association, a Washington - focused lobbying organization for the industry.

Ezra Levant's EthicalOil.org, which some argue is a lobby organization for the oil industry, accused the David Suzuki Foundation of «Partisan and Political activity,» and demanded that the foundation's charitable status be reviewed.

Scientists who want to be activists could be part of organizations which lobby national governments.

The editors at Climate Resistance have written an interesting article about the «Well funded «Well - funded - Denial - Machine» Denial Machine», which details Greenpeace's chagrin on finding that other organizations are lobbying as vigorously as they are, and that these counter-lobbyists actually have funding!

As he saw it, the FTC's workshop - whose outcome we won't know for some time - showed that there were two competing lobbies over the RECs as offsets issue: a coalition of U.S. and international energy firms that support RECs on one hand, and a diverse international array of offset aggregators, brokers and developers represented by organizations such as the International Emission Trading Association (IETA) which support offsets.

And as a 501 (c)(3) organization, Surfrider Foundation has made a 501 (h) election which allows us to participate in lobbying activity that is limited by the financial expenditure on that lobbying (regardless of the overall amount of lobbying that may include volunteer time).

It may have provided some protective cover to non-governmental organizations that are emerging in the region, including IndyAct, which has emerged as a civil - society lobbying force.

The organization has been responsible for training hundreds of attorneys, mental health professionals and financial professionals in the process, and worked to lobby for the passage of the Uniform Collaborative Family Law Act, which expanded the understanding of the ethical and effective practice of collaborative law.

Perhaps not coincidentally, a new industry organization called WiFiForward emerged today with the goal of lobbying the government for more unlicensed airwaves on which to build more Wi - Fi networks.

Video - game executives who attended the meeting Thursday included Robert Altman, the CEO of ZeniMax, the parent company for games such as Fallout; Strauss Zelnick, the chief executive of Take Two Interactive, which is known for Grand Theft Auto, and Michael Gallagher, the leader of the Entertainment Software Association, a Washington - focused lobbying organization for the industry.

Many core bitcoind developers, particularly lead developer Gavin Andresen, are also part of the Bitcoin Foundation, an organization which has taken clear steps toward using political lobbying as a strategy for protecting Bitcoin.

However, she said there isn't yet any Latin American equivalent for organizations like the nonprofit Coin Center in Washington D.C., which offers educational materials and lobbies for cryptocurrency regulations that serve the public's best interest.

Visit Gun Owners of America, our affiliate organization which lobbies on the Federal level.

NAIOP is one commercial real estate organization which is active in state and national politics, and the National Assoc. of Realtors (NAR) is the second largest national lobby in the country, right behind the U.S. Chamber of Commerce.