Sentences with phrase «local advocacy groups»

Imagine the transformative effect that a national support network can give to both established and budding local advocacy groups all across the country.

«It's been in existence for quite awhile, and it's been able to sustain itself through a change in mayors,» says Berends, adding the support of local advocacy groups and the Indiana Chamber of Commerce has been paramount in maintaining the system.

To prepare, both LAUSD officials and local advocacy groups are ramping up community engagement efforts to get public input on spending priorities.

Let's review: After 20 years, the foundation realizes that its top - down approach doesn't adequately address the needs and desires of parents, local advocacy groups and community groups.

In California, TNTP worked with state senator Jack Scott and local advocacy groups to pass a bill for the reform of teacher transfer policies, changing the dynamics of teacher hiring for some 3,000 low - performing schools statewide.

GFW experts gather logging permit, mining, and other development data from governments and local advocacy groups.

Co-sponsored legislation and supported efforts to combat the Heroin and Opioid crisis, including a policy to raise additional revenue for education and prevention, creating a Family Advocate to help individuals and families navigate insurance and other issues while seeking treatment and supporting local advocacy groups.

But Gordon and other conservancy members concede much hard work — finding common ground with government agencies and other local advocacy groups — lies ahead.

Last year there was a string of serial rapes and we are speaking with some of the local advocacy groups and developing a plan to keep the space open and staffed Friday and Saturday nights until an hour after the bars close so that if there is anyone feeling uncomfortable or threatened by a situation can come and use the space as a safe haven and have the option of being walked home at the end of the evening.

Kingston Citizens, a local advocacy group, is calling for more transparency from the UCIDA (Industrial Development Agency).

Neighbors to Save Rivington House, a local advocacy group, posted the following message on Facebook yesterday: «Please attend (the town hall!)

Candace Carponter, a lawyer who works with local advocacy group Develop Don't Destroy Brooklyn, says that the clause flies in the face of what the community wanted out of the Atlantic Yards development.

When that concept was introduced to me last year by a local advocacy group, I asked them to show me where to find that information, no one could.

We currently have funds to assist with Oglethorpe County residents due to the fundraising efforts of a local advocacy group, and we are actively applying for grants to assist with Madison County residents.

Towards the beginning of the year, when it came to light that Aboriginal communities in Western Australia (WA) were at risk of forced closure, a local advocacy group named «Community Solidarity Action NT» formed in Darwin.

Elizabeth Burke Bryant, who is the executive director of Rhode Island KIDS COUNT, a local advocacy group, told NBC 10 that DCYF and the Office of the Child Advocate need to work together to make wholesale changes.

Not exact matches

Some of Tom Cat's employees and advocacy groups, such as Brandworkers, a non-profit organization for food workers, believed the dismissals were improperly handled, sparking a local and national outcry that led to protests, bad press and boycotts of Tom Cat Bakery bread from famous restaurants such as Le Bernardin.

Much like America herself, national advocacy groups (Hispanic or otherwise) do better when their power comes from — and remains with — the state and local level.

We must also make room in our schemes for the likes of the American Jewish Committee, World Vision, Bread for the World, the Christian Coalition, local right - to - life groups and denominationally linked gay - lesbian advocacy groups.

Meet with local food producers, retailers, transports, food banks, food advocacy groups (NGOs), faith leaders, and food recovery / recycling operations (e.g., composters, biogas producers), to identify local issues and opportunities surrounding food loss and waste.

Our hope is to have the U.S. government, in partnership with the many stakeholders in the food system, including producers, manufacturers, retailers, non-profits and food advocacy groups, faith organizations as well as leaders from state, tribal, and local government, join in using the Call to Action as an opportunity to further individual and collective actions on preventing food waste.

Our efforts touch the lives of parents worldwide through local support groups, our quarterly publication, Attachment Parenting: The Journal of API, this newsletter, and national advocacy efforts.

The group offers support to all individuals affected by stillbirth or loss of a newborn infant, and its website includes information on local groups and advocacy opportunities.

This type of advocacy can be taken into local hospitals, parenting groups, your local church or community ladies» groups, co-ops, and home school meetings, for some more examples.

Partnering with other local groups that share a mission (hunger advocacy groups, youth - focused groups such as Boy and Girl Scouts and YMCA / YWCA, local colleges or universities, hospitals, etc.).

Jodine serves on the board of her local breastfeeding advocacy group, for the Best for Babes Foundation, and volunteers with ILCA, INFACT Canada, and Friends of the WHO Code.

As for the broad applicability, we're seeing it every day in the nonprofit world, as plenty of groups are learning to use their supporter lists for more than overnight fundraising and email advocacy — some are finding ways and providing tools to turn supporters into evangelists in whatever communities they're a part of (whether local or not).

Juanita Perez - Williams, who was recruited by the DCCC to challenge the local party's preferred choice in a Democratic primary in NY - 24, proudly engaged in «pro-life advocacy,» including participation in the March for Life, as recently as 2016, but still landed a 2017 endorsement for Syracuse mayor from the pro-choice group EMILY's List.

At 12:30 p.m., the New York Housing Conference, Rep. Joe Crowley, members of Congress, advocacy groups, and local public housing residents, will hold a press conference to oppose Trump's proposed budget cuts to affordable housing and launch the #TrumpRentHike Calculator, Woodside Houses Park, 50th Street between Newtown Road and Broadway, Woodside, Queens

The measure has universal support across the Adirondack Park, including environmental advocacy organizations, state and local officials and business groups — all of whom helped forge the agreement over years of painstaking negotiations.

The Teachout - Wu campaign has been banking on online engagement with frequent social media posts, Facebook advertising, a Victory Center page with an online phone banking tool and mapped local coordinators across the state, an AskCuomo page in response to Cuomo's refusal to debate, and is also receiving support from a Thunderclap campaign started by a teachers» advocacy group.

The advocacy group Friends of Bushwick Inlet Park set up a countdown clock, camped out overnight with local politicians and rallied on the steps of City Hall to draw attention to the cause.

Local officials, community leaders and advocacy groups, by contrast, have strongly opposed granting the arena a never - ending permit.

LGBT activist Will Rodriguez - Kennedy is a Republican - turned - Democrat and former president of the local chapter of Log Cabin Republicans, a Republican gay rights advocacy group (he resigned after making a purchasing mistake with the group's debit card).

«I think the public should be very watching very carefully, I think that advocacy groups should be watching very carefully all of the filings for everyone — not just at the state level, but at the local level and elected office.

Marine scientist Kevin McAllister, founder and president of water quality advocacy group Defend H20, called the number of plastic bags stuck in tree branches and scattered on local beaches «omnipresent.»

New York State United Teachers, with local unions and advocacy groups, announced Thursday an upcoming effort to lobby Gov. Andrew Cuomo, the state Legislature, the state Education Department and the Board of Regents to end testing in pre-kindergarten through second grade.

Inwoof, an advocacy group for local dog owners, hopes that an area for smaller - breed dogs will be added to Homer's Run in Inwood Hill Park in the coming months, thanks to funds secured by City Councilman Ydanis Rodriguez.

That means working with your local house of worship or progressive group, in, say, New York City or Los Angeles, and building relationships with local houses of worship and advocacy groups in suburban areas near them.

Carlina Rivera, program manager for the senior program at another local housing advocacy group, Good Old Lower East Side (GOLES), advised tenants to pay rent first and seek a refund later.

Local officials praised Bill Bratton's tenure as NYPD commissioner in the wake of his sudden resignation — but some advocacy groups who've opposed his policing strategies said his departure couldn't come soon enough.

She is involved in her family's East Side business and leads the advocacy group, We Are Women Warriors, which addresses solutions for local issues.

NYC Transit worked extensively with the community on the depot's design, including the creation of the Mother Clara Hale Depot Community Task Force with WEACT, a Harlem - based advocacy group, and the area's local elected officials.

The potential new law comes after years of lobbying by community groups to remove the facility from the neighborhood, according to Luis Garden Acosta, founder of El Puente, a local advocacy organization.

Richard Thomas, director of state and local legislative affairs at the Design - Build Institute of America, an advocacy group for the practice, said that design - build typically speeds up projects by 33 percent.

Michael Beltzer, a father who has served on his local community board and on the 43rd Precinct Community Council, says he has worked for a decade as a «community advocate and servant» including time spent with small community and advocacy groups.

BY PAUL SCHINDLER The city health department and leading AIDS advocacy groups are scrambling to convince Governor Andrew Cuomo to reverse a proposal in his new executive budget that would reduce reimbursements for local government public health spending in six core areas from 36 percent of the total to 29 percent.

get involved with and / or donate funds to national environmental advocacy organizations like the Natural Resources Defense Council, the Environmental Defense Fund, and 350.org; and local groups like Environmental Advocates of New York and the NY League of Conservation Voters.

Saturday's rally was spearheaded by local Tea Party activist Rus Thompson and the Shooters Committee On Political Education, a gun advocacy group.

Swan, the director of a consumer advocacy organization called Connecticut Citizen Action Group, was an experienced local organizer.