Sentences with phrase «local grassroots groups»

Dr. Martinez has also worked with a range of organizations from local grassroots groups to international organizations engaging in the promotion of sound environmental policy and environmental justice.

We are also working with local grassroots groups and networks to provide crucial resources and support to those in immediate need.

In California, local grassroots groups have been successful in pushing polluters to clean up their communities and compelling government agencies to protect residents from the consequences of a warming planet.

Mason goes on to say that a $ 25 donation to a local grassroots group buys many times more energy, dedication, and results.

Not exact matches

The article profiles the efforts of Dick Armey's FreedomWorks to «turn local Tea Party groups into a standing get - out - the - vote operation in Congressional districts across the country,» in part through a series of trainings that would be right at home in the 2008 Obama grassroots operation.

According to Common Cause NY, which is providing the data employed by local groups in these grassroots events, two of every three dollars Saland has received since 2005 came from donors who live outside his Hudson Valley district, and 96 percent of his contributions were higher than $ 200.

Its mission is to cultivate and lift up a grassroots movement of local groups to defeat the Trump agenda, elect progressive leaders, and realize bold progressive policies.

Local campaign staff and candidates, staff at union locals labor organizations not based in DC, community organizing groups that aren't part of national networks, grassroots groups that aren't getting funding from the main backers of community organizing and progressive causes, staff working in local government, and the list goes on anLocal campaign staff and candidates, staff at union locals labor organizations not based in DC, community organizing groups that aren't part of national networks, grassroots groups that aren't getting funding from the main backers of community organizing and progressive causes, staff working in local government, and the list goes on anlocal government, and the list goes on and on.

But Mourdock, who was supported by local and national conservative grassroots groups early in his bid, reiterated his vow to stand by his convictions, which he said include rolling back the size of government and lowering taxes.

She has been endorsed by grassroots groups in central New York, including local Indivisible chapters.

Balter, 41, of Syracuse, has jumped into the public spotlight this year as an organizer for the CNY Solidarity Coalition, a local coalition of grassroots groups that formed after Donald Trump won the presidential election.

Sharpton said he told de Blasio that O'Neill needs to meet with civil rights groups, faith leaders and local grassroots leaders.

Dickinson, Muratori and Hurley had been swept into office in 2011, backed by the upstart grassroots Lake George Citizens Group, earning a spot in local political history as they defeated a slate of popular incumbent Republican candidates.

UPDATE: Murphy's campaign said the initiative «organized under the umbrella of Murphy's re-election committee, will fund organizers to work in collaboration with the campaigns of the Connecticut Congressional delegation and the Connecticut Democratic Party to recruit and train volunteers, offer action alerts to existing organizing groups, provide messaging help to grassroots activists, and provide a conduit between local activism and the fight in Washington to defeat the reckless policies of the Trump administration.»

Contact your state representative, write a letter to the editor of your local newspaper, or connect with church groups and grassroots activists who can help influence state leaders.

Lots of local grassroots football clubs and other community groups will get to use the site.

As the State Board of Education considers overruling the MNPS School Board and possibly approving charter schools for Nashville originally denied at the local level, grassroots advocacy group TREE is calling on citizens to take action.

With few employees and a strong cadre of community volunteers spearheading a grassroots effort to secure funding and build our mission, our small group of social workers and educators worked largely on a local level in the Puget Sound region.

Making Solution - Oriented Partnerships FCSBM will partner with and work alongside of local and statewide grassroots groups, to be the bridge for constituents to have better accessibility to policymakers.

Save Our Schools NJ, the grassroots group that has been most vocal in pressing for binding local involvement in any revised charter law, said it also had much to review.

However, California Teachers Association spokesman Frank Wells maintains that so far, Parent Revolution tactics have been fishy: «The Parent Trigger law was meant to be a vehicle for a local grassroots movement, as opposed to a vehicle for outside charter groups to sell their organization.»

Also recently, an alliance of 38 organizations of student and parent groups in black and brown communities joined with 175 national and local grassroots organizations in an effort to end high stakes testing.

Tuesday night Clark Rising, a grassroots group of Clark Elementary School parents, SAND Elementary School parents and local public school advocates joined forces to fight back against the corporate takeover of both schools by Achievement First, Inc. and Capital Preparatory Magnet School, respectively.

While the political fight over universal vouchers raged in Nevada and Arizona, the federation quietly poured money into local pop - up groups with the mission of building grassroots support for the programs.

Jitu helped develop the Mid-South Education Association, a grassroots advocacy group comprised of administrators, parents, teachers, young people and local school council (LSC) members to meet the needs of schools in the area.

Active in several local and national parent groups focused on education, Julie Woestehoff reported grassroots support for resisting the federally funded push to tie teacher jobs and compensation to test scores.

With this goal in mind, my 6 - person writing critique group mounted an event called «Grassroots Fiction at its Best» at a local indie bookstore in Montclair, NJ.

The general public, local grassroots organizations and pit bull rescue groups joined us in a clear statement that these dogs should not be re-victimized by the state after being so badly abused.

-- Maintain an open dialogue with community grassroots conservation groups like Wildsight and The Elk River Alliance and other local organizations to communicate initiatives, management decisions, restrictions and openings when it is possible.

-- Maintain an open dialogue with community grassroots conservation groups like Wildsight, as well as other local organizations like the Fernie Trails Alliance, Fernie Nordic Club and Snowmobile Associations to communicate management decisions, restrictions and openings when possible.

This unique collaborative initiative between Queens College Art Department (CUNY: City University of New York) and the Queens Museum of Art — integrates social, tactical, immaterial, and interventionist art forms in tandem with the museum's ongoing, in - depth activities in socially - based art and grassroots community engagement under the expert guidance of a group of artists, administrators, educators engaged with local issues specific to Queens.

This week in Energy Democracy news: Local, grassroots groups are speaking up for low - income access...

Since Latvia declared independence, Friends of the Earth Latvia has been the largest grassroots non-governmental organisation in the country, with more than 3,200 individual supporters and 64 local groups.

Created in 1970, they helped build the French ecological movement and helped found the world's largest grassroots environmental network, Friends of the Earth International, Friends of the Earth France forms a local network gathering 30 autonomous local groups that act according to their own priorities and support the national and international campaigns with a shared vision for social and environmental justice.

We are the world's largest grassroots environmental network, uniting 75 national member groups and some 5,000 local activist groups on every continent.

So we're here today to kick off a nationwide grassroots campaign called «Plug - In Partners,» bringing together local governments, businesses, cities, organizations, and community groups from across the entire country, to say to the automakers, «Americans understand the problem, and Americans will deal with the problem.

Grassroots groups engaging in and training for direct action such as the Tar Sands Blockade, Great Plains Tar Sands Resistance, the Unist» ot» en Camp, and Moccasins on the Ground have shown us how direct action can empower local communities and push establishment green groups to embrace bolder tactics.

During a period of three years, the members of the Commission and other contributors for its five working groups conducted 22 national consultation processes with representatives from local governments, academia, civil society, and grassroots movements.

By 1992, the American Tort Reform Association had hired a public relations firm to help it reach its «tort reform» goals by creating local «grassroots» front groups.