Not exact matches
In the months and weeks leading up to the congressional debate, she's
met with dozens
of lawmakers, conservative
advocacy organizations, and business
groups to build consensus and support for a plan that adopts parts
of a 2015 proposal by Republican Sens. Marco Rubio and Mike Lee.
Holder frequently
meets privately with
advocacy groups, minority representatives, and others wanting the ear
of the nation's top law enforcement official.
The DuPage County FASD Parent Education and
Advocacy Group meets from 6 to 7:30 p.m. every second Wednesday
of the month at Edwards Hospital Education Center in Naperville.
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.
«If this is a good plan, it should go back to the Plan Commission,» said Eleanor Roemer, general counsel
of the
advocacy group Friends
of the Parks, adding that there should be public
meetings of neighborhood
groups if the new story is built.
And I'd argue as usual that a single online action like this one is usually going to function best if it's just one piece
of an overall blitz including emails, letters, phone calls, Tweets, blogger outreach and (as this
group wisely knew to do) personal
meetings with the
advocacy target.
On Wednesday, during the strategy session, the governor will
meet with Christine C. Quinn, the speaker
of the City Council, who is openly gay; Brian Ellner, who is pushing for same - sex marriage in New York for the Human Rights Campaign, a national
advocacy group; Ross D. Levi, the head
of the state's leading gay rights organization, the Empire State Pride Agenda; and Richard Socarides, a former Clinton administration official and president
of Equality Matters, a new
advocacy group.
This
group, which gets funding from the Council to provide various services to immigrants (literacy classes, «outreach» on rights, etc.), controversially makes its clients attend organizational and
advocacy meetings as a condition
of receiving services.
The
group, a nonprofit
advocacy organization formed in 2001 and historically funded by teachers unions, has long offered itself as a voice for parents and communities
of color and, as such, has also been a thorn in the side
of successive state and city governments, consistently pushing for more funding in the state budget to
meet the needs
of underserved schools and fighting against school closures and charter schools.
«The playground now is neglected, littered and fairly dirty,» said Avram, 40, who founded the
advocacy group Friends
of DeSalvio Playground in hopes
of cleaning up the space on the southeast corner
of Spring and Mulberry streets, near where NoLita, Little Italy and SoHo
meet.
Borough President Scott Stringer called the
meeting of past and current tenants along with the tenant
advocacy group Buyers and Renters United to Save Harlem in order to raise awareness among possible victims
of Pinnacle's alleged harassment tactics before the end
of the class - action entry deadline.
«If the satellite gives us 1000 potential sites from the 25,000 in the UK, we would then use drone reconnaissance to get a richer picture
of, say, the wood cover and surface profile,» Terra Recovery co-founder Greg Fitzgerald said last week at a
meeting of the UK government's space business
advocacy group in London.
The five regional fisheries management organizations (RFMOs)
meeting at Kobe III manage tuna fisheries in 91 %
of the world's oceans, notes the Pew Environment
Group, an
advocacy organization based in Washington DC.
Mike Walker, director
of the
advocacy group Antarctic Ocean Alliance and an observer at the
meeting where the agreement was announced, said the Ross Sea preserve is a win for the planet.
The Rockefeller
meeting may have been a downer for patient
advocacy groups that have been holding up rosy promises
of cures for intractable diseases including Parkinson's, Alzheimer's, and diabetes.
Price, who serves as chair
of the U.S. House Budget Committee, came to campus to speak to a town hall
meeting on NIH and NSF funding presented by the Emory Science
Advocacy Network, a graduate student group that seeks to promote biomedical research funding through advocacy and ed
Advocacy Network, a graduate student
group that seeks to promote biomedical research funding through
advocacy and ed
advocacy and education.
On November 10th, the SMA Foundation held a
meeting with over 100 SMA researchers, clinicians, and patient
advocacy group representatives to discuss the potential impact
of SMN upregulation outside
of the central nervous system (CNS).
More than 100 scientists, animal welfare officers, representatives
of advocacy groups and stakeholders from different countries
met for a 2 - day conference in San Francisco to discuss how to improve transparency and to increase the public understanding
of the essential contributions that animal research makes to modern life science and biomedical research.
PCOS
Advocacy Day is a two - day PCOS Challenge event in Washington, D.C. where a passionate
group of patients, supporters, healthcare providers, researchers, community and industry partners unite on Capitol Hill to
meet with members
of Congress to urge them to make polycystic ovary syndrome (PCOS) a national priority.
In March 2010, at a
meeting of like - minded teachers in a coffee shop on Avenue B in the East Village, they decided upon a particularly American course
of action: they would form an
advocacy group with the audacious aim
of transforming the profession that many
of them had so recently joined.
The state board received a draft
of the state plan in May; the state Department
of Education has held statewide
meetings and received extensive comments from the public and school and
advocacy groups.
It would
meet the requirements
of a judge's ruling in a lawsuit brought by EdVoice, a Sacramento - based education
advocacy group, that test scores must be included.
David Welch, the Silicon Valley entrepreneur who financed Students Matter, the
advocacy group that filed the Vergara suit, has given Ms. Brown guidance, and came to a
meeting of about 30 people at her apartment in April to discuss it, she said.
By Joshua P. Starr I recently attended a
meeting with about 40 people involved in K - 12 public education at multiple levels: academics, state and district leaders, heads
of nonprofit and
advocacy groups, -LSB-...]
Wednesday's committee
meeting came one day before Gary Henry, a professor
of public policy and education at Vanderbilt University, was scheduled to present his seminal research on achievement school districts to the Public School Forum
of North Carolina, a public schools
advocacy group, in Raleigh.
Beginning in 2013 we
met monthly with the PMF Task Force, comprised
of representatives from charter schools and charter
advocacy groups.
«Data has the potential to transform education from a model
of mass production to a personalized experience that
meets the needs
of individuals and ensures that no student is lost along the way,» said Aimee Rogstad Guidera, president and CEO
of the Data Quality Campaign, a data
advocacy group in D.C. that's been working to help provide best practices for states.
During the annual
meeting of the Chalkboard Project, an independent Oregon K12 education
advocacy group, a video message from Education Secretary Arne Duncan was played for the staff, board, trustees, and affiliate members.
«If kids don't
meet people who aren't like them they are never going to understand what it's like to be different,» says Ellen McHugh
of the
advocacy group Parent to Parent.
Recognizing that access to elected officials is crucial for education
advocacy, a
group of Oakland parents
met with the...
As I sat at the
meeting of the education committee
of the Connecticut General Assembly in early spring and heard the CEO
of the charter school
advocacy group, ConnCAN, say that Connecticut needed more seats in charter schools in order to save students from «being trapped in failing schools», I had questions.
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.
Hence, Walton - funded
advocacy groups oppose initiatives requiring charter school governing boards to comply with state conflict -
of - interest or contracting rules, for example, or even rules requiring that governing board
meetings be open to the public.
A committee plans to
meet Feb. 16 at the state Education Department in Montgomery to work on the draft
of that contract, according to Commissioner Thomas Rains, who is also vice president
of operations and policy at the A + Education Partnership, a state education
advocacy group.
The Reading Rights Coalition, which consisted
of various disability
advocacy groups,
met with the AG to try and work out a solution to this problem.
With this in mind, a small
group of leaders
of Penn Animal
Advocacy (an animal - focused effective altruism
group at the University
of Pennsylvania)
met to brainstorm ideas for the convention.
I don't doubt that it's possible to be concerned about the environmental stresses population brings without any racism or xenophobia — I've
met many people who fit that description, and there were well - meaning (if quite mistaken) population - focused
groups in the»70s and»80s — but in terms
of public discussion and
advocacy, anyone explicitly expressing that concern starts out behind the eight ball.
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WASHINGTON, DC — The national, single - issue, non-profit
advocacy group Vote Hemp applauds the new resolution on industrial hemp that was adopted by delegates
of the American Farm Bureau Federation at its 95th annual
meeting in San Antonio, Texas last week, January 14, 2014.
«I've been able to
meet with him more, as he's not quite as slammed with the organizational duties,» says attorney Julia Olson, director
of Our Children's Trust, an
advocacy group suing the U.S. government to act on climate change.
House Bill 589 is the result
of over 30 collaborative stakeholder
meetings attended by a diverse
group of renewable energy, consumer
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meeting Trump's confirmation chaos in perspective MORE from many quarters has been that he's too conciliatory,» said McKibben, head
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advocacy group 350.org.
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meeting Wednesday night for the duck boats not to return at all.
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So the Storay
Advocacy Group, P.A. was actually established to provide affordable and quality legal services, it was my intent and my heart's desire to
meet the needs
of those individuals who are representing themselves in family law matters, civil cases, et cetera.
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And was just recently invited to join a board on a
group called Voices for Innovation, came back from Washington DC last week for my first
meeting there and I'm kind
of driving the Women in Technology initiative and
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How do I handle requests for such references?Thank you so much for your help!CherylCHERYL M. EARLE3407 Old Dobbin Road, Montgomery, Alabama 36116 - 1903Home Phone: 334-215-3706 Cell Phone: 334-233-2631 Fax: 334-273-0477 E-mail:
[email protected] position managing legal discovery and document review with opportunity to assist attorneys with civil litigationBAR ADMISSIONAlabama State Bar, 1999LAW - RELATED EXPERIENCELaw Firm, AlabamaResearch Attorney for Special Projects, Mass Torts Department, November 2001 — February 2008 • Managed Multi-District Litigation (MDL) Document Depository (September 2002 to February 2008) o Reviewed more than 1 million pages
of evidentiary documents for litigation purposes and for inclusion in electronic databaseso Coordinated document review assignments with attorneys at local depository and at other sites across the USo Retrieved, reviewed and coded documents in Concordance and Summation legal databaseso Prepared memoranda and spreadsheets providing detailed analysis
of discovery materials • Aided attorneys and support staff with processing and preparation
of personal injury claims and litigationo Conducted legal research and drafted pleadingso Conducted supplementary online research for additional documents and information pertinent to litigationo Assisted with preparation
of correspondence to clients and referring attorneyso Contacted clients for additional information needed in case preparation, litigation, and potential settlementso Prepared and input case intakes and referrals into databaseLaw School, AlabamaStudent Intern, Alabama Disabilities
Advocacy Program (ADAP), August 1996 — June 1997 • Participated in law school clinical program under third - year law student practice rule (as authorized by Alabama Supreme Court) o Assisted attorneys and advocates in cases involving mentally ill patients confined to state mental health facilitieso Interviewed clients in person (at state facilities) and over the phoneo Worked with clients, attorneys, and social workers to investigate and resolve issues concerning involuntary confinement and treatmento Aided in legal research on an appellate brief submitted to the U. S. Court
of Appeals for the Eleventh Circuit (ruling granted in favor
of our client) Faculty Research Assistant for Library Services, Bounds Law Library, March 1996 — June 1997 • Prepared research and teaching materials for law school faculty; worked 20 hours per week while matriculating 10 - 15 hours per semester) o Investigated copyright issues related to procuring and reproducing texts for academic useo Conducted legal research using WESTLAW, LEXIS and the InternetADDITIONAL RELEVANT EXPERIENCEManufacturing Company (MC), Montgomery, AlabamaAdministrative Assistant and Cost Analyst, Materials Purchasing Department, April 1999 — September 2001 • Assisted materials buyers in negotiating and preparing commodities contracts between raw materials suppliers and MC for manufacturing plants in the US and Mexicoo Assisted Legal Department at MC's corporate headquarters with coordination and preparation
of documents for litigationo Notified and educated suppliers about MC's freight - on - board policy and its corresponding Uniform Commercial Code (UCC) provisions; result was the reduction
of freight claims for both the company and its supplierso Prepared contracts and purchase orders for raw materials and capital projects involving plant maintenanceo Solicited price quotations from current vendors and established Excel spreadsheet format which simplified quote submission process and allowed MC to track and compare usage volumes and costs over timeo Prepared and analyzed cost reports used by materials buyers and production planners in purchasing decisions, including cost reductions, materials consolidation, and selection
of vendorso Acted as liaison between vendors and the Purchasing, Transportation and Accounting Departments on issues concerning inbound freight, commercial carriers, and payment terms for commodities, resulting in reductions in freight costs and greater payment discounts for raw materialso Established online databases and printed directories for the Purchasing Department, allowing buyers to have easier and faster access to current vendor informationo Completed Year 2000 (Y2K) compliance project, which involved data collection and communication with MC's past, present, and potential materials suppliers and service providersNot - For - Profit Organization, AlabamaAdministrative Assistant, Combined Federal Campaign, September 1998 — January 1999 • Aided Campaign Director with 1998 Federal Campaigns (CFCs) in City 1 and City 2, which together generated nearly $ 700,000 for more than 1,000 local, national and international charitieso Prepared weekly reports on donations using WordPerfect, Microsoft Word, Excel and dBase IVo Wrote script for Talent Showcase at City 1's 1998 CFC Kickoffo Assisted Director with merger
of the City 1 and City 2 CFCs in 1999Regional Bank, AlabamaAdministrative Assistant, Year 2000 (Y2K) Department, March — June 1998 • Worked with Vice President
of Corporate Projects on short - term project for the bank's Y2K Departmento Analyzed and processed data on Y2K readiness for all branches
of Bank throughout the southeastern USo Organized
meetings for personnel
of Banko Communicated with vendors
of computer hardware, software, and office equipment to request information on Y2K complianceo Prepared compliance files for Federal Reserve auditso Prepared in - house memoranda and reports using Microsoft Word and ExcelRecord / Music Promotion Company, AlabamaRecord Pool Co-Founder; Office Manager, September 1990 — December 1991 • Co-founded record pool to enhance promotion
of music in Alabama and the southeastern USo Procured and distributed records from major and independent labels for club, radio and mobile disc jockeyso Coordinated jointly sponsored promotional events with record companies, radio stations and clubso Designed, wrote, and published bi-weekly reports and brochures to inform the music industry
of the progress and popularity
of music and performers in the region, with specific focus on the Alabama music sceneMajor University, AlabamaGraduate Research Assistant, AUM Department
of Marketing, June 1989 — August 1990 • Worked 13 - 20 hours per week as a research assistant to Marketing faculty while carrying a full course load in the MBA programo Analyzed consumer surveys used in academic researcho Assisted Conference Chairperson with coordination for Atlantic Marketing Association (AMA) annual
meeting (October 1989) o Co-authored five - year index and classification
of AMA Proceedings (published Fall 1991) EDUCATIONLaw School, AlabamaJuris Doctor (JD), 1997 • Scholarshipso Seybourn H. Lynne Scholarship, 1996 - 97o Dexter C. Hobbs Memorial Scholarship, 1995 - 96o E. W. Godbey Memorial Scholarship, 1994 - 95 • Honorso Who's Who Among American Law School Students, 1996 - 94o Arthur Davis Shores Award, 1997 • Activitieso Frederick Douglass Moot Court Team Manager, 1996 - 97 Southern Regional Competition, Second Place National Competition, Eighth Placeo John A. Campbell Moot Court Competition, Spring 1996o Black Law Students Association Delegate, BLSA National Convention, 1997 Co-Chairperson, Public Relations Committee, 1996 - 97 Chairperson, Public Relations Committee, 1995 - 96 BLSA President's Award, 1996 and 1997o American Bar Association, 1996 - 97 Entertainment and Sports Industries Forum Intellectual Property Section Law Student Divisiono LAWS Student
Group Leader, 1995 - 96Major University, AlabamaMaster
of Business Administration (MBA), 1990Bachelor
of Science in Business Administration (B.S.B.A.), 1988 (Major: Marketing — Advertising and Promotion Track) • Honorso Dean's List • Activitieso National Student Advertising Competition Team, 1988 - 90 Seventh District Competition: Third Place, 1990o Marketing Club, 1987 - 90 Vice President — Career Development, 1988 - 89o Public Relations / Advertising (PR / AD) Club, 1988 - 90 Charter Member, 1988 Active in fund - raising and membership driveso Theater Guild, 1988 - 90 Screening Committee, 1989REFERENCESAvailable upon request