Sentences with phrase «national focus groups»

In 2013, she was on the project team for the Dance Heritage Coalition's Artist - Driven Archives project which convened several national focus groups including one that she conducted on «Documenting the Creative Process».

Methodology: ERA Real Estate, in conjunction with HGTV, surveyed consumers participating in HGTV's «Under the Roof» national focus group to uncover attitudes and opinions about smart home technology.

Not exact matches

«Jeb Bush has a big interest in Latin America, and I expect he would follow in the footsteps of [his] father and brother in being more internationally focused on trade issues,» says Todd McCracken, president and chief executive of the National Small Business Association, a business advocacy group.

The first group of so - called debt hawks sees another Great Recession coming and wants national governments to focus on austerity programs aimed at deficit reduction because rising sovereign debts are behind our current economic woes.

According to the New York Times, black students have never been responsible for mass shootings that drove the national conversation about gun safety and minority schools have never been the targets of such attacks, leaving civil rights groups wondering why black students would be the focus when seeking to address an issue that plagues white, male students.

Taylor West, deputy director of the National Cannabis Industry Association, said the group has focused recently on emphasizing its role in creating new jobs and building domestic manufacturing facilities.

Clockwise from top left: Abby Wambach, formerly of the U.S. Women's National Soccer Team; Sukhinder Singh Cassidy, Founder and CEO, Joyus and Stacy Brown - Philpot, Chief Operating Officer, TaskRabbit; Julia Hartz, Co-founder and President, Eventbrite and Sarah Leary, Co-founder and Vice President, Marketing and Operations, Nextdoor; Kat Cole, Group President, FOCUS Brands

In addition, to continue our same - restaurant sales momentum in fiscal 2013, we will focus on further elevating the guest experience along with growing all sales channels including group and event dining, as well as national account relationships and continue to broaden the appeal of our menus.

Drawing connections between this group and Fox News North, a former vice-president of the National Citizens Coalition, Gerry Nicholls, questioned why his former organization has focused on «shilling» for Sun News Network.

Previously, Mr. Mousseau served on the boards of Impark Corp., one of North America's largest parking management providers, Premier Lotteries, OTPP's holding company for lottery management investments, and Aurigen Reinsurance, a Bermuda - based life reinsurance provider focused on the reinsurance of life insurance policies of North American residents, and was an alternate board member of Camelot Group PLC, the operator of the UK National Lottery.

The banking group, which includes the brands Clydesdale Bank, Yorkshire Bank and new digital - only bank B - hence CYBG - has been busy blazing its own trail to be a more digital - focused bank since its de-merger from National Australia Bank.

Meanwhile, groups including the National Right to Life Committee, Focus on the Family and the U.S. Conference of Catholic Bishops mobilized to restore an existing tax credit that's worth up to $ 13,570 for families who adopt children.

Meanwhile, groups including the National Right to Life Committee, Focus on the Family and the U.S. Conference of Catholic Bishops mobilized to

Efforts ranged from family ministries in individual churches to «parachurch» pastoral groups such as James Dobson's Focus on the Family to national political organizations such as Jerry Falwell's Moral Majority.

Among the groups that Chick - Fil - A will no longer support are the National Organization for Marriage and Focus on the Family.

Carlton was most recently Director of National Sales with The Hotel del Coronado, and will be handling group sales focused on the West Coast with an emphasis on corporate, entertainment, and international markets.

«She was interested in Barebow, that's what I shoot... Once we started focusing on Abby and coaching, instead of a group setting, she improved incredibly and, of course, made the (national) team last year.»

Focus groups will be employed to better divine national sentiment and develop popular themes (and higher ratings).

The central headquarters of English football has streamlined the focus of the national game into one 350 - acre plot, with the best coaches and elite players from all age groups rubbing shoulders with one another on a daily basis.

Part I is intended to help a responsible individual or group through the steps proposed, and focuses on the process involved in developing a national infant and young child feeding strategy.

With a keen focus on entrepreneurialism, CDF is leveraging its national reach into tens of thousands of grassroots community groups to a wider audience for the benefit of communities.

Instead, member states have shown an increasing tendency to operate on their own or in like - minded groups, and focus on inward - looking aid policiesdriven by national interests and priorities.

Based on a 10,000 - sample poll and focus groups around the country, the project asks what voters hope and expect to get from the Brexit deal, how they balance immigration control and access to the single market, the status of EU nationals already in Britain, people's confidence that the Prime Minister will secure a good deal, and how the Brexit negotiations compare in importance to other priorities.

The two races are also targets for the Democratic Legislative Campaign Committee, a national group focused on state - level elections.

The National Republican Congressional Committee, the GOP - aligned Congressional Leadership Fund, and House Majority PAC (the go - to Democratic group focused on House races) already made initial ad reservations, totaling more than $ 124 million from Labor Day to Election Day.

After losing his seat, he decided to focus on building a pro-Israel group within the Conservative Party - there had been a Labour Friends of Israel group since 1957 - so Fidler launched CFoI in 1974, and served as its National Director.

Business News of Friday, 11 May 2018 Source: PHD Media PHD GH CEO, Bright Ladzekpo (right) and Jean Quarcoopome PHD Ghana, an affiliate of Omnicom Media Group's PHD Worldwide network of media agencies, is taking its longstanding partnership with Ashesi University a step further its focus on Ashesi's student talent pool through its support for the University's career fairs, student mentorship, summer internship programmes, national service placements and full time employment opportunities for its graduates.

While the media tends to focus on the high - profile national gun rights groups, here in California, they are unknown players that truly shape the movement.

On Wednesday night, the SU chapter of Democracy Matters, a national student group that focuses on campaign finance reform, invited Williams to discuss his thoughts on the issue.

«We have never played a battle like this where the national feeling for two groups are being pitted against each other,» said Democratic consultant Hank Sheinkopf, who predicted a renewed focus on Espaillat's background during his final push.

The Democratic Legislative Campaign Committee, a national group focused on electing Democratic state legislatures across the country, is threatening to help back primaries in the coming year against a group of eight breakaway New York state Senate Democrats.

The announcement, which has reportedly been prepared for months following relentless focus group testing, took the Scottish National party (SNP) by surprise.

National environmental groups are trying to focus the spotlight on Governor Andrew Cuomo, over the issue of the growing international oil distribution center, located just blocks from the State Capitol, at the Port of Albany.

National environmental groups are trying to focus the spotlight on Gov. Andrew Cuomo, over the issue of the growing international oil distribution center, located just blocks from the state Capitol, at the Port of Albany.

Vermont Senator Bernie Sanders made the second stop in his «Where Do We Go From Here» tour in Albany Friday afternoon, where he told a small but loyal group of supporters that he'll fight to get key items into the national Democratic Party platform, including a nationwide $ 15 minimum wage, and has been in talks with Hillary Clinton's campaign over a greater focus on progressive issues.

And it's not clear if gay donors and major national groups like the Gill Action Fund will so focus their attention and money as aggressively in New York after their money yielded a one - sided defeat.

«Reclaim New York is replicating some of the things that Robert Mercer and Trump and Bannon pulled off at the national level,» said Michael Kink, executive director of the Strong Economy for All Coalition, a union - connected group that focuses on income inequality.

Boylan said adopting such an approach addresses the two central challenges at the focus of National Science Foundation funding: the need to improve the quality of STEM education and expand access to STEM across groups.

According to Pappalardo, some members of Congress and influential groups — like the NASA Astrobiology Institute's Europa Focus Group and the National Research Council — support a mission to Europa, and are lobbying NASA for its implementation.

Other targets of the initiative have focused on instituting ways to build collaboration among academic, nonprofit and private sector efforts, including international groups and to increase federal funding, an effort that spurred Congress to pass in December 2016 the 21st Century Cures Act that authorized $ 1.8 billion for the National Cancer Institute.

To expand choice and access, the Bellagio Group calls on global and national family planning communities to focus on the following priority areas:

Philip Pienkos, principal manager of the Bioprocess R&D Group at NREL's National Bioenergy Center, said the project is beginning to focus more on the development side, even as Yu continues to work to achieve higher ethylene volumes.

NEW YORK (Reuters)- A group of 37 U.S. - based scientists whose research focuses on Arctic wildlife asked two U.S. senators in a letter on Thursday not to open the National Arctic Wildlife Refuge to oil and gas exploration, according to a copy seen by Reuters.

[7] Themes emerging from focus group conversations corroborated the findings of the national survey, but yielded particular insights into how the public views different technologies.

He is a member of the national advisory committees of several groups that focus on genetic education and outreach, such as the March of Dimes Gene Project.

The focus group results support the findings of a quantitative national poll conducted by Hart Research Associates in January 2013, which found just 23 percent of respondents reported they had heard a lot (6 percent) or some (17 percent) about synthetic biology.

He was one of three co-chairs of the National Cancer Institute's Translational Research Working Group, which worked to reengineer translational cancer science across the nation, and has been a member of the scientific advisory boards of several companies focused on the development of new technologies and treatments for human cancer, a member of the American Association of Cancer Research's Board of Directors, President of the National Coalition for Cancer Research, and a member of the Scientific Advisory Board of the Prostate Cancer Foundation.

Sylla is a member of the community advisory board for defeatHIV, based at Fred Hutchinson Cancer Research Center, one of six such research groups funded by the National Institutes of Health focused on curing the chronic viral infection.

Along with national hospital and health system leaders in attendance, Adam will highlight the patient - focused philosophy of True Health Outreach, the hospital laboratory management subsidiary of True Health Group.

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