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Not exact matches
«Corruption is not as bad as you think,» says Weimar, who formerly worked
at the Claremont, Calif. - based
nonprofit KickStart as a senior
development officer.
Back in 1996,
at age 24, she turned a $ 5,000 inheritance into Dress for Success, a
nonprofit that provides interview suits and career
development training to women.
Aaron Brickman, senior vice president for strategy and
development at the Organization for International Investment (OFII), a
nonprofit trade association, also founded SelectUSA, a federal program to promote foreign direct investment in the US.
Sarah Leibach (Camp Name «Pancake») is an Associate Director
at Orr Associates, Inc. (OAI), a consulting firm to the
nonprofit industry, where she assists clients with
development management, event management, and strategic planning.
Having just celebrated its 30th anniversary in 2017, Postpartum Support International (PSI) is
at an exciting point in its
development as the leading global
nonprofit organization serving families affected by perinatal mood and anxiety disorders.
I missed the significance of this
at the time (as a long - time Photoshop user, I haven't needed to work with Canva), but it seems like a good
development for
nonprofit advocacy groups.
«
At that price, it's very doubtful that New York taxpayers will ever break even,» said Greg Leroy, executive director of the
nonprofit watchdog Good Jobs First, which tracks corporate subsidies in economic
development.
After considering several other sites, the Fort Schuyler Management Corp., a 501 c - 3
nonprofit corporation created by the State University of New York Research Foundation that is charged with managing the
development of Buffalo Billion facilities, settled on space atop a six - story medical building that was under construction
at the edge of the city's downtown medical campus.
DNAinfo New York has reported in a series of stories that the
nonprofit Bushwick Economic
Development Corp., or BEDCO, is a tax deadbeat that has been accused of bribing city workers, failing to fix violations
at its city - funded shelters and falling deeply into debt with landlords.
ALBANY — A state university president who has been a linchpin in the Cuomo administration's efforts to stimulate economic growth has resigned from the boards of two
nonprofits that manage major real estate
developments aimed
at building tech hubs in faded upstate cities.
The IDA and the Red Cross have agreed to gauge the interest of other
nonprofit groups in moving their office to the Clement Mansion
at 786 Delaware Ave. if the economic
development agency were to acquire the building.
Both of these ideas appear to be aimed
at satisfying the vision of the Walentas brothers (Two Trees), the Elghanayan brothers (TF Cornerstone), Toll Brothers (Toll Brothers), and any other donors — siblings or not — to his now defunct
nonprofit who own real estate
developments along the waterfront.
In the wake of scandal
at SUNY Polytechnic Institute, the governing boards of the school's twin
development nonprofits have quietly been stocked with veterans of Gov. Andrew Cuomo's administration.
At least two influential members of the Erie County Industrial
Development Agency's board are expressing serious reservations about a proposal for the public agency to buy a Buffalo mansion and become a landlord for a campus of
nonprofit agencies
Officials
at SUNY Poly and the Fort Schuyler Management Company, a
nonprofit arm of the school that does real estate
development, did not respond to requests for comment.
Today's conference, held
at the Rochester Riverside Convention Center, was co-hosted by HCR, the Governor's Office of Faith - Based Community
Development Services and the Governor's
Nonprofit Coordination Unit.
September 2011: Health Science Center Foundation transfers ownership of about eight acres
at Kennedy Square to its
nonprofit affiliate, Upstate Properties
Development Inc..
«a repudiation of the way [Gov. Cuomo's] prized upstate economic
development programs were managed» — have sparked calls not just to scrap the dubious practice
at the heart of the scandal (channeling hundreds of millions of public dollars through «private,» state - created
nonprofits) but also to rein in or rethink New York's aggressive business subsidization practices.
Cuomo also announced the creation of an Office of Faith - Based Community
Development Services to help coordinate
nonprofit groups» efforts
at networking and getting federal grants.
Sarah Stephens, for example, is listed as the director of business
development and public relations
at the for - profit Synapse, but she works mostly as a
nonprofit grant writer and as director of CuseCar.
Skahen said the county initially agreed to pay all of the rent for the office because the city
at the time did not have its own local
development corporation to raise money by issuing bonds for
nonprofit groups.
Often, the smaller
nonprofits lack professional -
development tools aimed
at retaining employees.
While completing his master's
at Cornell University, which he finished in 1993, he discovered a paper by a researcher
at the Education
Development Center, an independent
nonprofit institute in Newton, Massachusetts.
Andee Rubin, a mathematician and computer scientist
at TERC, a
nonprofit educational researcher and
development company in Cambridge, Massachusetts, agrees.
«From a thermodynamic perspective, it's a very good process fluid,» said Klaus Brun, machinery director
at the Southwest Research Institute, a
nonprofit research and
development group.
Cities are responsible for 70 % of global carbon dioxide emissions, says Wee Kean Fong, who led
development of the GPC
at the World Resources Institute — a
nonprofit based in Washington, D.C. — in partnership with the C40 Cities Climate Leadership Group and Local Governments for Sustainability (ICLEI).
In last week's issue of Science, Andrew Zucker, a senior researcher with the Concord Consortium, a Concord, Mass.,
nonprofit that studies the use of technology in schools, and Daniel Light, a senior scientist
at New York City — based Education
Development Center, Inc.'s Center for Children & Technology, pointed out that the falling cost of technology is helping computers get a better foothold in the classroom but cautioned that the impact of classroom PCs is still unknown.
Increasingly affordable with improved technology, molecular breeding is becoming the mode of business in the crop world, said Bonnie McClafferty,
development head
at HarvestPlus, a
nonprofit funded by the Bill & Melinda Gates Foundation that supports molecular breeding research into improving plant nutrition in Africa and Asia.
«The biggest thing that people become concerned about [for batteries in cars] is the ability to be able to tolerate abuse,» said Joe Redfield, principal engineer
at the Southwest Research Institute, a
nonprofit engineering research and
development group.
NEW YORK, August 29, 2016 — The Cancer Research Institute (CRI), a
nonprofit organization dedicated to fueling the discovery and
development of immunotherapies for all forms of cancer, announced today that it will honor biotechnology company Amgen with the 2016 Oliver R. Grace Award for Distinguished Service in Advancing Cancer Research
at its September gala in New York City.
While
at NYU, Brennan has been actively involved in youth
development through Arts in the Community, which attempts to bring college students together with local NYC arts education
nonprofits, and through Peer Health Exchange, which focuses on teaching health to ninth graders around NYC.
A study from staff
at the University of California
at Berkeley's Lawrence Hall of Science, in association with the
nonprofit research and
development agency WestEd, uncovered possible reasons for California's low national standing on fourth - and eighth - grade science achievement.
The grant will support the creation of the National Adult Literacy Center
at HGSE, a collaborative effort between HGSE and World Education, a
nonprofit economic and social
development organization with expertise in programs for adult literacy.
Celina Marie Benavides Human
Development and Psychology Current city: Claremont, California Current job: Director of nonprofit, Project Vistas — Family Child Care Higher Education Academy, which provides family child care providers in Los Angeles County access to higher education and professional development training; doctoral student in Positive Developmental Psychology at Claremont Graduate University Career highlights: At Project Vistas, assisting a marginalized, nontraditional student group, while overseeing budget, managing program operations, coordinating staff, and fulfilling targeted outcomes; Basic Research Scientist of the Year award by the AS&F Foundation and Claremont Graduate
Development and Psychology Current city: Claremont, California Current job: Director of
nonprofit, Project Vistas — Family Child Care Higher Education Academy, which provides family child care providers in Los Angeles County access to higher education and professional
development training; doctoral student in Positive Developmental Psychology at Claremont Graduate University Career highlights: At Project Vistas, assisting a marginalized, nontraditional student group, while overseeing budget, managing program operations, coordinating staff, and fulfilling targeted outcomes; Basic Research Scientist of the Year award by the AS&F Foundation and Claremont Graduate
development training; doctoral student in Positive Developmental Psychology
at Claremont Graduate University Career highlights: At Project Vistas, assisting a marginalized, nontraditional student group, while overseeing budget, managing program operations, coordinating staff, and fulfilling targeted outcomes; Basic Research Scientist of the Year award by the AS&F Foundation and Claremont Graduate Universi
at Claremont Graduate University Career highlights:
At Project Vistas, assisting a marginalized, nontraditional student group, while overseeing budget, managing program operations, coordinating staff, and fulfilling targeted outcomes; Basic Research Scientist of the Year award by the AS&F Foundation and Claremont Graduate Universi
At Project Vistas, assisting a marginalized, nontraditional student group, while overseeing budget, managing program operations, coordinating staff, and fulfilling targeted outcomes; Basic Research Scientist of the Year award by the AS&F Foundation and Claremont Graduate University
David R. Zarowin has been named the executive director of WIDE World, a
nonprofit program based
at Harvard University's graduate school of education in Cambridge, Mass., that provides online professional -
development courses to K - 12 educators.
«Nine times out of ten, if you get it done, you'll get the money,» says Shannon Bowen,
development coordinator
at the Berkeley, California,
nonprofit organization Kids for the Bay.
As a senior
at Tufts University studying child
development, she volunteered for Citizen Schools, a
nonprofit that expands learning opportunities for middle school students in under - resourced communities, and stuck with it, eventually became the managing director of program for the Massachusetts region.
Prior to his appointment as Secretary of Education, Murphy served as Executive Director of the
nonprofit Vision Network in Delaware, focusing on leadership
development at more than two dozen schools across the state.
He previously was a practicing attorney in business and labor law, deputy director
at the Massachusetts Department of Labor and Workforce
Development and chief executive officer
at a Boston
nonprofit before turning to education.
«CSDC's role as
nonprofit owner and landlord to Hiawatha Academies
at three of its four campuses would not have been possible without the financial support from MBT and NAF,» said Michelle Liberati, Executive Vice President of the Charter Schools
Development Corporation.
She is also a writing instructor to writers ages 6 - 18 and professional
development program leader for in - school teachers
at Writopia Lab, a national literacy
nonprofit.
She spent the past year working as an Associate Consultant for the
nonprofit consulting firm AchieveMission, where she supported talent
development and performance management
at several national charter school networks and education focused organizations.
Before joining GuideStar, she served as vice president of operations, strategy, and talent
at Global Citizen Year, a fast - growing and acclaimed internationally focused
nonprofit social enterprise in youth leadership
development.
The American Youth Policy Forum (AYPF), a
nonprofit, nonpartisan professional
development organization based in Washington, DC, provides learning opportunities for policymakers, practitioners, and researchers working on youth and education issues
at the national, state, and local levels.
He went on to serve as a Senior Vice President
at Voyager Expanded Learning Systems; did a tour in Baghdad Iraq
at the request of the White House and Department of Defense, serving as Senior Advisor to the Iraqi Ministry of Education to assist with the rebuilding of the Iraqi school system in 2003; was Superintendent of the Richardson Independent School District; and, perhaps most significantly, served seven years as Chief Executive Officer of AVID, a global
nonprofit that helps prepare students for postsecondary education and is one of the leading providers of professional
development for educators in the US.
«In the old tests a student would just get a vocabulary word by itself and would be asked to find a synonym,» said Andrew Latham, director of Assessment & Standards
Development Services
at WestEd, a
nonprofit that worked with Smarter Balanced and PARCC on the new tests.
While some districts no doubt see math specialists as a luxury, others now find them as essential as reading specialists, said Fennell, who is now a professor of education
at Maryland's McDaniel College and director of the Elementary Mathematics Specialists and Teacher Leaders Project, a
nonprofit that promotes the
development of math specialists.
Andrew Latham — director of Assessment & Standards
Development Services
at WestEd, a
nonprofit that worked with Smarter Balanced and PARCC on the new tests — said the 30 - minute activities may not completely eliminate the benefits of prior knowledge and experience, since the better the discussion goes, the better students will perform.
Andrew Latham, director of Assessment & Standards
Development Services
at WestEd, a
nonprofit that worked with Smarter Balanced and PARCC, the companies who developed the Common Core tests