Sentences with phrase «nonprofit focused»

«Cities are very aggressive on their climate action plans,» says Cathy Higgins, research director for the New Buildings Institute, a Portland, Ore. — based nonprofit focused on high energy performance for commercial buildings.

said Ryan Johnson, vice president of research at WorldatWork, a nonprofit focused on human resources issues such as compensation and workforce retention.

Allison's brokerage partners with A Wider Circle, a local nonprofit focused on ending poverty, and she donates a bed set to AWC after every closing — more than 30 beds in 2015 alone.

Working in the Puget Sound region since 1997, Open Arms Perinatal Services is a nonprofit focused on strong community - based support for women through pregnancy, birth, and early childhood.

Forward Motion, Inc. (Goshen, KY) 06/2001 — Date Equine Assisted Psychotherapy / Founder / Director • Founder and director of a nonprofit focused on providing therapy to PTSD (Post Traumatic Stress Disorder) patients • Provide equine psychotherapy sessions to individuals, families, groups, schools, and corporate clients • Administer psychotherapy and support to a large population with child trauma and family attachment issues • Recruit, hire, and manage a staff of occupational therapists, equine specialists, and administrative personnel • Design and implement marketing strategies, community awareness programs, and special events • Responsible for P&L, budgeting, marketing, and developing a referral network • Develop collaborative and referral partnerships with Wounded Warriors, Gilda's Club, House of Ruth, Many Hurst, Boys Haven, Home of the Innocence, and Sun Rise Boys Youth Ranch • Serve as a Practicum Supervisor for University of Louisville graduate program in Equine Assisted Psychotherapy • Special Topics Instructor at University of Louisville Kent School of Social Work (Summer 2011)

In September last year Acton announced his departure from Facebook to focus on his new endeavor, to «start a nonprofit focused at the intersection of nonprofit, technology and communications».

In Acton's part of the post, he explains that although the goal is «to pioneer a new model of technology nonprofit focused on privacy and data protection for everyone, everywhere,» they also want to make the Signal Foundation «financially self - sustaining.»

I've decided to start a nonprofit focused at the intersection of nonprofit, technology and communications.»

Our plan is to pioneer a new model of technology nonprofit focused on privacy and data protection for everyone, everywhere.»

At the conference, InBloom, the new nonprofit focused on helping educators aggregate data, will provide the first demos of its platform, host codeathons and share insights from its first pilot programs with school districts.

Litigation partner Jeh Johnson will be honored with the Theodore Roosevelt Leadership Award at the annual awards reception of the Citizens Crime Commission of New York City, a nonprofit focused on improving criminal justice and public...

You wouldn't believe how immensely difficult it is to fund a nonprofit focused on making the law available because, when you go to a foundation and say, «Yeah, I want to put the Code of Federal Regulations online.»

Third year law student Nejla Calvo was recently selected to receive a prestigious fellowship from Equal Justice Works, the nation's premier nonprofit focused on placing attorneys in public interest law...

It's a nonprofit focused on transparency and accessibility, so this tool is also free.

Well, we are a small nonprofit focused on trying to build solar energy markets in the U.S..

NECEC includes the Northeast Clean Energy Council (a nonprofit business member organization), and NECEC Institute (a nonprofit focused on industry research, innovation, policy development and communications initiatives).

He later helped organize Green Corps, a nonprofit focused on grassroots organizing, and the group was hired as a contractor for Ozone Action, which prodded politicians to address climate change and protect the Earth's ozone layer.

A percentage of art sales from the exhibition will benefit Housing Works, the New York City - based nonprofit focused on ending homelessness and AIDS.

Trevor Paglen as named among the recipients of the 2015 Award for Braveness and Creativity in Art and Technology by Eyebeam, a Brooklyn nonprofit focused an artists» inventiveness in new media.

John Wood Founder and board co-chair of Room to Read, a nonprofit focused on literacy and girls» education.

Those years — Alisha calls them «adult - ing» — were all about work (for her, at a nonprofit focused on free speech) and study (for him), threaded with raising two Boston terriers, Murphy and Millie, making friends, and exploring the city's alleyways and pocket parks.

As the founder of a nonprofit focused on rescuing, rehabilitating and rehoming severely abused dogs in the U.S., Ching is no stranger to cruelty.

Aimee Gilbreath is the executive director of the Michelson Found Animals Foundation, a Los Angeles - based nonprofit focused on Saving Pets, Enriching Lives.

These repayment plans are not for everyone, according to Zakiya Smith, a strategy director at the Lumina Foundation, a nonprofit focused on improving access to education.

, is a Nashville - based nonprofit focused on providing writers with classes and resources in order to help them connect and better their work, both artistically and professionally.

This idea is old news to Nancy Hoffman, vice president for program and talent development at Jobs for the Future, a nonprofit focused on ensuring that low - income students graduate high school with a clear path to career success.

NSLA is a nonprofit focused on summer educational opportunities, particularly for minorities, that strives to reduce the «summer slide,» when disadvantaged kids can «tread water at best or even fall behind» if not given the chance to keep learning from June to August, according to the organization.

Assemblymember Berman previously served on the Palo Alto City Council and as the Development Director at the Silicon Valley Education Foundation, a nonprofit focused on STEM education and closing the achievement gap in Silicon Valley public schools.

As someone who helped start a nonprofit focused on the very idea of using assessments to improve instruction, I feel even more conviction now — ten years in — that we all need to take bolder steps to reframe how we think about and use assessments intended to support teaching and learning.

A new report from TNTP, a national nonprofit focused on teacher quality, shows that my experience is sadly typical.

The initiative includes two private sector partners: Jobs for the Future (JFF), a national nonprofit focused on broadening educational and economic opportunity; and the Stanford Center for Assessment, Language and Equity (SCALE), an affiliate of Stanford University that provides consulting services on the design and implementation of performance - based assessments.

He has also been a volunteer mentor for Big Brothers and Big Sisters of Central Maryland and a board member and treasurer of a nonprofit focused on the rights and safety of victims of child abuse and neglect.

Harris, former director of charter schools for Indianapolis Mayor Bart Peterson, is founder and CEO of The Mind Trust, an education reform nonprofit focused on transforming K - 12 education in Indianapolis.

In order to examine the viability of vouchers throughout the nation, the Center for American Progress used data and visuals published by EdBuild, a national nonprofit focused on improving the way states fund public schools.

As a Program Manager with New Leaders, an education nonprofit focused on training and developing excellent school leaders, she collaborated with district leadership from Newark Public Schools in creating principal evaluation and development tools.

Teacherpensions.org is a project of Bellwether Education Partners, a national nonprofit focused on dramatically changing education and life outcomes for underserved children.

Education Analytics, a Madison nonprofit focused on education research, has been awarded a $ 7.73 million grant from the U.S. Department of Education to expand an early literacy program in partnership with Boys & Girls Clubs in Wisconsin, Alabama and South Carolina.

WakeEd Partnership is a unique, strategic, education nonprofit focused exclusively on transforming teaching and leadership modeling in Wake County Public Schools to provide graduating students with the content knowledge and skills they need to succeed in a complex and changing workplace.

She returns to Baltimore schools after serving for three years as vice president for K - 12 policy and practice at The Education Trust, a Washington, DC - based nonprofit focused on closing the achievement gap experienced disproportionately by African American, Latino, and Native students and students from low - income families.

Chris Gabrieli, who directs a Boston nonprofit focused on bringing charter school - like flexibilities to district schools, says the charter bill ideally should be an opportunity to think even more broadly about strategies to help those students.

I believe my ongoing efforts through teaching high school history as well as leading a nonprofit focused on college access reflect my deep commitment to the complexities of urban education and to helping students through obstacles and hardships.

«This new data indicate that latency is far from an accident — it is encoded in the virus's circuitry and is an evolutionarily advantageous strategy, likely increasing the odds of infection by a substantial amount,» Leor Weinberger, a coauthor and researcher at the Gladstone Institutes, a nonprofit focused on biomedical research, said in a statement.

ABOUT LA JOLLA INSTITUTE Founded in 1988, the La Jolla Institute for Allergy and Immunology is a biomedical research nonprofit focused on improving human health through increased understanding of the immune system.

And last year, he joined the board of We Care Solar, a California - based nonprofit focused on ensuring that babies around the world are delivered with the aid of electric lighting.

Unfortunately, the mealybug is equally capable of traveling via a human vector — and it is now devastating the cassava (aka manioc or yucca) crop on some 200,000 hectares in Thailand, where some 60 percent of global exports (worth $ 1.5 billion) are grown, according to the International Center for Tropical Agriculture (CIAT), a Colombia - based research nonprofit focused on reducing hunger and poverty via sustainable agriculture.

Known as Betty, her contributions to public health policy came during her tenure from 1992 to 1998 as president of the William T. Grant Foundation, a social science research nonprofit focused on inequality and improving the lives of young people, and through her earlier work in 1977 as the director of studies of the President's Commission on Mental Health during the administration of President Jimmy Carter.

The Drug Policy Alliance, a nonprofit focused on ending the so - called war on drugs, is funded by billionaire George Soros and does not endorse candidates.

Katherine is also the founder of Postpartum Progress Inc., a national nonprofit focused on vastly improving support for women with PPD.

, a nonprofit focused on play, and the Nature Conservancy's «Green Mama» scientist Stephanie Wear.

Previously, Tim has worked as a Program Director for River Action, a nonprofit focused on the vitality of the Mississippi River in the Quad Cities.