Sentences with phrase «nonprofit group created»

The Energy Trust of Oregon, an independent nonprofit group created by the Oregon Public Utility Commission and charged with «encouraging energy market transformation» in the state, according to its Web site, is using the Earth Advantage rating system in a pilot project involving 200 Portland homes.

A new nonprofit group created to advocate for the Harlem community is controlled by workers and allies of local elected leaders, The Post has learned.

An animal welfare group that has been lobbying Mayor Bill de Blasio to ban carriage horses from city streets confirmed Friday that it had received a subpoena from federal prosecutors seeking documents related to its fundraising efforts for a nonprofit group created to advance the mayor's policy agenda.

One area that he will not instruct it to examine will be the issue of outside nonprofit groups created to take donations to support an elected official's policies, like the Campaign for One New York, which was created for Mr. de Blasio, and whose efforts were later examined by state and federal investigators.

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An ad created by the pro-Trump Great America Alliance — a nonprofit «issues» group that isn't required to disclose its donors — casts Comey as a «showboat» who was «consumed with election meddling» instead of focusing on combating terrorism.

Nonprofit research group Pew Internet & American Life Project (pewinternet.org) says that 8 percent of internet users create blogs, while 39 percent, or 57 million people, read them.

In the same article we reported that while the Citizens United case was pending before the U.S. Supreme Court, Virginia Thomas, the wife of the Justice, created a nonprofit Tea Party advocacy group, Liberty Central, Inc., with a former lawyer for the Charles G. Koch Foundation, Sarah Field, acting as her General Counsel and a former Koch lobbyist, Matt Schlapp, serving on her board at inception.

«We tried this legislative approach,» said Mr. Barden, a founder and managing director of Sandy Hook Promise, a nonprofit advocacy group created after the massacre.

, a nonprofit group promoting parenting practices that the organization's website says «create strong, healthy emotional bonds between children and parents.»»

Gena is on the Board of Directors of Attachment Parenting International, a nonprofit group promoting parenting practices that the organization's website says «create strong, healthy emotional bonds between children and parents.»»

Parents and professionals in the field joined this endeavor, and a more formal group was soon created and developed under the impassioned support and direction of Dr. Elisa Shipon Blum, whereby it became an official nonprofit 501c3 organization.

Democrats also benefit from the growth of progressive nonprofit advocacy campaigns over the past decade: not only have advocacy groups experimented with just about every tool or tactic in the book, but the existence of so many independent groups clamoring for effective technology has created a vibrant market.

Attorney General Eric Schneiderman has issued subpoenas to the nonprofit Parent Information Network Inc., which is run by Huntley's daughter Pamela Corley, and another group called Parent Information, which the senator created before she was elected to office in 2006 and was formerly run by one of her staffers, the Associated Press reported.

The investigation may also implicate one or more of the much - criticized nonprofits the mayor created to raise cash and advance his liberal agenda, which the group Citizens Union labeled a «shadow government» earlier this year.

Months after their father's sentencing in 2011, Desirae Brown and Deondra Brown, who has a 7 - year - old daughter, created The Foundation for Survivors of Abuse, a nonprofit group that advocate for victims» rights.

That increase is only for salaries for nonprofits» personnel, though, and wouldn't address what the groups say is a host of larger problems created by years of stagnant city aid.

He says he has partnered with several nonprofit veterans groups across Western New York and created a program that sets aside public housing for homeless veterans and their families — and promises to get them into a home within 90 days.

Mayor Bill de Blasio today defended himself from good government group charges that two nonprofits collecting money to promote his agenda had created «a shadow government» and «perpetual campaign» — arguing that both organizations fully disclosed their donors and were promoting worthy liberal causes.

The nonprofit group Wetlands International and Dutch research institute Deltares have created permeable dams to aid in mangrove restoration.

A group of grad students and postdocs has created a successful, nonprofit consulting group to improve their private - sector employment prospects

The news may generate some confusion among researchers and other proponents of preprints, however, because it comes as a nonprofit group is soliciting bids to create a central life sciences preprint server with similar objectives.

The Institut Curie (IC) is a private nonprofit organization created in 1909 which combines a leading European cancer research center with a hospital group.

Globalaai, an Australian nonprofit that raises awareness about life - threatening allergies and advocates for the safety of people who have them, was so outraged by the scene, the group created a petition that now has more than 10,000 signatures.

To counter the damage to the environment, nonprofit environmental groups and palm oil manufacturers gathered in 2004 and established the Roundtable for Sustainable Palm Oil (RSPO), a global certification body.10 They have created eight ecological principles with 39 criteria11 to prevent the negative environmental impacts of palm oil production.

San Francisco About Blog The NEO Law Group believes that healthy nonprofits are more effective at creating positive change.

Nov. 15, 2 p.m. ET: Powerful Partnerships: Creating Community Coalitions for District Reform The Syracuse City School District and Say Yes to Education have launched an innovative partnership intended to link public, private, and nonprofit community groups in support of the 19,000 - student district.

His nonprofit is also creating partnerships with non-Hollywood groups that can also make a difference, like Teach For America, which places young teachers in high - needs schools, as well as influential companies that create tests for schools.

The American Architectural Foundation and a nonprofit Washington, DC - area group called Learning and Leadership in Families have partnered to create Messages of the Built Environment.

* In Sacramento County, the nonprofit group Linking Education and Economic Development (LEED) has created a collaboration of 21 school districts, the county office of education and dozens of labor organizations and employers.

Rather than creating school districts that provide all of a locality's schools, the state government can create «authorizers» to empower and then monitor nonprofit groups that start, run, and grow schools.

The mayor also wants to reduce the size of the schools — or schools within schools — to no more than 500 students, and he wants to create «community partnerships» that would draw the private sector and nonprofit groups into the job of educating the city's kids.

The article discusses the efficacy of creating partnerships between school districts and nonprofit or government agencies that allow such groups to use school buildings.

The complaint says the law violates the state's constitution by «improperly diverting public school funds to private nonprofit groups» not subject to local voter control and creates another roadblock to funding basic education.

«If you create a system that doesn't have maximum teacher input, it doesn't matter how technically sound it is,» said Dan Cruce, a former official in the Delaware Department of Education who now works for the nonprofit policy organization Hope Street Group.

The standards were created after years of discussion by private nonprofit groups and state education departments.

The 15 - member group, created through Act 51 of 2014 (sponsored as House Bill 1738 by Rep. Bernie O'Neill), held 15 public hearings around the state over 11 months and heard from more than 110 individuals, including superintendents, school board presidents, business leaders, nonprofit organizations, national experts and parents before making their recommendations.

Under the bill, nonprofit groups can also support turnaround work or create new school options.

We select investment areas based on market research including input from a diverse group of educators and edtech decision - makers, then create opportunities for companies and nonprofits working in these areas to apply for funding as well as other support.

by: Diane Ravitch March 7, 2017 A nonprofit parent - led group called Fund Education Now created a fact sheet about Florida's Corporate Tax Credit plan, which was designed to evade the state constitution's explicit ban on using public money to fund religious or private education.

A group of 20 midcareer professionals brought together by the council from the corporate, nonprofit and government sectors hopes to create the fund as a way to better prepare Chicago Public Schools students to compete in the global economy.

A nonprofit parent - led group called Fund Education Now created a fact sheet about Florida's Corporate Tax Credit plan, which was designed to evade the state constitution's explicit ban on using public money to fund religious or private education.

He now works with Library Renewal, a nonprofit group working to create an infrastructure for e-content acquisition that bridges the gap between publishers and libraries.

Petfinder also raises money by selling space on their site to advertisers.Getting a Petfinder site is free, but in order to create one, a group either must be a municipal animal shelter or submit documentation proving their non-profit status and a veterinarian reference or, if they do not have official nonprofit status, a copy of their adoption contract and a veterinarian reference.

Founded in 2004, ARME is a nonprofit advocacy group created to eliminate the suffering of all animals through rescue, public education and outreach.

In December, HSUS staff specialists, working with the sheriff's office in Adams County, Ohio, stepped onto a property and into a mess created by a group once registered as a nonprofit animal sanctuary.

Euthanasia has since dropped by 75 %, according to Peter Marsh, director of STOP, Solutions to Overpopulation of Pets, the Concord, N.H., nonprofit group that helped create the law.

The Pine Barrens Society nonprofit group says that this exception would create a precedent.

San Francisco About Blog The NEO Law Group believes that healthy nonprofits are more effective at creating positive change.

The Foundation for Art and Preservation in Embassies, a nonprofit group chaired by Robert Storr, works with the State Department to create and donate custom - made artwork for American outposts abroad.

Warren founded Whoop De Do, a nonprofit with which she engages community groups to stage elaborate DIY performances and exhibitions and creates films based on historic paintings.