Sentences with phrase «nonprofit groups funded»

«This is all actually economics, not preferences,» says Sean McAlinden, chief economist at the Center for Automotive Research, a nonprofit group funded by government and industry grants.

Since then she has won awards for her work with children, and was recently recruited to join Los Angeles Universal Preschool, a nonprofit group funded with money from the state tobacco tax to expand preschool programs in Los Angeles County.

Not exact matches

But while the nonprofit, nonpartisan lobby group says it represents the interests of small business owners, some Democrats are raising questions about both its funding sources and its tax status.

So the group committed to making that a reality — working with their Global Forum colleagues and others in the private and nonprofit sectors to fund a corps of 750,000 community health workers in sub-Saharan Africa and other underserved rural areas of the globe.

The brothers have continued to influence politics through a Koch - funded nonprofit conservative advocacy group founded in 2004, Americans for Prosperity.

While Donors Trust is a sophisticated middle man, the related group that oversees asset management investment is the nonprofit Donors Capital Fund.

Even so, many entrepreneurs don't pursue the strategy because of difficulty locating funding sources, which can include states, municipalities and nonprofit groups that dole out public funds.

Each quarter we select six nonprofits across the country to receive these funds and Zillow Group employee volunteer support.

Immigrants: The Mission Asset Fund, a nonprofit organization, can help foreigners who are part of lending circles, an informal group that pool funds for lending and borrowing among participants.

Households, hedge funds and nonprofit groups, a bunch historically considered to be long - term holders of fixed - income instruments, ditched corporate debt in the second quarter, selling $ 122 billion after reducing their holdings by...

In January of this year, the government announced that federal funding for the Canada Summer Jobs program — which subsidizes wages for small business, government entities, and nonprofits that employ young people who are full - time students — would be available only to groups that accept its reading of the Charter.

Federal funds are also granted to state public health programs ($ 66,000,000 in the fiscal year 1969) Community mental health receives a minimum of 15 percent of each state's allotment, and 70 percent of the grant is available to support services in communities for which both public and private nonprofit groups may apply.

Although it is not dispensing funds, HUD is providing technical assistance and staff support in what it calls a «new partnership» to «match the real strength of nonprofit and faith - based groups with the needs of America.»

It helps schools, churches and other nonprofit groups by outlining the steps needed to use LaRue Coffee products for fund raising.

Nonprofit groups like churches, schools, etc. can buy Bel Soley products at wholesale prices and resell them to raise funds.

Working with partners (school districts, vendors, corporations, community groups, foundations, and nonprofits) to develop, fund, implement, and share information about these plans.

JCOPE asked a court to compel the Campaign for One New York, a political nonprofit connected to NYC Mayor Bill de Blasio, to hand over documents related to its lobbying and fund - raising activities after the group's lawyer declared last week that he would not comply with the panel's subpoena.

The ad is funded by the group New Yorkers United Together, a nonprofit that says in the ad that it will provide legal aid to immigrants facing threats of deportation from the federal government.

Some of the money is ticketed for utilities like Con Edison to repair infrastructure and fund a planned performing - arts center, economic development and nonprofit groups downtown.

The Citizens Budget Commission, a nonprofit financial watchdog group, in a report last week, predicted that even with the planned fare increases, the MTA stands to post budget deficits in the hundreds of millions of dollars in the next several years without a new revenue stream to fund the subway plan.

«Take your time — I like it nice and slow, too,» replied Johnson, who had overseen a Seabrook nonprofit group's compliance with a $ 350,000, city - funded contract to boost minority employment.

Council aides said that poor defendants who can not make bail are often detained for days; they said a bail fund would save the city on incarceration costs and follow a model already used by nonprofit groups.

She steered $ 33,000 in state funds to New York 4 Life, a «nonprofit» group Wills heads.

«Drastic funding cuts have inevitably led to service cuts for Nassau County residents who often have no alternative means of transportation, meaning even longer waits and longer commutes,» said Vincent Pellecchia, associate director of the tristate Transportation Campaign, a nonprofit advocacy group in Manhattan.

He allegedly steered about $ 300,000 in funds to a Queens nonprofit, then used the group's workers to collect signatures and register voters for his 2006 campaign for the state Senate.

After the Working Families Party endorsed Cynthia Nixon, Gov. Andrew Cuomo is said to have threatened the funding of nonprofit groups allied with his political enemy.

Cuomo said Camara is the «perfect» choice to spearhead the initiative, to help faith - based organizations apply for grants from state agencies, and coordinate with other nonprofit groups to secure funding.

From colleges to cultural groups and nonprofits that run foreclosure prevention programs, organizations pleaded their cases for a share of Borough President Helen Marshall's discretionary funds in the city budget last week.

(You can read my column in the Post about the city funded nonprofit groups that provided the muscle at the hearing here.)

Grants of $ 5,000 went to the Roundabout Theatre Company, a nonprofit organization in Manhattan, and the North Star Fund, a Manhattan - based fund that issues grants to activist groFund, a Manhattan - based fund that issues grants to activist grofund that issues grants to activist groups.

Reclaim New York, a conservative nonprofit group tied to hedge funder Robert Mercer, is planning to expand next month.

DiNapoli says a pork - barrel grant from the Legislature has been misused by the nonprofit group that promised to use the funds to help Brooklyn residents improve their finances.

She admitted embezzling nearly $ 88,000 from a state - funded nonprofit group she controlled.

«Fair Fares» Funding: Council Member Ydanis Rodriguez, transit advocates, and nonprofit groups are calling on the mayor to fund the «Fair Fares» proposal, which would provide half - price MetroCards to low - income New Yorkers.

He was convicted of pocketing $ 51,000 in public funds that he garnered through fake invoices and misappropriating $ 55,000 for nonprofit groups.

In the 2013 funding competition, meanwhile, HCR awarded $ 2.2 million from the Housing Trust Fund and $ 715,000 in annual federal low - income credits to Biltmore Crossing, a joint project of Conifer and a nonprofit group, Providence Housing.

Addabbo also said he is fighting to bring more money to the district by urging Gov. Andrew Cuomo to allow nonprofits and other community groups, which are hurting from the freezing of new discretionary dollars, apply directly to government agencies for funding.

The City Council's new point person in overseeing the $ 50 billion municipal budget didn't do such a hot job overseeing a nonprofit group at the center of a Council slush fund scandal, records show.

«It's not typical of discretionary - funding projects to have a more advocacy angle, said Rachael Fauss of Citizens Union, a nonprofit group that observes city and state budgets.

Turns out that Madam Speaker was earmarking Council monies to pretend nonprofits at the beginning of the year so she could keep the funds at hand to give to other groups later, according to the Post.

City Council Speaker Christine Quinn's affordable housing proposal — a key component of her mayoral pitch — is being supported by a nonprofit housing advocate group that Quinn granted funds to for three consecutive years, the Wall Street Journal reported.

Today, we will conclude our series with the candidates» views on independent redistricting and member items (discretionary funds intended for local nonprofit groups).

So far, the fundraising has primarily benefited conservative organizations such as the Club for Growth, the Congressional Leadership Fund and American Crossroads, the group connected to George W. Bush's former White House adviser Karl Rove, which plans to spend up to $ 100 million on House and Senate races through its super PAC and nonprofit arms.

A coalition of advocacy groups led by the Federation of Protestant Welfare Agencies, the Fiscal Policy Institute, and the Human Services Council are leading an effort to have state - funded nonprofits pay workers at least $ 15 / hour.

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The group's affiliated 501 (c)(3) nonprofit organization, the League of Conservation Voters Education Fund, seeks to encourage participation in the political process and educate the public and policymakers regarding what the group considers to be significant environmental issues.

The office pointed to a 2014 ruling by the state's Joint Commission on Public Ethics that found that politicians could appear in an ad funded by a nonprofit group if the message was in the public interest and promoted government services and did not promote any candidate or policy.

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 Progressive Agenda Committee is funded by the Campaign For One New York, the nonprofit group de Blasio started to raise money for his mayoral priorities, such as universal pre-kindergarten and affordable housing.

At the time, the state faced a lawsuit filed in 1993 by the nonprofit group Campaign for Fiscal Equity, which argued that the state's education funding formula was unconstitutional.