Sentences with phrase «nonprofit groups make»

That's how those nonprofit groups make money and how employees stay in good graces.

Many of the teachers are members of Educators 4 Excellence, a nonprofit group made up of current and former teachers that has challenged the union's long - held positions on merit pay and tenure.

Not exact matches

«Clearly, the C.F.T.C. has taken a strong stance against Wall Street after the financial crisis, but in a broader context we do worry that the revolving door can make enforcement officials more sympathetic to the companies they oversee,» said Michael Smallberg, an investigator at Project on Government Oversight, a nonprofit group.

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.

Of course, that doesn't make the most expensive cities the «best» cities to live in, at least not for everyone, says Jennie Allison of the Center for Regional Economic Competitiveness, a nonprofit research and policy group.

The Assistance League of St. Louis (ALSL), a nonprofit organization that is entirely volunteer - run, was looking for a strategic technology advisor that could support the group in achieving its mission of making a difference for families in the community.

This holiday season, Zillow Group is pleased to announce The Home Project is making a $ 100,000 donation on behalf of Zillow Group employees to Covenant House, a national nonprofit organization that has been helping homeless and trafficked teenagers, young adults and single moms with kids receive shelter and support across the country for more than 40 years.

Consumer Watchdog, a nonprofit consumer group, has called on the Department of Motor Vehicles to make its application process for granting permits to autonomous car companies available to the public.

The memo makes clear that religious protections are not just guaranteed to a narrow slice of groups, like churches, nonprofits, and organizations with solely religious work.

Today Wuerffel is the executive director of Desire Street Ministries, an independent, Christian, nonprofit group that works in inner - city areas to make them more desirable places to live.

While the use of food dyes has been a concern for years, the U.S. nonprofit watchdog group Center for Science in the Public Interest made a plea to the Food and Drug Administration to ban the chemical in American foods.

Some 40 % of 112 doulas surveyed in New York City in 2014 by the nonprofit advisory group Choices in Childbirth reported making less than $ 1,000 a month, while a small percentage made more than $ 10,000 a month.

It's part of a much longer process, naturally, since activists, industry groups and nonprofits have been working for weeks to make sure that their issues appear in the President's speech in just the «right» way (or not at all), and the spin certainly won't stop tonight (besides the cable - news and blog analysis, the White House itself will be taking questions online after the speech).

Also involved: Left - leaning nonprofits and advocacy groups like Make the Road NY, Citizen Action and Strong Economy for All.

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.

A statement from Make the Road New York, a nonprofit advocacy group, called it «Cuomo's new deportation force.»

Klein's office, in partnership with James and the progressive New York City nonprofit advocacy group Make The Road, conducted last year's undercover investigation into Herbalife.

«All of this makes clear that the Supreme Court was wrong in Citizens United when it unleashed big money in our elections with the promise it would be independent of candidates and office holders,» said Paul Ryan, vice president for policy and litigation at the nonprofit watchdog group Common Cause.

Also last week, the leaders of an affordable housing nonprofit and a labor - backed advocacy group provided statements to reporters chiding Wu for comments he made about internet startup Airbnb.

This winter, the halls of the Bronx Aerospace Academy, a small military - themed high school on Gun Hill Road, look fresh and new thanks to a nonprofit group that is making its mission to spruce up the city's drab and dilapidated public school buildings.

The group, made of people alienated from the Florida Democratic Party, spends vast quantities in races through friendly nonprofit groups and political committees.

Members of Manhattan and Bronx nonprofit groups, including UnitedNY, La Fuente, Make the Road New York and New York Communities for Change, stood on the 181st Street overpass during rush hour waving signs while also calling to passing cars entering and leaving Manhattan.

The Let NY Vote coalition is made up of over thirty organizations, nonprofits, and labor unions, including Common Cause / NY, Public Citzen, New York State United Teachers, SEIU 32BJ, RWDSU, CWA District 1, as well as the statewide NAACP and National Action Network, civil liberties, reproductive and immigrant rights, criminal justice and re-entry groups, New American, and the LGBTQ community.

New York's previous lobbying act requires nonprofits that fit under the 501 (C)(4) designation of the IRS tax code to disclose donations of over $ 5,000 and the personal information of those who make such donations if the group has spent more than $ 50,000 on lobbying in a calendar year.

Those limits on candidate donations have been dramatically surpassed by the increasingly common practice of using nonprofit groups as a vehicle to make unlimited contributions to independent political committees.

«I think it's important to make sure that the way we do this doesn't lead to the same kind of abuses we saw in the Empire Zone program,» said Rob Simpson, president of CenterState CEO, a nonprofit business development group.

The pier project, offered by nonprofit Civitas, involves reconstructing the pier — which has been closed to the public because of the unstable roof and uneven flooring — and making the area more attractive to the public, according to the group's Executive Director Emma Bologna.

Lawmakers also agreed to expand the state's public disclosure law, requiring thousands of nonprofit groups that provide services to disabled and mentally ill people to make records of abuse and neglect public.

To develop the classifications, the nonprofit organization Rescuing Biomedical Research (RBR) convened a working group made up of trainee advocates and university administrators and career - development program directors who are involved in collecting career outcome data.

According to a recently released report from Civic Enterprises and the Democratic Leadership Council entitled «Quiet Crisis: The Impact of the Economic Downturn on the Nonprofit Sector,» few of these groups have strong reserves to weather the downturn — more than half have less than three months of operating funds on hand, while three - quarters can not make it six months on existing cash reserves.

Iain McIntosh began his work with Nail - Patella syndrome before there was a patient support or nonprofit group to make recruiting the families easier.

«This model makes the destruction of public lands unjustified,» says David Myers, executive director of nonprofit environmental group the Wildlands Conservancy.

CalCars is a nonprofit PHEV advocacy group that acts as a networking hub for engineers, investors and entrepreneurs... «Our first goal is to make PHEVs a contender in the national policy debate arena,» says Kramer.

«Make the best choices you can, stay informed, then live your life,» says Jeanne Rizzo, RN, executive director of the Breast Cancer Fund, a nonprofit group that identifies environmental health risks, such as endocrine disruptors, and advocates for their eliimination.

While the use of food dyes has been a concern for years, the U.S. nonprofit watchdog group Center for Science in the Public Interest made a plea to the Food and Drug Administration to ban the chemical in American foods.

As an activist group supporting feminist progress in the film industry, the Alliance of Women Film Journalists (AWFJ.org), a nonprofit professional association of women who write about film and the movie industry, keeps tabs on films made by and about women throughout each year, conducting what might be considered a very informal study of feminist film production.

In an effort to determine our core competencies, we are asking whether it makes sense to have extracurricular activities, such as supplemental sports and art classes, taught by the school's teachers or contracted out to nonprofit groups who may offer these services at reduced prices and provide higher - quality services.

Nonprofit Global Nomads Group has a mission of building connections across borders for kids around the world, and they make use of the empathy - building capabilities of VR to allow viewers to walk in the shoes of young people from other places.

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.

Andrew Lachman, executive director of the Connecticut Center for School Change, the nonprofit that organized the rounds group in Connecticut, says Elmore made it very clear when he first started working with the group that their language needed to be strictly descriptive.

CASSA was rated highly by the nonprofit education group Battelle for Kids in 2014 for making year - to - year progress on student learning, but the school's latest state report card essentially labels it a failure.

The changes were required by a settlement filed last week in State Supreme Court in Manhattan by State Attorney General Robert Abrams, whose office conducted a six - month investigation of charges that the private nonprofit group that seeks to find missing children has made «false and misleading statements.»

Specifically, the charitable deduction allows individual taxpayers and corporations to deduct from their taxable income in a given year the present value of contributions they make to nonprofit groups that are religious, charitable, educational, scientific, or literary in purpose, or that work to prevent cruelty to children or animals.

Just 53 parents at Desert Trails, a school of about 600 kids, made the final call to turn the building — and the public funds to run it — over to a nonprofit group that runs a charter school in a nearby town.

Parent Revolution, a nonprofit group that helps parents organize and take over a failing campus, said that some of the district's arguments were similar to arguments made by Anaheim's school district in rebuffing a similar parent trigger, but those were rejected by a judge last summer.

This, along with Jindal's plan to allow universities, nonprofits, and community groups to authorize charters, could also make charter school operators work more - closely with communities, an issue that Dropout Nation discussed last year during the fracas in New York City over expanding charter schools.

The latest installment of the study, released this week by the nonprofit research group MDRC, contains even more impressive news: The disadvantaged students who make up a vast majority of the small - school enrollment are also more likely than those in the control group to enroll in college.

Daniel McCaffrey, a senior statistician at the RAND Corporation, a nonprofit research group, argues that peer effects can make a difference, however.

The Bill & Melinda Gates Foundation, a big supporter of the Common Core (and among the many funders of The Hechinger Report) made a half - million - dollar grant to an education nonprofit (the Kentucky Chamber Foundation), which then disbursed it in smaller amounts to local groups that introduced Common Core to their communities.

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.