Sentences with phrase «nonprofit groups organized»

The Center for Responsive Politics estimates that the 2012 election saw more than $ 250 million in political spending by nonprofit groups organized under 501 (c)(4) of the Internal Revenue Code, up from $ 86 million in 2008 and $ 3 million in 2004.

Sulo is a nonprofit group organized by IRRI that helps women become effective leaders in the local community.

The nonprofit group organizes the Art Show annually at the Park Avenue Armory in New York.

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I also went to a conference organized by the Financial Literacy Action Group, a nonprofit coalition working to improve Canadians» knowledge, skills and confidence in managing money and advance the national strategy.

Organizing 2.0 leads online organizing and new media skills training for members and staff at community organizations, labor groups, and local campaigns and nonprofits.

The evening protest outside the Koch estate was organized by a coalition of liberal groups, including MoveOn.org, the Occupy movement and the Long Island Progressive Coalition, a Massapequa - based nonprofit.

Researchers from the Perelman School of Medicine at the University of Pennsylvania, in partnership with ORGANIZE — a non-for-profit organization based in New York which leverages health data to end the organ donor shortage by applying smarter technologies, utilizing social media, building more creative partnerships, and advocating for data - driven policies — The Bridgespan Group — a global nonprofit organization that collaborates with mission - driven leaders, organizations, and philanthropists to break cycles of poverty and dramatically improve the quality of life for those in need — and Gift of Life Donor Program — an OPO which serves the eastern half of Pennsylvania, southern New Jersey, and Delaware — evaluated the metrics and criteria used to measure OPOs across the country, and found significant discrepancies in how potential donors are evaluated and identified.

Among today's advocates for young people are nonprofit insurgent groups that challenge the education establishment by organizing, educating, and mobilizing parents in a variety of roles and in different ways, empowering them to engage in K — 12 reform efforts.

CAMBRIDGE, MA — Nonprofit groups that organize, educate, and mobilize parents to take active roles in promoting school improvement in their communities are on the rise in a number of states.

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.

Citizen groups, business alliances, and nonprofit agencies of various kinds are organizing to support standards - based teaching and learning in the schools in their regions.

They transformed their aging computer lab into a coding and robotics - maker space, which they opened in December to coincide with the global «Hour of Code» campaign organized by the nonprofit group Code.org.

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.

The nonprofit New Teacher Project (TNTP), an alternative teacher - certification and advocacy group, surveyed more than 10,500 teachers in three large public school districts and one charter school network to assess whether teacher development programs organized by the districts have helped teachers improve.

On October 26, members of the San Francisco chapter of the NAACP, along with Innovate Public Schools, a nonprofit organized to promote reforms in public education to disadvantaged groups, held a press conference on the front steps of San Francisco City Hall promoting the latter group's new report on SFUSD's persistent and worsening achievement gap.

This includes nonprofits, parents, student - led education organizing groups, and others.

The event is being organized by DORA DOG (Dog Off Leash Recreation Area Dog Owners Guild), a nonprofit group of dog lovers.

In 2003 she organized her group into Toni's Kitty Rescue and received her nonprofit status.

Rescue groups generally are organized as nonprofit charities and raise money through fundraisers, adoption fees, grants and bequests.

Last year Kass organized a sweeping survey of contemporary self - portraiture in a group exhibition at Momenta Art, a nonprofit gallery in Brooklyn.

The Center for American Progress, a liberal nonprofit group with strong ties to the Obama administration, organized a telephone conference call, including two of the scientists embroiled in the fracas over the disclosed e-mails, that it said was aimed at «setting the record straight on global warming.»

These groups are largely organized as nonprofits under section 527 or 501 (c) 4 of the Internal Revenue Code.

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.

The driving force behind the IDL is a group called Fight for the Future, a nonprofit organization that helped organize the protests against the Stop Online Piracy Act (SOPA) and the Protect Intellectual Property Act (PIPA) back in late 2011.

The forum at the Delhi Center in Santa Ana was organized by nonprofit health groups and labor unions in response to President Trump's pledge to repeal and replace the Affordable Care Act, also known as Obamacare.