Sentences with phrase «nonprofit groups work»

These prominent nonprofit groups work for various civil liberties related causes, ranging from free speech to the rights of the elderly.

Representatives from Achieve, the nonprofit group working with PARCC to develop the test, planned to testify before state lawmakers Tuesday.

«Of course UTLA is exaggerating the financial burden of charter schools,» said Jim Blew, director of StudentsFirst California, a nonprofit group working to ensure that every California child has great teachers and great schools.

The Union of Concerned Scientists is a science - based nonprofit group working for a healthy environment and a safer world and combines independent scientific research and citizen action to develop innovative, practical solutions and to secure responsible changes in government policy, corporate practices, and consumer choices.

The nonprofit group works with local leaders to provide food, clothing, shelter, sanitation, health, education and community - building.

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.

Prompted by Connie Hogarth — an octogenarian activist with so much energy that there's a Connie Hogarth Center for Social Action named for her at Manhattanville College — the group voted on Jan. 3 to give $ 1,000 to the Pachamama Alliance, a nonprofit group working with indigenous groups in Ecuador that are fighting oil companies and the government on several fronts.

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The event, called Catalyst Canada Honours, is run by Catalyst — a nonprofit organization that is focused on expanding opportunities for women in business — and the group has been researching woman at work since its inception in 1962.

«It was awesome, a high - impact, high - energy, hackathon kind of environment,» says working group participant Mike Green, director of the ScaleUp Campaign, a nonprofit partnership to encourage local innovation based in Portland, Ore. «Since you were pitching multiple times, you had to have your game on.»

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 former nonprofit executive had worked for women's advocacy groups, most recently promoting breast cancer awareness.

Here's how it works: Type in a keyword, and the app searches the web for relevant images licensed via the nonprofit group Creative Commons, complete with attribution.

That's because nearly three - quarters of all sunscreens on the market don't work as well as they claim to, or they contain potentially harmful ingredients, according to a recent study from the nonprofit Environmental Working Group (EWG).

One officer is notorious for harassing local black residents, to the point where he has been given a street nickname of «Bro Stupid,» said Burnell Williams, who works with at - risk youth and ex-prisoners for the nonprofit group Against All Odds.

Half of Americans said they do work in their free time to meet employers» demands, according to a study from Rand Corp., a nonprofit research group.

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.

Todd Deatherage is the co-founder of The Telos Group, a nonprofit group seeking to educated American leaders about he Israeli - Palestinian conflict and work toward pGroup, a nonprofit group seeking to educated American leaders about he Israeli - Palestinian conflict and work toward pgroup seeking to educated American leaders about he Israeli - Palestinian conflict and work toward peace.

When I worked for a politician I was responsible for deleting all of the mass - emails sent by nonprofit advocacy groups.

When I worked for a nonprofit advocacy group I was responsible for mass - emailing petitions to politicians.

I love the good works my job at a Catholic nonprofit group enables me to do, advocating for the poor, hungry, sick and homeless.

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.

Over the past three years, the two groups» nonprofit California Sustainable Winegrowing Alliance worked with consultants to develop a flexible framework that would address sustainability issues facing businesses of all sizes and in all of the state's diverse wine regions.

He headed to Chicago and worked for several nonprofit organizations, including the Illinois Public Interest Research Group and the Nkrumah Washington Community Learning Center, in the heart of gang territory.

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

To further expand its buying power, the group joined with the Alliance for a Healthier Generation, a 10 - year - old nonprofit organization that works with 5,000 U.S. school districts to reduce childhood obesity.

I missed the significance of this at the time (as a long - time Photoshop user, I haven't needed to work with Canva), but it seems like a good development for nonprofit advocacy groups.

As a consultant, he has worked with scores of nonprofit groups, candidates and companies to help them achieve their advocacy, electoral and communications goals using digital tools.

And despite the demonstrated power of online fundraising, plenty of nonprofits continue to use direct mail because it still works for them (though a new group would probably want to skip mail and go straight to building an online list).

I worked at the ASPCA for five years and now work with a consulting group that helps nonprofits set up blogs, mailers, etc..

And 12 years in the nonprofit space in DC has shown me that MORE women work for progressive advocacy groups than men (far more of my clients over the years have been women than men, for instance).

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).

Jamison Dague, director of infrastructure studies for the Citizens Budget Commission of New York, a nonprofit government watchdog group, said the MTA has long wanted to abolish some of the work rules.

In addition to the special education program BOCES is also working with a nonprofit group to host a mental health program at the building.

Yohaira Alvarez, community coordinator for the Civilian Complaint Review Board, an independent agency that investigates misconduct allegations, urged a host of nonprofit groups, community leaders and locals to consider the agency a partner in their work to bring concerns about police to resolution.

Tkaczyk worked for nonprofit groups, lobbying legislators for affordable housing and supporting tenants» rights.

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.

Their ranks include Chris Quinn, who in 2013 rapidly went from consensus favorite to dispiriting third - place defeat, and for the past two years has done admirable work running a nonprofit group that helps homeless families.

It's the free market at work — and a fitting conclusion to an election where a network of independent super PACs and nonprofit groups that form a sort of shadow Republican Party is in the final stages of a planned $ 1 - billion campaign.

She has worked for the Farmingdale - based nonprofit group for 29 years.

«In the current political campaign environment, the presidential campaign finance system doesn't work at all and can not work,» said Craig Holman, who lobbies Capitol Hill on ethics and campaign finance issues for the nonprofit consumer advocacy group Public Citizen.

Many families have settled there in recent years after fleeing violence in African nations like Somalia and the Democratic Republic of Congo, drawn by family ties and the work of a nonprofit group that has resettled families there for decades, the Mohawk Valley Resource Center for Refugees.

Klieman, a criminal defense lawyer and CBS legal expert, told the group she would be working in her free time to promote nonprofits the New York City Police Foundation, which improves public safety, and the youth development agency the Police Athletic League.

The summit is being hosted by the Progressive Congress — a nonprofit organization working to connect activists and progressive members of Congress, according to the group's website.

Bryan Erwin, 41, of Mattituck and Washington, D.C., used his experience working for former Sen. Tom Daschle (D - S.D.) and in the Obama administration to form a nonprofit that works with grass - roots groups on voter outreach in Suffolk County.

In a letter sent out to nonprofit groups and agencies that provide homeless services after the news broke of his impending resignation, Taylor said «It has been an honor to work for Mayor Bill de Blasio, and I am very grateful to him for his unwavering support to me and to this agency.»

Nonprofit community groups throughout the City and State worked hard on this bill and really feel like it is a good piece of legislation.

Long Island nonprofit groups and several elected officials who have been working to help victims...

The state Legislature's budget committee is scheduled to vote Wednesday on a proposal containing an estimated $ 7.5 million tax exemption for construction companies that do work for nonprofit groups.

The state Senate's majority leader said Tuesday his colleagues probably will not support legislation containing an estimated $ 7.5 million tax exemption for construction companies that perform work for nonprofit groups.