Sentences with phrase «nonprofit work focusing»

I recently graduated from college with the hopes of going into nonprofit work focusing on the environment.

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In 2009, she received an honorary doctorate from Bates College for her work through the Geena Davis Institute on Gender in Media, a nonprofit research organization focused on analyzing gender representation in the media industry.

Unlike many global health nonprofits, which focus their work in the poorest regions of the planet, Bush has always felt it was important for fellows to address problems in the US in addition to those in other countries.

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.

In 2015, Starbucks community efforts focused on the opportunity youth population as partners worked with nonprofits that support young people.

After more than 20 years of professional ministry experience and a decade focused on philanthropy and developing leaders for the nonprofit world, I often get into conversations about how to know if all the work we're doing is actually worthwhile.

Previously, Tim has worked as a Program Director for River Action, a nonprofit focused on the vitality of the Mississippi River in the Quad Cities.

Lisa has worked with children and families in a variety of education and nonprofit settings with a focus on mental health for over 25 years.

While the focus of the panel was on brands, it was striking to me that one of the Influencers - For - Hire flat - out said when asked about nonprofits, «If you aren't will to pay my rate, I won't help» while the other one said, «If your brand as a non profit is consistent with my brand we can usually find a way to work together».

Just this past Friday, I spent a good chunk of an afternoon working with a national security - focused nonprofit, helping them set up a process of adapting their rich store of content to a new website soon to go live — a discussion that's partly about information architecture, partly about writing and partly about search engine optimization.

Known as Betty, her contributions to public health policy came during her tenure from 1992 to 1998 as president of the William T. Grant Foundation, a social science research nonprofit focused on inequality and improving the lives of young people, and through her earlier work in 1977 as the director of studies of the President's Commission on Mental Health during the administration of President Jimmy Carter.

In the future, some may find work at research institutions, disease - focused foundations, and environmental nonprofits, Irion says.

Her work focuses on supporting the efforts of law enforcement groups and nonprofit organizations by using statistical models to monitor human trafficking.

The new work was inspired by the so - called ALS Prediction Prize, a joint effort by the ALS - focused nonprofit Prize4Life and Dialogue for Reverse Engineering Assessments and Methods (DREAM), a computational biology project whose sponsors include IBM and Columbia University.

The Revelle Fellowship is focused exclusively on issues related to global stewardship and provides an opportunity to work on the Hill, an Executive Branch agency, or even a nonprofit or NGO.

Washington, DC About Blog The country's leading human resources that works exclusively with the nonprofit sector with a focus in HR consulting, talent acquisition, executive search & HR education.

City Year is a national, education - focused nonprofit organization that works in urban schools to help students stay on track to graduate.

And Aronson's work has evolved, now focused on transitioning the school from startup to mature nonprofit.

Iwunze Ugo, a research associate who focuses on K — 12 education at the nonprofit Public Policy Institute of California, or PPIC, says it's too early to determine whether or not the state's Local Control Funding Formula is working.

The Reaching At - Promise Students Association (RAPSA) is a nonprofit organization focused on helping educators working with at - risk students.

While there are many ways to get student feedback, the focus of our work at YouthTruth, a national nonprofit based in San Francisco, is through surveys.

She spent the past year working as an Associate Consultant for the nonprofit consulting firm AchieveMission, where she supported talent development and performance management at several national charter school networks and education focused organizations.

Prior to his work at Delivery Associates, he was a co-founder and K - 12 Director at the Education Delivery Institute (EDI), a nonprofit that focuses on helping education leaders to improve the implementation of their reforms.

Nick Rodriguez is the Principal at Delivery Associates, a nonprofit dedicated to bringing delivery to the American education sector, where he focuses his work on governments in Africa and the Americas.

Knowledge Alliance is a nonprofit, nonpartisan membership organization focused on learning and applying what works to dramatically improve K — 12 public education.

Golden Got Awards Highlight the Nonprofit Organization's Core Values and Focus on Student Success LOS ANGELES — As it continues to celebrate its 15th anniversary, Green Dot Public Schools will pause this Saturday to honor the teachers, administrators, counselors, and other staff members who best exemplify the core values that drive its work at its...

This group, along with the district leadership, is working with the nonprofit organization Great Schools Partnership to evaluate and develop a set of competencies that will mold the foundation for competency - based advancement across the entire district, focusing on what every RUSD student needs for college, a career, and life success.

Shortly after graduating from the University of Tennessee, she relocated to the Dominican Republic to work at Global Glimpse, an international nonprofit that focuses on cross-cultural educational and leadership development opportunities for American youth.

lose the student achievement gap, she worked with nonprofit LEAP Innovations last year to increase personalized learning practices, with a focus on professional development to prepare teachers for the new instructional approach.

She has worked in the nonprofit world since 2004, focused on providing youth with opportunities to find and utilize their voices.

Launched in 2011, Project Leadership and Investment for Transformation, or L.I.F.T., is a five - year initiative in nine low - performing schools in Charlotte, North Carolina.35 The project focuses on innovative strategies to provide students with extended learning time and increased access to technology while supporting community engagement and excellent teaching.36 Project L.I.F.T. worked with Public Impact — a nonprofit organization that works with school districts to create innovative school models — to design hybrid teacher - leader roles that «extend the reach» of high - performing teachers to more students.37 These «multi-classroom leaders» continue to teach while leading teams of teachers and assuming responsibility for the learning of all students taught by their team.38 For this advanced role, teachers earn supplements of up to $ 23,000 annually, funded sustainably by reallocating funds within current budgets.39

Students with degrees in educational economics and / or policy may work within government agencies and nonprofit organizations that focus on educational reform and advocacy.

A few journalists and advocates also mentioned two California - based nonprofit outlets: EdSource, whose work includes a nice piece on how ESSA is clearing the way for more educational focus on science in California, and CalMatters, which has reported about how some of the worst academic performers in the state might receive no extra help under the state's new system.

After teaching, she attended Harvard Law School as a Paul and Daisy Soros Fellow, and worked legal aid at a nonprofit for Spanish - speaking immigrants in the Fruitvale district of Oakland, California, on a Skadden Fellowship, with a focus on tenants» and workers» rights.

My career is in nonprofit development, and I currently work for a children's museum focused on STEM where I am a grant writer and support membership.

, is a Nashville - based nonprofit focused on providing writers with classes and resources in order to help them connect and better their work, both artistically and professionally.

Businesses and nonprofits — including an Orange County foundation that focuses on animal welfare — are working to provide quality food for these pets.

Rick also works with several philanthropic and nonprofit organizations, including the Carlson Family Foundation, and World Childhood, a foundation focused on the elimination of child exploitation and trafficking.

Those years — Alisha calls them «adult - ing» — were all about work (for her, at a nonprofit focused on free speech) and study (for him), threaded with raising two Boston terriers, Murphy and Millie, making friends, and exploring the city's alleyways and pocket parks.

Church says City Grazing — established in 2008 — is transitioning to nonprofit status so they can also focus on their community engagement and education work.

Washington, DC About Blog The country's leading human resources that works exclusively with the nonprofit sector with a focus in HR consulting, talent acquisition, executive search & HR education.

Created in 1997, Wedge evolved from a commercial gallery into a nonprofit organization, exhibiting photo - based work with a strong focus on exploring black identity and the African diaspora.

History Established in June 1991, Intuit is a nonprofit 501 (c)(3) organization dedicated to presenting intuitive and outsider art — with world class exhibitions; resources for scholars and students; a Permanent Collection with holdings of nearly 1,100 works of art; the Henry Darger Room Collection, a permanent installation; the Robert A. Roth Study Center, a non-circulating collection with a primary focus in the fields of outsider and contemporary self - taught art; and educational programming for people of all interest levels and backgrounds.

Through her work as the Exhibitions and Programming Director at Weinberg / Newton Gallery (Chicago, IL), Meg curates exhibitions focused on issues of social justice in partnership with nonprofit organizations.

Curator Jay Sanders has left his post focusing on performance work at the Whitney Museum of American Art to take over as executive director and chief curator of Artists Space, a New York nonprofit.

A percentage of art sales from the exhibition will benefit Housing Works, the New York City - based nonprofit focused on ending homelessness and AIDS.

After a 2006 trip to Tanzania, he pondered setting up a nonprofit group focused on wildlife conservation but that didn't seem realistic living in Portugal (his wife works there).

Mr. Damon, who became focused on Africa's glaring water troubles after a visit arranged through Bono's One Campaign, has co-founded a nonprofit group, H20 Africa Foundation, to work on water - supply projects.

Instead, they focus on three or four regions at a time, with perhaps a handful of industries working in cooperation with nonprofit groups and local governments, to make tremendous progress on targeted emissions reduction.

They are also the subjects of portraits by Venezuelan photographer / biologist Antonio Briceño celebrating successes and highlighting continuing challenges in the country that hosted this year's World Environment Day.In line with the WED theme focusing on «the central importance to humanity of the globe's wealth of species and ecosystems,» the nonprofit group Art Works for Change brought Briceño to Rwanda to photograph the land and the people, which the artist paired in diptychs showing individuals and the ecosystems they rely on.