Sentences with phrase «number of advocacy»

In the Winter 2012 issue of Ed Next, Bruno Manno wrote about the growing number of advocacy groups that empower parents to take active roles in promoting school improvement in their communities, including Parent Revolution, which has helped California parents organize to pull the «parent trigger.»

The Campaign for Youth Shelter, a coalition effort by a number of advocacy groups, are pressing the state and city to grow the supply of emergency beds each year by 100 until waiting lists at shelters around the city disappear.

A number of advocacy groups say there's an opportunity for lawmakers to act to address some of the harm that they say President Donald Trump's policies are causing.

A number of advocacy groups say there's an opportunity for lawmakers to act to address some of the harm that they say President Trump's policies are causing.

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There was also the report recently issued by the Public Interest Advocacy Centre that found internet and other telecommunications services are unaffordable for a large number of Canadians.

The Partnership for Conservation, an advocacy group, argues that current tax incentives have resulted in a dramatic increase in the number of acres conserved.

«In order to trade securities, they need to be a broker - dealer,» said Jerry Brito, executive director at Coin Center, a digital currency advocacy group based in Washington, D.C. «I could imagine [Coinbase] could sell a number of other tokens» with the license.

Bessant represents the company on a number of important topics, including diversity and inclusion, serving as an executive sponsor for the company's Lesbian, Gay, Bisexual and Transgender Pride executive board and the LGBT Ally program and executive management team sponsor of the company's disability advocacy initiatives.

Although many of these drone advocacy groups differed with the FAA and DOT on the finalized registration process, Swanson said a number of groups banned together and agreed to be on the registration task force to «forestall more serious and tighter regulation from the Hill.»

Investors have filed a record number of shareholder proposals on ESG issues this year, with a focus on climate change and corporate political activity, according to the As You Sow shareholder advocacy group.

Immigration advocacy groups have said that ending the program would be a coldhearted step that would yield no benefit to the nation while endangering large numbers of young people raised in the United States who are seeking to work and pay taxes.

Employee Advocacy in 2014 was where social media listening was in 2009, and the market is probably 1 - 2 years away from acquisitions and competition thinning the number of vendors in this space.

GFI has a number of expert advisors from a variety of fields, which reflects their strong connections to the fields such as food tech, animal advocacy, and entrepreneurship.

He brings simplicity and clarity to a number of issues that arise when planning an employee advocacy program.

The number of Tibetans in China who have set themselves on fire to protest Beijing's rule has now reached 100, according to Tibetan advocacy groups.

Pressed by the moral demands of our age, a number of institutes, public advocacy groups, and ad hoc interdenominational committees have taken steps to reach across the divide by going back to the sources.

Who else the committee consulted is not a matter of public record, but reliable sources report that the process involved a number of parties closely associated with homosexual advocacy and critical of the Church's teaching.

Intellectually, there are growing numbers of scientists, technicians, philosophers, and scholars who practice an «advocacy science and scholarship» which challenges head - on conceptions of science, technology, and scholarship as value neutral activities of pure and disinterested elites.

«There are a number of Democratic members of Congress who are calling themselves pro-life, but it's hard to do that after voting for healthcare, which was the largest expansion of abortion we've seen,» says Tom Minnery, senior vice president of CitizenLink, a conservative advocacy group connected to Focus on the Family that is also spending money this cycle.

Her organization, an advocacy group representing a growing number of nontheistic Americans, recently conducted a silent poll of members of Congress about their faith and personal beliefs.

But there is also a new middle class, based on the production and distribution of symbolic knowledge, whose members are the increasingly large number of people occupied with education, the media of mass communication; therapy in all its forms, the advocacy and administration of well - being, social justice and personal lifestyles.

One of the things I mention in The Crescent Directive is that American Muslims have a number of organizations dedicated to Muslim advocacy, why not a few dedicated to eradicating extremism?

«The falling abortion number is due to the ceaseless advocacy and ministry of the pro-life community in neighborhoods all around this country,» said Russell Moore, president of the Southern Baptist Ethics & Religious Liberty Commission (ERLC).

Today JBF continues in the same spirit by administering a number of diverse programs that include educational initiatives, food industry awards, scholarships for culinary students, publications, chef advocacy training, and thought - leader convening.

Today JBF continues in the same spirit by administering a number of diverse programs that include educational initiatives, food industry awards, scholarships for students of culinary arts and food policy, publications, chef advocacy training, and thought - leader convening.

Before opening her own firm, Bailey - Chapman held a number of public affairs and advocacy leadership positions including vice president of public affairs for Penn National Gaming, the country's second largest gaming company, where she oversaw a multi-state government affairs team and managed several local and statewide referenda campaign efforts.

I'm just explaining the growing number of educated, liberal women who are getting seriously po'd with the crazy in - your - face breast feeding advocacy.

I hope that our advocacy for what the do through our album promotion and sales can serve to help them double their number of donors in 2010.

So yesterday the SNA went to Capitol Hill for a «national day of action» to protest the block grant proposal, and it was joined by a number of prominent congressional Democrats, the Food Research & Action Center, the Center for Science in the Public Interest, the Center on Budget and Policy Priorities and other advocacy groups.

WABA Advocacy and Outreach work aims to advocate for and respond to critical, urgent and emerging issues related to the targets of the Global Strategy and Innocenti Declarations, and to increase the number of other organizations and individuals who also advocate and respond to these issues.

Forward - thinking electoral and advocacy campaigns are gathering supporters» cell numbers now, to use them in a couple of years for applications we haven't yet imagined.

That's not sufficient for any number of pro-choice advocacy groups that have endorsed Schneiderman.

It is not clear yet whether the Joint Committee will recommend some form of requirement to express a certain number of preferences, though given their advocacy for open preferential voting it would not be surprising if they did.

I'd say two things: the steady growth of Republicans and conservatives online, both in terms of the tools they use and in terms of the number of voices talking about online advocacy.

List - shrinkage is a real problem: a percentage of your followers are going to unsubscribe from your list from every message you send, and even if you keep that number low (most of us in the advocacy world aim for an unsub rate of.1 % to.2 % per message), the drop - offs add up over time.

Ad Age published a fascinating set of survey results yesterday, and here's a number that should jump out at political / advocacy communicators: more than a third of corporate Chief Marketing Officers expected to spend 75 % of their budgets on digital channels within five years.

In practice, a fundraising appeal or advocacy action sent via email tends to have a response rate 10, 20 or 30 times higher than the same action promoted to the same number of people via Twitter.

Advocacy groups, beware: Facebook may not be as welcoming a venue for online activism as you expect: As the number of Facebook members signed up for the «Boycott Target Until They Cease Funding Anti-Gay Politics» page neared 78,000 in recent days, Facebook personnel locked down...

Crain's has conducted an analysis of data scraped and made publicly available by advocacy group InsideAirbnb, and found the number of users making their homes available is up slightly from February.

Finally, I'd argue the huge number of nonprofit advocacy campaigns on the left provides a real laboratory to experiment with tactics and techniques, and the skills developed there naturally jump the 501 (c) 3 firewall into electoral campaigns.

First, the Obama campaign trained a huge number of staff and volunteers in the dark arts of digital organizing in 2008, and many have gone on to sharpen their skills on other electoral and advocacy campaigns.

The transportation advocacy group Move New York said the mayor should include congestion pricing in his plan to decrease the number of cars that enter the city.

Gov. Andrew Cuomo put the kibosh on the Senate Democrats» proposed property tax cap circuit breaker, which has also been endorsed by a number of taxpayer advocacy groups.

He uses political advocacy math instead of numbers, receiving $ 334 million more — not less — education aid than last year,» Azzopardi said in a statement.

As Child Abuse Prevention Month begins, the Child Advocacy Center of Niagara is aiming to lower that number.

Quigley joined with a number of local northern Manhattan elected officials, including New York State Assemblymember Robert Rodriguez and New York City Councilmember Melissa Mark - Viverito, community leaders such as Department of Youth and Community Development's Commissioner Jeanne B. Mullgrav and Supportive Children's Advocacy Network (SCAN)'s Executive Director Lewis Zuchman, and a host of residents, including local schoolchildren, for the center's unveiling in a late afternoon reception.

WFP officials have said publicly that Cuomo has leveled threats against the WFP, telling them to «lose my number» if they endorsed Nixon and would find ways of pulling funding from the advocacy organizations that remain with the liberal ballot line.

At a time where there is advocacy on managing Ghana's resources, this is not the time for the Akuffo - Addo Administration to pioneer the dissipation of public purse since he has been the number one lobbyist of judicious spending.

Marine scientist Kevin McAllister, founder and president of water quality advocacy group Defend H20, called the number of plastic bags stuck in tree branches and scattered on local beaches «omnipresent.»

Steve Choi, president of the New York Immigration Coalition, a prominent immigrant advocacy group that has hosted a number of actions in response to Trump's immigration policies such as the executive orders targeting people from Muslim - majority countries, said that as a state legislator, Schneiderman was an early supporter of driver's licenses for undocumented immigrants.