Sentences with phrase «of advocacy groups like»

Worse, this dumbing down — always with the noblest of intentions, of course — carries the imprimatur of advocacy groups like Complete College America, headed by respected former Indiana Commissioner for Higher Education Stan Jones and generously supported by the likes of Gates, Carnegie, Helmsley, and Lumina.

Not exact matches

In the mid-to-late 1990s, says MacKenzie, big companies «steered clear of [advocacy groups] like the third rail of the subway.»

«I recommend routinely tracking what the industry analyst firms like Gartner are reporting about your industry, as well as trade associations and advocacy groups,» says Becky Sheetz - Runkle, author of Sun Tzu for Women: The Art of War for Winning in Business.

Complaints from small business owners like McMillon are why the National Federation of Independent Business, an advocacy group, supported the bill.

The decision drew immediate backlash from prominent medical and advocacy groups; Mugabe's appointment in the largely symbolic position was reportedly meant to raise awareness of non-communicable diseases like heart disease in Africa.

«The $ 5 fee to cover administrative costs may prevent users from registering for both convenience and cost, especially in the case of small toy - like UAVs [unmanned aerial vehicle],» said a statement from the Small UAV Coalition, a drone advocacy group that includes Amazon (AMZN), Google (GOOG), and drone manufacture DJI.

Most recently, the advocacy group held a Blockchain Education Day event in Washington, DC, in which members of Congress mingled with representatives from more than 70 leading companies in the blockchain industry to promote the use of new innovations like blockchain and distributed ledger technology.

Higgins is a former president of Miami's Downtown Democrats organization who has volunteered for community advocacy groups like Miami's PACT.

Facebook has helped give greater legitimacy to controversial organizations like ACT for America, a self - described national security grassroots advocacy group that has been accused of promoting Islamophobia, according to Beirich.

We must also make room in our schemes for the likes of the American Jewish Committee, World Vision, Bread for the World, the Christian Coalition, local right - to - life groups and denominationally linked gay - lesbian advocacy groups.

Research shows that a majority of global consumers, and especially Millennials, support companies that are committed to minimizing environmental impacts and that prioritize sustainable approaches to operations.2 To share more about its water initiatives, Fetzer Vineyards developed a new page on its website containing facts about agricultural water use and details about the company's water policy support. Visit fetzer.com/water for more on Fetzer Vineyards» water initiatives, including its adoption of BioFiltro's BIDA ® treatment system and its support for water conservation research and advocacy through collaborations with groups like the Beverage Industry Environmental Roundtable (BIER) and Ceres» Connect the Drops, both of which were commended for their water policy efforts at the White House Water Summit on Building a Sustainable Water Future in the United States on March 22, 2016.

Visit fetzer.com/waterfor more on Fetzer Vineyards» water initiatives, including its adoption of BioFiltro's BIDA ® treatment system and its support for water conservation research and advocacy through collaborations with groups like the Beverage Industry Environmental Roundtable (BIER) and Ceres» Connect the Drops, both of which were commended for their water policy efforts at the White House Water Summit on Building a Sustainable Water Future in the United States on March 22, 2016.

According to non-profit advocacy group Families Fighting Flu, a particularly onerous flu season like this one can result in as many as 30 percent of school - aged children getting sick.

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.

The Obama campaign's email strategy, and like so much else the campaign did online, built on the experience of previous political campaigns and nonprofit advocacy groups, relying on incremental improvements over past practice.

Turns out, activist groups like ours have trained people to send advocacy messages without a second thought (I doubt many of them even read what they're signing).

Felkel said that as advocacy groups have enthusiastically embraced technologies like email, they've lost sight of the personal touch and real - life relationships that makes for successful lobbying.

This sounds like a good development for both advocacy groups and Congressional staff, since it'll help both do their jobs more effectively and efficiently — without the free flow of relevant information, Congress can't make good decisions.

And I'd argue as usual that a single online action like this one is usually going to function best if it's just one piece of an overall blitz including emails, letters, phone calls, Tweets, blogger outreach and (as this group wisely knew to do) personal meetings with the advocacy target.

Party organizations are usually going to have focus much more on long - term list - development, and in that sense their position is more like that of a nonprofit or advocacy group than of a candidate.

Speak Out Central New York, a liberal advocacy group that is pressing Republicans on issues like taxes and health care, is releasing a six - figure ad purchase criticizing Republican Rep. John Katko over the passage of the tax bill from late last year.

We've already seen activists pour money into advocacy groups like Planned Parenthood and the ACLU, in the latter case funding a massive expansion of their work.

«We've seen Sen. Sanders consistently stand up for the community in which he serves and we always stand with the candidates who stand with us on our issues,» said Karen Scharff, executive director of Citizen Action of New York, adding that the progressive advocacy group liked that he was an early Bernie Sanders supporter.

Part of the problem is us: advocacy groups have gotten very good at flooding Congress with messages from their own constituents, typically via email but also by phone and by social media channels like Twitter and Facebook.

I would like to thank all of the pet owners, groups and organizations that travel to Albany each year in support of Animal Advocacy Day.

Business advocacy groups like Unshackle Upstate were at first skeptical, but worked with Cuomo to, among other things, make sure it didn't allow competitors from other states to put similar New York businesses out of work.

And online fundraising isn't just a game for presidential campaigns: sites like ActBlue on the left and Slatecard on the right are extending internet fundraising to candidates at all levels, while nonprofit advocacy groups have access to a broad array of tools to build supporter lists and plumb them for cash.

That's because in addition to advising Mayor de Blasio, Rosen's firm, BerlinRosen, also advises real estate companies — like Forest City Ratner and SL Green; labor unions, like SEIU and Communication Workers of America; and progressive advocacy groups like Coalition for the Homeless.

In 2012, Google and Facebook had separate salespeople dedicated either to Republicans, Democrats or Independent expenditure and advocacy groups — aka Super PACs — to ensure knowledge about media buys and spending plans didn't leak to opponents or, in the case of Super PACs, to like - minded groups that were legally prohibited from coordinating with the official candidate campaigns.

Paterson reiterated that he would like to help some of the nonprofit and advocacy groups he was forced to hurt with budget cuts during his time in office, and also said he might like to return to teaching.

An advocacy group, Friends of the Catskill Interpretive Center, was formed and lobbied endlessly, even as pundits like me predicted the thing would never be built.

New York Immigration Coalition (NYIC): An umbrella policy and advocacy organization of more than 200 immigrant and refugee rights groups across New York State, NYIC has fought alongside the UFT for a more just and humane immigration policy and against anti-immigrant legislation like Arizona's SB 1070.

The resolution goes on to criticize «firearms ownership advocacy organizations» like the NRA, claiming that the groups «have irresponsibly pushed to make the use of firearms an accepted response to anger and fear» and «recklessly advocated the use of firearms as a simplistic answer to an array of social problems.»

While it's hard to move the needle on something as binary as a vote on the tax hike, the kind of pressure that advocacy groups like SEIU 1199 can bring often shifts funding parameters.

Perry points out that the bill is further confusing because the areas of law regarding political spending by groups like Super PACs and nonprofit advocacy groups are completely separate and yet the bill puts them side by side.

Benjamin Dulchin, executive director of the Association for Neighborhood Housing and Development, an advocacy group, said there was a lot to like about the mansion tax and the mayor's other proposals.

get involved with and / or donate funds to national environmental advocacy organizations like the Natural Resources Defense Council, the Environmental Defense Fund, and 350.org; and local groups like Environmental Advocates of New York and the NY League of Conservation Voters.

Students don't like the way SU shut down the Advocacy Center in June, consolidating sexual assault services in the school's counseling center and moving student support groups into the the Office of Health Promotion.

That looked like it would go the way of redistricting, But when a critical mass of editorial boards and advocacy groups actually proposed to hold the governor to his promise, Cuomo had to make a show, at least, of pushing for it.

«Putting together an advocacy group is like telling the governor he's not going to be allowed to do his job,» Mr. Sheinkopf said of Mr. de Blasio's efforts.

«It's been really good for progressives that there's been kind of a race among potential presidential candidates to not just be on board, but be leaders on issues like Medicare for all, fighting for Dreamers and fighting against Trump's giveaways to billionaires and giant corporations,» said Adam Green, a founder of the Progressive Change Campaign Committee, a liberal advocacy group.

Under questioning, de Blasio pledged that he would never again form an issue - advocacy organization like the Campaign for One New York, which was the subject of a federal investigation, all while stressing the worthy policy goals that the group helped achieve, chiefly universal pre-K.

That's why we've launched Forward NY, a citywide coalition of diverse stakeholders, including women's advocacy groups like the National Organization for Women, and business leaders who won't let Eliot Spitzer buy his way back into office.

A bill introduced to the House of Representatives in June could change that, but the task of changing teaching practices has fallen mostly to advocacy groups like Code.org and the Computer Science Teachers Association.

Thirty - three states have strategic plans for dealing with climate change, but only five of those currently include a public - health response, according to the Trust for America's Health, a nonprofit advocacy group in Washington, D.C. «We only respond after a Katrina - like crisis,» says Jeffrey Levi, the trust's executive director.

«They look at us like we're the devil, which pisses me off because we're doing it the right way,» said David Bales, the chairman of Texans for Cures, a stem cell research advocacy group that opposes the three bills as written.

At the end of the talks, Reiss dimmed the lights and amped up the mood with an even grittier sequence shot by the German advocacy group Atlantic Blue: Dolphins were dragged behind a big blue tarp in bundles held together at the tail, like bananas.

Some ads produced by advocacy groups outside the campaigns go beyond the issues into ad hominem attacks, labeling Schaffer as «Big Oil Bob»; a Web site shows a cartoon of him riding an oil well like a cowboy.

We had firsthand experience dealing with climate skeptics, amplified by advocacy groups like the Competitive Enterprise Institute and a lot of the think tanks that were allegedly funded by ExxonMobil and other firms.

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