Sentences with phrase «of advocacy on»

«I'm proud to be among these REALTORS ® who are deeply committed to making The Voice for Real Estate ® the strongest voice of advocacy on Capitol Hill,» says NAR President R. Layne Morrill.

Advocacy regarding neglect may be at several levels as outlined in the following examples: 1) at the child's level, for example, explaining to a parent that responding to a crying infant does not risk spoiling him / her is a form of advocacy on behalf of a preverbal child; 2) at the parental level, helping a depressed mother access mental health care or encouraging a father to be more involved in his child's life; 3) at the community level, supporting efforts to develop community family resources; and 4) at the societal level, supporting government policies and programs such as those that reduce access to health care, food benefits, and subsidized child care.

Aram is also a Board Director for the Victorian AIDS Council and has a long history of advocacy on LGBTI rights and health issues in Australia and internationally — work for which he was recognised in 2015 as a Human Rights (Community) Award Finalist.

Our firm has a long record of advocacy on behalf of minority and historically disadvantaged or underrepresented communities.

Sean was called to the Ontario Bar in 2010 and honed his advocacy skills alongside Canada's premier barristers, gaining extensive experience in all aspects of advocacy on behalf of individuals, major national and international corporations and governments.

Due to the effectiveness of our advocacy on the hill, this funding now includes charter schools in their first operational year.

We at the United Federation of Teachers are proud of our advocacy on behalf of children and the educators who teach them, and we won't apologize for lobbying for a safety net for those New Yorkers most vulnerable to budget cuts.

Their position is supported by mainline organizations like the NAACP, the American Civil Liberties Union, and the National Urban League, all of which have a long history of advocacy on behalf of disadvantaged populations.

State Senator Brad Hoylman for his years of advocacy on behalf of Greenwich Village.

The Acting Upper West Regional Minister, Amidu Chinnia Issahaku, has called for the stepping up of advocacy on mental health to protect the rights of mental health patients.

Not exact matches

«If an ad on any social media platform contains words of express advocacy, those ads would fall under the FEC's regulations, including its disclosure requirements and foreign national expenditure ban,» says McCurry.

«The schools have reasonably concluded that they are quite likely to become the next target of OCR if they follow their religious convictions on these matters,» said Baylor, whose Christian legal advocacy group has advised some colleges on how to seek the exemptions.

While it's unclear so far which group, exactly, will be leading the charge, Inc. has confirmed the existence of at least one: BayShare, which describes itself as an «advocacy organization in the San Francisco Bay Area whose mission is to make the Bay Area the best place on the planet for sharing.»

In addition, our approach to connecting business with social change is based on addressing the priorities of a wide range of stakeholders including employees, business partners, shareholders, government regulators, advocacy groups and consumers.

Eisenberg pointed to Trump's advocacy of states» rights on many issues.

Not only have sales been meager, but the pill and its manufacturer — Valeant Pharmaceuticals (vrx)-- rate poorly on several measures that should be of concern to women and doctors, according to an advocacy group that on Thursday released a report card for the drug's one - year anniversary.

Consumer advocacy groups call on regulators to police this new industry of predictive scoring.

Health Care: «I don't think there is much doubt as to where Senator Clinton is on the issue of health care,» says Raymond J. Keating, chief economist for the Small Business & Entrepreneurship Council, a small - business advocacy group based in Vienna, Virginia.

No dollar figure has been attached to the costs that will be borne by the brands, but according to labour advocacy groups they will be apportioned based on the amount of business each does in Bangladesh.

Framing the issue as one of self - advocacy — that it's on women alone to lean in and pull themselves up the corporate ladder — absolves employers of their responsibility to create environments in which women are not punished for doing so.

Bee launched her show in February after 12 years as a correspondent on Jon Stewart's The Daily Show, and the fervor of her advocacy has already outstripped that of her mentor.

«Jeb Bush has a big interest in Latin America, and I expect he would follow in the footsteps of [his] father and brother in being more internationally focused on trade issues,» says Todd McCracken, president and chief executive of the National Small Business Association, a business advocacy group.

High prices particularly affect the US, though some other countries have trouble getting access to the medication in the first place, said Sarah Lucas, the CEO of Beyond Type 1, a non-profit focused on education and advocacy related to the disease.

Fostering continuous selling means incentivizing your sales team to stay involved by basing part of their compensation on the amount of advocacy customers provide, as measured by references, referrals, case studies, testimonials, etc..

The FTC is probing a complaint brought by the advocacy group Consumer Watchdog, which looked at some 1,000 products on Amazon's website in June and found that Amazon (amzn) put reference prices, or list prices, on about 46 % of them.

I am still using the site now for advocacy of our government in South Orange on my own site at AlexTorpey.com.

When asked how much money would be spent on immigration advocacy, Lima declined to give a monetary figure, but said the advocacy efforts would be «as big of a deal» as tax reform.

«The Trump administration has made very clear that they've declared war on the immigrant community on all levels,» said Javier Valdez, co-executive director of the advocacy group Make the Road New York.

That's according to a report Tuesday by the Wall Street Journal that's based on an analysis of 329 research papers identified by the Campaign for Accountability advocacy group as linked to Google in some way.

«Mr. O'Reilly, I don't think you are the right person to lecture me on advocacy in journalism when you spend most of your program giving your opinions without asking questions,» he said.

«Some of what they're doing borders on the edge of magic,» Gene Russianoff, the staff lawyer for a subway rider advocacy group, told the New York Times» Matt Flegenheimer.

That's how many examples are on a «list of the harmed,» people who have offered personal stories of harm from fracking, as tallied by the advocacy group Pennsylvania Alliance for Clean Water and Air.

Sara Fagen, DDC Advocacy, and CNBC's John Harwood discuss the potential outcomes of the Senate's procedural vote on health care.

«The advocacy community has suggested that DEA's statement that they would decide on the Gregoire - Chafee rescheduling petition this summer is a sign that they are moving toward reforming policy with regard to marijuana,» Hudak told Business Insider, referring to a 2011 petition from Govs. Lincoln Chafee of Rhode Island and Christine Gregoire of Washington state.

That information — augmented by advocacy efforts from such Addyi supporters as the National Organization for Women and National Consumers League — turned the tide, and the FDA's joint meeting of the Bone, Reproductive and Urologic Drugs Advisory Committee voted 18 to 6 to support approval for HSDD treatment, contingent on Sprout consenting to risk - mitigation measures like warnings and restrictions to prevent misuse.

Source: SBA's Office of Advocacy, based on data provided by the U.S. Cencus Bureau, Statistics of U.S. Business.

With critics blasting CKE's treatment of employees, Puzder has taken to blocking labor advocacy groups on Twitter, BuzzFeed reported.

«Considering the decades - long culture of violence on Rikers, some of it perpetuated by staff, it's appalling that Mayor de Blasio and Commissioner Ponte would invest in tools that have been shown to cause death,» Glenn Martin, of the advocacy group JustLeadershipUSA, told the New York Daily News in July.

Where to set the boundaries between hate speech and legitimate advocacy for perspectives on the edge of the political spectrum, and who should set them, are complex and difficult questions.

The former global operations CIO at Barclays landed on our 40 Under 40 list last year for his impressive background, quick achievements as CIO of Nike, and his advocacy and influence in the gay community (Watson is out, and was the first non-U.S. citizen to score a seat on the board of GLAAD).

Li & Fung's ability to exert pressure on factories can have unfortunate consequences, said Guadalupe Palma, director of Warehouse Workers United, a labor advocacy group.

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.

«This holiday season, the undocumented advocacy community got the equivalent of a new car, and the business community got a wine and cheese basket,» complained one lobbyist, speaking on condition of anonymity.

Feloni: And so looking at your own, kind of evolution as a student — is that weighing in on your advocacy now, for science education?

The day is billed as one of protest and advocacy for gender equity organized by the activists behind the Jan. 21 Women's March on Washington.

The heart of Rhode's advocacy, though, is for governments to specifically outlaw employment discrimination based on looks, as they have for race and gender.

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.»

Public Interest Advocacy Centre director John Lawford, who is sitting in on a couple of panels, is perhaps the lone voice of the public — Wind Mobile's two representatives could maybe be included — in what is otherwise an industry love - in.

Smart marketers have long understood that word - of - mouth recommendations from consumers — «brand advocacy» — have greater impact on sales than any other source of information.

«There is no filter when it comes to YouTube stars,» says Jill Murphy, editor in chief of Common Sense Media, a nonprofit organization focused on education and advocacy for kids.