Sentences with phrase «of independent nonprofits»

Not by federal fiat or by state law, but largely at the hand of independent nonprofits, including one founded by twin brothers less than five years ago.

(To be fair, Monsanto assisted by giving the rice's developers royalty - free licenses to use some of its patent - protected processes, and its charitable arm has helped to support several of the independent nonprofits.)

That's often the case with successful businessmen who give up lucrative careers for elected office but not necessarily for someone such as Durant, 63, who founded and runs the Cornerstone Schools, a system of independent nonprofit schools in Detroit.

In 2007, Kopp co-founded Teach For All, a global network of independent nonprofit organizations that are applying the model pioneered by Teach For America around the world.

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A MPUC representative declined to comment and instead directed us to contact the Midcontinent Independent System Operator, Inc. (MISO)-- a nonprofit organization that oversees high - voltage power grid infrastructure and reliability across Minnesota, 14 other US states in the Midwest (in whole and in part), and parts of Canada.

The independent nonprofit Kaiser Family Foundation (KFF) has a handy interactive map demonstrating how the GOP plan would essentially benefit the young and the rich at the expense of the old, poor, and sick.

But while AOL could cut off Baker's salary, Mozilla was an independent entity, and Baker, who had become a popular and respected figure in the open - source world, remained as an unpaid volunteer for about a year, until a nonprofit called the Open Source Applications Foundation offered to restore a portion of her former salary to support her Mozilla work.

The report, co-produced by independent nonprofit JUST Capital Foundation and Forbes, measured the performance of more than 890 publicly - traded companies on the Russell 1000 Index across 32 industries.

Kaiser Health News, a nonprofit health newsroom, is an editorially independent part of the Kaiser Family Foundation.

Many other Review alumni have worked at a wide variety of nonprofits Thiel has funded, like The Independent Institute, OpenAI, and the Thiel Foundation; or worked at companies in which Thiel has invested.

Small and independent, nonprofit private colleges — in search of ways to improve the retirement outlook for...

Schwab Charitable is the name used for the combined programs and services of Schwab Charitable Fund, an independent nonprofit organization.

The Washington bill, which was shaped by advice from Rolf and Hanauer, would require people or companies that find work for and transfer payments to independent contractors — Uber, say, or a middleman who works with farm laborers — to contribute to a pool of money managed by an independent nonprofit.

This article was originally published on The Conversation, an independent and nonprofit source of news, analysis and commentary from academic experts.

Grand Canyon University announced Wednesday that its Board of Directors has formed a committee of independent directors to explore strategic alternatives to its investment - based business model, including a return to the nonprofit status it held from 1949 to 2004.

The American Association of Individual Investors is an independent, nonprofit corporation formed for the purpose of assisting individuals in becoming effective managers of their own assets through programs of education, information and research.

The American Association of Individual Investors is an independent nonprofit corporation formed in 1978 for the purpose of assisting individuals in becoming effective managers of their own assets through programs of education, information and research.

In documents submitted to the court, the museum defends the inclusion of the cross, saying that «the 9/11 Museum is an independent nonprofit corporation.

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.

Perkins, OK About Blog The Association of Health Care Journalists is an independent, nonprofit organization dedicated to advancing public understanding of health care issues.

The Brewers Association (BA), a nonprofit trade group representing small and independent craft brewers, has released its inaugural list of the 50 fastest - growing small and independent craft brewing co...

As the world's largest nonprofit independent research and training organization IRRI develops new rice varieties and crop management techniques to address poverty and hunger and improve the health of rice farmers and consumers in a sustainable manner.

Wounded Warriors Family Support is an independent nonprofit organization whose mission is to provide support to the families of those who have been wounded, injured or killed during combat operations.

Breastfeeding Promotion Network of India (BPNI) was founded on 3rd December, 1991 atWardha, Maharashtra.BPNI is a registered, independent, nonprofit, national organization; working towards protecting, promoting and supporting breastfeeding and appropriate complementary feeding of infants & young children.BPNI acts on the targets of Innocenti Declarations, Convention on the Rights of the Child (CRC), International Code of Marketing of Breastmilk Substitutes, and the Global Strategy for Infant and Young Child Feeding (WHO 2002).

The Institute of Medicine, the health arm of the independent, nonprofit National Academy of Sciences, drew up those guidelines for the USDA.

Founded by Mass Audubon in 1988, Programme for Belize is an independent Belizean nonprofit organization with a mission to preserve and protect 262,000 acres of tropical forest in northern Belize called the Rio Bravo Conservation and Management Area (RBCMA).

Waldorf School of Princeton, like virtually all nonprofit independent schools in the country, relies on a combination of tuition and fund - raising revenue to support its daily operations.

In 2011, the Cochrane Collaboration, a nonprofit independent research organization, analyzed the results of 15 randomized clinical trials that had evaluated whether omega - 3 — fortified infant formulas, fed to full - term babies for up to the first year of life, provide developmental benefits compared with nonfortified infant formulas.

DONA International birth and postpartum doulas practice in all kinds of settings: in hospitals, in doula agencies, in nonprofits and as independent business owners.

Common Sense is the leading independent nonprofit organization dedicated to helping kids thrive in a world of media and technology.

The Child Mind Institute is an independent, national nonprofit devoted to transforming the lives of children and families struggling with mental health and learning disorders.

Democrats also benefit from the growth of progressive nonprofit advocacy campaigns over the past decade: not only have advocacy groups experimented with just about every tool or tactic in the book, but the existence of so many independent groups clamoring for effective technology has created a vibrant market.

What's gained by putting them under another nonprofit run outside of the formal budget process — and free of independent oversight?

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.

Ronald Deutsch, executive director of the Latham - based Fiscal Policy Institute, an independent, nonpartisan, nonprofit research and education organization committed to improving public policies and private practices to better the economic and social conditions of all New Yorkers, is equally dissatisfied with the status quo.

He injected himself into the Senate coup in 2009 just long enough to accrue a fancy title, and then escaped the charges filed against his compatriots; he had weathered investigations into the Aqueduct bidding contract, and a questionable nonprofit called New Directions; and somehow, despite that, he had succeeded again this spring, when he managed to cut a favorable deal for himself with the Independent Democrats, who at the time were badly in need of a non-white member to join their coalition with the Senate's (also entirely white) Republican conference.

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.

«All of this makes clear that the Supreme Court was wrong in Citizens United when it unleashed big money in our elections with the promise it would be independent of candidates and office holders,» said Paul Ryan, vice president for policy and litigation at the nonprofit watchdog group Common Cause.

An independent panel of professionals from nonprofits and foundations serving Manhattan conducts the final evaluation of applications.

Those limits on candidate donations have been dramatically surpassed by the increasingly common practice of using nonprofit groups as a vehicle to make unlimited contributions to independent political committees.

OSP manages city - affiliated, independent 501 (c) 3 nonprofits, including the Mayor's Fund to Advance New York City, whose chairwoman is First Lady Chirlane McCray; the Fund for Public Health, whose chairwoman is Dr. Mary Bassett, commissioner of the city's Department of Health and Mental Hygiene (DOHMH); and the Fund for Public Schools, which is headed by the city's schools chancellor.

He subsequently blamed much of the scandal on poor controls over the procurement process used by the nonprofits, and has proposed stepped - up oversight such as the creation of a «chief procurement officer» within the Executive Chamber — though that concept has been criticized by some as duplicative of the powers of the state Comptroller's office, only less independent.

Capel's statement ends by saying the report ignores Cuomo's achievements in pushing for greater disclosure of financial activities by elected officials as well as «independent expenditure» and nonprofit organizations, the establishment of web portals allowing greater online access to public documents, and the more recent formation of a Moreland Commission panel to examine public corruption.

As part of a compromise with the Assembly, the governor is also bolstering an independent nonprofit group that is being set up to lobby for policy changes for people with disabilities.

Based in Alaska, a nonprofit research institute founded and run by a group of independent researchers has permitted decades of scientific work.

The study, entitled COMET (Comparison of Operative to Medical Endocrine Therapy) for low - risk ductal carcinoma in situ, received funding through a $ 13.4 million, five - year award from the Patient - Centered Outcomes Research Institute (PCORI), an independent, nonprofit organization authorized by Congress in 2010 to support research that enlightens health care decisions.

Kaiser Health News, a nonprofit health newsroom whose stories appear in news outlets nationwide, is an editorially independent part of the Kaiser Family Foundation.

The latest comes from a new independent study of the accident to be released tomorrow by the Rebuild Japan Initiative Foundation, a nonprofit think tank.

A full 62 percent of independents, for instance, see global warming as a problem that justifies national leadership, according to a survey commissioned by the nonprofit Civil Society Institute.

About the New York Genome Center The New York Genome Center is an independent, nonprofit academic research institution at the forefront of transforming biomedical research with the mission of advancing clinical care.