Sentences with phrase «of nonprofit advocacy groups»

The questions were terrific, the back - and - forth kicked ass, and overall we turned it into a real discussion, ranging from why political ads suck to the demographics of nonprofit advocacy groups to the enduring power of cute kittens on the internet.

That's what Sandy Santana, executive director of the nonprofit advocacy group Children's Rights, told The New York Times last...

Ted Lempert, president of the nonprofit advocacy group Children Now, said Torlakson's choice of appointees will be important.

Rachel Canter, the executive director of the nonprofit advocacy group Mississippi First, said that part of the problem is that the public isn't well informed on the standards.

«California is really behind compared to the rest of the nation when you think about data systems and the ability to use data to improve practice,» said Samantha Tran, of the nonprofit advocacy group Children Now.

Not exact matches

In the same article we reported that while the Citizens United case was pending before the U.S. Supreme Court, Virginia Thomas, the wife of the Justice, created a nonprofit Tea Party advocacy group, Liberty Central, Inc., with a former lawyer for the Charles G. Koch Foundation, Sarah Field, acting as her General Counsel and a former Koch lobbyist, Matt Schlapp, serving on her board at inception.

«We tried this legislative approach,» said Mr. Barden, a founder and managing director of Sandy Hook Promise, a nonprofit advocacy group created after the massacre.

Facebook «goes into this endless hairsplitting that people should have known,» said Marc Rotenberg, president and executive director of the Electronic Privacy Information Center, a nonprofit advocacy group that has brought privacy cases before the FTC.

When I worked for a politician I was responsible for deleting all of the mass - emails sent by nonprofit advocacy groups.

According to La Leche League International, a nonprofit advocacy group that aims to raise awareness and acceptance of breastfeeding, the introduction of bottles in the 1970s changed the Italian culture dramatically.

As for the broad applicability, we're seeing it every day in the nonprofit world, as plenty of groups are learning to use their supporter lists for more than overnight fundraising and email advocacy — some are finding ways and providing tools to turn supporters into evangelists in whatever communities they're a part of (whether local or not).

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.

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.

Most political advocacy groups are formally nonprofits, but that doesn't mean that they care any less about their budgets than corporations — most end up having to spend a ridiculous amount of their time raising money.

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.

As a consultant, he has worked with scores of nonprofit groups, candidates and companies to help them achieve their advocacy, electoral and communications goals using digital tools.

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.

New Yorkers Against Corruption, a nonprofit advocacy group that opposes a convention, had $ 616,893 in its campaign account as of Oct. 6, after spending $ 431,292 since July, according to state campaign finance records.

Most of those should now be banished, and I've added a bunch of top nonprofit advocacy groups that hadn't...

And 12 years in the nonprofit space in DC has shown me that MORE women work for progressive advocacy groups than men (far more of my clients over the years have been women than men, for instance).

Most of those should now be banished, and I've added a bunch of top nonprofit advocacy groups that hadn't been monitored before.

But unlike many nonprofits and advocacy groups, OFA has a grassroots base in every state, and they have enough members to actually get a decent showing at events in a lot of districts.

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.

Brent Ferguson of The Brennan Center for Justice said that he believed Cuomo's legislation would only cover nonprofit advocacy groups, a certain class of 501 (c) 4s, if they engage in «political activity» during campaign season.

Nonetheless, Haimson, executive director of Class Size Matters, a nonprofit advocacy group, is not as satisfied with the DOE as Rosenthal.

«Drastic funding cuts have inevitably led to service cuts for Nassau County residents who often have no alternative means of transportation, meaning even longer waits and longer commutes,» said Vincent Pellecchia, associate director of the tristate Transportation Campaign, a nonprofit advocacy group in Manhattan.

Records show that Melius» foundation gave a total of $ 293,000 in grants to more than 170 nonprofit organizations in 2014, among them the FBI Agents Association, an advocacy group for current and retired FBI agents in Alexandria, Virginia; the Pat Cairo Family Foundation, which is run by North Hempstead Republican leader Joseph Cairo; and the Raj & Rajeshwari Foundation, which was run by the family of indicted restaurateur Harendra Singh.

The Network for Public Education, a nonprofit education advocacy group co-founded by historian Diane Ravitch, is calling for a national «opt out» of high - stakes standardized testing.

Also last week, the leaders of an affordable housing nonprofit and a labor - backed advocacy group provided statements to reporters chiding Wu for comments he made about internet startup Airbnb.

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.

«It's not typical of discretionary - funding projects to have a more advocacy angle, said Rachael Fauss of Citizens Union, a nonprofit group that observes city and state budgets.

A coalition of advocacy groups led by the Federation of Protestant Welfare Agencies, the Fiscal Policy Institute, and the Human Services Council are leading an effort to have state - funded nonprofits pay workers at least $ 15 / hour.

The group, a nonprofit advocacy organization formed in 2001 and historically funded by teachers unions, has long offered itself as a voice for parents and communities of color and, as such, has also been a thorn in the side of successive state and city governments, consistently pushing for more funding in the state budget to meet the needs of underserved schools and fighting against school closures and charter schools.

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.

With a federal lawsuit alleging EPA violations between the environmental advocacy group Save the Sound and Westchester County approaching the two - year mark, officials at the nonprofit are growing increasingly impatient with alleged inaction on the part of several communities.

Once terms are agreed upon with slumlord owner Rachel Arfa, the principal at Ocelto Capital Management and Ocelto Properties Management, ownership of the building will be transferred to nonprofit advocacy group Community League of the Heights (CLOTH).

His nonprofit advocacy group attempted to show Army officials the degree of community support starting an online petition drive at Drum2025.com with the goal of obtaining 10,000 signatures.

Armond Cohen, executive director of the Clean Air Task Force, a nonprofit health and environmental advocacy group, cautions that the carbon reductions from the gas boom should not induce complacency about the importance of nuclear, renewable, and other zero - carbon energy sources.

Bill McKibben, co-founder of the nonprofit climate advocacy group 350.org, took particular issue with Exxon Mobil's assertion that it remained confident that the supply - and - demand equation for petroleum would remain in its favor, even in an era of generally tightening carbon regulation.

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.

«The law requires that a food safety plan be written up and that the farms keep a record of the way it is administering the plans,» said Alexis Baden - Mayer, political director of the Organic Consumers Association, a nonprofit advocacy group.

«Whether that means there's a connection between the human form of sporadic Creutzfeldt - Jakob and the new strain of mad cow is a completely open question, but the fact that we see similar damage is intriguing,» says Michael Hansen, the senior research associate for Consumers Union, a nonprofit consumer advocacy group.

SMA experts and investigators discussed the importance of collaborating with other nonprofit research and patient advocacy groups; targeted genetics research; and new clinical approaches in the pipeline.

Twelve days after Donald Trump took office in 2017, the nonprofit environmental advocacy group NRDC filed its first lawsuit against the new administration, fighting an EPA rollback of a protection against mercury pollution.

Up to 1.6 billion pounds of plastics — from water bottles, food packaging and other consumer goods — end up in oceans every year according to Oceana, a nonprofit marine advocacy group.

«Diversity is good for the human gut,» says Cynthia Harriman, director of food and nutrition strategies with the nonprofit Whole Grains Council, an advocacy group that educates the public about health benefits of whole grains, including uncommon ones.

If future research confirms that high glucose and insulin can in fact cause some cases of Alzheimer's, it may open the door to preventative drugs that target the insulin system, says William Thies, PhD, chief medical and scientific officer at the Alzheimer's Association, a nonprofit research and advocacy group.

Today, the Environmental Working Group, an advocacy nonprofit, released its latest «Dirty Dozen» list of the 12 fruits and vegetables that are most contaminated with pesticides, as an update to its 2010 rankings.

Several groups, led by the Campaign for Fiscal Equity (CFE), a nonprofit legal advocacy organization, filed suit in 1993 claiming that New York State was depriving New York City public school students of their constitutional rights to a «sound basic education,» a standard that had been prescribed in 1982 by the state's highest court (in New York, the Court of Appeals).

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