Sentences with phrase «of the better funded campaign»

There are of course many more examples of the better funded campaign winning.

There is a clear trace through the twenty years of reports showing increasing certainty of dire conclusions and that the attempts to delegitimatize them are the result of a well funded campaign of industrial interests coupled to an economic ideological base.

Not exact matches

The north is well aware that even in the crude terms of oil and supplies, it almost certainly lacks the funds to pay for any kind of sustained military campaign, despite having one of the world's largest standing armies.

The more people who are aware of the campaign, the better the chances it will receive the necessary funding.

A roundup of useful tips and best practices for creating a campaign that meets or exceeds its funding goal.

The two candidates who were more institutional, better funded, and ran much longer campaigns... I truly believe that the strength of this was that it was a movement and it was a message that resonated.

This is probably one of the best places to direct funds as a high - quality, clever video can mean the difference between a campaign going viral or not.

There may well be a silent majority of super-rich strongly opposed to tax hikes who are funnelling campaign funds to anti-tax politicians to do their talking for them.

Since most politicians» campaigns are largely funded by wealthy companies and individuals, it would give voters a better sense of who the candidate they are voting for is actually representing if the company's logo, or individual's name, was prominently displayed upon the candidate's clothing at all public appearances and campaign events.

In April 2012 he launched a Kickstarter campaign that became the platform's best - funded fashion initiative, with more than 5,500 backers pledging nearly $ 300,000 (on an initial goal of just $ 30,000).

Through its sister organization — the Better World Campaign — the UN Foundation works to support a fully funded United Nations so that it can continue to be an effective voice for international cooperation on behalf of peace, development, human rights and the environment.

Just one day after Inc. covered the formal launch of Mosaic, a clean energy crowdfunding platform based in Oakland that connects investors with solar energy projects, the start - up has made good on its promise: In less than 24 hours, it hasalready funded four sustainable energy campaigns in California.

While any project can be successful given the right combination of preparation and execution, any attempt you make to raise significant funds will most likely need a well - planned and well - funded marketing and PR campaign.

And the false claims perpetuated in Ending the Fed's most - shared posts are well established tropes in right wing media: the leaked Podesta emails, alleged Saudi funding of Clinton's campaign, and a lack of credibility in media.

A client's Crowd Funding Campaign to raise awareness of the new product to a specific audience as well as raise money for the venture resulting in 3x client projected funds being acquired.

The entry cost to try a crowd funding campaign might be minimal, but unless you are committed to investing in a marketing campaign this may not be the best use of your time.

As a result, many creators have no access to large crowdfunding platforms, limiting their fundraising opportunities, and narrowing the reach and diversity of the platforms.Crowdfunding is now dominated by astroturfing campaigns run by large, well - funded companies, rather than indie developers.

Because of its relationship to the Mercers, who provided millions in funding, it may have violated federal campaign finance law as well.

Investors are participating in crowdfunding campaigns at staggering rates, supporting projects well into the night pushing fund raising meters higher until they reach a tipping point of success.

«It should be troubling — to «progressive» Catholics as well as others — that political operatives like John Podesta, who has been associated with Clinton campaigns and administrations for decades, admits that his organization set up (with funding from the Koch Brothers... I mean, George Soros) groups with the purpose of promoting a «revolution» — a «Catholic Spring» — «in which Catholics themselves demand the end of a middle ages dictatorship and the beginning of a little democracy and respect for gender equality in the Catholic church.»

Santorum has had trouble funding and staffing his campaign (to go with his lack of executive experience) and he has a habit of expressing his opinions in a maximally alienating way and there is no reason to expect that he will ever get much better.

What a well - funded and well - executed campaign of persuasion can do is make it easier for conservative candidates to speak to those persuadable voters who do not consume right - leaning media.

The leading fast - casual concept, known for its better - for - you food and smoothies with a tropical twist, is launching a 25 Days of Giving social campaign beginning December 1st in an effort to raise funds, awareness and recognition for a long standing partner of the brand, Camp Sunshine.

Providing better school food comes at a cost, of course, and in this case the experiment involved the assistance of a nonprofit, Turning Green, as well as a crowd - funding campaign and grants from Patagonia, the Clif Bar Family Foundation and Dr. Bronner's Family Foundation.

Some barriers include the negative attitudes of women and their partners and family members, as well as health care professionals, toward breastfeeding, whereas the main reasons that women do not start or give up breastfeeding are reported to be poor family and social support, perceived milk insufficiency, breast problems, maternal or infant illness, and return to outside employment.2 Several strategies have been used to promote breastfeeding, such as setting standards for maternity services3, 4 (eg, the joint World Health Organization — United Nations Children's Fund [WHO - UNICEF] Baby Friendly Initiative), public education through media campaigns, and health professionals and peer - led initiatives to support individual mothers.5 — 9 Support from the infant's father through active participation in the breastfeeding decision, together with a positive attitude and knowledge about the benefits of breastfeeding, has been shown to have a strong influence on the initiation and duration of breastfeeding in observational studies, 2,10 but scientific evidence is not available as to whether training fathers to manage the most common lactation difficulties can enhance breastfeeding rates.

The consensus: online fundraising rates are going up, with the Webb campaign receiving almost half of its funds through the Internet as a good example.

Though it's good to see how a well - funded and well - organized campaign approaches online social networks, most political organizations won't have to resources to do in - depth outreach and build a devoted cadre of super-activists — much less cultivate their own walled gardens.

Keep in mind, too, that the Democratic Senate Campaign Committee — maligned for not keeping pace with their well - funded Republican counterparts — was able to marshal the help and resources from a variety of labor groups.

Several labor leaders as well as the Cuomo campaign disputed the claims made by WFP State Director Bill Lipton that the governor threatened to work to end funding for the activist organizations as a result of the potential Nixon endorsement.

This was the case with the Save Darfur Campaign, as well (although in this case the trend was to wear shirts that read «Save Darfur»), where the implication was that awareness of a conflict would lead to change (note that the Save Darfur has likewise been criticised for using faulty statistics and for misuse of funds).

Cuomo brought up the hypothetical of a wealthy businessman who decides to self - fund a campaign for governor (Businessman Carl Paladino did just that in 2010, vowing to spend his own money against the very well - funded Cuomo campaign and lost in a landslide).

HTC, a small but influential labor union that has played pivotal rolls at the Capitol in recent years on issues like the legalization of casino gaming, worked with the Real Estate Board of New York to counter a well - funded campaign backed by Airbnb.

«I think it was very clear that there was something to this,» said Brian Krebs, digital director for Mr. Udall's campaign, although he cautioned that other aspects of the campaign's fund - raising operation could have had an impact as well.

«In addition, any recipient of his campaign funds should donate those monies to domestic violence causes so that some good may come from these abhorrent and indefensible acts,» they said.

Jonathan Soros (Friends of Democracy) and Eldridge (Protect Out Democracy) are both investing in a push by well - heeled New York Democrats to establish a publicly funded campaign finance system in New York.

There are good chances for approval, as proponents enjoy a significantly advantages in campaign funds and Proposition 64 enjoys stable support of about 60 per cent according to opinion surveys.

The state's Office of Alcoholism and Substance Abuse Services announced Tuesday that the funding will go toward campaigns to spread awareness of the signs of problem gambling, as well as treatment and recovery services for those struggling with the disease.

«The 6th District and America need to stop big corporate money from privatizing our democracy, which means public funding for public elections as we have in NYC and a DISCLOSE act so anonymous money from billionaires doesn't buy our government,» said Green, who is the author of Who Runs Congressand Losing Our Democracy, as well as the author of the multiple matching funds for small donors part of the City's campaign finance law.

Susan Lerner, director of Common Cause, the watchdog group that's criticized de Blasio's envelope - pushing fund - raising practices, said de Blasio's use of the loophole — as well as having a campaign treasurer also serve as his campaign - funded lawyer — is both a dodge and a conflict of interest.

Good - government groups have long derided the use of campaign funds to cover legal defense.

Those who support a convention say dramatic action is required to address corruption charges that have forced more than 30 officials out of office in a decade as well as issues such as New York's high taxes, unequal funding of schools, and the influence of big - money donors in campaigns.

Larger campaigns will often send out paid staffers for part of each day during the collection period, but only very well - funded campaigns in New York hire specific petition - gatherers.

In the 2014 State of State handbook which accompanied the speech, the governor detailed these as well as other reform initiatives, emphasizing that matching small donations with public funds would give «voice to small donors» and «help enable a diverse pool of candidates with substantial grassroots support, but little access to large donors, to run competitive campaigns.»

At a general level, coverage of the primary will often stress how Romney's campaign is well - funded and professionally run.

Good government groups have said this week's video is a questionable use of city funds that came off more like a campaign ad than your standard issue press release.

ALBANY — Sean Eldridge is a self - funder, a good Democrat on the issues, has the blessing of party bosses for his run for Congress against Chris Gibson, can talk about creating jobs with an investment fund and, again, as the husband of Facebook co-founder Chris Hughes, has more than enough money to self - fund an aggressive campaign.

Q&A topics include: why the mayor and Governor Cuomo appear friendly and cooperative on pre-K when together but express different views when apart, will the city fund a single year of full day pre-K if the state does not, how many of the prospective new pre-K seats are in traditional public schools v. charter schools, what is the greatest challenge in converting existing 1/2 day pre-K sites into full day sites, how can the mayor assure that proceeds of his proposed income tax surcharge would remain dedicated solely to the pre - K / middle school program, regulatory issues around pre-K operators, how there can be space available in neighborhoods where schools are overcrowded, how many of the prospective new sites are in schools v. other locations, why the mayor is so opposed to co-locations of charter schools while seeking to co-locate new pre-K programs, the newly - announced ad campaign by charter school supporters, his views on academically screened high schools, his view on the school bus contracts, why he refused off - topic questions Friday evening despite saying on Friday morning that he would take such questions, the status of 28 charter schools expecting to open in fall 2014 in locations approved by the Bloomberg administration, his upcoming appearance on the TV series The Good Wife and his view on city employees marching in the Manhattan St. Patrick's Day Parade in uniform / with banners.

His well - funded campaign is a plus, offering the prospect of a viable and visible presence through November.

Public financing of campaigns also would help, since most women don't have access to the good ol' boy networks that primarily fund political campaigns.

Questions during the off - topic portion of the press conference included his opinion of the expected Democratic candidate in the 11th Congressional District special election and whether he'll campaign for Gentile, the prospect of Department of Homeland Security losing funding, religious organizations renting City school facilities for prayer / worship services and the related lawsuit, a NY Post report criticizing a newly - created NYPD training program, reported terror threats against shopping malls, the absence of a Lunar New Year message from the mayor and his non-attendance at the Lunar New Year parade, his reaction to Governor Cuomo's comment that their relationship will be «the best relationship between a mayor and governor in modern political history,» his scheduled trip to Albany on Wednesday and delays in federal funding of Sandy rebuilding.