Sentences with phrase «old educational nonprofit»

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In most cases they have overcome both political fragmentation and government overload by replacing their old governmental bureaucracies with an innovative and effective form of governance: coalitions (composed of business, government, nonprofits, universities, neighborhood and minority associations, and religious groups) that develop a cooperative agenda to improve the city and that assume many of the city government's traditional functions (economic development, long - term planning, educational reform, even care of the homeless), and that also operate like political parties of yore (providing the point of access for new groups and a public realm for discourse, debate, and negotiation concerning matters of the common good).

The Education Testing Service (ETS), the world's largest private testing and educational measurement organization, and the Advertising Council, a nonprofit organization of advertising professionals that does pro bono work, have aimed this campaign at children 10 to 14 years old.

A 2005 report by the Center for Teaching and Learning, part of the nonprofit educational research group WestEd, said that back then nearly 100,000 teachers in California were more than 50 years old.

Small nonprofits, education technology startups, and companies that have never dabbled in producing educational content are stepping up to create learning apps and even full curricula that schools can use in addition to — or in place of — their old textbooks.

«The Heartland Institute is a 33 - year - old national nonprofit educational organization.

### The Institute for Local Self - Reliance (ILSR) is a 40 - year - old national nonprofit research and educational organization.

Besides educational sessions, attendees took caleche tour of old Montreal and participated in poker night, which raised about $ 4,000 for The Sunshine Kids, a nonprofit organization dedicated to improving the lives of children with cancer.