Sentences with phrase «old nonprofit coalition»

«What we hear from our members is that they want SEL in their schools, but need to learn how to leverage the tremendous benefits of SEL to overcome the natural tendency of schools to be concerned with testing and compliance,» said Mitch Lyons, one of the organizers of SAM, a two - year old nonprofit coalition of individuals who work in schools, hospitals, associations, businesses and nonprofits.

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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 old policy was established under the United Animal Coalition, a Greensboro - based nonprofit that ran the shelter until last year — when its licensed was revoked after an investigation into charges of animal cruelty.

The Chicago Artists Coalition is a 40 - year old nonprofit artist service organization dedicated to building a sustainable marketplace for entrepreneurial artists and creatives.

Ebell, a 64 - year - old veteran of Washington's policy wars, is director of energy and environmental policy for a libertarian nonprofit organization called the Competitive Enterprise Institute (CEI), which helped start the Cooler Heads Coalition in 1997.