Sentences with phrase «operated by nonprofit»

Owned and operated by the nonprofit Montgomery Housing Partnership (MHP), the Bonifant at Silver Spring is 11 stories and contains 149 housing units.

The 15,500 sq. ft. Children's Museum, operated by the nonprofit Iowa Children's Museum, features a gallery with five rotating hands - on exhibits and classes, an art studio and a children's theater.

Birth control pills contain hormones that thin the lining of the uterus, which can result in shorter, lighter periods that are less painful, according to Bedsider, an online birth control support network that is operated by a nonprofit organization, The National Campaign to Prevent Teen and Unplanned Pregnancy.

Jinni Sinnott, with the Veterinary Specialty Center of Tucson, suggests calling the Animal Poison Control Center operated by the nonprofit American Society for the Prevention of Cruelty to Animals at 1 -888-426 - 4435.

The Los Angeles Best Friends Pet Adoption & Spay Neuter Center, a Mission Hills facility owned by the city of Los Angeles and operated by the nonprofit animal welfare organization Best Friends, launched its iPet Companion virtual play room Wednesday.

The shelter operated by the nonprofit Animal Friends of the Valleys is engaged in a national competition sponsored by the American Society for the Prevention of Cruelty to Animals to save the lives of abandoned or straypets who otherwise would be euthanized.

Typically they are operated by nonprofit organizations that rely on donations to provide seed money but then use the same per - pupil money doled out to the public schools for ongoing operations.

After all, the federal, state, and local governments already works with faith - based operations to provide healthcare and other services — including $ 3 billion in federal dollars into Catholic Charities alone — while Centrist Democrat and progressive school reformers are more than happy to back charters, which are operated by nonprofit and even for - profit organizations, and support federal and state student aid (which flows into private and parochial universities).

The schools, nearly all operated by nonprofit organizations, are free from some of the regulations that traditional district schools must follow and most of their teachers are not in unions.

This program is limited to 260 participants and is operated by nonprofit organizations and institutions that offer undergraduate and master's courses in teaching.

The schools are operated by nonprofit groups that must apply to local school boards for sponsorship.

CSDC was the lead catalyst, architect and advocate for the establishment of a $ 25 million Congressional demonstration program in 2001, the forerunner to the Credit Enhancement for Charter School Facilities Program administered by the U.S. Department of Education, which has provided several hundred million dollars in grants nationally for credit enhancement and revolving loan programs operated by nonprofit organizations and state agencies.

For instance, a long discussion of charter - school results cites two of the important CREDO research reports but omits a crucial third one that shows hugely disparate impacts of different types of charter schools (with those operated by nonprofit charter management organizations vastly outperforming «mom - and - pop» and other charter sectors such as for - profit and online charter schools).

Longwood is run by Edison Schools, which is for - profit, while Bucktown and Prairie are operated by the nonprofit American Quality Schools.

The shelter had been operated by nonprofit service provider Aguila, Inc. for a year without an official contract, before then - City Comptroller John Liu rejected DHS's bid for a five - year, $ 46.8 million contract in July 2013.

• Moving Buffalo Manufacturing Works, the industrial innovation center operated by nonprofit EWI, to the Northland Corridor in the Fillmore - Ferry area; expanding greenway space in the Niagara Gorge corridor; and additional state funding at the Buffalo Niagara Medical Campus, historic sites, and in waterway access areas.

In the 24 states where online charter schools exist, some are locally operated by nonprofits using commercial platforms and content, some nonprofits contract with local partners for content and instructional services, and other nonprofits contract with national partners.

Not exact matches

Backed by organizations such as Winrock International, a global nonprofit focused on economic opportunities for the disadvantaged, the Northwest Arkansas Entrepreneurship Alliance runs The Iceberg co-working facility in downtown Fayetteville and Gravity Ventures, an angel investment fund operating in Arkansas and Indiana.

Besides SolarCity, another cornerstone is Buffalo Manufacturing Works, which is operated by EWI, a nonprofit engineering services R&D company based in Columbus, Ohio.

Founded in 2009, GiveDirectly is a nonprofit organization operating in East Africa that helps families living in extreme poverty by making unconditional cash transfers.

The city is a destination for an underground railroad operated by Mark Arabo, founder of the Minority Humanitarian Foundation, a nonprofit that seeks safe passage for Iraqi Christians fleeing ISIS.

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).

Hun accepted Brewster's apology and backed off his calls to have AIM kicked out of the country, but the incident highlights the fragile relationship faith - based nonprofits have with the countries in which they operate, and how easily that relationship can be fractured by even minute errors.

The Rolex is made by a company that operates more like a nonprofit than a business, and uses parts of its revenue to support charities, assist the blind, provide jobs for craftsmen and fund schools that teach the art of watchmaking.

The Postharvest Education Foundation is a nonprofit public benefit corporation, organized and operated to engage in any lawful activity permitted by Section 501 (c) 3 of the Internal Revenue Code of 1986, as amended, and the Oregon Nonprofit Corporanonprofit public benefit corporation, organized and operated to engage in any lawful activity permitted by Section 501 (c) 3 of the Internal Revenue Code of 1986, as amended, and the Oregon Nonprofit CorporaNonprofit Corporation Act.

[31] Once school districts have earned federal reimbursements through the National School Lunch or School Breakfast Programs by serving reimbursable meals, they may spend the funds on any nonprofit school food program they operate.

The mansion and greenhouse now rub shoulders with the Lizzadro Museum of Lapidary Art, the Elmhurst Art Museum, a large playground and a series of formal gardens — most operated by the Park District and the city in partnership with private nonprofit groups.

By Sean Ryan Nonprofit developers operate in a market that could put them out of business with one bad deal.

ALBANY — Two years ago, Shahking Gomez was unemployed when his job search led him to the Soundview HealthCare Network, a group of nonprofit health clinics in the Bronx operated by the State Senate majority leader, Pedro Espada Jr..

Pedro G. is employed by the nonprofit Soundview Healthcare Network and was also listed as an employee of Soundview Management Company, the for - profit business Espada owns and operates, for most of 2008, Cumo's office says.

National Quality Forum (NQF) is a nonprofit organization that operates to improve the quality of American healthcare by building consensus on national priorities and goals for performance improvement and working in partnership to achieve them; endorsing national consensus standards for measuring and publicly reporting on performance; and promoting the attainment of national goals through education and outreach programs.

The National Academies of Sciences, Engineering, and Medicine are private, nonprofit institutions that operate under an 1863 congressional charter to the National Academy of Sciences, signed by President Lincoln.

While most Head Start programs nationwide are run by private, nonprofit agencies, Chicago is one of the largest school districts operating a program.

When Bill Honig knocks off work as California's superintendent of education and heads for home, he arrives at the headquarters of the Quality Education Project, a nonprofit parent - involvement project operated in the family residence by his wife, Nancy.

They are being funded and operated by a constellation of philanthropies, nonprofits, schools, and corporations.

New Orleans overhauled its public school structure by transitioning to a system where nonprofits operate schools and government regulates the system.

The Metropolitan Nashville Public Schools board voted 7 - 2 Tuesday night to reject an application by Great Hearts Academies, a nonprofit that operates prep - school - like charter schools, for five new establishments.

Ms. Schmitt, 35, was previously the chief operating officer for New American Schools, a private, nonprofit group based in Arlington, Va., that promotes the use of comprehensive improvement models by schools.

At the same time, the characteristics of staff members in community - based prekindergarten programs, operated by private nonprofit and for - profit groups, more closely resemble those of workers in child - care...

Under Washington's proposed law, charter schools would have been public schools operated by private nonprofit groups that contract with local school boards or the state school superintendent.

Across the nation, 604 charter schools, or 12 percent, operate with unions, and more than half of them must do so under state laws, according to data compiled for the last school year by the National Alliance for Public Charter Schools, a nonprofit advocacy organization.

Perhaps its most controversial elements involve the potential for increased public funding of charter schools, all of which hold nonprofit status, but some of which are operated by for - profit management franchises, and a proposal to transfer authority over the IPS district from an elected school board to a board appointed by the city's mayor and city - county council.

A coalition of education - advocacy groups behind the effort is seeking a maximum of 40 public charter schools over five years, operated by qualified nonprofits and overseen by a local school board or a special state commission.

CSDC's nonprofit charter school clients are the very epitome of entrepreneurial small businesses founded and operated by community - focused leaders.

Fourth, and most importantly for the purposes of this report, Florida's program is operated by private, nonprofit scholarship organizations, while Arizona's state department of education administers the program for that state.

A hope operator is a nonprofit organization with tax exempt status under s. 501 (c)(3) of the Internal Revenue Code that operates three or more charter schools that serve students in grades K - 12 in Florida or other states with a record of serving students from low - income families and is designated by the State Board of Education as a hope operator based on a determination that:

And, by a narrow vote, it approved AB 1084, another bill by Bonilla, which would ban for - profit online charter schools and those nonprofit online charters that are operated and supplied by a for - profit parent.

The Los Angeles - based nonprofit operates 10 local charters as well as Locke High, the district's first traditional high school to be taken over by a private operator.

Two — Oscar De La Hoya Animo Charter High School and Animo Watts College Preparatory Academy — are operated by Green Dot Public Schools, a nonprofit organization that manages 20 schools in Southern California.

Threatened only a week ago with closure by Oct. 1, the center now will remain open until June as Los Angeles school officials seek bids from a nonprofit or private entity to operate the facility, school officials announced.