Sentences with phrase «organized groups supporting»

There don't appear to be any organized groups supporting the question.

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When not hoisting kids onto his lap in a Kelowna, B.C., mall, Tom Kliner has appeared in commercials and movies, organized international Santa conventions and formed Internet support groups (or «wreaths») for the Claus community.

More than 350 small business organizations supported the nationwide initiative with more than 50 Chambers of Commerce and 60 groups organizing events and activities in support of the day.

The Province of Ontario, organized labour, senior's groups and 78 % of respondents to a union - sponsored Environics poll have all indicated strong support for the CPP option.

«We definitely teamed up,» said Madison Knoop, 18, who organized a rally of 2,500 in Montpelier, Vt., with the support of groups dominated by adults.

Matthew Fernandes, a sales rep with Sutton Group Realty Systems, personally organized a toy drive for the CP24 CHUM Christmas Wish program, which delivers toys to children and funds support services for families.

Survivors of the school shooting in Parkland organized the March for Our Lives in DC, on March 24 with the support of Everytown for Gun Safety, a gun law reform advocacy group.

Survivors of the school shooting at Marjory Stoneman Douglas High School organized the March for Our Lives in Washington, DC, on March 24, with the support of Everytown for Gun Safety, a gun law reform advocacy group.

Organize a prayer group and meet regularly with three parishioners you trust implicitly for critique, support, and, as the name says, prayer.

A U.S. - based group called Christians United for Israel, meanwhile, this week organized a campaign of more than 45,000 e-mails of support to Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu.

Garlow, an outspoken evangelical who played a major role in organizing Christian groups in support of California's anti-gay marriage Proposition 8, spoke plainly: He would not be supporting the Republican in this race.

They are beginning to offer services above and beyond shelter: training in household management, daily monitoring of lifestyle habits like drug use, directed job - searches, organized support groups and pep - sessions and sanctions on miscreant behavior.

Before World Vision came to Colomi, a rural region east of Cochabamba, the women there tried to organize a support group for mothers of children with special needs.

On the other hand, organized opposition is strong — particularly in veterans organizations and Pentagon support groups.

It was clear that the women gathered often entered the struggle from different vantage points, they did not always agree with all that was spoken, but what could not be ignored was that there were some common issues that did draw them together — it was not accidental or designed that over one - third of the 4,000 workshops by different women's groups, from all regions of the world, focuses on the issue of violence against women — some of the best being organized by Indian women, What was at the heart of Huairou was the commitment of the women present to draw energy and support from each other — it was a consciousness that they were doing it all «for the common good.»

This is also the group least alienated from organized religion, the one that habitually tends to support churches.

The Mormon group that marched in Salt Lake City was organized by Mormons Building Bridges, a group of lay Mormons who want to show support for the lesbian, gay, bisexual and transgendered community.

On December 5, a peaceful demonstration, organized by different faith groups including the Christian Community Development Association (CCDA), in support of the Deferred Action for Childhood Arrivals immigration policy (DACA) was interrupted by law enforcement.

I am hearing about a planned organized protests by 3 AFC support groups come Saturday.

I can only hope that this attempt is taken more seriously than the largely muted and clearly unsuccessful protests of late last season... although the plane writing escapade brought some much - needed attention to the matter, it failed to resonate with fence - sitters and those who had just recently fell off the Wenger truck... without a big enough showing of support the whole endeavor appeared relatively weak and poorly organized, especially to the major media outlets, whose involvement could have significantly changed what was to follow... but I get it, few wanted to turn on their club, let alone make a public display of their discord... problem is, they are preying on that vulnerability, in fact, their counting on you to keep your thoughts to yourself... who are you to tell these fat cats how to steal your money... they have worked long and hard to pull the wool over your eyes... they even went so far as to pay enormous sums of cash to your once beloved professor to be their corporate spokesmodel so that the whole thing would be more palatable... eventually the club made it appear as if this was simply a relatively small fringe group of highly radicalized supporters, which allowed the pro-Wenger element inside the club hierarchy to claim victory following the FA Cup win... unfortunately what has happened to this club can't be solved by FA Cups or a few players coming in, the very culture of this club needs to be changed and that starts at the top... in order to change the unhealthy and dysfunctional narrative that has absorbed this club we need to remove everyone who presently occupies a position of power... only then can we get back to the business of playing championship caliber football, which should always be the number one priority of this organization... on an important side note, one of the most devastating mistakes made in the final days of this hectic and poorly planned transfer window didn't have to do with the big name players like Sanchez or Lemar, but the fact that they failed to secure Jadon Sancho, who might even start for Dortmund this season... I think they might seriously regret this oversight... instead of spending so much time, energy and manpower pretending that they were desperately trying to make big moves, they once again lost the plot due to their all too familiar tunnel vision

Coalition, a group of several local organizing factions, with plans to hold a forum and to create an educational fund for Clark's kids, and try to «support transformational change.»

Campers are organized into groups of three or four campers and are assigned a specialized group leader who supports them through their day.

I help coordinate birth parent support groups and adoptive parent education courses; we also organize and facilitate a Fall Festival and Summer Picnic each year for our families.

The Association organizes local advocates and activists for cloth diapers through a member - supported resource center which plans campaigns, trains organizers, distributes educational information, supports local groups, and connects users to the Cloth Diaper industry.

If he was n`t organizing basketball tournaments and refereeing the games himself, he was coaxing local businessmen, politicians and community group leaders to support a tiny park that had been a big magnet for gangs.

Share Pregnancy and Infant Loss Support was established in 1977 and has been active in numerous pregnancy loss advocacy and awareness activities including everything from promoting the rights of parents to bury their miscarried babies, to organizing support groups around the Support was established in 1977 and has been active in numerous pregnancy loss advocacy and awareness activities including everything from promoting the rights of parents to bury their miscarried babies, to organizing support groups around the support groups around the nation.

My support came from women in a nursing mothers» group that the lactation specialist from the hospital organized.

The Real Diaper Association organizes local advocates and activists for cloth diapers through a member - supported resource center which plans campaigns, trains organizers, distributes educational information, and supports local groups, and connects users to the U.S. Cloth Diaper industry.

Alli also co-facilitates a support group for pregnant and parenting rainbow moms and organizes birth and family professional meetings on the topic of pregnancy and infant loss.

Fagan and Iglesias16 explored the effects of Head Start fathers» participation in a program that included three components: classroom volunteering, attendance at organized fun activities, and a monthly support group.

Mother - to - mother support groups utilize a methodology that follows an organized, yet flexible format with guided discussion, rather than a formal class where «experts» teach.

Responsibilities will include planning and executing email campaigns to support our 50 - state organizing strategy and coordinating messaging for more than 20 separate constituency groups.

In the face of a round of critical statements issued by organized labor groups allied with Gov. Andrew Cuomo following her oblique comments regarding the connection between union contracts and the high cost of digging NYC subway tunnels, Cynthia Nixon received some support from an unlikely source.

Sure, commando strike teams can take a lot of work to organize and train, but groups such as MoveOn.org and the Obama campaign have created mini-online industries to support their offline work, providing volunteers with step - by - step guides to holding house parties, fundraisers, local press events and the like.

Mr. Boateng who was speaking at a focus group discussion on the «Post 2015 District Level Elections», organized by the NCCE with support from the European Union, to refresh the minds of participants on the country's decentralization concept, stressed that the issue was detrimental to the decentralization process of the country.

Here activists could sign - up for the campaign, indicate what they were willing to do to support Obama, organize their own fundraising events and join groups of like - minded or locally situated activists.

The loyalty clause, which was added in 2002, prohibits the following activities, by a committee member, involving candidates other than the party's endorsed candidate: circulating nominating petitions; appearing in advertising; permitting the committee member's name to be used in advertising or on stationery; directly or indirectly contributing financially to a campaign; and appearing at political functions, meetings or support groups organized by a rival candidate.

A successor group to the Pride Agenda, Hoylman said, would have to show itself adept at online organizing and social media in order to galvanize the support to sustain itself and work in what he termed an ever more «politically polarized» environment in New York and elsewhere.

A defendant can, for example, organize large groups of political supporters to attend a trial, he said, adding that it can be «palpable when there is community support in the courtroom.»

The video series, which was organized by the advocacy group Human Rights Campaign, is intended to rally support for a possible legislative effort to legalize same - sex marriage in New York, according to an earlier statement from the group.

In organizing the gay and lesbian community in support of the group's political and legislative agenda, Patton traveled around the state extensively.

At an event in Des Moines, Iowa, all three expressed adamant support for home schooling to a group organized around that issue.

Walsh ran his campaign with support of Republicans and Democrats alike, including a citizen - organized group called Dems for Ben.

The political party has to set up a party secretariat in virtually every ward, state, and at the national level, pay staff, promote its brand and its agenda, organize meetings, pay sitting allowances, support candidates, run media advertisements, arrange receptions and entertainment, pay for logistics, buy vehicles, pay for air travels and road transportation, the organization of rallies and campaigns, reserve some tidy sum for lobbying at all levels including the lobbying of the media and other groups in civil society.

The second highest spending pro-charter group was StudentsFirstNY, which spent $ 272,279 lobbying and organized New Yorkers for a Balanced Albany, an independent expenditure committee that spent $ 4.2 million supporting a Republican takeover of the New York State Senate.

Several groupings within the party have since organized news conferences to declare their support for his...

The affinity groups conduct projects in K — 12 schools, provide networking opportunities and mentoring to engineering students, advise companies on best practices to support women engineers, sponsor special lectures and forums, and organize social outings.

Instead of organizing in every state, Browning said the group has decided to focus on the areas where Republicans need shoring up to support clean energy or where Democrats need an extra push to be a strong voice for the environment.

«The grant will fund setting up infrastructure [for efforts to] connect groups and junior scientists around the country with our group and each other; helping local groups organize meetings and workshops by providing full - time logistical support; and beginning to look through the data that exists about the scientific enterprise [so that] we can... advocate for change,» McDowell tells Science Careers by email.

Up to now, disabled scientists have lacked a network through which to represent themselves as an organized group and to support the individual in the context of discussions inside as well as outside of scientific institutions.