Sentences with phrase «organizing grassroots campaigns»

Our Clinic has been involved in test case litigation, organizing grassroots campaigns, and making numerous submissions to all levels of government and to international human rights bodies to advance the rights of our clients and the broader communities of disadvantaged groups.

City school officials have withdrawn a controversial proposal to co-locate a charter school at IS 285 Meyer Levin School for the Performing Arts in East Flatbush after the school community and neighborhood groups joined forces to organize a grassroots campaign to oppose it.

Democrat Glenda Ritz organized a grassroots campaign opposing his policies with the financial backing of the Indiana State Teachers Association and hundreds of small donors, many of them teachers who had come to loathe Bennett and his policies.

As reported by PR Watch, Entergy's Jim Steets described ProActive's work for NY AREA as: «If there are events or messages, things that we should attend or that people who agree with us might want to attend, ProActive is helpful in organizing the grassroots campaign that would demonstrate that there are people who subscribe to this [NY AREA's] mission.

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Also in support of Farm to School, Slow Food USA launched a Time for Lunch campaign yesterday, to organize a national day of action on September 7 with grassroots Eat - Ins around the country, reminiscent of their monumentally successful event in San Francisco last year.

On December 1st, the New Organizing Institute and the Center for American Progress hosted a discussion among four participants in campaign 2006: Benjamin Rahn from ActBlue, Megan Matson from Mainstreet Moms Organize or Bust (a grassroots group), Tom Matzzie from MoveOn and Jessica Vanden Berg, Jim Webb's campaign manager.

We've already looked at the campaign's grassroots - organizing model, which required a tremendous investment in time from — and an immense amount of trust in — volunteer team members and their recruits, but the Obamans ventured out onto plenty of other ground on which political campaigns normally fear to tread.

To that end, campaigns often make it very clear where money is going, for instance raising funds for a particular stated task such as running TV ads or supporting grassroots organizing in a defined area.

Here's one angle of the Brown campaign that hasn't gotten much attention: Brown's folks used free Google online tools to help organize grassroots voter outreach and to collect field data.

As we've talked about before, grassroots field organizing hasn't been in the Republican establishment's blood in the past couple of election cycles (the Tea Party folks have had a monopoly on that aspect of campaigning on the Right).

Some of us in the online politics space have wondered what Obama 2012 would roll out to replace 2008's MyBarackObama.com, and now we know: the Wall Street Journal has the scoop on the campaign's new «Dashboard» grassroots organizing tool.

Both are labor intensive, since it takes a sizable staff to crank out messages and organize canvassers, meaning that grassroots - powered campaigns by their nature generate trained staff and volunteers in droves.

The curriculum is quite comprehensive; taught by a hodgepodge of veteran operatives and campaign professionals who donate their experience via lectures, webcasts, and grassroots campaigning exercises — all in an effort to raise future leaders equipped with skills in fundraising, community organizing, communications, and legislative action.

His campaign consisted of a combination of aggressive grassroots events organized in part by his campaign manager Doug Friedline and original television spots, designed by quirky adman Bill Hillsman, using the phrase «Don't vote for politics as usual.»

On December 1st, the New Organizing Institute and the Center for American Progress hosted a discussion among four participants in campaign 2006: Benjamin Rahn from ActBlue, Megan Matson from Mainstreet Moms Organize or Bust (a grassroots group), Tom Matzzie from MoveOn and Jessica Vanden Berg...

At our training event, you'll develop a deeper understanding of what makes the most sense for your union local, civic engagement project, nonprofit, advocacy campaign or grassroots organizing effort.

Local campaign staff and candidates, staff at union locals labor organizations not based in DC, community organizing groups that aren't part of national networks, grassroots groups that aren't getting funding from the main backers of community organizing and progressive causes, staff working in local government, and the list goes on and on.

The next campaign managers must decide: Follow the online - offline hybrid model used by Obama in 2008, or use technology in new ways to scale grassroots and field organizing beyond what has yet been possible.

Labor's candidates for United States Senate, Congress, State Senate and Assembly were victorious yesterday, with organized labor's massive get - out - the - vote grassroots efforts an integral part of each campaign.

Cat's campaign manager, Eben Bronfman, despite working on non-competitive elections with District Attorney Robert Morgenthau, was somehow hired to manage a citywide election that could have taken off in the right direction but never did because Bronfman's strategy emphasized media outreach and press events instead of organizing boots on the ground for a grassroots GOTV operation.

Sanders, a veteran US legislator who energized a nationwide movement of media - savvy young voters in his presidential race, and Teachout, whose political experience includes serving as the internet organizing guru for Howard Dean's 2004 presidential bid — arguably the dawn of the current trend for social media to play a significant grassroots role in national political campaigns — operate largely from the same playbook.

Some of FreedomWorks» campaigns have been called «astroturfing», and some claim that they project a false impression of grassroots organizing.

Part of Gov. Howard Dean's presidential campaign Internet team, where he wrote and edited emails and also worked on message development, online brand building, and grassroots organizing.

Hogan was the grassroots organizing lead for the Minnesota caucus campaign, and also was the Minnesota lead for the campaign's Ramp Up grassroots organizing program in April - May 2015.

StudentsFirstNY organized the rally as a part of its grassroots outreach campaign to encourage the passage of Governor Cuomo's education Opportunity Agenda, and has mobilized hundreds of parents to make phone calls, canvass and rally on behalf of the Governor's agenda.

(Recall that de Blasio is a big labor guy and also largely owes his election in 2009 to the WFP, which subscribes so heavily to the grassroots organizing campaign model that it has its own for - profit field arm).

Presented with extraordinary circumstances this past weekend, organized labor was able to overcome a daunting challenge and implement a coordinated grassroots campaign that helped propel our candidate to victory.

The independent conservative grassroots group, which has organized many of the larger tea party movement events over the past two years, is launching a campaign to expose «Jack Davis's record as a big government liberal.»

They do great grassroots organizing and really if it wasn't for them I do not believe that even the minimal successes that we've had about Campaign for Fiscal Equity compliance and money would have happened.»

In the summer of 2015, McKenzie helped organize «Ulster for Bernie,» a grassroots group that made calls and knocked on doors on behalf of Sanders primary campaign.

While the money donated to the state party housekeeping account can not be used directly on campaigns, it can be used as part of the coordinated House effort for things like polling, field work, issue advocacy, and digital and grassroots organizing, officials said.

UPDATE: Murphy's campaign said the initiative «organized under the umbrella of Murphy's re-election committee, will fund organizers to work in collaboration with the campaigns of the Connecticut Congressional delegation and the Connecticut Democratic Party to recruit and train volunteers, offer action alerts to existing organizing groups, provide messaging help to grassroots activists, and provide a conduit between local activism and the fight in Washington to defeat the reckless policies of the Trump administration.»

From managing national campaigns to organizing issue advocacy messages through thousands of volunteer contacts, Lincoln Strategy Group uses grassroots efforts to successfully achieve results.

Another $ 40,000 went to North Star Fund as a matching grant «to educate and organize grassroots communities on the need for high - quality, universal Pre-K and after - school and the UPKNYC plan to pay for these critical investments,» said a campaign spokesman.

Together, I hope that we can create a campaign that supports and strengthens organizing and organizations, a grassroots campaign funded by ordinary people up against Cuomo and the millionaires.

The campaign will also involve TV and digital ads, social media organizing, and a «robust» grassroots effort, including in Long Island and the northern suburbs — the two regions where the fight for control of the state Senate is expected to be most fierce, organizers say.

The grassroots network, whose slogan is «Youth united for clean and just energy,» has a small staff and a larger council and steering committee that help young people organize rallies and publicity campaigns.

A key aspect of the grassroots campaign involved organizing the parents of the 40,000 children in charter schools as well as the 40,000 on charter school waiting lists.

They accuse Parent Revolution of «astro - turfing» — masking highly organized efforts as grassroots campaigns.

Our members lead the charge for change by building a movement of forward - thinking educators through grassroots organizing; identifying, training and supporting teacher leaders to take on key leadership positions in their schools, districts, states and unions; creating teacher - led policy recommendations on issues selected by local educators; and advocating for implementation of those ideas through teacher - driven campaigns.

Founded in 2010, AUCC works to build capacity in Arkansas» immigrant and multiethnic communities through grassroots organizing, trainings, awareness - and coalition - building campaigns and guided practice in community building.

The demonstrations were organized under the umbrella of Arizona Educators United, a grassroots group that mobilized teachers and supporters across the state through their #RedforEd campaign.

Therefore grassroots campaigning truly did make a large difference, and the victory indicates «the potential of substantial pushback against the corporate agenda from coordinated grassroots organizing.»

They've recently shifted their grassroots strategy; whereas they used to set goals for leaflets distributed or students reached through presentations, they now also set goals for volunteer recruitment and community building, and their volunteers now play a larger role in their campaigns.20 THL also organizes on college campuses, providing training and leadership development for college students.

We believe a powerful global network of local movements working to stand in solidarity with one another at the global level, and transform their communities through popular education, grassroots organizing, and campaigning at the local level, is essential to stopping global climate change.

At NYLPI, Eddie organized numerous grassroots coalitions and campaigns, including the Organization of Waterfront Neighborhoods (OWN) and Communities United for Responsible Energy (CURE), two citywide coalitions of community - based organizations which blocked the siting of mega-waste transfer stations, large power plants, incinerators and sludge plants in environmentally - burdened, low income communities of color, while changing City and State solid waste and energy policies.

350 uses online campaigns, grassroots organizing, and mass public actions to oppose new coal, oil and gas projects, take money out of the companies that are heating up the planet, and build 100 % clean energy solutions that work for all.

This victory was a testament to the power of grassroots organizing and the long - term campaigning of partner organizations in New York.

(See, for example, Ethical Issues Entailed By Economic Arguments Against Climate Change Policies, The original organizations that sought to undermine public support on climate policies by exaggerating scientific uncertainty have expanded to include ideological think tanks, front groups, Astroturf groups (i.e., groups organized by industry that pretend to be a legitimate grassroots organization), and PR firm led campaigns.

The campaign is organized by 350.org, a grassroots climate organization founded by author turned activist Bill McKibben.