Sentences with phrase «other nonprofit projects»

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Other charities that have benefited from the organization include healthcare outsourcing platform Watsi; The Water Project; the Electronic Frontier Foundation digital - rights activism group; MAPS, an organization that studies therapeutic uses of psychedelic drugs and marijuana; the medical nonprofit SENS Research Foundation; and charity: water.

Under its Internet and American Life Project, the Washington, D.C., - based nonprofit released a report that took stock of the year in social media and the findings show that we're all, unsurprisingly, connecting with each other online in a big way, with 73 percent of «online adults» using social media.

Others select significant nonprofit projects and causes to rally around together.

Yellow and green items were the most likely to have high lead levels, says Judy Braiman, president of the Empire State Consumer Project, a nonprofit group that lab - tests consumer products for lead and other heavy metals.

Such bonds function as an alternative to direct public financing of housing projects: Since interest income on PABs is tax exempt, investors are willing to buy them at very low interest rates, and this makes it relatively affordable for states, municipalities, and nonprofits to finance housing (and hospitals, infrastructure, and other public works) through the private capital market.

When charges were brought against Kaloyeros and others last fall, Gov. Andrew Cuomo directed Empire State Development, the state's chief economic development agency, to assume responsibility for the projects of FRMC and another nonprofit affiliate that figures in the federal complaint.

He's been a key player in designing the state's Buffalo Billion and other economic development projects and is credited with inventing the opaque nonprofit management model that is now under scrutiny by U.S. Attorney Preet Bharara.

As part of Governor Cuomo's 2015 - 16 Opportunity Agenda, the Nonprofit Infrastructure Capital Investment Program provides funding critical for the financing of construction projects that include renovation or expansion of program space, accessibility renovations, energy efficiency modifications, and other technology projects.

The piece mentioned, among other corruption cases, the upcoming federal trial of former SUNY Polytechnic Institute president Alain Kaloyeros, who is alleged to have rigged bids for upstate construction projects through a SUNY - affiliated nonprofit, Fort Schuyler Management Corporation, several years ago.

Pledge 2 Protect, a coalition of nonprofits and local businesses which aims to unite locals against the project, hopes the masks will highlight the pollution, vermin and other health hazards the group feels the station will produce.

Two Trees and at least nine other developers with projects near the proposed 16 - mile trolley line poured money into the mayor's campaign coffers or his nonprofit, The Post has reported.

A nonprofit fundraising arm created by Brooklyn Borough President Eric Adams to advance his summer concert series and other pet projects is being probed by both the federal government and the city's Department of Investigation for alleged impropriety, The Post has learned.

«This administration, [Michelle] Bachelet's administration, is really prioritizing climate change in a way that no other previous administration has done, including her first administration,» said Amanda Maxwell, Latin America project director at the Natural Resources Defense Council, a nonprofit international environmental advocacy group based in New York City.

The other is a project of the nonprofit Planetary Society: a biological experiment called Phobos LIFE.

Education Week, published by the 501 (c)(3) nonprofit corporation Editorial Projects in Education (EPE), was founded in 1981 to serve the public interest by providing independent, nonpartisan reporting and analysis on American precollegiate education for school leaders, other educators, policymakers, and members of the general public.

Other projects created during the class include an organization that will provide free public libraries in India; an online platform to help students make more informed decisions when applying to college; an app that gives students fun, game - based content that shows what real scientists are like; a cellphone - hosted service for rural teachers in the Philippines that provides direct training and tips; and a nonprofit that will train and employ parent liaisons to develop stronger bonds between families and middle schools in an effort to improve dropout rates.

A collaborative project between HGSE and K - 12 education nonprofit Expeditionary Learning (EL), the free resource includes videos, writing samples and other work designed to provide teachers foundations to create their own projects.

The project unites the expertise of the Public School Forum with the Massachusetts Trauma & Learning Policy Initiative at Harvard Law School and the Duke Center for Child & Family Policy, as well as other nonprofit and academic institutions.

• Stand for Children Oregon, in 2008 - 09, successfully lobbied for funding for a mentoring program for new teachers and worked with other nonprofit organizations on a project to improve teacher professional development.

While some districts no doubt see math specialists as a luxury, others now find them as essential as reading specialists, said Fennell, who is now a professor of education at Maryland's McDaniel College and director of the Elementary Mathematics Specialists and Teacher Leaders Project, a nonprofit that promotes the development of math specialists.

Other desired reviewer qualifications include prior experience designing and implementing innovative education programs; senior - level administration experience in a school district, charter management organization, state education department, or nonprofit; and experience growing and scaling a project, program, or organization.

The Fellowship's work placement embeds you within a school district, charter school, nonprofit, government agency, or other education organization in one of 20 locations across the country to tackle a strategic data or project management challenge.

Alonso's speech marked the first public acknowledgment that the city hopes to model its construction funding plan on a groundbreaking schools project in Greenville, S.C. Transform Baltimore, a coalition of education advocates led by the American Civil Liberties Union, has been lobbying city leaders to carry out Greenville's plan, which would require a nonprofit or other entity to float the bonds on behalf of the school system.

The project length is five years, and districts may apply for the funds individually or in partnership with other districts, nonprofit organizations, or their state.

The two toyed with the idea of a project modeled on the Harlem Children's Zone, a nonprofit organization that has garnered national attention for providing educational resources and other forms of support to low - income families living in Harlem, New York.

The Literacy Empowerment Foundation, a 501 (c) 3 nonprofit organization, invites your school or other literacy project to apply for FREE books for Read Across America Day.

(c)(1) The Secretary is authorized to make grants to public or nonprofit REHABILITATION facilities, or to an organization or combination of such facilities, to pay the Federal share of the cost of projects to analyze, improve, and increase their professional services to handicapped individuals, their management effectiveness, or any other part of their operations affecting their capacity to provide employment and services for such individuals.

The non - Federal share of the cost of a project may be in cash or in kind and may include funds spent for project purposes by a cooperating public or nonprofit agency provided that it is not included as a cost in any other federally financed program.

(a) The Secretary, through the Commissioner, in coordination with other appropriate programs in the Department of Health, Education, and Welfare, is authorized to make grants to and contracts with States and public or nonprofit agencies and organizations, including institutions of higher education, to pay part of the cost of projects for training, traineeships, and related activities designed to assist in increasing the numbers of personnel trained in providing vocational services to handicapped individuals and in performing other functions necessary to the development of such services.

Meanwhile, at the New Yorker site, Columbia law professor Timothy Wu is wondering if the Google Books scan project wouldn't have won more friends if Google had spun it off as a nonprofit from the start, «thereby extinguishing any fears that the company wanted to somehow make a profit from other people's work.»

He joined with several other authors (including Amy Tan, Lemony Snicket and Nora Roberts) in auctioning off character names to benefit the First Amendment Project, a nonprofit group that supports free speech.

Most housing assistance programs in Florida, such as HUD's public housing or Section 8 programs and other affordable projects provided by state and local government and nonprofits, use HUD's annual income limits.

ATLANTA, GA --(January 4, 2017) LifeLine Animal Project, the nonprofit that cares for more animals than any other animal welfare agency in Georgia, invites you to keep your New Year's resolution to be healthier by adopting a new pet for only $ 25!

As this fight rages on, nonprofit organizations, like the Beagle Freedom Project, are looking for other ways to help lab animals escape their fate of untimely death.

Kip Andersen & Keegan Kuhn — filmmakers behind the documentary «Cowspiracy: The Sustainability Secret,» which examines how the animal agriculture industry dwarfs all other causes of global climate change (and other ills), and how the most prominent environmental nonprofit organizations look the other way, and worse — discuss their respective backgrounds and how they teamed up for this project.

In addition to these projects she has served as Project Coordinator for More Art, a socially engaged nonprofit based in NYC, and she has contributed to Art Nerd, Examiner, AXS, and WhiteHot Magazine, among others.

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The Community Partnership Gallery at the Queens Museum provides opportunities for our cultural and other nonprofit organizational partners to develop and mount short - term exhibitions based on their programs and our collaborative projects.

For 6018North, she recently curated the critically acclaimed Rooting (India); The Knowledge Project at the Kochi - Muziris Biennale in India and Bling Bling at EXPO Chicago, among many other projects since the nonprofit launched in 2011.

Priority will be given to applicants who partner with museums, alternative spaces, or other local nonprofit arts organizations to present their projects.

The Community Partnership Exhibition Program at the Queens Museum provides opportunities for our cultural and other nonprofit organizational partners to develop and mount short - term exhibitions based on their programs and our collaborative projects.

Alternatively, for nonprofits or other organizations that can't take advantage of solar energy tax credits, the loan can be made to a «project sponsor.»

We are taking our Green project to the next level in partnership with municipalities in New Orleans and our surrounding parishes, other environmental nonprofits, and of course our amazing customers and supporters!

Some of these projects continue to be a part of the Earth Island family, while others have spun off and become independent, self - sustaining, nonprofits that we are proud to have helped give a leg up.

The ban is the result of more than a decade of work by many of the country's nonprofit conservation groups, including the Marine Turtle Restoration Project (Pretoma), MarViva Foundation and others.

Several of these nonprofits have now sued the government, alleging that the PACER fees are higher than they are allowed to be by law and are basically subsidizing other projects.

Such programs and models include expanding community service efforts to include a legal component, collaborating with other legal departments, working with nonprofits and community development organizations, and creating organization - wide, impactful projects.

Project partners include People's Community Clinic and Texas Legal Services Center, both are established nonprofit organizations dedicated to providing high - quality assistance to underserved Central Texans, as well as other organizations across the region.

Bitgive has raised funds for a variety of other nonprofits including Medic Mobile, TECHO, Save the Children, and The Water Project.

Some nonprofits collect food, coats, boots, gifts and an array of other items, others implement holiday programs or projects at fine arts venues, schools, community centers and churches.