Sentences with phrase «other other advocacy organizations»

The NAACP and many other other advocacy organizations like the Asian American Legal Defense continually push for district lines to be drawn to maximize the electability of a candidate from a select ethnic background, but this is an inherently problematic endeavor.

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Detailed profiles created with users» information can be used by government agencies to identify surveillance targets, by financial service companies to determine creditworthiness, and by businesses and other organizations (including advocacy groups and political campaigns), which can target people with advertisements and marketing campaigns tailored to their profiles.

CIFF has indicated a significant interest in funding up to 50 % of Living Goods» costs for 2015 - 2018, with the condition that Living Goods raises approximately $ 1 for every $ 1 CIFF contributes.152 Regardless of CIFF's decision, Living Goods is actively seeking funding from new and existing donors to fill its funding gap and plans to use these funds to support scaling up in Uganda and its partnerships and advocacy team's efforts to help organizations replicate the model in other places.153

It is possible that additional funding will come from other major donors — we focus on Open Phil in particular because they are one of the most significant grantmakers in effective animal advocacy, they are transparent with their donations, and they have often made recurring donations to organizations.

Despite the fact that «some school advocacy organizations, trade associations, food manufacturers, nutritionists, and other commenters suggested that NSMP [Nutrient Standard Menu Planning] be allowed as an option,» (and, by the way, is it any surprise that food manufacturers loved this approach?)

Mass Audubon's Advocacy department works with other organizations, legislators, and citizen groups to shape and strengthen environmental laws and regulations.

Anne has been involved with local midwifery and women's health advocacy organizations in the New York metropolitan area, and among other positions was the Chair of «NYC Midwives» for two terms.

«In contrast to medical opposition to home birth, almost all other maternity - related organizations (including nursing, midwifery, public health, doulas, consumer advocacy and childbirth education) support the choice to give birth at home» (Freeze, 2010, p 2 - 3).

She has steered the organization to advocacy, pressing elected officials to protect and strengthen the federal food stamp program, known as the Supplemental Nutrition Assistance Program or SNAP, the school breakfast program at Chicago Public Schools and other key social safety nets.

Mass Audubon's Advocacy department works with other conservation organizations, legislators, and citizen groups to shape and strengthen environmental laws and regulations.

If you are not already familiar with RDA, it trains and supports grassroots advocates in leading local Real Diaper Circles, compiles and distributes research on cloth diapering and leading cloth diaper advocacy, it works with media and other businesses and organizations to increase awareness about cloth diapers, and provides direct, reliable and unbiased support for consumers.

WABA Advocacy and Outreach work aims to advocate for and respond to critical, urgent and emerging issues related to the targets of the Global Strategy and Innocenti Declarations, and to increase the number of other organizations and individuals who also advocate and respond to these issues.

But attacking your target's advocacy platform can have powerful ripple effects, as we see in the case of NationBuilder: when you try to bring down one campaign or organization, you can hurt many others in the process.

We in the online advocacy business are no strangers to asking for money online — and whether you write fundraising appeals yourself or not, your inbox probably clogs up every day with email appeals from clients, competitors and other organizations to watch.

Specializing in online advocacy and its integration with other communications channels and with action in the real world, he helps organizations and campaigns use the internet to build support, spread messaging, influence Congress and other decision - makers, raise money, get votes and motivate people to act on their behalf.

This has especially been the case with advocacy organizations and interest group - based orgs (versus campaigns for election), and while I'm sure you're right that it has lots to do with the need to engage larger media markets (TV, radio, direct mail), I also wonder if there might be other reasons.

Since 2011, Reinvent Albany and numerous advocacy, business and labor organizations have supported a series of «lockbox» bills that would make it more difficult for the governor to divert funds dedicated to public transit to the General Fund or other purposes.

While this agenda item must compete with those of various other agencies and advocacy organizations jockeying for program funding at the end of the budget season, the potential risks of shuttering nonprofits could be particularly devastating across the city, as has been demonstrated recently.

The Internet Advocacy Center was launched in partnership with turner4D in 2005 to provide leading edge digital and social media consulting to advocacy groups, media outlets and other organizations seeking to leverage online channels to change policy and public awAdvocacy Center was launched in partnership with turner4D in 2005 to provide leading edge digital and social media consulting to advocacy groups, media outlets and other organizations seeking to leverage online channels to change policy and public awadvocacy groups, media outlets and other organizations seeking to leverage online channels to change policy and public awareness.

«Environmental advocacy organizations, including Riverkeeper, Scenic Hudson, NRDC, Sierra Club Atlantic Chapter, Hudson River Sloop Clearwater and many others have highlighted these widespread expert opinions on the cleanup and concur that more work needs to be done.»

Most are standalone, others are subsections of a main organization website, and a couple are hosted directly on an advocacy vendor's system.

«The Trump administration, with its actions around the census, is coming after New York's money and it's coming after our power,» said NYIC Executive Director Steven Choi, who announced his organization was joining with other advocacy groups to form a coalition called New York Counts 2020 to ensure a fair and accurate census.

«It's unfortunate that Rob Astorino's belated response to combating college sexual assault is to issue a proposal that violates federal law and runs counter to what virtually every other student and advocacy organization in New York has called for, showcasing what little thought he put into this very real issue.»

Mr. Schneider said the police department will work with other local agencies, advocacy organizations and mental health experts to determine how to strengthen the county's overall approach in dealing with over 1,000 sex offenders.

In addition to the Ampuero family, others at tonight's vigil included State Senator Jose Peralta, City Council Member Danny Dromm and advocacy organizations Make Queens Safer, Families for Safe Streets and Transportation Alternatives.

Sen. Mark Grisanti, who, like other Republican incumbents and first - time candidates across the state, is under fire from Democrats and their allies in women's rights advocacy organizations for failing to support the full Women's Equality Act, has tapped his daughter, Theresa, to defend his record.

The Democratic - led Assembly previously approved the measure favored by the Fair Elections umbrella group, a coalition of labor - backed organizations and other liberal - leaning advocacy groups.

Nevertheless, Klein has come under criticism from liberals and other advocacy organizations for the Senate's failure to pass measures aimed at strengthening abortion rights, the DREAM Act and the full public financing of political campaigns.

Although a third party with its own ballot line in New York and a few other states, the WFP largely functions as an advocacy organization within Democratic Party politics, endorsing and campaigning for left - leaning contenders in local primary elections.

Calls for Voter Reform: Voter turnout was low as usual for this week's elections, and on Tuesday, the «Vote Better NY» coalition, led by NYC Votes, the voter outreach arm of the city's Campaign Finance Board, along with other advocacy and good government organizations launched a petition drive to highlight the importance of election reform and call on lawmakers to pass legislation to modernize elections in New York.

Just two days ago, Mark - Viverito and New York's 28 other Democratic electors donated their Electoral College salaries — a total of $ 435 — to the New York Immigration Coalition, a well - known immigrant policy and advocacy organization despite feeling discouraged as they cast their votes for their preferred candidate Hillary Clinton following her bruising loss to Donald Trump last month.

Students will be joined by city and state elected officials and other advocacy organizations.

TBDA is a nonprofit organization dedicated to raising awareness and promoting advocacy to find a cure for Lyme and other tick - borne diseases.

As previously reported, community activists from #SaveNYC, another advocacy organization, and other groups have criticized Manhattan Borough President Gale Brewer for proposing alternative legislation.

One of the «strategies for the future» that the report identifies is: «Party leaders, advocacy organizations, and other political groups also need to make an active effort to reach out to individual women about running for seats.

The commission also should represent the interests of the gamut of other people and groups that interact with the criminal justice system — prosecutors, judges, police and correction officers, people in prison, defense attorneys, advocacy groups, think tanks, victims» rights organizations, and academics.

Although toxicology studies have demonstrated that both of these dyes are relatively safe, the Center for Science in the Public Interest (CSPI) and other advocacy organizations have long argued that these and other artificial colorings may be linked to attention deficit disorder (ADD).

«Others are catching up fast,» said Marty Hauser, vice president for Washington operations at the Space Foundation, an advocacy organization headquarters in Colorado Springs.

Fellows will be expected to make substantive contributions to the work of their organization, including conducting policy research and analysis; drafting reports and analyses; attending government and industry meetings and conferences; and participating in other advocacy activities.

With a mission focused on advocacy, research, patient education and awareness, the organization serves advocates in every state of the U.S. and many others around the world.

Professional associations also can help organize the advocacy activity of scientists, thereby amplifying their voice, especially when other organizations are engaged.

More than 50 representatives from patient advocacy organizations and other nonprofits, biopharmaceutical and medical device companies, academia and government agencies participated.

Advance and promote the discipline by participating in partnerships with government agencies, foundations, and / or nonprofit organizations, such as funding agency grant panels or other advocacy / advisory boards to contribute to the advancement and promotion of the discipline.

Clinical Research Advocacy — Collaborating with other professional organizations to promote the advancement and support of clinical and translational research to Congress and federal agencies

You can also ask for referrals from families involved with NAMI or other advocacy organizations.

Curious thing though, if interval training burns far more calories in the same amount of time why is it that the all the big health advocacy organizations like AHA recommend brisk walking rather than intervals as the best way to lose weight??? Its because there are other factors to consider when deciding what the best form of carido is!

A 2006 national survey by the Center on Education Policy, an independent advocacy organization in Washington, DC, found that in the five years after enactment of NCLB, 44 percent of districts had increased instruction time in elementary school English language arts and math while decreasing time spent on other subjects.

Lots of other groups are joining the advocacy chorus, including business groups, the unions, and civil rights organizations.

Although an advocacy organization may have an incentive to understate the strength of these laws, it is unlikely that any overall downward bias would create problems for our assessment of states relative to one another (and, in fact, these scores have been used in a number of other scholarly studies).

The vast majority of EP alumni work for other education organizations, including high - performing charter school networks and education nonprofits, state and federal agencies that allocate billions of dollars across the sector and impact millions of children, education policy and advocacy organizations, and ed tech companies.