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Brill captures many of the interconnecting relationships between the practioners in schools and the policy advocates at the city, state and federal levels.

Contact: Elyse Homel Vitale, Senior Advocate, California Food Policy Advocates at [email protected] or 510-433-1122 ext. 206

Encourage and empower recognition of potential school nutrition leaders to become public policy advocates at the local, state, and national level;

Jessica Morales is a former Policy Advocate at Generation Progress.

Matt Ellinwood is a Policy Advocate at the North Carolina Justice Center's Education and Law Project.

Matthew Ellinwood is a Policy Advocate at the Education and Law Project of the North Carolina Justice Center

She was a community organizer on school reform issues for a citywide non-profit, and a policy advocate at a statewide non-profit organization.

Not exact matches

The non-profit advocates for laws and policies aimed at protecting children, provides legal representation to child victims, and offers community events, parenting classes, and counseling to support families across the Bay Area.

If anything has gotten easier for Barkan despite the physical and emotional challenges that comes with his illness, it's that the issues he is now advocating for are much simpler to explain to people than US interest rate policy, which has been his focus at the Center for Popular Democracy.

The job also puts Gore in charge of Dell's global policy initiatives, empowers her to advocate for pro-entrepreneur regulations and has enabled her to reconnect with former colleagues at the U.N. «I've lived and worked in the humanitarian world for my entire career,» she says.

And at least in the ballpark of trying to advocate for decent policies.

About one - fourth of the engineering and technology companies started in the U.S. between 2006 and 2012 had at least one key founder who was an immigrant, according to the Kauffman Foundation, a research group that advocates for entrepreneurial policy.

We impact public policy and advocate for Greater Vancouver's business community and economy at all three levels of government.

Other highlights included a report on ridesharing and innovative transportation options, the passing of seven policy resolutions at the BC Chamber AGM in Kelowna, advocating for transit and transportation funding in the Lower Mainland, the redesign of the Sounding Board newspaper, and the unveiling of a new logo and new website.

But it let the public know what its officials had at stake in the policies for which they advocated.

One of the big announcements made at Summit & Salute is our new partnership with Women Impacting Public Policy (WIPP), a leading public policy organization which advocates on behalf of women business oPolicy (WIPP), a leading public policy organization which advocates on behalf of women business opolicy organization which advocates on behalf of women business owners.

TweetOctober 26, 2016 The STEM Education Coalition Policy Forum and the Afterschool Alliance have collaborated to develop a toolkit of materials to help advocates make the case at the state and local level for science, technology, engineering, and mathematics education to be a top priority and to integrate afterschool and informal learning strategies into overall plans -LSB-...]

New Keynesians, like Simon Wren - Lewis for example, prefer to use monetary policy in normal times, but advocate fiscal policy be used at the ZLB.

Speaking at a foreign policy forum in South Carolina on Tuesday, Gingrich advocated a «commission on gold to look at the whole concept of how do we get back to hard money.»

But we also need to advocate coherent fiscal policies at the provincial level.

But the fiscal conservatives and the strong foreign - policy advocates don't have that power either, and without at least a good percentage of social conservatives to form the third leg of the Reagan coalition, no candidate has much chance of winning the Republican nomination.

This is precisely why abortion advocates expend such vast efforts at international meetings pushing for abortion policies that do in fact seek to subvert the democratic process by foisting an a priori abortion agenda on nations around the world.

Physicians are also forced, even in contexts where such matters may not be at issue, to make their ethical views known to patients, and yet are expressly prohibited «to argue or advocate» views contrary to ACOG committee policy.

Both medical experts and pro-life advocates have debated the fetal pain argument at the center of the policy.

Look at the tax policy he is advocating.

The Obama administration's new head of policy at EPA, Lisa Heinzerling, is an advocate of turning precaution into standard policy.

But, save one notable exception, the policy prescriptions made by the bishops are either accepted uncritically or criticized for not going far enough in suggesting redistributive plans for alleviating poverty (at least two contributors explicitly advocate a socialist economy).

And perhaps faith communities are also failing to be public advocates for more faithful and just policies of care at the end of life.

Wine Institute is the only U.S. organization working at the local, state, federal and international levels to initiate and advocate public policy that enhances the ability to responsibly produce, promote and enjoy wine.

Drawing from the latest food waste policy research, we've developed a comprehensive tool that will help businesses and policy makers understand current policies, explore best practices and advocate for better food waste policies at all levels of government.

«We can advocate for research and policy that place our children's health at the top,» Lambrinidou says.

In doing so you will be asked to advocate, to reach out to policy makers and other key influencers at the local, state, and national levels; to spread the word, to raise awareness.

Now advocates have a powerful tool to help them: a new procurement policy that helps put core values at the center of school food purchasing.

* Schools say tough to buy different portion sizes * Move follows complaints that rule left some students hungry * Change won't undermine overall healthier standards - advocates By Susan Heavey WASHINGTON, Dec 10 (Reuters)- U.S. regulators are relaxing school meal rules aimed at reining in calories and portion sizes after some students, parents and lawmakers complained that new stricter policies left many children hungry.

Together with more than 100,000 members, we care for 35,000 acres of conservation land, provide school, camp, and other educational programs for 225,000 children and adults annually, and advocate for sound environmental policies at local, state, and federal levels.

Jo Anne Myers - Ciecko, MPH, had her first baby at home in 1976 and has been a staunch advocate for childbearing women, the midwifery model of care and the recognition of midwifery in state and national policy ever since.

Notably, unlike Virginia's law, the policy expressly empowers game officials to remove athletes from play if they are suspected of having suffered a concussion (a power that I have been advocating for many years game officials be given, and a power conferred on game officials by laws at the state level in only Arizona, Iowa, and Ohio), and requires that coaches who disregard the safety and well being of a youth sports participant as it related to concussions be subject to indefinite suspension (only Pennsylvania and Connecticut have laws which penalize coaches for violating their statutes)

MIKAEL SOLAGE: Greetings, my name is Mikael Solage, I am a new mother I have a 11 month old son, I'm a pumping mom on the go and you know, I like to nurse at home as well but most importantly I am a law maker in New York state and I'm advocating for a family friendly policy which include lactation rooms in airport and in public buildings.

AAPD members interested in public policy issues in their state as well as policymakers and advocates for children's oral health at the state level should feel free to contact the PPA in your state.

Nick Clegg, speaking at the pre-manifesto launch, told Politics.co.uk he had been a longstanding advocate that drugs policy in Britain has been «blighted by kneejerk prejudice».

At 2 p.m., the New York Immigration Coalition, Fiscal Policy Institute, elected officials and advocates unveil new legislation and analysis in favor of granting driver's licenses to undocumented New Yorkers, Empire State Plaza, Meeting Room 7, Albany.

As a leading intellectual and advocate of democratic governance in China, Professor Yu has a number of honorary titles at many universities and was selected as one of the «30 most influential figures in the past 30 years since the reform in China» in 2008 and ranked in the «2011 Global Top 100 Thinkers» by Foreign Policy in the US.

At 1:30 p.m., a coalition of community advocates led by the Drug Policy Alliance will join Sen. Liz Krueger and Assemblywoman Crystal Peoples - Stokes to announce reintroduction of the Marijuana Regulation and Taxation Act, which would authorize recreational use of marijuana, Senate chamber, 3rd Floor, State Capitol, Albany.

Also at 11 a.m., NYC Public Advocate Letitia James, Brooklyn District Attorney Eric Gonzalez and Manhattan District Attorney Cyrus Vance Jr. call on U.S. Immigration and Customs Enforcement to rescind its new courthouse policy, New York State Supreme Court, 60 Centre St., Manhattan.

At 9 a.m., the NYC Council's Progressive Caucus advocates for bike safety and and infrastructure, and discusses transportation priorities in a new policy platform, «Resistance & Progress: 18 Progressive Policies for 2018,» with a press conference and rally co-hosted with Transportation Alternatives, City Hall steps, Manhattan.

LGBT advocates speaking with the Washington Blade couldn't identify any incidents of LGBT job discrimination at ExxonMobil, but nonetheless said a change in company policy is necessary.

Today, tipped wage workers join advocates, labor leaders, and policy experts to testify at the second of seven NYS Department...

With a primary focus on New York State, the organization also advocates at the local and national levels for sensible gun laws, policies and practices to protect New York State residents from gun violence.

«They've helped to destroy successful schools across the city of New York,» Thompson said during a panel discussion on education policy at NYU, hosted by the New York City Working Group on School Transformation, which also featured Manhattan Borough President Scott Stringer and Public Advocate Bill de Blasio who are presumptive candidates for mayor.

At 10 a.m., NYC Councilwoman Julissa Ferreras - Copeland, Council Speaker Melissa Mark - Viverito, Assemblywoman Linda Rosenthal, the Women's Caucus and advocates celebrate the passage of the nation's first menstrual equity policy to make pads and tampons free and readily available at public schools, homeless shelters and Department of Correction jails, City Hall steps, ManhattaAt 10 a.m., NYC Councilwoman Julissa Ferreras - Copeland, Council Speaker Melissa Mark - Viverito, Assemblywoman Linda Rosenthal, the Women's Caucus and advocates celebrate the passage of the nation's first menstrual equity policy to make pads and tampons free and readily available at public schools, homeless shelters and Department of Correction jails, City Hall steps, Manhattaat public schools, homeless shelters and Department of Correction jails, City Hall steps, Manhattan.