Sentences with phrase «policy and research organizations»

I tried to leave a few times, but I quickly realized that there are a lot of policy and research organizations out there but few that are really doing path - breaking, nonpartisan, and really pragmatic work.

The Council of the Great City Schools, based in Washington, is a national policy and research organization in urban education that represents 65 urban public school districts.

The Alliance for Excellent Education — a Washington - based policy and research organization — surveyed 1,200 adults this month and found that 32 percent said they believed the quality of public high school education had declined nationwide.

The Education Trust - Midwest, a non-partisan education policy and research organization, notes that although there was some improvement overall, the M - STEP results still show evidence of economic and racial achievement gaps.

Not exact matches

Coin Center, a non-profit research and advocacy organization in Washington, has met with members of Congress and their staff about the bill to argue that while the policy goals make sense, the language as drafted isn't needed, said Peter Van Valkenburgh, director of research.

O.C. Tanner's research found that the people who created the most value in their organizations were those whose work required them to adhere to rules, policies and procedures, not those who were given carte blanche.

Given that our esteemed lawmakers can't seem to agree on anything these days, the entrepreneurship organization is a long way from being able to guarantee that such a measure will ever pass, but on the Hill's Congressional Blog recently, Kauffman's policy director Jason Wiens and Dane Stangler, the organization's vice president of research and policy, did make a strong case regarding why it should.

He mentioned that his organization recently posted an opening for an entry - level policy and research analyst.

Canadian Council of Chief Executives The Canadian Council of Chief Executives (CCCE) is a not - for - profit, non-partisan organization composed of the CEOs of Canada's leading enterprises engaged in an active program of public policy research, consultation and advocacy.

Peter Thiel speaks during a news conference on «nonprofit, nonpartisan organization dedicated to economic research and innovative public policies for the 21st century» at the National Press Club in Washington October 3, 2011.

He is a former director of BMC Software, Inc., a non-public software corporation based in Houston, Texas, and serves on the board of the following not - for - profit organizations: School of Public Policy, University of Calgary (Executive Fellow), National Research Council of Canada, Ontario Global 100 Network (Chair), C.D. Howe Institute, and Canadian Council of Chief Executives.

A useful piece on the «new» Danish Economy and why it works by Jonathan Cohn, a senior editor at the (American) New Republic and a senior fellow at Demos, a US - based national, non-partisan public policy, research and advocacy organization.

The Atlantic Provinces Economic Council (APEC) is a policy research organization whose mandate is to further economic progress in Atlantic Canada and build synergies among its stakeholders to strengthen the region's position in a rapidly changing world.

Last fall, Facebook told lawmakers it would tighten its ad policies after disclosing that more than 3,000 ads were bought by 470 fake accounts and pages run by the Internet Research Agency, a shadowy organization in St. Petersburg, Russia.

Councils, Committees and Working Groups — led by representatives of our member organizations — determine how to fulfill consumers» needs, help shape the association's policy positions, identify industry - wide model practices, direct scientific research and ensure strong and frequent collaboration among members and with retail trading partners.

TNO is an independent research organization that combines academic excellence, CRO expertise and knowledge of international markets and policies.

(2014 Local Food Awareness Report for Gulfport MS, found at www.helpingpublicmarketsgrow.com) • Vermont: Researched and wrote report on SNAP, FMNP technology and policy answers for VT farmers markets in collaboration with NOFA - VT and VAAFM (2013 Vermont Market Currency Feasibility Report found at www.helpingpublicmarketsgrow.com • Vermont: Working with Vermont Law School on legal resources for farmers and market organizations.

He is also the senior advisor for policy, research, and education at SADD (Students Against Destructive Decisions), an organization he served as national chairman and chief executive officer for more than fifteen years.

ACOG and SMFM are encouraging individuals, organizations and governing bodies to conduct research aimed at developing a stronger knowledge base to direct decisions regarding cesarean delivery and to facilitate policy changes that safely lower the rate of primary cesarean births in the US.

Safe Kids Connecticut is a multi-faceted organization that works to reduce death and injury rates of children through community education, public policy change, creating safe environments, and conducting research.

The Foundation for the Advancement of Midwifery (FAM) is a 501 (c)(3) non-profit organization dedicated to increasing access to midwifery in North America through education, research and public policy.

The Food Research & Action Center (FRAC) is the leading national nonprofit organization working to improve public policies and public - private partnerships to eradicate hunger and undernutrition in the United States.

The Center on Budget & Policy Priorities is a nonprofit research organization focused on the impact of public policy on low and moderate - income AmerPolicy Priorities is a nonprofit research organization focused on the impact of public policy on low and moderate - income Amerpolicy on low and moderate - income Americans.

As the New York Times article discusses more fully, the impetus for the price increase was a finding by the Center on Budget and Policy Priorities, a research organization in Washington, that by keeping the price of the full meal too low, the paid meals were effectively being subsidized by the federal dollars which are supposed to be allocated to the meals provided to kids who are on free / reduced lunch.

«The Institute is proud to have nurtured and built the Empire Center to the point where it can stand on its own as an organization focused on policy research and education in New York State,» Mone said.

Ronald Deutsch, executive director of the Latham - based Fiscal Policy Institute, an independent, nonpartisan, nonprofit research and education organization committed to improving public policies and private practices to better the economic and social conditions of all New Yorkers, is equally dissatisfied with the status quo.

Chris Nowinski, Ph.D., is co-founder and CEO of the Concussion Legacy Foundation, a non-profit organization dedicated to solving the sports concussion crisis through education, policy, and research.

In June, Paul E. Singer, a hedge fund manager who is the chairman of the conservative Manhattan Institute for Policy Research, and Mr. Loeb each donated $ 1 million to the organization's political action committee.

Gotham Gazette is published by Citizens Union Foundation of the City of New York, a nonprofit organization that conducts in - depth research on public policy and promotes public policy solutions.

Celia Weaver, research and policy director at New York Communities for Change (NYCC), a progressive organization that frequently critiques de Blasio on housing, homelessness and other issues, told Observer the mayor is measuring the poverty level of individuals who make $ 32,000 a year or below but that his housing plan does not account for that.

Cabrera, who is a longtime foe of marriage equality and a leader in the effort that recently overturned the public schools» policy against church congregations using their space for worship services, has for years worked with the Family Research Council, an organization condemned as a hate group by the Southern Poverty Law Center.

American Political Science Association (APSA): The Section on Human Rights was established to encourage scholarship and facilitate exchange of data and research findings on all components of human rights (e.g., civil, political, economic, social, cultural, environmental), their relationship, determinants and consequences of human rights policies, structure and influence of human rights organizations, development, implementation, impact on international conventions, and changes in the international human rights regime.

This program offers a unique opportunity for outstanding, mid-career U.S. professionalsÑacademics, government officials, clinical leaders, decision makers in managed care and other private health care organizations, and journalistsÑto spend up to 10 months in Australia conducting research and working with Australian health policy experts on issues relevant to both countries.

In 2008, about 40 percent of unintended pregnancies were in couples that used contraception, but inconsistently, according to the Guttmacher Institute, a reproductive health research and policy organization in New York City.

This scenario may simply be a taste of a world undergoing climate change in the mid — 21st century, according to a new report from the International Food Policy Research Institute (IFPRI), a Washington, D.C. — based organization seeking an end to hunger and poverty through appropriate local, national and international agricultural policies.

«This pledge jeopardizes the credibility and trust that these organizations have worked really hard to get,» says Judith Auerbach, vice president for public policy at the American Foundation for AIDS Research.

The summit, which was organized by the Government - University - Industry Research Roundtable (GUIRR) of the National Academies of Science and held in Washington, D.C., 11 to 12 November 2002, included representatives from government agencies, disciplinary societies, and several education and science organizations who presented a litany of policy prescriptions and recommendations on the educational and societal forces that affect the experiences and expectations of the nation's future scientists and engineers.

On January 11, President Bush's science advisor John H. Marburger III, who oversees the federal scientific enterprise as director of the White House Office of Science and Technology Policy (OSTP), issued a memo instructing the heads of all government research organizations to establish «appropriate policies to acknowledge more than one principal investigator (PI) when there is more than one collaborating investigator working on a Federally - funded research project,» according to a White House news release.

The organization will also identify gaps in research and highlight tools — such as models — for policy - makers looking to apply a scientific approach to decisions on issues such as land management.

«While significant effort is being put into developing treatments to slow or block the progression of Alzheimer's dementia, little work has been done to get the medical system ready for such an advancement,» said Jodi Liu, lead author of the study and a policy researcher at RAND, a nonprofit research organization.

Greater emphasis is also being put on transferable skills that serve not only academic scholars but also professionals who «may have research careers in other parts of society,» says David Crosier, education system analyst at Eurydice, the E.U. organization that provides information on European education systems and policies.

We are trying to take people and organizations from the world of research, but also from business and policymaking, because one of the messages we try to convey with the list is that the development of technology doesn't just depend on bright people in laboratories coming up with new technologies, it also depends a lot on the decisions that businesses make and the ways that they are commercializing them and also the kinds of policy decisions that are made, affecting loss and so forth, that how these technologies will allow.

And in May, a week after Massachusetts Sen. Edward Kennedy was diagnosed with a glioma, The EMR Policy Institute, a Marshfield, Vt. — based nonprofit organization that supports research on the effects of electromagnetic radiation, released a statement linking his tumor to heavy cell phone use.

Those funds will in part support three existing RWJF organizations — Active Living by Design, Active Living Research and Leadership for Healthy Communities — that seek to change policy, the environment and behavior to boost physical activity.

GenConnect is a searchable alphabetical listing of over 300 organizations worldwide that are involved in setting policy regarding the legal, ethical, and social issues that stem from human genetic research.

Into the Eye of the Storm: Assessing the Evidence on Science and Engineering Education, Quality, and Workforce Demand, released in October by the Urban Institute (UI), a policy - research organization in Washington, D.C., retains the U.S. National Academy of Sciences» report's meteorological metaphor but rejects its analysis and conclusions.

International scientific organizations, such as AAAS or SPIE, should take the lead in harmonizing these structures in a very collaborative way, as well as the ethical norms and intellectual property policies that surround them, thus making science more accessible to laymen and policy - makers for a purer and standardized global research environment.

Holgate and others gathered on 25 September for a conference addressing the role of non-governmental organizations in the Global Health Security Agenda (GHSA), which was held at the Milken Institute School of Public Health at George Washington University and co-sponsored by AAAS, the Nuclear Threat Initiative, CORDS: Connecting Organizations for Regional Disease Surveillance, the UPMC Center for Health Security, the Elizabeth R. Griffin Research Foundation and the CSIS Global Health Policy Center.

«Even though 98 percent of all organizations have a sexual harassment policy, harassment continues in the workplace and poses serious problems,» said Debbie Dougherty, associate dean of research and professor of organizational communication, in the MU College of Arts and Science.

The Center on Budget and Policy Priorities, a nonpartisan research organization, estimates that the Trump proposal would result in the elimination of 250,000 rental vouchers.