Sentences with phrase «policy organization based»

But concerns about Washington's inability to address fiscal and tax policy challenges, as well as new regulatory requirements, were factors cited for declining confidence in the commercial real estate recovery in a recent survey by the Real Estate Roundtable, a non-profit public policy organization based in Washington, D.C..

Washington, DC About Website The Brookings Institution is a nonprofit public policy organization based in Washington, DC.

The Brookings Institution is a nonprofit public policy organization based in Washington, DC.

Washington, DC About Blog The Brookings Institution is a nonprofit public policy organization based in Washington, DC.

My name is Katie Roy and I am the director and founder of the Connecticut School Finance Project, a nonpartisan, nonprofit policy organization based in New Haven that works to identify solutions to Connecticut's school funding challenges that are fair to students, taxpayers, and communities.

The Brookings Institution, a nonprofit public policy organization based in Washington, D.C., recently found that childcare is a primary reason why women opt not to run for office.

Not exact matches

«A range of policy choices skewed the market in favor of diesel, whereas in the rest of the world this didn't happen,» says Greg Archer, who heads the Clean Vehicles arm of Transport & Environment, a nongovernmental organization based in Brussels.

CloudHealth solutions and services help organizations drive efficiency through a cohesive cloud strategy based on integrated reporting, active policy management and strategic recommendations.

Iceland's law stands out in a key way: Companies and organizations with at least 25 full - time employees must actually obtain government certification proving their pay policies are based on factors such as education, skills and performance, not gender.

Editor's note: This is the first post in a series on immigration policy from Engine, a Silicon Valley based advocacy organization for tech start - ups.

As part of the changes to the budgetary process in 1994, four private sector forecasting organizations [2] develop detailed fiscal projections on a National Accounts basis, based on the average of the private sector economic forecasts and the tax and spending policies in place at the time of the last budget for the next five years.

Branson mused about his successes and failures in a speech cited by Fortune magazine, where he addressed the Tribeca Film Festival's Imagination Day and touched on the reasons that are the basis of his organization's decision to let employees work from home and initiate an unlimited leave policy at Virgin Group.

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.

This paper explores the concept of What Works Centres, independent and non-partisan organizations structured to create, collect and curate evidence on public policy challenges and the success — and failure — of government and community - based interventions.

The Aspen Institute is an educational and policy studies organization based in Washington, DC.

Cultivating relationships with other nonprofit organizations, including those focused on environmental, global hunger, public health, free speech, and food safety issues, to build alliances and support for the policies that will be most effective at increasing plant - based options and readying the path to market for clean meat.

GFI's Human Resources Manager will manage the day - to - day human resources operations of the organization and assist with developing essential SOPs, policies, and strategies to support a rapidly growing, remotely - based team.

will manage the day - to - day human resources operations of the organization and assist with developing essential SOPs, policies, and strategies to support a rapidly growing, remotely - based team.

GFI's Senior Policy Specialist will level the playing field for plant - based and clean meat alternatives in Washington, working closely with GFI staff and other nonprofit organizations on GFI's legislative and regulatory priorities.

They can't fund religious - oriented greek societies in any way, and they can't have policies which support selection for funded student organizations based on religion.

The mandates give women at nonprofit, religious - based organizations, like certain hospitals and universities, the ability to receive contraception through separate health policies at no charge.

The policy goes into effect on August 1, but U.S. Department of Health and Human Services Secretary Kathleen Sebelius announced in a statement January 20 that religious organizations that do not provide contraceptive coverage based on religious belief will have until August 1, 2013, to comply.

If the legislature — or the IRS — can give or withhold tax exemption from nonprofit organizations on the basis of its interpretation of what serves the public benefit or violates public policy, then we are all in trouble.

They were killed because they supported the liberating theology and dignity of the base Christian communities; they named social injustice, not communism or outside subversive influence, as the root cause of the crisis (revolution in their view was inevitable unless issues of poverty and social inequality were adequately addressed); they promoted a negotiated settlement to Salvador's civil war, including a significant role for the FMLN and other popular organizations; and, they named U.S. policy as a fundamental obstacle to peace in El Salvador.

Angela Glover Blackwell, Appointee for Member, President's Advisory Council on Faith - Based and Neighborhood Partnerships Angela Glover Blackwell is the Founder and Chief Executive Officer of Policy Link, a nonprofit organization that strives to advance economic and social equity, improving access and opportunity for all low - income people and communities of color, particularly in the areas of health, housing, transportation, education and infrastructure.

encourages physicians, other health professionals, medical and other health related organizations, and government and other policymakers to become more well informed about drug dependencies, and to base their policies and activities on the recognition that drug dependencies are, in fact, diseases.

We are proud to be founding members of the Plant Based Foods Association, a trade organization formed with the following mission: to ensure a fair and competitive marketplace for businesses selling plant - based foods intended to replace animal products such as meats, dairy, and eggs, by promoting policies and practices that improve conditions in the plant - based foods industry, and educating consumers about the benefits of plant - based fBased Foods Association, a trade organization formed with the following mission: to ensure a fair and competitive marketplace for businesses selling plant - based foods intended to replace animal products such as meats, dairy, and eggs, by promoting policies and practices that improve conditions in the plant - based foods industry, and educating consumers about the benefits of plant - based fbased foods intended to replace animal products such as meats, dairy, and eggs, by promoting policies and practices that improve conditions in the plant - based foods industry, and educating consumers about the benefits of plant - based fbased foods industry, and educating consumers about the benefits of plant - based fbased foods.

GFI's Senior Policy Specialist will level the playing field for plant - based and clean meat alternatives in Washington, working closely with GFI staff and other nonprofit organizations on GFI's legislative and regulatory priorities.

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.

Ideally, an intersectoral team — including, for example, programme managers and staff responsible for nutrition and maternal and child health, academics, and national and international nongovernmental organizations — will use the tool as a basis for strengthening national policies and programmes that contribute to improved infant and young child feeding.

While youth - serving organizations like ours have internal child - protection policies and multifaceted staff - screening procedures, too many organizations have lacked access to FBI fingerprint - based background checks.

State health departments can use mPINC data to work together with partner agencies, organizations, policy makers, and health professionals to improve evidence - based maternity care practices and policies at all of their hospitals statewide.

We have brought together the best of science and academia to build an evidence - based organization at the Friedman School of Nutrition Science and Policy to examine how to stop the escalation of this epidemic and ultimately to eliminate it.

Mission: The mission of the AAPD's Council on Scientific Affairs (CSA) is to ensure that the organization's policies, guidelines and programs are evidenced based and supported by the most recent and up to date science.

The Albany - based think tank and fiscal watchdog group Empire Center for Public Policy launched in 2005 as a project of the Manhattan Institute is being «re-launched» as an independent organization, the organization's president E.J. McMahon announced.

[3] The organization makes independent expenditures based on a candidate's policy stances on economic issues.

[4] The organization makes independent expenditures to influence elections based on a candidate's stated education policies and how those policies align with those of the NEA.

But more than a dozen advocacy organizations — including the Electronic Frontier Foundation, New York Civil Liberties Union and Sunlight Foundation, as well as New York - based good government groups — sent a letter to the governor late last month, arguing his policy was technologically unnecessary and out of step with the federal government, which saves emails from rank - and - file employees for seven years.

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.

Democracy Matters is a campus - based organization that advocates for campaign finance reform as well as issues concerning the environment, civil rights, education, health care and foreign policy.

Walcott is also responsible for collaborating with community - based organizations citywide and coordinating policies concerning youth programs and adult education.

The endorsement comes from the NFIB CA PAC, the organization's political action committee, and is based on positions regarding key small - business policy issues including health care, taxes, labor, and regulatory issues.

CEJ is a non-profit based in the city of Buffalo that unites labor and community - based organizations to win needed policy changes related to economic development, corporate accountability and workers» rights at the local and state level.

«Outstanding issues include under - investment in school technology infrastructure, significant inequities in allocation of Fair Student Funding dollars, disparities in gifted and talented education, resistance to training and support for new learning devices like tablets, inaction on liberalizing school space usage policy for community - based organizations, and poor community notification on significant changes to school utilization,» Adams said.

However, Dominic Robinson, vice president of economic inclusion at CenterState CEO, a Syracuse - based economic development organization, said the study was not related to Trump's policies.

But the Procurement Policy Board, an obscure agency if ever there was one, has decreed that the competitive bidding rules «shall not apply to contract awards made from line item appropriations and / or discretionary funds to community - based not - for - profit organizations or other public service organizations identified by elected city officials other than the mayor and the controller.»

«The governor has a fair amount of latitude in insisting that certain spending take place,» said James Parrott, chief economist at the Fiscal Policy Institute, a nonpartisan fiscal research organization based in New York.

The North Dakota Policy Council, a North Dakota - based nonprofit research organization which describes itself as «liberty - based», published the North Dakota Legislative Review, a comprehensive report on how state legislators voted during the 2011 legislative session.

Comparing their results with information from the «broader NIH postdoctoral community,» the authors find that far fewer alumni of North Carolina - based NIEHS — the only one of the National Institutes of Health located outside metropolitan Washington, D.C. — go into science policy work than do their counterparts at the institutes close to the national capital's many governmental and policy organizations.