Sentences with phrase «policy organization founded»

On the eve of his death, ministry partners, fans, and friends urgently asked for prayer on social media this weekend, offering a wave of early tributes that spread through end - times prophecy circles and chapters of Concerned Women for America (CWA), the 600,000 - member public policy organization founded by LaHaye's wife, Beverly.

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In its 2017 Mind the Workplace mental health survey, Mental Health America found that in organizations deemed mentally healthy, 75 percent of employees surveyed cited relaxed workplaces with an open - door policy, 69 percent reported professional development opportunities and 52 percent said they had some type of flexible work offering.

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.

The event, which was founded by the 92nd Street Y, doesn't have a specific policy on donor premiums, it said in a statement:» #GivingTuesday is an open - source movement, and we encourage organizations and individuals around the world to come up with all kinds of creative ways to do fundraising.»

Founded in 1943 as a nonprofit, nonpartisan organization, NFIB gives small and independent business owners a voice in shaping the public policy issues that affect their business.

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 foods.

(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.

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.

Indeed, some readers may find it curious that a professional organization with the reach and influence of the American Academy of Pediatrics should give so little formal policy guidance on the subject of flavored milk at the same time it is accepting money from the dairy industry and participating so closely in the industry's promotion of that same product.

Many of the organizations we spoke with found success using blogging and social networking to increase their role in policy debates, get their message in front of key audiences and connect with supporters.

MoveOn.org has specialized in getting its members to generate video ads to such success that commercial brands have copied the tactic, and many other organizations have found success in asking supporters to help come up with slogans, comment on policies and experiment with creative ways to spread the word online.

The report, conducted by the office of State Comptroller Thomas P. DiNapoli, found that 10 of the 30 organizations were operating without required contracts, more than half had not been audited by SUNY since 2007 and the two largest — the University at Buffalo Foundation and the Stony Brook Foundation — had not established required policies and procedures for key business functions.

Yet another union is cutting ties with the Working Families Party, saying the organization has strayed from its founding mission to support «all New Yorkers,» and instead is routinely backing legislation and policies that could cost workers their jobs.

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.

Since the Las Vegas massacre, at least two states — New Jersey and Massachusetts — have passed laws banning bump stocks and other states are considering them, said David Chipman, senior policy advisor at Giffords, the gun safety organization founded by former Rep. Gabrielle Giffords and her husband, Mark Kelly.

Founded in 1978 and headquartered in New York City, SAGE is a national organization that offers supportive services and consumer resources to LGBT older adults and their caregivers, advocates for public policy changes that address the needs of LGBT older people, and provides training for aging providers and LGBT organizations through its National Resource Center on LGBT Aging.

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.

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.

«Most scientific organizations include policy engagement as part of their mission, yet a recent survey of scientific organizations found that only 20 % provided their members with suggested practices for communicating with policymakers,» said Cloyd.

Researchers from the Perelman School of Medicine at the University of Pennsylvania, in partnership with ORGANIZE — a non-for-profit organization based in New York which leverages health data to end the organ donor shortage by applying smarter technologies, utilizing social media, building more creative partnerships, and advocating for data - driven policies — The Bridgespan Group — a global nonprofit organization that collaborates with mission - driven leaders, organizations, and philanthropists to break cycles of poverty and dramatically improve the quality of life for those in need — and Gift of Life Donor Program — an OPO which serves the eastern half of Pennsylvania, southern New Jersey, and Delaware — evaluated the metrics and criteria used to measure OPOs across the country, and found significant discrepancies in how potential donors are evaluated and identified.

Doctors of the World, the organization that provides medical care in the camp, has called for physician volunteers, so I find myself in their headquarters in New York City, signing an insurance policy for, among other things, kidnapping, ransom, and extortion.

IPCC, an international organization founded in 1988 by the United Nations, is best known for its lengthy, periodic reports assessing climate science and policy options for curbing global warming.

«As the AAAS Council stated in 2006: Censorship, intimidation, or other restriction on the freedom of scientists employed or funded by governmental organizations to communicate their unclassified scientific findings and assessments not only to each other but also to policymakers and to the public is inimical to the advance of science and its appropriate application in the policy domain.»

As an intergovernmental organization, OECD monitors social and economic trends and helps governments compare policy experiences, find answers to common problems, and coordinate policies related to economic development.

«Our findings support the hypothesis that San Francisco's Community Justice Center reduces criminal recidivism,» said Beau Kilmer, the study's lead author and a senior policy researcher at RAND, a nonprofit research organization.

Our approach to confronting these challenges is to center the workshop on research findings emerging from the SciSIP awards; provide for independent, collegial commentary on these presentations by individuals whose work has spanned, or crossed over, implementing and writing about science policy (and who have not applied for SciSIP awards); and then to carefully roll out a distillation of findings from SciSIP awards to federal agencies and other organizations more directly involved in the formulation or implementation of science policy.

Meanwhile, researchers found that hospitalization rates at for - profit hospices were higher regardless of preferred practice implementation — suggesting that it is the organization of the hospice itself in terms of ownership that likely drive policies and decisions regarding hospitalization.

She is a founding and active member of the Alliance of Nurses for Healthy Environments (www.enviRN.org), an international organization that is helping to integrate environmental health into nursing education, practice, research, and policy / advocacy.

While retired, because of my ongoing interest in the importance of credible, sound science driving public policy and regulation of food safety related issues, I joined with other academic colleagues and helped to found a 501c3 non-profit organization we call Academics Review.

Although these sites encourage honesty and generally have articles posted which advise that «honesty is the best policy» approach when attempting to find a mate online, many other sites and organizations, such as local police departments, etc., recommend that personal details such as name, date of birth, address, etc., be kept confidential since anyone, including thieves, rapists, mass - murderers, etc., can register for online dating.

Here we find curriculum organizations, teacher education organizations, and educational policy organizations working together against standardized testing, the privatization of public schooling, the school to prison pipeline, advocating for parent and community involvement in schools.

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.

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.

You'll find a long list of organizations willing to listen because they exist to improve policy and practice.

During her time in the Ed School's International Education Policy (IEP) Program, Kavazanjian founded The Girls» Education Initiative, a student organization dedicated to promoting education for women and girls in the developing world.

Called Strategic Management of Human Capital, the organization was unveiled June 11 by Allan R. Odden, the director of the Consortium for Policy Research in Education, or CPRE, at the University of Wisconsin - Madison, and James A. Kelly, the founding president of the National Board for Professional Teaching Standards.

The report, conducted by the Center on Education Policy, a Washington - based research organization that tracks implementation of the federal law, found that schools and districts are better aligning instruction and state standards, that test scores are rising, and that the number of schools labeled «in need of improvement» is holding steady.

A 2004 study coauthored byJames J. Kemple, director of K - 12 policy forMDRC, a research organization, found thatyoung men who attended career academiesearned 18 percent more than their counterpartsfour years after high school graduation.

Recent partners have found the increased analytic capacity in their organization a critical element to their strategy, as it has led to valuable new insights and strengthened policies.

Our findings suggest that in most countries, the organization and policies defining content exposure may exacerbate educational inequalities.

National organizations such as EdChoice (formerly the Friedman Foundation, established in 1996) and the American Education Reform Foundation (founded in 1998) and Alliance for School Choice (founded in 2004), which later became affiliated with the American Federation for Children (founded in 2009), were the most prominent voices in state capitols, providing early leadership on choice - related policy and working to counter choice policy myths.

In some cases, schools have promised to hire instructional coaches and other support staff, only to find a dearth of qualified applicants, said Caitlin Scott, a consultant for the Center on Education Policy, a research organization in Washington that has closely studied SIG implementation in Idaho, Maryland and Michigan.

, a citywide organization founded to oppose the district's school closure policies.

A recent report from the Learning Policy Institute, a research and policy organization in Palo Alto, cites studies that found «that teachers of color boost the academic performance of students of color,» on measures such as improved reading and math scores, graduation rates and greater aspirations to attend coPolicy Institute, a research and policy organization in Palo Alto, cites studies that found «that teachers of color boost the academic performance of students of color,» on measures such as improved reading and math scores, graduation rates and greater aspirations to attend copolicy organization in Palo Alto, cites studies that found «that teachers of color boost the academic performance of students of color,» on measures such as improved reading and math scores, graduation rates and greater aspirations to attend college.

She joined a coalition of parents that successfully fought to keep the school open, and became a member of ESP Vision (Educators, Students and Parents for a Better Vision for Seattle Schools), a citywide organization founded to oppose the district's school closure policies.

Previously he served as Senior Program Director for Evaluation and Policy Research at WestEd and Founding Director of its Washington, DC office where he led a nationwide staff conducting research, evaluation, and technical assistance efforts for clients from federal, state and local agencies, national and community - based foundations, and non-profit and for - profit organizations.

The nonprofit organizations he founded have been highlighted in studies by Jobs for the Future and the Progressive Policy Institute.

Collecting and disseminating polling data and research findings from respected national and local organizations that shows the ineffectiveness of vouchers and voucher - like policies on student achievement.

Third - party research has shown EL Education's ability to improve student outcomes: For example, a study by leading research organization Mathematica Policy Research found that students in EL Education schools gained an extra seven months of learning growth in reading after three years.

Partnership for Children & Youth (PCY) is a California - based non-profit organization that finds funding, partners, and solutions to help schools better serve students; and informs state and national public policy on education issues.