Sentences with phrase «political advocacy efforts»

Wagner is a strong supporter of REALTOR ® political advocacy efforts and is a Golden «R» Major Investor in the REALTORS ® Political Action Committee (RPAC) and a member of NAR's President's Circle.

Yes, the REALTOR ® Party had a 94 percent win rate at the polls last November and was tapped for more than 3,000 political advocacy efforts in 2012.

This award was named in memory of Brian M. Collie, the late CEO of MREA, to recognize and honour outstanding commitment and dedication to the profession's political advocacy efforts.

Answers to frequently asked questions about NAR's political advocacy efforts in regard to health care and health insurance reform

That was the Second Century Initiative, and out of it came stepped - up political advocacy efforts, which have dramatically increased funds and technical assistance to state and local REALTOR ® associations.

HouseLogic, Real Estate Today, our political advocacy efforts, and even this annual House & Home issue of our magazine are geared toward making you the authoritative real estate source, helping consumers protect and maintain the home they cherish.

Instead of cutting residents a break for helping solve the climate crisis, in state after state utility corporations — led by the American Legislative Exchange Council (ALEC) and the Edison Electric Institute (whose political advocacy efforts ratepayers actually underwrite)-- are passing legislation that pre-empts «net - metering» laws, which let customers sell their excess power back to the grid.

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Jacob helps coordinate policy efforts and political advocacy support for Blue Haven and works on select outside projects, including organizing student and youth engagement activities.

Through our advocacy efforts and investments, we seek innovative solutions to agricultural policy challenges and we work to foster the political will and public support to solve them.

SNA members can participate in SNA's advocacy effort by attending SNA's Legislative Action Conference, utilizing SNA's Policy Resources, and supporting SNA's Political Action Committee.

The lawsuit says Cuomo and the other defendants «have abused their authority in an effort to stifle the NRA's political advocacy and to retaliate against the NRA for the effectiveness of that advocacy.»

At the December, 2009 edition, Charles Lenchner and I had a great conversation about applying the lessons of the ’08 Obama campaign to local political campaigns and issue advocacy efforts, and it lives on still through the magic of online video.

The Independent National Electoral Commission's (INEC) advocacy efforts for increased women's participation in the country's political process gathered momentum on 13th April in Abuja, when a delegation of women led by the United Nations Women Representative to Nigeria and ECOWAS, Ms. Comfort Lamptey paid a courtesy visit to the commission's headquarters.

While it's rhetoric is often particularly acerbic, AQE utilizes a typical array of tactics familiar in the advocacy world, including marches and rallies, op - eds, reports and press conferences, as well as political campaign efforts, both in mobilization of members and allies, and financial.

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.

Next, they developed a list of measures to evaluate the five factors they believed should account for the changing levels of concern: extreme weather events, public access to accurate scientific information, media coverage, positions of political elites and efforts by advocacy groups.

The level of public concern about this global issue is mostly influenced by the mobilization efforts of political leaders and advocacy groups, new research shows.

That surprise reversal can be attributed to at least four factors: a wave of new research on teacher quality, philanthropic interest in boosting teacher effectiveness, efforts by advocacy groups and policymakers to revamp state laws on evaluation, and political pressure to dismiss poorly performing teachers.

The issue is whether a federal statistical agency — intended to be immune to every sort of policy agenda and political interest — should outsource its data - gathering efforts to advocacy groups.

The pro bono consultants who went through the unions» published national, state, and local tax returns estimated based on their research, interviews, and sampling that roughly one third of the unions» efforts went toward political advocacy.

Ralph Smith, managing director of the Campaign for Grade - Level Reading, a collaborative effort of political, education, business and advocacy leaders to close the nation's literacy gap, said «We shouldn't be at all surprised by the NAEP scores... we can point to nothing substantial in terms of interventions or programs that would have made that number different.»

Education Reform Advocacy Now Inc. is part of the massive three - headed corporate education reform behemoth that includes Education Reform Advocacy Now, Inc.; Education Reform Now, Inc. and Democrats for Education Reform, the related Political Action Committee that donates directly to pro-corporate education reform candidates and supports opponents of candidates who don't support the reformer's efforts to turn schools into little more than testing factories, while diverting scarce public funds away from real public schools and redirecting them to privately owned charter schools.

This yearly event brings together activists from all around the states, and focuses on advocacy efforts within the current political environment.

He was previously a key part of issue advocacy and communications efforts for large companies, including Microsoft and GE, and before that served as AIPAC's Deputy Midwest Political Director.

Shifts in public opinion on climate change are tied to efforts of political leaders and advocacy groups.

Matthew Nisbet recently proposed «New Model for Climate Advocacy» that urges climate advocates to put all technologies and options on the table for consideration in an effort to gain broad public and political support («A New Model for Climate Advocacy «-RRB-.

Anthony Leiserowitz, director of the Yale Project on Climate Change Communication, attributes this decline to five factors: The economic collapse, a severe decrease in media coverage, weather events like «Snowmaggedon,» the efforts of the «denial industry» (the network of industry - funded think tanks and political advocacy groups that push skeptic views), and the «ClimateGate» debacle.

NWEI's Executive Director notes that while NWEI rarely takes an advocacy stand on specific legislation or political issues, this effort «is right in line with our approach.»

The website provides information about the litigation, advocacy, and educational efforts MALDEF uses to bring Latinos into the political and socioeconomic mainstream of society.

Gifts support our citizen - based advocacy and lobbying efforts, and may be used for political purposes such as supporting or opposing candidates.

In addition to the central role that access to Planned Parenthood's health care services played throughout the campaign, the advocacy and political arm of PPFA, Planned Parenthood Action Fund, launched a successful effort to educate and mobilize the women's vote.

Today, Schmelzer is overseeing efforts to take NAR's political clout to the next level by raising additional contributions to the REALTORS ® Political Action Committee and increasing the funding that NAR's public issue advocacy program will use to reach targeted public audiences in support of issues such as small - business health plan legpolitical clout to the next level by raising additional contributions to the REALTORS ® Political Action Committee and increasing the funding that NAR's public issue advocacy program will use to reach targeted public audiences in support of issues such as small - business health plan legPolitical Action Committee and increasing the funding that NAR's public issue advocacy program will use to reach targeted public audiences in support of issues such as small - business health plan legislation.