Sentences with phrase «public advocacy role»

O'Neill met with REM senior editor Kathy Bevan recently to discuss the challenges of the past year and a half, as well as the more prominent public advocacy role TREB has taken on.

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In more recent years, our advocacy efforts have also focused on regional issues, from our very public role in the 2015 transit and transportation plebiscite, to our work around Metro Vancouver's proposed Bylaw 280 and regional waste management, our longstanding calls for a mobile business licence program across Greater Vancouver, and our advocacy at all levels of government to invest in roads, bridges, and Pacific Gateway trade infrastructure across the region.

Beginning this month, Karen Graham will assume the role of Director, Advocacy and Stakeholder Relations, bringing with her more than a decade of experience in senior positions in the private, public and business association sectors.

Through advocacy and communications, industry insights, and retailer and supply chain engagement, we are strengthening public understanding and appreciation of candy's unique role in a happy, balanced lifestyle.

Think - tank Activities SOAAN will progress in stepwise fashion in order to develop the outputs mentioned above: Step 1) Review existing science and actions: An overview or survey of the existing science on the topic, including a discussion of the limitations of scope, empirical data, and their reliability and applicability to the organic sector's understanding of best practice; Step 2) Actors engagements: Identification in both public and private sectors of the institutions and individuals active on the topic and their respective roles and networks, so that SOAAN and the organic sector then moves to engage them, along with think tanking activities; Step 3) Think tank: Development of the model, the strategy and promotional / advocacy tools through think tank efforts including piloting cases to gain experience and showcase practicability; Step 4) Synthesis: Publication of the results, tools and recommendations.

Williams wants to see the Lt. Governor have a more active role in state policy and advocacy, more like a public advocate... Continue reading «Grand Street Democrats endorses Jumaane Williams for Lt. Governor»

Williams wants to see the Lt. Governor have a more active role in state policy and advocacy, more like a public advocate...

ScienceBlogger Eric Michael Johnson of Primate Diaries discusses The Population Bomb, nuclear winter, and the role of science in public advocacy.

CO2Chem is free to join and provides networking opportunities, runs conferences and meetings, provides regular news and funding updates, publishes reports and creates informational videos, researches public perception of CDU and has a policy and advocacy role.

The Center for Nutrition Advocacy (CNA) aims to transform the health of Americans by advancing the pivotal role of nutrition practitioners in the healthcare system through public and private policy.

EQL doesn't give you answers to these problems, but, in my case, it equipped me with a knowledge of how to formulate the right questions through different policy analysis models, with constant reference to my leadership role: Am I a passive spectator in public policy formulation or do my voice and advocacy have greater reach than what I surmise?

Her research explores the relationship between education, policy, and equality of opportunity through three policy strands: 1) the racial politics of public education, 2) the politics of school choice, marketization, and privatization, and, 3) the role of elite and community - based advocacy in shaping public education policies and research evidence utilization.

By participating actively in national advocacy efforts, HECSE is demonstrating the important role higher education plays in America's public education infrastructure.

The judiciary's role in social policymaking expanded broadly with the rights revolution of the 1960s, as the public's thirst for «total justice» combined with the courts» willingness to embrace new legal doctrines, increasingly long and complicated federal statutes, and the emergence of well - funded advocacy organizations to generate a surge of litigation across policy areas.

Their hope is that students, parents, citizens and public school advocacy groups will use the film to help start an important conversation about the role and value of public education in America.

MITUL engages in communication, education and advocacy, promoting a strong role for teacher unions in defining and leading public education reform — within teacher unions and with opinion leaders, policy - makers and advocacy organizations.

MITUL engages in broad communication, education and advocacy around the role of teacher unions in defining and leading public education reform.

Do you agree that educators must play a more active public policy and advocacy role to further the cause?

And through the political advocacy arm of GO Public Schools Oakland Advocates, the affiliate has played a key role in elevating the work of the school board, bringing community members together to elect school board leaders committed to advocating for all students, and helping to pass measures to provide needed services and funds to schools.

In her role leading Marketing and Communications, Heather oversees student recruitment, all internal and external communications, marketing, brand awareness and public advocacy efforts.

Building Political Power Elections; Parent / Community Engagement; Holding Elected Officials Accountable; Leadership Development; Renewal Advocacy; Your Role in Sacramento: Working with State Agencies and Public Officials; Preparing for CCSA Advocacy Day

MITUL also engages in broad communication, education and advocacy around the role of teacher unions in defining and leading public education reform.

In our role as the industry's legislative and advocacy voice, the Pet Industry Joint Advisory Council (PIJAC) is working with businesses, researchers and others to show legislators, regulators and the general public that we care for pets as much as we care about them.

The Contemporary's board of directors made the selection based on a set of criteria including significant achievement in scholarship or criticism; a role in helping to establish or further dialogue about Atlanta art and visual culture; public advocacy and leadership; and serving as an ambassador for Atlanta arts outside the community.

The temptation to exaggerate or oversimplify results would come in advocacy roles, in communicating with the media and public, and in arguing before Congress (and the equivalent in other countries) for funding of specific scientific programs.

Both Romm and advocacy organizations such as Media Matters for America raise their financial support and define their professional roles as watch dogging the mainstream media, asserting that consistent false balance in mainstream coverage at leading outlets such as the NY Times or the Washington Post remains a major barrier to political action on climate change and that conservative media like Fox News have a powerful impact on wider public opinion.

The group conducts research, outreach, advocacy, and public education in service to a deeper understanding of the role of money in politics, and mobilizes public opinion and decision - makers to support comprehensive change in the financing of our elections.

This occurred after protesters and advocacy groups drew public attention to ALEC's role in spreading «Stand Your Ground» legislation in the wake of the Trayvon Martin shooting.

I am far from being an expert on the role of Crown, but I do understand two things: first, the public is paying for the legal representation of the complainant, and second, the role of Crown is limited to seeking truth, not advocacy.

This means that at minimum (next week's blog will explore what could be done if law schools embraced a proactive leadership role in bringing about change) legal education should reflect what has already changed in legal practice, including a focus on settlement - oriented advocacy and the increasing remoteness of the trial process and the services of a retained lawyer from the experience of the majority of the public.

Interventions in Charter litigation and public interest litigation brought by lawyers and legal advocacy organizations play a role, not only in the courts in which the matters take place, but also within the public discourse surrounding the Charter and human rights issues raised.

The Communications Manager will utilize traditional media relationships to enhance the visibility of Planned Parenthood in reproductive health politics and public policy, define the role of reproductive health care in electoral politics, promote positive movement for reproductive health politics and public policy through media narratives, and brand the organization as the statewide advocacy, public policy and electoral arm of the Planned Parenthood affiliates of Texas.

Learners evaluate leadership theories and their applications and examine the roles of counselor educators and leaders in public and private policy processes, including professional advocacy.

At the forum, Planned Parenthood leaders will discuss the organization's role as a provider and advocate and share information on a variety of panels, including the following: Reforming the System: President Obama's Prospects for Health Reform; The Stakeholders Speak PPFA Vice President of Public Policy and Advocacy Rubiner will address Planned Parenthood's priorities in health care reform: any health care reform effort must include access to comprehensive reproductive health care, and women's access to essential community providers must be protected.

In addition to this public advocacy work, the Commission has an equally important role in resolving individual claims of discrimination and other breaches of human rights.