Sentences with phrase «public policy support»

VAAEYC serves Virginia early educators with local public policy support, accreditation support, professional development, and connections.

NJSEC seeks to provide public policy support for New Jersey's solar industry through legislative and regulatory advocacy, outreach, education, and the development of policy alternatives that align with the fiscal and social circumstances unique to New Jersey.

OUR MISSION is to provide leadership, information and connections, and public policy support that help ensure the Greater Vancouver region is competitive and the preferred Pacific Gateway for trade, commerce, and travel.

THE COMPASS AWARD: Advocating for Attainment Ensuring public policy supports Michigan's momentum toward achieving the Big Goal — 60 percent by 2025 — is a critical strategy of the Michigan College Access Network.

Use the strategy known to work and ask that public policy supports these actions.

Over the past decade, world wind electric generating capacity grew at nearly 30 percent per year, its increase driven by its many attractive features and by public policies supporting its expansion.

Over the past decade, world wind power capacity grew more than 20 percent a year, its increase driven by its many attractive features, by public policies supporting its expansion, and by falling costs.

Public policy supports the use of biomass for energy production as reflected in the state's Renewable Portfolio Standards.

It is vital that public policies support personal childbearing decisions with medically accurate reproductive health information, including sex education, access to contraceptives and safe, legal abortion.

Not exact matches

Gore is extending Dell's global advocacy efforts to raise entrepreneurship to the public policy agenda, encouraging policies and practices that support and enable entrepreneurial growth globally through #EntrepreneursUNite.

Plank also promised in the letter that Under Armour will take «other public positions on legislation around the country in support of the interests of our teammates whenever policy conflicts with human rights.»

What's strange about Merkel's record of electoral success is how consistently she has confirmed the adage that policy failures are an unavoidable part of politics, while avoiding its corollary: that erosions of public support are inevitable, too.

«Through both corporate and PAC contributions, where permissible, AstraZeneca supports candidates in both parties who share the company's perspective on the public policies that impact our business and the patients we serve,» she said.

That in turn increases barriers to entry for startups, because entrenched political players look to «economic winners» for support to stay in power, argues Lee Drutman, a senior fellow at the public policy think tank New America.

The Medical Marijuana Project was founded in 1995 to «increase public support for non-punitive, non-coercive marijuana policies» and to gain influence in Congress.

In a Public Policy Polling poll looking at a hypothetical election between the two, Johnson had 42 % support over Trump's 37 %.

In the end, I have concluded that Johnson & Johnson has a responsibility to remain engaged, not as a way to support any specific political agenda, but as a way to represent the values of Our Credo as crucial public policy is discussed and developed.

There is clearly overwhelming American public support for policies that support the increased use of residential solar.

From football, basketball, and tennis to hockey, cycling, and swimming, public support for sports activities — along with national policies that promote mass fitness — have created a new growth point for China's economy.

Very often the public statements released at the conclusion of such G - 7 meetings are highly predictable, containing support for established policies, papering -LSB-...]

«We are committed to our mission to be a globally responsible company and to support the people of the state of California as they face this unprecedented drought,» said John Kelly, Starbucks senior vice president of Global Responsibility and Public Policy.

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Gina Tsai, Airbnb's Head of Public Policy in Hong Kong and Taiwan, noted that the Japanese Diet has passed a new bill that supports short - term rentals nationwide and the new bill is expected to unlock huge opportunity for Japan's tourism industry, allowing more international tourists to experience the country authentically.

The bottom line is that the American public is being fed a carefully crafted mythology (no doubt «market tested» on «response groups» to see which images fly best) to mislead the American public into misunderstanding the nature of today's financial problem — to mislead it in such a way that today's policies will make sense and gain voter support.

This comes a year after a shareholder proposal seeking an assessment of the long term impacts on the company's portfolio of public policies received near - majority support.

They inform the Institute's research and policy agenda and contribute their knowledge and analysis to further the Institute's efforts to impact public debate in support of progressive change.

«I support [Trump's] policies, but this public waterboarding of one of the greatest people Alabama has ever produced is inappropriate and insulting to the people of Alabama who know Jeff Sessions so well and elected him so often by overwhelming margins,» Brooks said in a statement.

With this recommendation, the Public Policy Forum deliberately refrained from supporting a new tax credit for the media industry, arguing the measure would hurt editorial independence and prove a hard sell with the pPublic Policy Forum deliberately refrained from supporting a new tax credit for the media industry, arguing the measure would hurt editorial independence and prove a hard sell with the publicpublic.

It also must commit to cutting back pensions and public spending by enough to step up its NATO spending to finance the bombing and destabilization of Syria and the Near East, and over and above this, to accept the cost of supporting all the refugees caused by US policy and its foreign legion in the form of ISIS, Al quaeda and Al Nusra.

The problem isn't wide access to military - style weaponry, Rubio argued; it's Broward County Public Schools» disciplinary policies and the previously little - known program PROMISE (Preventing Recidivism Through Opportunities, Mentoring, Interventions, Supports & Education).

Support the Macdonald - Laurier Institute for Public Policy to help ensure that Canada is one of the best governed countries in the world.

Amounts also depend on whether or not they help create jobs or support public policy goals such as energy reduction, minority business development, or business district revitalization.

Didn't support the Burnaby School Board's policy banning homophobia and transphobia: The premier didn't stand up for the board's progressive policy, missing a key opportunity to take a strong public stance in favour of protecting LGBT students.

It restates the Bank's approach to making monetary policy decisions within the framework of a medium - term inflation target, in way that supports sustainable economic growth and serves the public interest.

To establish a national, broad based, community of Angel investors, incubators, and accelerators in Canada and connect them to their peers and the greater early - stage funding ecosystem so they can support the growth and development of innovative Canadian entrepreneurs and companies, and to support the ongoing evolution of that community through research, education and public policy.

If Donald Trump becomes the President of the United States and recognizing your public criticism of him and your public support for Hillary Clinton, what specific risks, regulatory policy or otherwise, do you foresee for Berkshire Hathaway's portfolio of businesses?

Specific policies include a Canada Employment Credit and Tax Fairness Plan to reduce taxes for working families and seniors; tax credits for public transit, kid's sports, textbooks, tools, and apprentices; increased support to the provinces and territories to create new child care spaces; increasing the Senior Age Credit amount by an additional $ 1,000; and allowing income splitting for caregivers of family members with disabilities.

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.

The limitations of macroprudential policies reflect the potential for risks to emerge outside sectors subject to regulation, the potential for supervision and regulation to miss emerging risks, the uncertain efficacy of new macroprudential tools such as a countercyclical capital buffer, and the potential for such policy steps to be delayed or to lack public support.14 Given such limitations, adjustments in monetary policy may, at times, be needed to curb risks to financial stability.15

Your legacy gift to the Fraser Institute Foundation will help us educate future generations about public policies that support free and open markets, individual choice, and personal responsibility, for the long - lasting prosperity of all Canadians.

Through several public policy initiatives, NACO represents Angel asset class issues of national significance, assumes a leadership role in areas requiring national coordination and support, and promotes the Angel asset class to the general public in Canada and abroad.

At the direction of the board of directors and supported by management, the Policy Council is the Greater Vancouver Board of Trade's lead public policy and advocacy vehicle, charged with ensuring our policy development and advocacy adheres to the organization's mission and basic princPolicy Council is the Greater Vancouver Board of Trade's lead public policy and advocacy vehicle, charged with ensuring our policy development and advocacy adheres to the organization's mission and basic princpolicy and advocacy vehicle, charged with ensuring our policy development and advocacy adheres to the organization's mission and basic princpolicy development and advocacy adheres to the organization's mission and basic principles.

But public policy, with massive public support, has been geared to growth in the economy.

In a statement Tuesday, the Archdiocese of Washington called the decision unfortunate and even charged that the Public Policy Institute was supporting a «radical redefining of ministry.»

The central thrusts of a reborn reform movement should be stockholder action to effect corporate decision - making, the mobilization of public influence on Congress, the development of improved rating systems, the encouragement of research to support policy - making, and the creation of support mechanisms to encourage and inform creative people working in the media industries.10.