Sentences with phrase «run by both advocacy groups»

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Records show that Melius» foundation gave a total of $ 293,000 in grants to more than 170 nonprofit organizations in 2014, among them the FBI Agents Association, an advocacy group for current and retired FBI agents in Alexandria, Virginia; the Pat Cairo Family Foundation, which is run by North Hempstead Republican leader Joseph Cairo; and the Raj & Rajeshwari Foundation, which was run by the family of indicted restaurateur Harendra Singh.

«Joseph Dussich, the owner of a company in Queens that makes anti-rat garbage bags [made] two donations of $ 50,000 apiece to a political advocacy group run by allies of Mayor Bill de Blasio [last year].

Buoyed by a $ 1.25 million boost in City Council funding, tenant advocacy group Stabilizing NYC is running its own «bad landlords» watch list that...

Inwoof, an advocacy group for local dog owners, hopes that an area for smaller - breed dogs will be added to Homer's Run in Inwood Hill Park in the coming months, thanks to funds secured by City Councilman Ydanis Rodriguez.

Early - career scientists can prepare themselves by engaging with groups — including the American Association for the Advancement of Science, the one that I run — which offer science communication training, opportunities for scientists and engineers to engage in policy, and tools for catalyzing advocacy.

Co-founders Tamir Harper and Luke Risher presented all of the basic ideas behind UrbEd, including the need for an education advocacy group composed of and run by students.

The movement appears to have public support: 70 percent of likely voters said they'd support parent - trigger laws in a March national poll by StudentsFirst, a pro-school choice advocacy group run by Michelle Rhee, the controversial former chancellor of the Washington, D.C., public schools.

Conservative groups like The Heartland Institute and American Legislative Exchange Council, along with Students First, the pro-school choice advocacy group run by former Washington, D.C. Chancellor Michelle Rhee, have advocated for trigger laws.

Run by the right - wing journalist Toby Young, who founded the West London Free School, the New Schools Network is an advocacy group funded by the government to promote the programme and assist with applications.

According to the National Alliance of Public Charter Schools (NAPCS), a charter advocacy group, just under 13 percent of charters are run by for - profit companies, though in cities like Detroit, more than 80 percent of charter schools are run by for - profits.

«I see frustration and bitterness among parents growing by leaps and bounds,» said Leonie Haimson, a mother who runs Class Size Matters, an advocacy group in New York City that pushes for reduced testing and smaller class sizes.

Third Point CEO Dan Loeb has partnered with Elliott Management CEO Paul Singer on a new project run by the Human Rights Campaign, an L.G.B.T. advocacy group in Washington.

ConnCAN is the charter school advocacy lobby group that was created by the same donors who helped Malloy's Commissioner of Education, Stefan Pryor; develop Achievement First, Inc. the charter school management company that now runs schools in Connecticut, New York and Rhode Island.

That philosophy of quiet and order as a foundation for learning is a trademark of educators at Veterans Memorial and the other eight charter schools run by the Chicago - based United Neighborhood Organization, or UNO, a Latino advocacy group with a history of community organizing.

«Eliminating subsidized loans would increase the cost of college by thousands of dollars for many of the six million undergraduates who receive those loans each year,» according to the blog run by the Institute for College Access and Success (TICAS), a non-profit higher education advocacy group.

The fact that advocacy groups run on private funding matters in a society with extreme wealth disparities and is itself, I think, the fundamental issue raised by the leaked documents.

Plaintiff director of a gay - rights advocacy group has not stated a defamation claim against defendant, the president and CEO of Parents and Friends of Ex-Gays Inc. (PFOX), by alleging defendant stated that plaintiff asked for people to «run over» defendant...

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