Sentences with phrase «spent on our advocacy»

MEFA spokeswoman Lisa Rooney minimized the role with NCHER, saying that only seven percent of NCHER's budget is spent on advocacy work, according to MassLive.

About 1/3 of National REALTOR ® dues are spent on advocacy.

Not exact matches

When asked how much money would be spent on immigration advocacy, Lima declined to give a monetary figure, but said the advocacy efforts would be «as big of a deal» as tax reform.

«Mr. O'Reilly, I don't think you are the right person to lecture me on advocacy in journalism when you spend most of your program giving your opinions without asking questions,» he said.

With the Senate voting on a provisional bill to fund the government for three more weeks, Sara Fagen, DDC Advocacy, and CNBC's John Harwood discuss the road ahead for getting a final spending bill and work on immigration.

Rather than spend the resources to chase paid outlets and influencers, brands should focus on advocacy, which can produce better results in a shorter amount of time.

«There are a number of Democratic members of Congress who are calling themselves pro-life, but it's hard to do that after voting for healthcare, which was the largest expansion of abortion we've seen,» says Tom Minnery, senior vice president of CitizenLink, a conservative advocacy group connected to Focus on the Family that is also spending money this cycle.

She currently lives in Waterford, Maine, and spends her free time working on several cloth diapering advocacy projects.

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Ad Age published a fascinating set of survey results yesterday, and here's a number that should jump out at political / advocacy communicators: more than a third of corporate Chief Marketing Officers expected to spend 75 % of their budgets on digital channels within five years.

Senator who authored NY's first property tax cap and has championed state spending cap and small business relief measures hailed for «tireless advocacy» on behalf of small businesses who create most of the jobs in our economy

By comparison, anti-fracking environmental organizations, unions and advocacy groups spent merely $ 1.9 million on campaign contributions during that period.

Following the August on - air shooting death of Roanoke television journalist Alison Parker and her cameraman, Adam Ward, a national gun control advocacy group sought to spend $ 700,000 in advertising in the open District 10 race in October.

Meanwhile, the party supports the idea that the Scottish Parliament should use its new income tax powers to raise rates in order to have more money to spend on public services (a far cry from their Westminster colleagues» advocacy of lower income tax when they were in coalition with the Conservatives).

Hoylman's Democratic colleague Daniel Squadron, who represents Lower Manhattan and portions of Brooklyn and is the lead sponsor on GENDA, said the group's decision «makes me concerned about advocacy on the many outstanding critical LGBT issues moving forward,» mentioning specifically that bill, Hoylman's «conversion therapy» measure, and statewide social service spending.

It's a reduction of $ 15 million from 2011, the first since 2000 as lobbying groups and advocacy campaigns pulled back dramatically on advertising spending.

At a time where there is advocacy on managing Ghana's resources, this is not the time for the Akuffo - Addo Administration to pioneer the dissipation of public purse since he has been the number one lobbyist of judicious spending.

Syracuse Mayor Stephanie Miner and a coalition of construction advocacy organizations on Thursday called for the state to boost spending for infrastructure projects, especially in upstate cities that have struggled to keep up with needed repairs.

It emphasizes that the Senate GOP's housekeeping account's spending has spiked ahead of Senate elections every two years, on expenses such as «issue advocacy» and polling.

Coalition for Opportunity in Education, a group whose advocacy is focused exclusively on the Education Investment Tax Credit, which would incentivize donations to private school scholarships or public schools, spent $ 659,404.

Education advocacy groups are giving Gov. Andrew Cuomo bad grades when it comes to spending on education in his proposed 2014 budget, as Syracuse parents and community members believe the state needs to come through with substantially more money for schools in the spending plan.

Cuomo spokesman Richard Azzopardi had this response to that criticism: «The fact the same professional cynics are somehow criticizing us for spending too much and too little on this plan at the same time should tell you everything you need to know about the Albany advocacy complex.»

Michael Beltzer, a father who has served on his local community board and on the 43rd Precinct Community Council, says he has worked for a decade as a «community advocate and servant» including time spent with small community and advocacy groups.

An advocacy group with ties to President Trump is suing the Cuomo administration saying the New York governor failed to fork over details on how $ 247 million was spent on...

A second report issued today by Advocacy to Control TB Internationally, a partnership of advocates from eight countries, claimed that the four largest TB funding donors — including the U.S. President's Emergency Plan for AIDS Relief and the Global Fund to Fight AIDS, Tuberculosis and Malaria — made it difficult to discern where they spent money on HIV / TB and whether the programs were effective.

«Compared to $ $ billions spent by governments on climate research, not to mention $ $ billions spent by enviro advocacy groups (many of whom have annual budgets exceeding $ 100M).

Lance Rutter has spent the last 30 + years of his career devoted to graphic design, working on projects in his Chicago design studio, teaching design at the School of the Art Institute of Chicago, serving on the national board of the AIGA, and presiding over the 2008 and 2010 Chicago International Poster Biennials, among other public design advocacy initiatives.

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.

And legislative and campaign spending is not the only thing teachers unions are spending their money on; both NEA and AFT send additional millions to advocacy groups, community organizations, and charities.

Reckhow shows that large foundations have recognized the need to focus on influencing how public monies are spent, and that they are now devoting a significantly larger share of their giving on policy advocacy.

«For the first time, we have put dollar figures on what has always been known anecdotally: The unions exert a great deal of influence on domestic policy, due to the sheer amount of money they spend on political advocacy, and at times pushing political agendas that are at odds with those of their members.»

Cambridge, MA — A first - ever national analysis of state spending per teacher on political advocacy by the National Education Association (NEA) and the American Federation of Teachers (AFT) released today found that the national teachers unions and their state affiliates spent more than $ 100 per teacher in five states, with Oregon at the top of the list at $ 360 per teacher during the 2007 - 08 election cycle.

These foundations spend nearly 5 times as much on activities that are undisguised advocacy efforts.

Reticence on AFT's part is understandable; it may be a bit tapped out, having just spent $ 6 million on advocacy groups in 2011 - 2012.

American Federation for Children, an advocacy group that spends heavily in favor of school choice, spent nearly $ 1 million on Wisconsin races in 2014 and has spent more than $ 4.5 million since 2010 to elect pro-voucher candidates.

An official familiar with the plans tells The Associated Press that the state chapter of the American Federation for Children is spending $ 800,000 on broadcast television, cable and radio advertising — a vast amount for political advertising or issue advocacy in the state.

Before diving into education advocacy, Josh worked on Capitol Hill where he spent more than four years advising his hometown congressman, U.S. Representative Adam Smith (WA - 9), as his legislative assistant on labor, health, budget, and tax issues.

After soliciting input for over a year from education groups, research and advocacy organizations, students and parents, the State Board of Education on Friday approved final regulations governing how districts spend funds they receive through the Local Control Funding Formula, the state's new school financing law.

To prepare, both LAUSD officials and local advocacy groups are ramping up community engagement efforts to get public input on spending priorities.

As readers know by now, Dropout Nation determined in research released last October that National Education Association and American Federation of Teachers spend roughly $ 700 million per year on advocacy.

So clear has it become that the foundation spent $ 78 million of the $ 373 million spent on education in 2009 on advocacy.

Not only is it spending more than $ 75 million a year on advocacy, but it is also simultaneously bankrolling the development of policy by funding academic researchers and district data specialists and giving money to think tanks and media organizations that examine their handiwork.

Conference participants will spend the day: learning from experts about issues facing DC's public charter schools, sharing innovations and best practices that are driving student outcomes, inspiring each other to engage in advocacy that strengthens our movement, focusing on equity so together we can achieve the goal of quality public school choices for all DC families.

Watching intently are vocal advocacy groups who worry that too much local flexibility or insufficient transparency, especially for reporting on spending, may translate to diminished services for the very students the LCFF aims to accelerate.

«Eisner's unrelenting advocacy of the arts continued during periods in which arts programs were cut in schools, and a chorus of administrators and policymakers, faced with budget constraints, focused on test scores, worried that spending time painting or drawing was not academic enough... One of the casualties of our preoccupation with test scores is the presence — or should I say the absence — of arts in our schools,» he wrote in the Los Angeles Times in 2005.

The analysis, done by the Center for Media and Democracy, a nonprofit liberal watchdog and advocacy agency based in Wisconsin that tracks corporate influence on public policy, says that four companies — Pearson Education, ETS (Educational Testing Service), Houghton Mifflin Harcourt, and McGraw - Hill — collectively spent more than $ 20 million lobbying in states and on Capitol Hill from 2009 to 2014.»

Second, private donors not only fund charter schools directly but also spend millions on political advocacy for charters.

Those children are spending triple the time on mobile devices — about 15 minutes daily — that they did in 2011, with playing games, using educational apps and watching videos among their most popular activities, said the San Francisco - based child advocacy group.

This time, they are focusing on the advocacy group that spearheaded the ban and has spent a lot of time getting the word out on the pet store - puppy mill connection.

But Dauphine's got it wrong when she claims that Best Friends «spent more than $ 11 million on cat advocacy campaigns that year.»