Sentences with phrase «statewide organization working for»

WAES is a statewide organization working for school funding reform.

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LINCOLN, MA — More than 650 people pitched in at Mass Audubon wildlife sanctuaries from Cape Cod to the Berkshires to make the respected conservation organization's annual «Work for Wildlife» Statewide Volunteer Day a grand success.

Host Alan Chartock is joined by John Armstrong, Director of Communications for Frack Action, a statewide organization working to prevent Hydraulic Fracturing in New York.

He currently serves on the boards of the National Minority AIDS Council, the Network for Social Work Management, and iHealth, a statewide collaborative of community - based organizations united to advocate and negotiate on behalf of HIV targeted case management programs.

Federal prosecutors have closed an investigation of the Working Families Party without filing any charges, party officials said on Friday, a major boost for the beleaguered organization as it gears up for the November statewide elections.

CABE is a statewide association with members and chapters throughout California along with partnerships with other state and national advocacy organizations who work to promote equity and student achievement for students with diverse cultural, racial, and linguistic backgrounds.

The Student Voice Team supports students to be full partners in the work of the Prichard Committee for Academic Excellence, an independent statewide organization that mobilizes citizens to improve Kentucky Schools.

SEDL staff worked with two statewide organizations, Arkansas Friends for Better Schools and the Oklahoma League of Women Voters, to organize and conduct study circles about education reform in 15 communities across both states.

These efforts must be based on a statewide issue, involve working with multiple organizations or coalitions through grassroots collaboration, and contain a public awareness / advocacy training component for PTA members and the community at large.

Michigan's Children is a statewide, multi-issue, independent, broad - based advocacy group which works with policymakers, communities, other organizations and the public to improve the quality of life for children and their families.

In 2011, we joined a statewide collaborative of community - based organizations including Families in Schools, Alliance for a Better Community, Reading and Beyond, COPE, and Education Trust - West working to advance effective teaching policy across the state.

All applicants — along with other organizations and communities working to increase statewide graduation rates — have been invited to join a new GradNation Activation Online Community, a hub for sharing strategies and successful practices, asking questions and hopefully sparking conversations.

But the Connecticut Coalition for Justice in Education Funding, a statewide coalition of municipalities, local boards of education, education associations, unions, pro-education advocacy organizations, parents, public schoolchildren and taxpayers, are working to change that once and for all.

The Louisiana Federation for Children (LFC), the state's voice for educational choice; along with the Black Alliance for Educational Options (BAEO), a national organization advocating for parental choice on behalf of low - income and working - class families; and the Louisiana Association of Public Charter Schools (LAPCS), the only statewide entity dedicated to advocating for charter schools at -LSB-...]

Texans for Education Opportunity (TEO) is a statewide organization working with parents, community leaders and elected officials to advocate for expanding educational options in Texas.

Maddie's Big Fix for Alabama sprang from the work of the Alabama Humane Federation, a statewide coalition of 16 traditional shelters, 15 animal control agencies, nine no - kill organizations and the ALVMA.

He also co-founded and served as executive director for Climate XChange, a Massachusetts - based nonprofit advocating for carbon pricing, as well as the Massachusetts Campaign for a Clean Energy Future, a statewide coalition of organizations working to put a price on carbon.

From 2008 to 2010, Elizabeth worked on energy policy in Texas as a Clean Energy Advocate for statewide public interest organizations — Public Citizen and Sustainable Energy and Economic Development Coalition.

Rural Vermont, a Vermont statewide grassroots organization, works to support an economic policy for Vermont that serves agriculture, natural resource based industries, and small rural business, and provides good jobs, fair wages, decent health care, and housing and transportation for all rural citizens.

Our work will be centered on building stronger relationships among communities, organizations, and stakeholders in order to mobilize for climate action statewide around the environmental justice, the public health benefits of a clean energy, green jobs and a just transition, and increased political engagement of underrepresented communities.

Washington State's legal aid network, known as the Alliance for Equal Justice, is comprised of statewide and specialty legal aid organizations that work collaboratively with 17 county - based volunteer attorney programs to provide low - income people with access to justice.

While organizations like Bike Florida are working hard to protect Florida bicyclists through statewide Share the Road campaigns, change is not coming soon enough for the thousands of cyclists injured or killed in bicycle accidents each year.

The Indiana Fatherhood Coalition (IFC) is a statewide resource for fathers that consists of organizations working to increase involvement of men — fathers, uncles, stepfathers, grandfathers, or other father figures — in the lives of children.

Here on Long Island, Sisters United in Health, a coalition of 13 partner organizations led by Planned Parenthood of Nassau County and the Adelphi NY Statewide Breast Cancer Program, has been helping women overcome these barriers and working one - on - one with them to access breast cancer screenings for more than a decade.

A strong regional infrastructure for implementing the ELP will ensure that statewide and local organizations work together, tap into each other's wisdom, have the capacity to understand the changing demographics and needs of children and families, and set strategy to take action collectively so that ALL children have a greater opportunity to be successful in school and in life, particularly those furthest from opportunity.