Sentences with phrase «study by the nonprofit»

He investigated store receipts as part of a study by the nonprofit Environmental Working Group, based in Washington, D.C..

A 2003 study by the nonprofit Natural Resources Defense Council (NRDC) found that due to a combination of pollution and deteriorating equipment and pipes, the public water supplies in 19 of America's largest cities delivered drinking water that contained contaminant levels exceeding EPA limits (either legal limits or unenforceable suggested limits) and may pose health risks to some residents.

Last month, for example, a study by the nonprofit research group MDRC said that disadvantaged students who enrolled in small schools were more likely to go to college than their peers.

According to a recent study by the nonprofit Global Witness, nearly two - thirds of the 185 activists murdered last year — a rate of roughly three deaths a week — were Indigenous activists.

A study by the nonprofit Consumer Federation of America finds that major auto insurance companies charge good drivers up to 47 percent more for basic liability auto insurance if they don't own a home.

Not exact matches

According to an independent study done by nonprofit researchers SRI International, students who used Dreambox for four months improved their test scores by about 5 percent.

According to a new study for the Labor Department conducted by Sanat Monica, California - based nonprofit research firm the RAND Corporation, nearly half of U.S. employers with a minimum of 50 workers offered workplace wellness programs in 2012, while 90 percent of companies with greater than 50,000 workers offered the programs over the same period.

Construction of rental housing on Long Island came to a near standstill in the 1980s and 1990s and more than 22,000 rental units were converted to for - sale housing, according to the Long Island Index, a research study compiled by nonprofit the Rauch Foundation.

The research is organized by a small nonprofit called the Multidisciplinary Association for Psychedelic Studies, or M.A.P.S., which was created in 1986 shortly after MDMA was outlawed.

One - half of U.S. households would feel the impact of the loss of a primary wage earner within six months, and one - third would feel it in less than one month, according to a study by LIMRA and Life Happens, a nonprofit that promotes the benefits of life insurance.

The legislation, he said, grew out of a study conducted by his office and the private nonprofit Korea International Trade Association.

Only a third of large companies provide a private, secure area where women can express breast milk during the workday and only 7 percent offer on - site or near - site child care, according to a 2005 national study of employers by the nonprofit Families and Work Institute.

But earlier this year, several of the e-advocacy consulting firms and service providers released a joint study of the use of email for advocacy, communications and fundraising by nonprofit organizations.

The 2015 Nonprofit Email Deliverability Study released by the EveryAction team found that, on average, 12.29 % of email being sent by nonprofits was going to spam folders.

Oct. / Nov. 2013 - Mahoney asks the nonprofit Syracuse Convention and Visitors Bureau, which is funded by the county, to give $ 50,000 to SU to help pay for a feasibility study.

Nonprofits are a multi-billion dollar industry and make up the largest employment sector in Westchester County, according to a report released today by Nonprofit Westchester (NPW) and The Johns Hopkins Center for Civil Society Studies.

Supported by a grant from the U.S. Department of Education's Institute of Education Sciences, the unit was designed in collaboration with curriculum developers at the nonprofit Biological Sciences Curriculum Study (BSCS).

The 21 - patient study, sponsored by the nonprofit Multidisciplinary Association for Psychedelic Studies (MAPS), launched in 2004 as the first U.S. clinical trial of a psychedelic drug in 35 years.

A study by the alliance, a nonprofit group supported by the banking industry, claims that if just 2 percent of American households switched from paper to electronic billing, more than 180,000 trees would be spared and greenhouse gas emissions would be reduced by the equivalent to taking 32,572 cars off the road.

Bowers notes that the study was funded by Overdeck Family Foundation, whose chair, Laura Overdeck, established the nonprofit Bedtime Math foundation, which makes the app.

A study on the technology impacts of ITER was conducted by The Impact Group for Iter Canada, the nonprofit company committed to locating the ITER project in Canada.

The study, entitled COMET (Comparison of Operative to Medical Endocrine Therapy) for low - risk ductal carcinoma in situ, received funding through a $ 13.4 million, five - year award from the Patient - Centered Outcomes Research Institute (PCORI), an independent, nonprofit organization authorized by Congress in 2010 to support research that enlightens health care decisions.

The study, published in Nature Medicine, was partially funded by the National Institutes of Health, the Department of Defense, and more than 25 nonprofit foundations devoted to finding cures for childhood brain cancer.

«Biomonitoring studies such as the ones conducted by the CDC provide direct evidence that people are being exposed to harmful chemicals without their knowledge, much less their consent,» said Davis Baltz, a senior associate with Commonweal, a nonprofit.

«After more than a decade of war, the toll faced by the nation's caregivers who aid veterans and military members is large and can be expected to grow in the decades ahead,» said Terri Tanielian, the study's co-leader and a senior social research analyst at RAND, a nonprofit research organization.

The latest comes from a new independent study of the accident to be released tomorrow by the Rebuild Japan Initiative Foundation, a nonprofit think tank.

Lending Circles, a program managed by the nonprofit Mission Asset Fund, dramatically improved credit scores for low - income residents of San Francisco, the studies found.

Women have a higher success rate than men, and a majority were led by students, found scholars who wrote the study for The National Bureau of Economic Research (NBER), a nonprofit group in Cambridge, Massachusetts, that supports economics studies relevant to public policy.

To conduct the study, Van Houtan and his colleagues used six years of turtle count data collected daily by the Hawaiian nonprofit Mālama na Honu on Laniakea Beach in Oahu.

«As prohibitions on marijuana ease and sales of marijuana become more visible, it's important to think about how we need to change the way we talk to young people about the risks posed by the drug,» said Elizabeth D'Amico, lead author of the study and a senior behavioral scientist at RAND, a nonprofit research organization.

«A recent study by RAND found that the majority of Americans» cost - burden for dementia is caused by long - term care,» said Regina A. Shih, the study's lead author and a senior behavioral scientist at RAND, a nonprofit research organization.

Weather - related insurance losses rose to $ 50 billion in 2005 from less than $ 10 billion a decade earlier, according to a study by Ceres, a Boston - based nonprofit group that lobbies corporations to be environmentally responsible.

Emerging Ag began organizing scientists to join the online forum long before on behalf of a client it has had for 4 years, Target Malaria, a nonprofit consortium that is funded by Gates to study gene drives to reduce populations of malaria - transmitting mosquitoes.

While the FDA has signed off on the studies, they have all been privately funded, most notably by nonprofit organizations such as the Multidisciplinary Association for Psychedelic Studies (MAPS), in Santa Cruz, Calif., and the Heffter Research Institute, in Santa Fstudies, they have all been privately funded, most notably by nonprofit organizations such as the Multidisciplinary Association for Psychedelic Studies (MAPS), in Santa Cruz, Calif., and the Heffter Research Institute, in Santa FStudies (MAPS), in Santa Cruz, Calif., and the Heffter Research Institute, in Santa Fe, N.M.

Harvested high in the Rocky Mountains of Colorado, this seasonal harvest was overseen by nonprofit United Plant Savers using findings from a multi-year osha sustainability study.

The Weston A. Price Foundation is a nonprofit charitable organization, co-founded in 1999 by Sally Fallon Morell and nutritionist, Mary G. Enig, PhD, to disseminate the research of nutrition pioneer, Dr. Weston A. Price (1870 - 1948), whose studies of isolated, non-industrialized peoples established the parameters of human health and determined the optimum characteristics of human diets.

You studied acting performance in college and now work in development for a nonprofit — not a typical career path by any means!

As an activist group supporting feminist progress in the film industry, the Alliance of Women Film Journalists (AWFJ.org), a nonprofit professional association of women who write about film and the movie industry, keeps tabs on films made by and about women throughout each year, conducting what might be considered a very informal study of feminist film production.

Infants who experience insecure access to food will be less cognitively advanced when they become toddlers, compared with infants who had consistent access to food, concludes a study by a team of researchers at Child Trends, a Washington - based nonprofit organization that researches child and youth issues.

A 2005 study by the New Teacher Project, the national nonprofit organization that works with school districts to recruit high - quality teachers, examined five urban districts and concluded that seniority - based transfer privileges written into contracts often force principals «to hire large numbers of teachers they do not want and who may not be a good fit for the job and their school.»

The study, conducted by Public / Private Ventures, a nonprofit youth - research and program - development organization, is based on interviews with 125 young people who had participated in two in - school remedial programs and two out - of - school youth - service...

Using lesson plans devised by the G - 8 Host Committee and the Georgia Council on Economic Education, a nonprofit organization that provides resources for teachers, students have been learning parts of the languages of the countries that are represented, studying their monetary systems, and researching facts about British...

MentorNet, founded in 1997 by Dr. Carol Muller, is a nonprofit e-mentoring organization that pairs college women studying engineering or science with professionals working in those fields.

Published by EdSource, a nonprofit organization that monitors education in California, the study is based on a random sample of 257 elementary schools.

Just north of Molnar in Utah sits Brigham Young University, a fully accredited, national nonprofit university with a high school online independent study program so poorly regarded that its courses are no longer accepted by the NCAA for athletic eligibility.

The study, conducted by Public / Private Ventures, a Philadephia - based nonprofit research firm, examined nine such conservation and service programs across the country.

An evaluation study of the nonprofit Facing History and Ourselves, conducted by Harvard Graduate School of Education researchers, shows its positive effects on teacher and student learning.

And early this month a study of 10,000 teachers by the nonprofit TNTP said that teacher workshops and training that cost taxpayers billions of dollars each year is largely a waste (although some critics took issue with the methodology of the study).

The study, which was financed in part by the College Board, the New York City - based nonprofit that sponsors the AP program, followed students who graduated from high school from 1998 to 2002 and enrolled at any public college or university in Texas.

Last fall she was tapped by Facebook founder Mark Zuckerberg, who studied at Harvard as an undergraduate, to head Startup: Education, a nonprofit established to aid the public schools of Newark, N.J., a system in dire need of reform.