Sentences with phrase «support nonprofits working»

«The grants will support nonprofits working to advance criminal justice reform or fight corruption in Nigeria,» the foundation said via a statement.

Sales support our nonprofit work.

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As the founder of a Kansas City nonprofit she was tasked with figuring out how the homeless mothers she worked with, many with felony convictions, could make a living wage that supported their families with also retaining the flexibility they needed to care for their kids.

Lacking his working capital, they've leveraged grants and educational support from more than 50 nonprofit business organizations, opening shops on previously vacant streets and starting innovative tech firms.

- Starbucks will be joining the TurboVote Challenge in a technology - supported attempt to make it easier for employees to vote, as part of nonprofit Democracy Works» larger goal of 80 % voter participation in the 2020 election.

Perry Chen has been working with a team of volunteers every Monday night for the last year to come up with an organization that helps people discover and support nonprofits for $ 1 a day.

His ambitions got a major boost in 2014, when a friend from New Harvest, a nonprofit institute that supports work in cellular agriculture, offered to introduce him to Genovese, a stem cell biologist.

But while AOL could cut off Baker's salary, Mozilla was an independent entity, and Baker, who had become a popular and respected figure in the open - source world, remained as an unpaid volunteer for about a year, until a nonprofit called the Open Source Applications Foundation offered to restore a portion of her former salary to support her Mozilla work.

Cold Stone also supports community projects, working closely with Best Buddies, a nonprofit that helps people with disabilities to secure jobs and live independently.

Launched in California in 1993, the nonprofit works on a variety of projects, including education and training, water and sanitation, income generation, orphan support, health and nutrition, and emergency relief.

Our fiscal sponsorship will allow us to continue to fundraise as we work toward getting our own nonprofit status and ensure long - term support can be provided to Puerto Rico.

In tandem with the 100,000 Opportunity Youth Initiative, Starbucks has opened four stores with classroom and training space as part of its effort to support local economic development in diverse low - to - medium income communities across the U.S.. Each of these stores creates 20 to 25 new jobs with benefits, partners with a local women - and minority - owned supplier and contractor, and works with local nonprofits to provide job - skills training to youth.

As part of our commitment to enhancing the communities where our employees live and work, Franklin Templeton supports nonprofit organizations through a variety of programs, with an emphasis on supporting causes that our important to our employees.

These funds support the critical work that nonprofits are doing.

That's why we are proud to support the many nonprofit organizations that make our nation a great place to live and work.

«Starbucks support demonstrates the great work that can be done when corporate and nonprofit partners come together to further support military families.»

In 2015, Starbucks community efforts focused on the opportunity youth population as partners worked with nonprofits that support young people.

So Otter - Pass is committed to giving back to community partners working directly with resettled refugees: 10 % of the revenue from each product sold goes to support one of the nonprofits working directly with refugees in Austin: SARA, MRC, RST, Caritas, or iAct.

The project supports the Rainforest Alliance, which works in partnership with Brazilian nonprofit Imaflora — as well as farmers, forest communities and cattle ranchers — to protect Brazil's magnificent and ecologically fragile natural heritage.

Nonprofit's work — supporting farmers with grants and political advocacy — is vital, but the nutrition industry must be more involved.

Originally founded as The Check Foundation in 2004, The Foundation, a 501 (c)(3) nonprofit organization furthers our mission to serve and support the communities in which Towne Park associates live and work.

Breastfeeding Promotion Network of India (BPNI) was founded on 3rd December, 1991 atWardha, Maharashtra.BPNI is a registered, independent, nonprofit, national organization; working towards protecting, promoting and supporting breastfeeding and appropriate complementary feeding of infants & young children.BPNI acts on the targets of Innocenti Declarations, Convention on the Rights of the Child (CRC), International Code of Marketing of Breastmilk Substitutes, and the Global Strategy for Infant and Young Child Feeding (WHO 2002).

This evening is in support of the owners of Deep Ellum, who will be running the Boston Marathon to benefit RESPOND, a Somerville based nonprofit working to end domestic violence.

Barb has over 20 years of experience working with national nonprofit organizations in a variety of areas that include: human resources, operations, finance, board development and support, fundraising, events management, strategic planning, and advocacy.

To achieve this objective, the town supports nonprofit organizations working to improve health.

The S. Mark Taper Foundation, founded in 1989, is a private family foundation dedicated to enhancing the quality of people's lives by supporting nonprofit organizations and their work in our communities.

The National Center for Fathering (www.fathers.com) is a leading national nonprofit organization, with widely - implemented programming such as WATCH D.O.G.S. (Dads of Great Students), a one - of - a-kind school based father involvement program that works to support education and safety.

That so many working moms and their families are hungry is something we all need to take responsibility for by contributing to and volunteering at food banks, supporting nonprofits like No Kid Hungry, and encouraging our employers to follow the lead of Kellogg's, General Mills and Sodexo to lend their might to the fight as well.

Dr. Haldar told a SUNY RF audit team member that the employee in question «performed the out of state work for SoloPower while simultaneously performing his responsibilities in support» of the Photovoltaic Manufacturing Consortium (PVMC), a jointly controlled, $ 62.5 million nonprofit partnership between SUNY RF and SEMATECH (itself a nonprofit consortium) backed by the U.S. Department of Energy.

«That's allowing waste to be dumped into rivers and streams and in the same month, she accepted the River Keeper Award out in the St. Lawrence,» Wilson said, referring to an award given by a nonprofit for the lawmaker's work to support Plan 2014, a plan to modify water levels on Lake Ontario.

The Education Fund is the nonprofit research and public education affiliate of Citizen Action, which has a political action committee that works to support Democratic takeover of the state Senate, and is a key player in the labor - backed Working Families Party.

Tax records show that in 2011, the NYPIRG Fund gave a nearly $ 12,000 grant for «general support» to the Center for Justice and Democracy, a nonprofit that according to its website works to «fight tort reform,» including in New York.

Tkaczyk worked for nonprofit groups, lobbying legislators for affordable housing and supporting tenants» rights.

In a letter sent out to nonprofit groups and agencies that provide homeless services after the news broke of his impending resignation, Taylor said «It has been an honor to work for Mayor Bill de Blasio, and I am very grateful to him for his unwavering support to me and to this agency.»

The state Senate's majority leader said Tuesday his colleagues probably will not support legislation containing an estimated $ 7.5 million tax exemption for construction companies that perform work for nonprofit groups.

The suit is also supported by the Center for Competitive Politics, a Virginia - based nonprofit that has worked against state - imposed restraints on political donations and disclosure requirements that it views as chilling to public engagement.

CEO for the anti-corruption nonprofit Mayday PAC; She's an antitrust and media expert, covered extensively in her book, Corruption in America: From Benjamin Franklin's Snuff Box to Citizens United; Director of Internet Organizing for Howard Dean's campaign; Cofounded «A New Way Forward», designed to break up big banks «too big to fail» which damaged small businesses after the 2008 crash; Involved with Occupy Wall Street; National director of the non partisan Sunlight Foundation which works to make Congress more transparent; Works to support education and backs the teachers and parents in the anti common core opt out movement; Helped to organize the movement to ban fracking inworks to make Congress more transparent; Works to support education and backs the teachers and parents in the anti common core opt out movement; Helped to organize the movement to ban fracking inWorks to support education and backs the teachers and parents in the anti common core opt out movement; Helped to organize the movement to ban fracking in NYS;

Iain McIntosh began his work with Nail - Patella syndrome before there was a patient support or nonprofit group to make recruiting the families easier.

Her work focuses on supporting the efforts of law enforcement groups and nonprofit organizations by using statistical models to monitor human trafficking.

But no hospital has invested substantially in home remediation to eliminate triggers, a proven strategy supported by the HUD secretary and promoted by Green and Healthy Homes Initiative, a Baltimore nonprofit that works to reduce asthma and lead poisoning.

Because it chose a nonprofit like this to work with and support.

Project grant supports Dances with Words, a youth - development program that works with youths, adult mentors, schools and nonprofit partners on the Pine Ridge Indian Reservation and in Rapid City... on the Mickelson Trail in South...

F&M's approach to retaining and graduating minority students is modeled directly on the work of the Posse Foundation, a New York City — based nonprofit that sends group of students, a posse, to college together to act as a support system for one another.

So we started the fellowship to support these educators, and to work as partners with our district, as well as universities and nonprofits who were also interested in diversifying the teaching field in our region.

The New Teacher Center at the University of California, Santa Cruz, is a national, nonprofit organization that works to provide systematic support to new teachers, and more recently principals, through the use of full - time mentors.

More recently, we worked with fellow members of the Central Falls District Charter Compact to secure a $ 10 million program - related investment (PRI) loan from the Bill & Melinda Gates Foundation to support facilities development in partnership with the nonprofit charter - school facilities developer Civic Builders.

Last year, Oberstein was appointed executive director of the Afro Latin Jazz Alliance (ALJA), the New York — based nonprofit that supports the work of the Grammy award - winning Afro Latin Jazz Orchestra.

As part of the Center for Education Policy Research at Harvard University, SDP has been working with districts, charter school networks, state education agencies, and nonprofits since 2008 to transform the way they collect and use data to support their program, management, and policy goals.

Manor New Tech is part of the New Tech Network, a nonprofit that works with schools and districts around the country providing services and support to help reform learning through project - based learning (PBL).

Leveraging a grant and supportive partnership with the Collaborative for Academic, Social, and Emotional Learning (CASEL)-- a nonprofit organization that supports SEL programs in nine other districts in the nation — Washoe has worked to improve school climate and culture, parent engagement, and student voice in all 98 schools in the district.