Sentences with phrase «supports organizing efforts»

He supports organizing efforts after the elections to further build the independent politics of the people.

The Maria Fund supports the organizing efforts of the people to rebuild a new and just Puerto Rico.

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To support the development of sustainable and just Puerto Rico, the Maria Fund supports critical community organizing efforts.

Jacob helps coordinate policy efforts and political advocacy support for Blue Haven and works on select outside projects, including organizing student and youth engagement activities.

Tyagi Bill supported by the Prime Minister Desai restricting religious conversion and also the discrimination of scheduled caste converts to Christianity in the special benefits to people of the scheduled caste background, may be mentioned as violations of the covenant on the part of the State; and the Christian people have been unhappy at giving up minority communal safeguards and many efforts to organize Christian political parties off and on have been made in several states especially in the South by Christians.

But even if the counsellors strayed from support to advocating, this effort pales into insignificance compared with the proselytizing of organized religion.

I have absolutely no problem with communities supporting themselves with building, staff, and programs, and organizing themselves financially for charitable efforts.

Nakedpastor, «I have absolutely no problem with communities supporting themselves with building, staff, and programs, and organizing themselves financially for charitable efforts.»

If it is a correct answer, it implies that we must support such organized efforts as that of the APPE4 to deflect current educational momentum into other channels than a mere reshifting of the same materials and approaches, putting forward of dead models as new panaceas, or the temptation to begin with precise discipline where in fact learning should start in a different way.

They were determined that the church support the efforts of the exploited to organize and secure decent conditions.

I strongly support the right of working men and women to collectively organize and would strongly oppose any effort to make Connecticut a right to work state.

Kavanagh and Squadron organized efforts against the proposed HUD policy, including testimony to HUD, a Kavanagh - organized letter with Borough President Brewer that won the support of 53 elected colleagues including Squadron, and Squadron urging NYCHA to engage with HUD about the proposed rule change.

County party endorsements can be helpful in terms of organized party support for a candidate, which helps with campaign advertising, volunteers, and get - out - the - vote efforts.

As the centennial of women's suffrage in New York approaches, advocates are seeking state recognition and financial support for an organized effort to commemorate the milestone.

The video series, which was organized by the advocacy group Human Rights Campaign, is intended to rally support for a possible legislative effort to legalize same - sex marriage in New York, according to an earlier statement from the group.

College students and community members throughout the country are coming together to organize and support relief efforts following Saturday's Nepal earthquake.

The choice of a fiscal whiz was perceived as an effort to organize the authority's finances to support both the TZB project and the Thruway's maintenance without resorting to significant toll increases.

This new paradigm will force the politicians to get more involved in grass roots, community organizing efforts in order to get millions of people to support them instead of millions of dollars from a few insiders.

June 6, 2011 Poughkeepsie, NY — Marc Molinaro today announced that a coalition of leading Democrats from across the county have organized to support his candidacy and spearhead efforts to lead reach out to Democrats throughout Dutchess.

It was organized to show support for Mr. Paladino's effort and dedication in trying to help turn - around a failing system.

Adam Kinzinger — This former Air Force pilot is tight with leadership, often organizing press conferences in support of their efforts, inevitably finds his way into every «Hottest on the Hill» list and stresses over how to stay fit while living Washington's sedentary lifestyle.

The effort required funding and support to get organized, but the institution was unwilling to supply that funding and support without evidence that they were needed.

The cast includes union organizers who claim to have the support of most UC postdocs, an employer that asserts neutrality, and an unknown number of postdocs who oppose the union and are working to defeat its efforts to organize their approximately 5800 colleagues.

«The grant will fund setting up infrastructure [for efforts to] connect groups and junior scientists around the country with our group and each other; helping local groups organize meetings and workshops by providing full - time logistical support; and beginning to look through the data that exists about the scientific enterprise [so that] we can... advocate for change,» McDowell tells Science Careers by email.

Latino teachers were better perceived across all measures, while students perceived Black teachers (more than their White peers) to hold students to high academic standards and support their efforts, to help them organize content, and to explain ideas clearly and provide feedback.

In an effort to diffuse some of those tensions, the Bill & Melinda Gates Foundation, which supports IHME, funded WHO to organize the meeting.

But at Rutgers, the faculty's own union «pledge [d] total support» to the organizing effort, according to its then - president, Lisa Klein, a professor of materials science and engineering and herself a principal investigator (PI) who has supervised a dozen postdocs over her 30 - year career.

Over the past few years, researchers around the world have organized an effort to identify and save tissue archives from all the major animal irradiation experiments, and they have won support from a diverse range of funding agencies, including the European Commission, the US National Cancer Institute and the US Department of Energy.

Leah is a very passionate food activist and she regularly organizes petitions, twitter parties and blogging efforts to support her real food activism.

If some teachers could earn improvements in their wages and working conditions from their own efforts rather than from the efforts of their organized representatives or affiliated politicians, then more - effective teachers would have little reason to support the unions financially or politically.

The wage issue surfaced frequently at the conference, where participants described and debated efforts to organize, enlist support from parents, and unionize child - care workers.

From making flash cards for students to use at home to organizing a Saturday morning homework club, PTOs and PTAs are zeroing in on academic needs and supporting teachers in their efforts to bring out the best in each student.

Key challenges include figuring out funding and sustainability, communicating effectively with administrators and teachers, and organizing people and resources to best support local districts in this effort.

Highlighting inspiring efforts that parents, teachers, school leaders and board members are making across the state and how CCSA is supporting that work through increased parent organizing work, our new Teacher Advocacy Fellowship and work to engage charter board members

College Readiness for All Toolbox: Comprehensive tools and related resources offering school leaders and technical assistance providers with support to plan, organize, and implement secondary school redesign efforts.

Schools can use the rubric to help create, organize, and assess their improvement plans and efforts; districts can use it to facilitate and coach co-creation of effective SIPs; and SEAs can use it to better conceptualize how they support districts — especially those with low - performing schools — in analyzing their SIPs.

This new coalition has launched what they call «Testing Resistance & Reform Spring» (actionnetwork.org/groups/testing-resistance-reform-spring) in an effort to support testing boycotts, rallies, opt - out organizing, town hall forums, and petition drives.

You can help support this effort by organizing one or more activities in your community to raise awareness of the need for these important protections for students of color during the week of Friday, March 16th through Thursday, March 22nd.

In fact, the strategic communications plan is what organizes your website and social media efforts to work together to support the rest of your efforts throughout the year.

MIPFS organizes grassroots lobbying efforts and direct lobbying of state policymakers on education issues; it also works to help parents form local organizations to support their schools and to change the current public discourse about public schools through education efforts.

Although this represents a victory of sorts — in that a small group of teachers managed to fund and facilitate a professional development program — the small percentage of district teachers who benefited from those efforts points to the difficulties faced by the organizing teachers as they attempted to implement reforms without active administrative support.

World Pet Association is coordinating efforts with their members including manufacturers, retailers and distributors across the country in order to organize efforts and support immediate and ongoing needs in Texas.

Maddie and Nolan Auclair, for example, not only organized lemonade and bake sales but created dozens of «loom animals,» which they sold to friends and family to support the school's efforts.

«They have been truly wonderful in their support and organizing others who wanted to do something for the animals but weren't sure where to place their efforts,» Sheahan said.

«Paint the Parks» is an organized effort by artists to support, preserve and give back to the national and local treasures that inspire us.

During April, Aveda staff put up signs in their stores, they wear t - shirts, organize individual Walk for Water events, and have cut - a-thons — all focused on both raising awareness about clean water around the world and the one in seven people who do not have access to it, and raising money to support efforts to rectify that ratio.

In support of his case, Whitehouse offers up a supposedly sinister 2008 internal memo from the American Petroleum Institute and a quote — taken from a report by Drexel University professor Robert Brulle — to the effect that there has been «a deliberate and organized effort to misdirect the public discussion and distort the public's understanding of climate.»

By: Cara Condit, Director for Arctic Study and Policy, U.S. Coast Guard Academy The U.S. Coast Guard Center for Arctic Study and Policy (CASP) organized the recent «Governing Across the Waves Workshop: Global Insights for Transboundary Waterways Management in Sensitive and Congested Maritime Spaces,» which aimed to support the ongoing efforts by the U.S. and Russian governments to achieve the shared objectives in the Bering Strait region of safe, secure, and environmentally responsible maritime traffic.

As we call upon political leaders to make stronger climate action commitments, we must also support and reinforce the efforts of migrant justice groups that have been organizing for years to improve Canada's refugee inclusion policies.

The task force also works on a wide range of day - to - day sustainability efforts within UCS, including recycling and composting at our offices, organizing community - supported agriculture deliveries to our Cambridge, MA, and Washington, D.C., offices, and holding annual Bike - to - Work Month activities.