Sentences with phrase «than a dozen organizations»

The emergency action plan will be led by the Mexican government and supported by a consortium of marine mammal experts from more than a dozen organizations around the world.

With the Gates money, the Hunt Institute coordinated more than a dozen organizations — many of them also Gates grantees — including the Thomas B. Fordham Institute, National Council of La Raza, the Council of Chief State School Officers, National Governors Association, Achieve and the two national teachers unions.

skeptic, said more than a dozen organizations agreed on the compromise legislation, which is notable.

Rep. Bill Sandifer, a Seneca Republican and one - time solar skeptic, said more than a dozen organizations agreed on the compromise legislation, which is notable.

On Tuesday, more than a dozen organizations and about 100 health experts sent a letter to Facebook CEO Mark Zuckerberg saying the new chat app will likely damage a child's healthy development.

On August 14, the Enterprise Ethereum Alliance announced the addition of more than a dozen organizations to its blockchain collaboration under the umbrella of its Legal Industry Working Group, responsible for creating enterprise - grade applications on the Ethereum blockchain.

In other updates on the steps announced in June, YouTube says its machine learning systems are catching extremist content on the platform at twice the rate and volume as before, and that it is working with more than a dozen organizations, including Anti-Defamation League, the No Hate Speech Movement, and the Institute for Strategic Dialogue to inform its policies and efforts to identify extremist content.

Latest KIDS COUNT data gives state a mixed progress report Leaders from more than a dozen organizations have launched a statewide civic engagement campaign aimed at raising awareness about the growing unmet needs of children.

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It is based on eyewitness statements and photos, press conferences, a criminal complaint, and the reporting of more than a dozen media organizations, including this one.

Spearheaded by more than two dozen lenders and small business advocacy organizations, including Lending Club, Funding Circle, the Aspen Institute, and the Small Business Majority, the bill requires transparency about pricing and fees, fair treatment of borrowers and responsible underwriting, as well as clear language and easy - to - understand terms.

Peter Diamandis is chairman and CEO of the XPrize innovation competition, executive chairman of Silicon Valley - based teaching organization Singularity University and the founder of more than a dozen high - tech organizations.

Heritage Action and more than a dozen other organizations said attempts to subsidize extra-pricy customers with federal tax dollars or restore «cost - sharing» payments that...

ColorOfChange, an online civil rights organization «comprised of Black folks from every economic class,» announced in a press release that it has joined nearly a dozen groups and more than 200,000 individuals in opposing a merger between Charter Communications, Inc. (NASDAQ: CHTR) and Time Warner...

In 2017, more than two dozen social impact organizations took up «residency» in coworking spaces via All Good Work.

After receiving more than a dozen proposals from major research organizations across the country, the group settled on the Annenberg School of Communication at the University of Pennsylvania to he the primary contractor, conducting Phase One (the content analysis) and Phase Three (the regional survey).

More than a dozen Jets players and members of the organization have negative things to say about Tebow, according to Manish Mehta.

«For more than a dozen years, Wellstone has invested deeply in the people and organizations fighting for a more just future,» says Goldfarb.

But more than a dozen advocacy organizations — including the Electronic Frontier Foundation, New York Civil Liberties Union and Sunlight Foundation, as well as New York - based good government groups — sent a letter to the governor late last month, arguing his policy was technologically unnecessary and out of step with the federal government, which saves emails from rank - and - file employees for seven years.

Community Voices Heard, a community activist organization started by single mothers on public assistance in NYC more than two decades ago, was at the forefront of the #NoCuts Coalition rally, along with U.S. Senate Minority Leader Charles E. Schumer, State Senator Marisol Alcantara (D - 31st Senate District), and the leaders of several dozen grassroots, civic and labor organizations.

More than two dozen contracts will be awarded to community - based organizations and legal providers to serve as ActionNYC's implementing partners.

This organization claimed responsibility for more than 100 bombings in the 1970s and early 80s: these bombings actually killed six people and wounded dozens of others.

The calendar also lists more than a dozen web resources from local and national organizations that provide services to those who feel they are being treated differently or unfairly because of race, color, national origin, ethnic group, religion, religious practice, disability, sexual orientation, gender or age.

More than a dozen human service organizations joined forces with the Buffalo & Erie County Public Library System today to announce a community wide anti-bullying initiative for the month of October.

Students from Maple West Elementary School in Williamsville and King Center Charter School in Buffalo participated in the second annual «Bullying Stops Here» announcement at the downtown Central Library this morning where more than a dozen human service organizations joined forces with the Buffalo & Erie County Public Library System for a community - wide, month - long anti-bullying awareness initiative.

More than four dozen progressive leaders met in Albany on Saturday to launch a statewide organization aimed at moving the Democratic Party leftward and building support for a candidate to oppose Cuomo in 2018.

Reporters also analyzed employment data, interviewed more than 45 officials and experts, and reviewed about a dozen reports and audits of subsidy programs conducted by the state comptroller and watchdog organizations.

At a press conference of more than a dozen law enforcement agencies and organizations, West detailed the bill, stating, «I think the biggest issue is that of the actual policy.

Attorney General Eliot Spitzer holds leads of thirty points or more over any of the potential Republican nominees and has already lined up support from more than a dozen labor organizations, endorsements that make it difficult for Nassau County Executive Tom Suozzi to mount a credible primary challenge.

Smith says her organization is part of a coalition of more than three dozen community organizations statewide who are researching the issue, and calling for more equally - populated districts that respect community interests.

Criticism of Quinn over the sick leave issue sparked spirited applause at the March 20 LGBT forum, but the tableau presented at City Hall on March 29 ---- with the speaker surrounded by more than a dozen Council members, major labor leaders, and fired up members of both 32BJ and Make the Road New York, a social justice organization ---- provided a striking contrast with the week before.

Scalise spoke more than a dozen years ago to a white supremacist organization founded by Duke.

New York, NY — A coalition of more than two dozen non-profit organizations, labor unions, and advocacy groups sent a joint letter to the New York Congressional Delegation demanding that the delegation reject the American Health Care Act (AHCA), Friday.

More than a dozen police precincts and community organizations put together events throughout the borough, all with the same message: we care about our community and will not tolerate crime.

So far, The Experiments has triggered more than a dozen investigations and reviews at KI, the Karolinska University Hospital, other public organizations, and the government.

AAAS has joined more than a dozen leading U.S. science and engineering organizations in preparing a list of science questions that they say President Barack Obama and Republican challenger Mitt Romney should debate in the 2012 campaign.

Calls to more than a dozen zoological organizations were not returned, including the Wildlife Conservation Society, a conservation organization that also manages five zoos in the New York City area.

Privacy advocates at organizations such as the Electronic Frontier Foundation, the Center for Democracy & Technology and Fight for the Future; tech industry groups, including the Computer & Communications Industry Association (CCIA), whose members include Facebook, Google and Yahoo; and more than a dozen cybersecurity experts, including Massachusetts Institute of Technology professor Ronald Rivest (the «R» in the RSA cryptography protocol) and Bruce Schneier, a fellow at Harvard Law School's Berkman Center for Internet and Society.

Researchers associated with a total of more than a dozen universities and organizations participated in data collection or analysis.

The Middle East Studies Association, an organization of roughly 3,000 academics from around the world, joined the more than a dozen academic organizations asking for justice for Omid Kokabee, a UT physics doctoral student.

The broad - based coalition, encompassing more than two dozen organizations, is encouraging and coordinating the efforts of grassroots peace education and anti-military activists across the country.

For example, more than a dozen comments came from representatives of arts - related organizations, accusing the department of leaving their subject area out of the mix.

So, TREE has joined with more than a dozen grassroots organizations that support strong public schools across Tennessee to demand accountability from the TDOE in the wake of confusion created by the latest release of «quick scores» and associated raw «cut scores» from recent TCAP tests.

More than two dozen organizations have endorsed the recommendations, which ASCD and its partners are sharing with members of Congress as they develop ESEA legislation.

The new initiative grew out of The Wallace Foundation's years of work in youth development, including a dozen - year effort to encourage citywide coordination for afterschool that yielded more than 40 publications and found, according to a study by RAND, «that organizations across cities could work together toward increasing access, quality, data - based decision making and sustainability.»

About Advance Illinois Leaders from more than a dozen civic, philanthropic, business and education organizations from across the state came together to found Advance Illinois in 2008 to serve as an independent, objective and nonpartisan voice promoting a healthy public education system that prepares all students for success in college, career and civic life.

The event was sponsored by a coalition of more than three dozen education reform and charter school organizations.

When Joan joined Committee for Children (CFC) in 1983, the organization totaled less than a dozen employees and volunteers and had not yet scratched the surface of its potential.

More than half the members of AACTE's Board of Directors were in attendance, as were 30 members of the CPC and dozens of representatives from Washington - area education organizations, colleges and universities, news media, and AACTE staff.

The Coalition, representing more than two dozen national education organizations, calls for establishing meaningful public reporting and accountability requirements regarding student achievement beyond reading, math, and science at the school, district, and state levels.

More than a dozen national or regional organizations exist to provide guidance and lesson plans to high - school and middle - school teachers interested in teaching students about social justice......