Sentences with phrase «voice of advocacy»

«I'm proud to be among these REALTORS ® who are deeply committed to making The Voice for Real Estate ® the strongest voice of advocacy on Capitol Hill,» says NAR President R. Layne Morrill.

«I'm thrilled to have the opportunity to lead Unshackle Upstate and be a voice of advocacy and growth for Upstate New York,» Biryla said..

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Meanwhile, Craig Aaron, president and CEO of the net neutrality advocacy group Free Press also voiced dissatisfaction with the ruling, saying it allows phone and cable companies to «block and discriminate» against their customers» communications.

He is also a member of the U.S. Chamber of Commerce's National Advocacy Council of Young Entrepreneurs, which represents the voice of young entrepreneurs to congressional leaders.

Public Interest Advocacy Centre director John Lawford, who is sitting in on a couple of panels, is perhaps the lone voice of the public — Wind Mobile's two representatives could maybe be included — in what is otherwise an industry love - in.

Kinahan oversees market structure at TD Ameritrade and leads the firm's client advocacy efforts on Capitol Hill, where he voices the needs of retail investors.

Our staff and members are often invited to educate new audiences about the practice of shareholder advocacy and, more specifically, to represent the responsible investor voice on all of the issues we address.

«As Independent Representative for Children and Youth she engaged in tireless advocacy and exposed serious problems in the Ministry of Children and Family Development, giving the province's youth in care a face and a voice demanding change.

ACA provides professional development, industry voice, public policy advocacy and an array of benefits and resources to its membership of nearly 200 angel groups and more than 8,000 individual accredited investors.

Unprecedented collaboration of seven advocacy groups, led by the 30 % Club Canada, aims to reduce distraction, amplify impact and deliver a unified voice.

Employee advocacy is the promotion of a company or brand through the voice of their employees.

Insofar as that support includes advocacy in Washington, D.C. for institutions of Christian higher education, we believe our association with the CCCU significantly weakens our collective voice for our distinctive mission, at a time when we are under increasing scrutiny.

Industry thought - leaders will voice their opinions on trending topics, including cross-channel marketing, staff and guest engagement, crisis management, advocacy, mobile payments and the science of food pairing with the world's «smartest cognitive computer.»

This double «Voices of Breastfeeding» issue spotlights both the cultural explosion of breastfeeding advocacy as well as the challenges still to overcome.

The National WIC Association is the education arm and advocacy voice of the nation's 12,200 WIC public health service provider agencies and the 8 million WIC mothers and young children.

* Day 1 Monday, February 22, 2016 4:00 PM -5:00 PM Registration & Networking 5:00 PM — 6:00 PM Welcome Reception & Opening Remarks Kevin de Leon, President pro Tem, California State Senate Debra McMannis, Director of Early Education & Support Division, California Department of Education (invited) Karen Stapf Walters, Executive Director, California State Board of Education (invited) 6:00 PM — 7:00 PM Keynote Address & Dinner Dr. Patricia K. Kuhl, Co-Director, Institute for Learning & Brain Sciences * Day 2 Tuesday February 23, 2016 8:00 AM — 9:00 AM Registration, Continental Breakfast, & Networking 9:00 AM — 9:15 AM Opening Remarks John Kim, Executive Director, Advancement Project Camille Maben, Executive Director, First 5 California Tom Torlakson, State Superintendent of Public Instruction, California Department of Education 9:15 AM — 10:00 AM Morning Keynote David B. Grusky, Executive Director, Stanford's Center on Poverty & Inequality 10:00 AM — 11:00 AM Educating California's Young Children: The Recent Developments in Transitional Kindergarten & Expanded Transitional Kindergarten (Panel Discussion) Deborah Kong, Executive Director, Early Edge California Heather Quick, Principal Research Scientist, American Institutes for Research Dean Tagawa, Administrator for Early Education, Los Angeles Unified School District Moderator: Erin Gabel, Deputy Director, First 5 California (Invited) 11:00 AM — 12:00 PM «Political Will & Prioritizing ECE» (Panel Discussion) Eric Heins, President, California Teachers Association Senator Hannah - Beth Jackson, Chair of the Women's Legislative Committee, California State Senate David Kirp, James D. Marver Professor of Public Policy, University of California, Berkeley Assemblyman Kevin McCarty, Chairman of Subcommittee No. 2 of Education Finance, California State Assembly Moderator: Kim Pattillo Brownson, Managing Director, Policy & Advocacy, Advancement Project 12:00 PM — 12:45 PM Lunch 12:45 PM — 1:45 PM Lunch Keynote - «How Children Succeed: Grit, Curiosity, and the Hidden Power of Character» Paul Tough, New York Times Magazine Writer, Author 1:45 PM — 1:55 PM Break 2:00 PM — 3:05 PM Elevating ECE Through Meaningful Community Partnerships (Panel Discussion) Sandra Guiterrez, National Director, Abriendo Purtas / Opening Doors Mary Ignatius, Statewide Organize of Parent Voices, California Child Care Resource & Referral Network Jacquelyn McCroskey, John Mile Professor of Child Welfare, University of Southern California School of Social Work Jolene Smith, Chief Executive Officer, First 5 Santa Clara County Moderator: Rafael González, Director of Best Start, First 5 LA 3:05 PM — 3:20 PM Closing Remarks Camille Maben, Executive Director, First 5 California * Agenda Subject to Change

The anxiety I already feel as a public voice in 2017 coupled with this confirmation of the risks of vulnerability has made me question my advocacy.

Advocacy blogs seem to work best for organizations that have either a very strong policy side (and hence a good stream of content) or a particularly strong voice or personality.

I'd say two things: the steady growth of Republicans and conservatives online, both in terms of the tools they use and in terms of the number of voices talking about online advocacy.

Whether your organization is local or national, with the right tools and techniques, you can tap into the rising tide of advocacy and make your voice heard.

Stuart Kaplan of the HS for Law, Advocacy and Community Justice in Manhattan voices support for the resolution to protect immigrant and Muslim students.

«Today, we're calling on Mayor de Blasio and Governor Cuomo to stop having us beg every year for funding,» said Saundrea Coleman, a resident of Stanley Isaacs Houses and member of the advocacy group Community Voices Heard (CVH).

The Saratoga County Prosperity Partnership (Saratoga Partnership), the county's designated economic development agency, and the Global Semiconductor Alliance (GSA), a leading voice for the worldwide semiconductor industry, today announced the establishment of a strategic partnership to drive high - tech business attraction and growth in Saratoga County while establishing a hub for semiconductor outreach, advocacy and education in the Northeast.

MALTA — On Thursday, the Saratoga County Prosperity Partnership and the Global Semiconductor Alliance (GSA), a leading voice for the worldwide semiconductor industry, announced the establishment of a strategic partnership to drive high - tech business attraction and growth in Saratoga County while creating a hub for semiconductor outreach, advocacy and education in the Northeast.

BY PAUL SCHINDLER In a December 4 statement, more than a dozen major groups from New York's LGBT advocacy community came together to voice their «outrage over the lack of indictment in the Eric Garner case.»

Statewide pleas to raise New York's adult conviction age have begun to ruminate in Westchester County, attracting the voices of faith leaders, government officials and advocacy groups alike.

While his advocacy for good government is well known throughout national politics, Steve is a local voice with strong community roots in Bayside where he is also a member of Community Board 11, the place he calls home.

«I think I'm more of service and can be more influential being a voice for Puerto Rico here, and really advocacy working to develop an agenda to put pressure on Congress and this administration, working with philanthropy,» she said.

Among the voices joining with PSC was Bill Lipton, State Director of the New York Working Families Party; members of 32BJ; Henry Garrido, Executive Director of DC 37; Vincent Álvarez, President of the New York City Central Labor Council, AFL - CIO; Zakiyah Ansari, Advocacy Director of the Alliance for Quality Education; and Rabbi Michael Feinberg, Executive Director of the Greater New York Labor - Religion Coalition.

The group, a nonprofit advocacy organization formed in 2001 and historically funded by teachers unions, has long offered itself as a voice for parents and communities of color and, as such, has also been a thorn in the side of successive state and city governments, consistently pushing for more funding in the state budget to meet the needs of underserved schools and fighting against school closures and charter schools.

Collaboration will support Partnership's Next Wave Center and business attraction efforts, and GSA's industry outreach, advocacy, education and membership recruitment initiatives The Saratoga County Prosperity Partnership (Saratoga Partnership), the county's designated economic development agency, and the Global Semiconductor Alliance (GSA), a leading voice for the worldwide semiconductor industry, today announced the establishment of a strategic partnership + Read More

The effort, organized by members of Community Voices Heard Power, Interfaith Clergy for Social Action, WESPAC, Working Families Party and the Westchester Workforce Housing Coalition, comes after a year of advocacy to secure this funding in the 2016 Westchester County Budget.

When he died 4 years ago, at 76, it «deprived the world of an eloquent voice in the advocacy of human rights, but his expulsion from China allowed that voice to be heard around the world,» Lerch wrote.

Despite his early advocacy of the quantum nature of reality, by the 1920s Einstein had begun voicing serious doubts about the theory.

As Minikel explained on CureFFI.org, the registry represents an effort by a coalition of prion disease advocacy groups — the CJD Foundation, the CJD International Support Alliance, and the Prion Alliance — to fill an unmet need: a centralized way for those who want to participate in prion disease research to make their voices heard, and in the process, support clinical research on these conditions:

Friends of the Earth is a national, non-profit advocacy organization dedicated to protecting the planet from environmental degradation; preserving biological, cultural, and ethnic diversity; and empowering citizens to have an influential voice in decisions affecting the quality of their environment — and their lives.

Her combined leadership, advocacy, and liaison experience at NPA, NSF, and non-profit organizations like the Association for Women in Science (AWIS) has well - equipped her for a second term as a member of NPA's Board of Directors, in which she would like to work towards strengthening the voice of NPA and helping the postdoctoral community.

To ensure we make the most of these new opportunities, Parent Project Muscular Dystrophy (PPMD) brought together an expert Advisory Committee, including leading voices in academia, industry, and patient advocacy, to issue recommendations about how to effectively evaluate new therapies for Duchene and other, rare, serious, and life - threatening disorders.

Professional associations also can help organize the advocacy activity of scientists, thereby amplifying their voice, especially when other organizations are engaged.

Planetary Radio host Mat Kaplan learns why Director of Advocacy Casey Dreier is cautiously optimistic about the budget outlook for planetary science and exploration, so long as Planetary Society members and others keep making their voices heard in the nation's capitol.

Richmond, VA About Blog Voices for Virginia's Children is a statewide research and advocacy organization that champions public policies to improve the lives of children.

Voices is a 501 (c)(3) bringing advocacy to children in foster care and increasing awareness of the value a CASA brings to the child welfare team.

Australia About Blog A trusted voice of the Australian retail industry in news, advice, and advocacy for more than 109 years.

Richmond, VA About Blog Voices for Virginia's Children is a statewide research and advocacy organization that champions public policies to improve the lives of children.

Voices is a 501 (c)(3) bringing advocacy to children in foster care and increasing awareness of the value a CASA brings to the child welfare team.

Redford was acknowledged for his work as actor and director, his decades long involvement in nurturing independent voices in film and the arts through the Sundance Institute, Sundance Film Festival, and overall advocacy on behalf of artists, as well as his work as an environmental activist over 40 years.

How do we best protect our students without silencing their efforts to use their voice as a form of advocacy or in global collaborations?

While one segment has coalesced around a broad social justice agenda, including education, housing, economics, and criminal justice advocacy, a contrasting group of center - right leaders say the presence of «social justice warriors» will marginalize their voices.

Those of us in the advocacy community need to do a better job of helping parents raise their voices effectively.

In the Human Development and Psychology (HDP) master's program, you will work closely with an extraordinary faculty comprised of prominent voices in early childhood development, organizational psychology, emotional, cognitive and moral development, trauma and child advocacy, and much more.