Sentences with phrase «work for nonprofit groups»

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 state Legislature's budget committee is scheduled to vote Wednesday on a proposal containing an estimated $ 7.5 million tax exemption for construction companies that do work for nonprofit groups.

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

Ms. Niou, who worked for nonprofit groups and as a legislative aide in Washington State, fighting predatory lending, has been chief of staff to a Queens assemblyman.

For decades, public - interest lawyers have worked for nonprofit groups on behalf of families with disabled children.

But anyone who works for a nonprofit group that is not a 501 (c)(3) organization needs to be wary.

One was Christopher Stampar, a sophomore from the University of Miami who works for the nonprofit group Nourish 9 Billion.

Not exact matches

The event, called Catalyst Canada Honours, is run by Catalyst — a nonprofit organization that is focused on expanding opportunities for women in business — and the group has been researching woman at work since its inception in 1962.

The former nonprofit executive had worked for women's advocacy groups, most recently promoting breast cancer awareness.

Here's how it works: Type in a keyword, and the app searches the web for relevant images licensed via the nonprofit group Creative Commons, complete with attribution.

One officer is notorious for harassing local black residents, to the point where he has been given a street nickname of «Bro Stupid,» said Burnell Williams, who works with at - risk youth and ex-prisoners for the nonprofit group Against All Odds.

When I worked for a politician I was responsible for deleting all of the mass - emails sent by nonprofit advocacy groups.

When I worked for a nonprofit advocacy group I was responsible for mass - emailing petitions to politicians.

I love the good works my job at a Catholic nonprofit group enables me to do, advocating for the poor, hungry, sick and homeless.

He headed to Chicago and worked for several nonprofit organizations, including the Illinois Public Interest Research Group and the Nkrumah Washington Community Learning Center, in the heart of gang territory.

To further expand its buying power, the group joined with the Alliance for a Healthier Generation, a 10 - year - old nonprofit organization that works with 5,000 U.S. school districts to reduce childhood obesity.

I missed the significance of this at the time (as a long - time Photoshop user, I haven't needed to work with Canva), but it seems like a good development for nonprofit advocacy groups.

And despite the demonstrated power of online fundraising, plenty of nonprofits continue to use direct mail because it still works for them (though a new group would probably want to skip mail and go straight to building an online list).

I worked at the ASPCA for five years and now work with a consulting group that helps nonprofits set up blogs, mailers, etc..

And 12 years in the nonprofit space in DC has shown me that MORE women work for progressive advocacy groups than men (far more of my clients over the years have been women than men, for instance).

It's part of a much longer process, naturally, since activists, industry groups and nonprofits have been working for weeks to make sure that their issues appear in the President's speech in just the «right» way (or not at all), and the spin certainly won't stop tonight (besides the cable - news and blog analysis, the White House itself will be taking questions online after the speech).

Jamison Dague, director of infrastructure studies for the Citizens Budget Commission of New York, a nonprofit government watchdog group, said the MTA has long wanted to abolish some of the work rules.

Yohaira Alvarez, community coordinator for the Civilian Complaint Review Board, an independent agency that investigates misconduct allegations, urged a host of nonprofit groups, community leaders and locals to consider the agency a partner in their work to bring concerns about police to resolution.

Their ranks include Chris Quinn, who in 2013 rapidly went from consensus favorite to dispiriting third - place defeat, and for the past two years has done admirable work running a nonprofit group that helps homeless families.

She has worked for the Farmingdale - based nonprofit group for 29 years.

«In the current political campaign environment, the presidential campaign finance system doesn't work at all and can not work,» said Craig Holman, who lobbies Capitol Hill on ethics and campaign finance issues for the nonprofit consumer advocacy group Public Citizen.

Many families have settled there in recent years after fleeing violence in African nations like Somalia and the Democratic Republic of Congo, drawn by family ties and the work of a nonprofit group that has resettled families there for decades, the Mohawk Valley Resource Center for Refugees.

Bryan Erwin, 41, of Mattituck and Washington, D.C., used his experience working for former Sen. Tom Daschle (D - S.D.) and in the Obama administration to form a nonprofit that works with grass - roots groups on voter outreach in Suffolk County.

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.»

As vice president for research at the Environmental Working Group, Jane Houlihan oversees scientists at the Washington, D.C., nonprofit's busy labs.

So scientists at AOAC International, a nonprofit analytical chemistry group in Gaithersburg, Maryland, are working with testing companies to try to develop faster methods for preparing and analyzing samples with mass spectroscopy.

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.

Andrew Lachman, executive director of the Connecticut Center for School Change, the nonprofit that organized the rounds group in Connecticut, says Elmore made it very clear when he first started working with the group that their language needed to be strictly descriptive.

Several nonprofit groups are working on ways to benchmark the effectiveness of technology, including LEAP Innovations and the newly formed Technology for Education Consortium.

People for the American Way, a national civil - liberties advocacy group founded by the television producer Norman Lear, began working to have the procedures changed last year after it was denied the opportunity to testify in favor of textbooks criticized by Mel and Norma Gabler of Education Research Analysts, a nonprofit organization...

These prominent nonprofit groups work for various civil liberties related causes, ranging from free speech to the rights of the elderly.

She has also worked as a Group Supervisor at the West Chester Area Daycare Center, a tutor for both 826Boston and Balfour Academy, and a Nonprofit Fellow with Generation Teach, one of Brooke's partner organizations.

Since then she has won awards for her work with children, and was recently recruited to join Los Angeles Universal Preschool, a nonprofit group funded with money from the state tobacco tax to expand preschool programs in Los Angeles County.

«If you create a system that doesn't have maximum teacher input, it doesn't matter how technically sound it is,» said Dan Cruce, a former official in the Delaware Department of Education who now works for the nonprofit policy organization Hope Street Group.

Over the past six years of his career, while working in government and for education nonprofit groups like StudentsFirst and TNTP, he has specialized in breaking down complex education reform policy issues into easy - to - understand concepts.

This group, along with the district leadership, is working with the nonprofit organization Great Schools Partnership to evaluate and develop a set of competencies that will mold the foundation for competency - based advancement across the entire district, focusing on what every RUSD student needs for college, a career, and life success.

She works actively with the Marietta Schools Foundation, as well as with numerous government and nonprofit agencies, public safety organizations, and community groups to improve the quality of life for Marietta's teens.

A former political organizer - he worked for Walter Mondale's failed presidential campaign and the star - crossed movement to draft Mario Cuomo for a White House bid - he runs Project Appleseed, a nonprofit group that helps parents shed their timid, «teachers know best» attitudes and dive into the nitty - gritty of schools and education policy.

We select investment areas based on market research including input from a diverse group of educators and edtech decision - makers, then create opportunities for companies and nonprofits working in these areas to apply for funding as well as other support.

The Union of Concerned Scientists is a science - based nonprofit group working for a healthy environment and a safer world and combines independent scientific research and citizen action to develop innovative, practical solutions and to secure responsible changes in government policy, corporate practices, and consumer choices.

He now works with Library Renewal, a nonprofit group working to create an infrastructure for e-content acquisition that bridges the gap between publishers and libraries.

Mr. Rudert submitted the certification form in 2012 and received a letter from FedLoan affirming that his work as a lawyer at Vietnam Veterans of America, a nonprofit aid group, qualified him for the forgiveness program.

The rest of the cats and dogs are the wards of the South Lake Animal League Inc., a nonprofit group that is working to find good homes for stray animals, rather than leave them to an uncertain fate at county or city shelters.

Founder, Mike McCarthy, a retired software entrepreneur who has been working with rescue groups to save the lives of homeless animals for over 20 years, established his rescue transport nonprofit February 14, 2015.

VOAD (Voluntary Organizations Active in Disaster) is a collaborative group of nonprofit and affiliated organizations that work together to effectively plan for and respond to disasters in a given region.