Sentences with phrase «year organizing effort»

After a three - year organizing effort, a majority of nurses at Albany Medical Center voted to accept representation by the New York State Nurses Association.

Not exact matches

The new union would commit $ 50 million over five years to organizing new workers across all economic sectors, which is far higher than both unions currently contribute to organizing efforts.

Many thousands of citizens, including many Christians, have been working for social justice for years — through nonprofit organizations, community organizing efforts, and justice - oriented churches.

In recent years the clergy have found their place in the greater security of a welfare society, as shown by the provision of Pension Funds for the clergy (such as the efficient Church Pension Fund in America, organized in 1917) in lieu of earlier efforts to relieve their distressed widows and orphans.

That's where Brown was a month later, attending something called PirateFest, a three - day confab organized annually by the ball club in an effort to convince the citizenry that this year's team will be better than last year's team, and you should buy your tickets now.

If your group is thinking about participating in Giving Tuesday, the effort first organized last year to create a national day of philanthropy on the Tuesday after Thanksgiving, you really need to know one thing: are these NEW donations or just early gifts of money your supporters were planning...

If your group is thinking about participating in Giving Tuesday, the effort first organized last year to create a national day of philanthropy on the Tuesday after Thanksgiving, you really need to know one thing: are these NEW donations or just early gifts of money your supporters were planning to make anyway?

I expect the legislative leaders and DiNapoli will express solidarity with the unions — particularly the state comptroller, who owes no small part of his victory over Republican Harry Wilson last year to the efforts on his behalf by organized labor.

And like Ron Paul a year or two ago, he found that a strong online organizing effort only works if you're selling something that enough people want to buy.

Donations identified by The Buffalo News underscore the intense interest in this year's election as well as the organized effort to upset control of the board by ousting members of the majority.

The P Street Project is an effort by the Progressive Change Campaign Committee to build upon the progressive movement's online organizing of the past few years and move into the business of registered lobbying.

In an effort to minimize a rebellion from organized labor and the left during the governor's election last year, Cuomo made promises to workers and their organizations that he would raise the minimum wage to $ 10 an hour for public employees.

F.E.S., which has helped organize several massive pro-charter rallies over the past year, spent all its money on lobbying efforts, the Capital analysis found.

Much of Sanders» organizing efforts last year focused on enrolling independents and young first - time voters as Democrats.

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.

Although the judge ruled on procedural grounds rather than the merits of the law, the decision gives hope to union organizers such as Andrea Jokisaari, a Ph.D. student in materials science and engineering at the University of Michigan, Ann Arbor, who has been active in the years - long effort to organize the campus's research assistants, The Chronicle» s Vimal Patel notes in another article.

For several years now Wells has been trying to organize an effort to do on a global scale what he already did in Central Asia — similar to the ill - starred Human Genome Diversity Project.

«We are completely elated,» says Joshua Zimmerberg, a researcher at the National Institute of Child Health and Human Development who used most of his annual leave last year to help organize an effort to block the disclosure rule.

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.

For the past two years, I have been on the organizing «committee» (really, there are two of us), so I've been putting extra thought and effort into my outfit.

Bent on blunting what they see as a federally organized attack on public education, the nation's two leading teachers» organizations, with a combined membership of nearly 2.2 million, are putting unprecedented efforts into this year's Congressional elections.

The report's authors, the Consortium on Productivity in the Schools — a three - year effort to find weak points in how school systems are organized — sidestepped one of the group's original goals: identifying points where school - reform policy is not translated into classroom practice.

With word that some parents are already organizing on social media about efforts to have their children «opt - out» of the standardized tests in the coming school year, Cuomo released a statement Thursday saying that while he agrees with the goal of Common Core standards, he believes the implementation by the NYS Education Department has been «deeply flawed.»

NEA members adopted a resolution last year that «encourages» organizing efforts in charters and directed the national office to share with local chapters «key information» about lessons from previous union drives.

She served for nearly five years as the senior director of organizing for StudentsFirstNY, where she managed one of the largest parent organizing efforts in the country mobilizing thousands of low - income parents of color in New York.

To do that, a group of independent charter schools and some founders of the 25 - year - old charter movement are organizing efforts to muscle their way back into the spotlight.

During the school year, Future Corps students lead their peers through the college application process, train faculty and students on the latest mobile college app technologies, and organize, design and conduct three peer - to - peer campaigns focused on college applications, FAFSA completion efforts and a «Big Idea» movement addressing a pressing community need.

Last year, she was a part of an organizing effort that brought more than 500 people to Las Cruces.

Innovate Public Schools» staff bring more than 40 years of professional experience in grassroots community organizing, with significant demonstrated success in building long - term reform efforts led by low - income parent leaders in California.

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.

The FOTAS volunteers, who work on bookkeeping, social media, and special fundraising events; who work with FOTAS Fix - a-Pet and curbing the population of community cats; who organize and work on special fundraising and on - site events; who foster mamma dogs and cats and all their progeny, who care for animals designated for transfer; who shuffle animals to off - site adoption events; who greet the public and man the front desk, walk the dogs, love up the cats, work with play groups, and show animals to potential adopters — the dramatic and steady increase in the Shelter's live release rate since 2009 (84 % so far this year) is directly related to their efforts; and

«We organize the Holiday Kibble Drop but also collaborate with retailers on many smaller, local philanthropic efforts throughout the year.

The Annual Race for the Rescues was born and quickly became the top fundraising effort that we organize each year.

The second busiest Port in the World takes experience to organize, with millions of Passengers visiting on a yearly basis, countless Cruise Liners visiting on a weekly basis, this Port required a year of personal research and 6 months of organizational efforts.

These have been, and continue to be, big issues in the game development industry and Rami has been ceaseless in his efforts, including organizing the # 1ReasonToBe diversity panel at GDC each year.

ADVA is devoting efforts to continue organizing this event that grows every year and it's evolving to become the most important dev conference in LATAM.

Exhibitions, performance, film and video, and community engagement programs are organized thematically in an effort to connect art and community life, and a host of community engagement programs each year connect audiences with art, artists, and ideas.

Eight years of preparation went into crafting «WACK,» the first comprehensive effort to correct modern art history's shameful gender bias, focusing on work that emerged from the feminist art movement of 1965 through the 1980s and organized by theme.

Along with the locally organized Hong Kong International Contemporary Art Fair, Art HK 08 is part of a growing effort to entice international galleries and collectors to the island - city, which has become the third largest art auction market in recent years after New York and London.

Contributed by Sharon Butler / From a recent exhibition organized to raise money for Chef Jose Andres's World Central Kitchen's relief efforts in Puerto Rico, I came home with two wonderful pieces, which I've decided to use as gifts for contributors to the 2017 Two Coats of Paint Year - end Fundraising campaign.

Around six exhibition projects take place a year, and some of them are organized as a collaborative effort with other institutions, curators or artist groups.

She was also instrumental in getting farmers, restaurant owners, farmers markets, consumers and citizens together to talk about and take action around creating more local, sustainable food options in Jefferson County during a Menu for the Future community organizing push a few years ago, which served as an example for other groups in the US, with Cleveland, Ohio and Vermont replicating her efforts.

He was instrumental in catalyzing sustainability community organizing in Lake Oswego, Oregon, where nearly 40 NWEI discussion groups have started over the years due to his efforts!

Born in Addis Ababa, Ethiopia, Sara has spent the majority of her life in the United States and brings years of experience connecting local community organizing (such as with Direct Action for Rights & Equality in Providence, RI) with broader movement building efforts.

For several years, Berman fought efforts by the voter registration / community organizing group ACORN (Association of Community Organizations for Reform Now) to raise the minimum wage at the state and federal levels.

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 Rio +20 People's Summit for Social and Environmental Justice was the counter event to the official conference, both symbolically and physically: it was organized by global civil society to condemn the lack of action of the past 20 years and to coordinate efforts from different segments, and it took place about two hours away from Riocentro.

She has spent more than 20 years leading efforts to organize, fund and advise groups devoted to promoting energy conservation and community building.

Over the past several years, activists organized a range of efforts to protest and even attempt to block Shell's work in the Arctic.