Sentences with phrase «years of advocacy from»

Not exact matches

Its staunch advocacy of free speech around the world - nothing other than direct personal threats are barred from Twitter - has helped it become an important avenue through which news and viewpoints are shared, from the first inklings of the U.S. military assault on Osama bin Laden's compound to Obama's tweeting «Four more years» when he won re-election.

Arguably, all of that user data should have been private from day one, a «privacy by default» experience that some internet advocacy groups have been begging Facebook to implement for years.

In more recent years, our advocacy efforts have also focused on regional issues, from our very public role in the 2015 transit and transportation plebiscite, to our work around Metro Vancouver's proposed Bylaw 280 and regional waste management, our longstanding calls for a mobile business licence program across Greater Vancouver, and our advocacy at all levels of government to invest in roads, bridges, and Pacific Gateway trade infrastructure across the region.

Employee Advocacy in 2014 was where social media listening was in 2009, and the market is probably 1 - 2 years away from acquisitions and competition thinning the number of vendors in this space.

Content beyond marketing is what will drive success across business functions in the coming year and beyond — from marketing and sales, to employee advocacy, customer service, audience engagement, to thought leadership and hiring, content touches all aspects of a business and all areas of a business can contribute to the content function.

After five years of watching bad science, defensiveness from both sides, and extremist advocacy rather than balance, I've written an article which is an appeal for nuance on the issue of low carbohydrate diets.

Dr. Lane has also received awards from the Indiana Perinatal Network for advocacy work within the field of maternal and child health, and as the chair of the Tri-County Breastfeeding Coalition, she was awarded Indiana Breastfeeding Coalition of the year.

As GOLD Lactation enters its 12th year, we're excited to continue our work of exploring the latest research, trends, new ideas and hot topics in the world of human lactation, along with bringing you cultural perspectives of breastfeeding around the world and updates from advocacy groups and non-profit organizations dedicated to breastfeeding support and promotion.

Advocacy organizations occasionally benefit from a rush of supporters, particularly when they're in the news or under attack (think Planned Parenthood over the past couple of years).

Besides noting that predicting the death of email is a sure - fire way to get media attention (particularly if you're a company that might stand to benefit from such a development), I'll just close with a cautionary tale for would - be futurists — if I remember correctly, online guru Seth Godin predicted the death of email advocacy within five years at the GetActive user conference... in 2005.

Those of us in the online advocacy community often talk about using this tool and that tool to help mold opinions or win votes, but what I wrote after last year's mid-term election still stands: the most important effect of the Internet on politics comes from the unfathomable volume of information now available and the speed with which it can spread.

This year's electoral frenzy has popularized a whole new set of electronic communications tools, from video to social media to text messsaging, and issue advocacy campaigns are busily incorporating them into their strategies.

Despite years of work by individual senators, representatives and and advocacy groups, global warming bills have always stalled in the Congress, killed off by well organized interest groups, industry coalitions and congressmembers from districts seen as being harmed.

Speak Out Central New York, a liberal advocacy group that is pressing Republicans on issues like taxes and health care, is releasing a six - figure ad purchase criticizing Republican Rep. John Katko over the passage of the tax bill from late last year.

The real power of the blogosphere, as the US has proved ten years on from the Lewinski scandal is the power of grass roots organisation, online advocacy and peer to peer networks (especially for fund raising).

Back In The Day (i.e., last year) when I was at a certain online communications firm here in the DC area, we fielded a request from a client that turned out to be impossible to meet: they wanted a list of state politicians» Facebook and Twitter feeds so that they could start targeting them with advocacy messages.

Stepping back from the email precipice for a minute (that Cap Ad study has been stirring up some BIG waves in the online advocacy world), ealier this year the Bivings Report conducted a study of how campaigns for U.S. Senate were using the internet that's worth checking out.

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.

And yet, the WFP's top official says there are a lot of things to celebrate as the year ends, pointing to a growing progressive advocacy movement ranging from climate change to criminal justice reforms.

The latest executive actions have bolstered Cuomo's support among engaged liberal advocacy groups, ranging from LGBT organizations thrilled with his plan to write regulations to protect transgender New Yorkers to labor groups who have pushed him for years to take action on the minimum wage through the previously little - known power of the Department of Labor wage board.

A report from a housing advocacy group claims more than half of the Airbnb rentals in New York City last year were illegal.

The pro-democracy group stated that it may be compelled to proceed further with, «advocacy activities» unless NYSC management provides it with «forensically verifiable evidence of refunds to the coffers of government» of the last year's cash saved from the four days removed from the statutory 21 days orientation camps in 2016.

After Years of Advocacy, New Sidewalk Installed at Rutgers Houses The Lo - Down: News from the Lower East Side

Tax reform advocacy groups from around the state gathered on May 22 to remind the Governor that he pledged to create a tax reform commission in his State of the State address earlier this year.

After years of pressure from grassroots advocacy groups, the MTA board voted unanimously to ban advertising of alcoholic beverages on New York City buses, subway cars and stations, contending that the social benefits of deterring underage drinking outweighed the loss of revenue.

Other honorees from recent years include Capers; NYSUT Executive Vice President Andrew Pallotta; Hazel Dukes, president of the NAACP New York State Conference; The Leeds Family; and others, including individuals in philanthropy and advocacy.

The potential new law comes after years of lobbying by community groups to remove the facility from the neighborhood, according to Luis Garden Acosta, founder of El Puente, a local advocacy organization.

This year's Advocacy Agenda from local business and political leaders turns away from specific building projects to changes in government rules and regulations to lower the costs of government and business.

«Our years of relentless advocacy to the MTA are starting to pay off, with the agency finally taking the first steps to fund bus rapid transit from Mariners Harbor to St. George, a link critical to the future growth of Staten Island,» she continued.

At 6:30 p.m. on Thursday, City Comptroller Scott Stringer will host a Lunar New Year celebration at Flushing Town Hall, honoring Louie Liu, VP of the Brooklyn Community Improvement Center; Katherine H. Kim, executive director of YWCA Queens; JD Kim, managing director of the Korean Advocacy Council; and Yuh - Line Niou, NYS Assembly Member from the 65th District.

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.

Earlier this year a group of more than a dozen health advocacy groups and individuals petitioned the U.S. Food and Drug Administration to ban lead acetate from hair dyes.

Twenty - five years after a toxic gas cloud from a pesticide factory killed thousands of people in Bhopal, India, groundwater at the accident site — a drinking water supply for 15 communities — remains contaminated, according to a report released today by an advocacy group and a medical clinic.

«This is the best starting point we've had in 4 years from the White House,» says Casey Dreier, director of advocacy for the Planetary Society, based in Pasadena, California.

Up to 1.6 billion pounds of plastics — from water bottles, food packaging and other consumer goods — end up in oceans every year according to Oceana, a nonprofit marine advocacy group.

**************** (from Meetout Mondays) NFL's David Carter on Living Vegan: In an interview last month on Rich Roll's podcast, 27 year old Chicago Bears» defensive lineman, David Carter spoke of a day in the life of the NFL, what he eats daily, his vegan journey, and his commitment to animal advocacy.

In this issue: Historic Year for PCOS Advocacy: U.S. Senate Passes PCOS Resolution; The Things No One Tells You About Infertility; The Three Worst Diets for PCOS; PCOS and Breastfeeding; My PCOS Adoption Story; Understanding the Scope of PCOS from the Patient Support Nonprofit Perspective; PCOS Challenge Event Highlights and more.

Each year, BlogHer hosts bloggers who create content around a huge array of subjects from advocacy to travel (I couldn't think of a topic starting with z) so the place was packed with interesting and accomplished women from across the United States — I even met some women from Canada.

According to the national advocacy organization Pre-K Now, total state pre-K investments — a funding stream separate from federal childcare funds — rose from $ 2.9 billion in FY05 to $ 4.2 billion in FY07, an increase of more than $ 1 billion in just two years.

Using data from the Department of Education, the education advocacy group StudentsFirst wrote in a blog post that 32 percent of ATR teachers were in the pool due to a legal or disciplinary case; 25 percent had been in the pool for six years or more; and the percentage of teachers in the ATR who were found by evaluators to be «Ineffective» or «Unsatisfactory» was 12 times that for the overall teaching force for the 2014 - 15 school year.

Erik has a bachelor of Arts in Political Science from the University of Central Florida and has more than fifteen years of government, advocacy, politics and communications experience.

For years, voters from all political parties have been telling pollsters at the First Five Years Fund, a nonprofit advocacy organization focused on early learning, that they are in favor of more funding for early childhood educayears, voters from all political parties have been telling pollsters at the First Five Years Fund, a nonprofit advocacy organization focused on early learning, that they are in favor of more funding for early childhood educaYears Fund, a nonprofit advocacy organization focused on early learning, that they are in favor of more funding for early childhood education.

After soliciting input for over a year from education groups, research and advocacy organizations, students and parents, the State Board of Education on Friday approved final regulations governing how districts spend funds they receive through the Local Control Funding Formula, the state's new school financing law.

Katie Braude, executive director of the parent advocacy group Speak UP, said in an email: «Shirley served on the Board of Speak UP, and we were honored to have the opportunity to benefit from her wisdom and passion over the past two years.

He noted NSBA's partnership with its state associations and the important grassroots advocacy work of individual school board members who participate in the Federal Relations Network (FRN), with FRN membership rising exponentially from 1,600 to 53,000 in just two short years.

«COSA's new slate of officers and directors, experienced and committed law practitioners from across the country, will play a pivotal role in both strengthening and expanding our legal advocacy efforts in the coming year.»

The Tennessee College Access and Success Network (TCASN) is thrilled to announce that we have received one federal policy advocacy grant and one state policy advocacy grant from the National College Access Network (NCAN), each in the amount of $ 40,000 over a two - year period.

This year, the superPAC has been funded primarily by the Firefighters union but in July, the superPAC received a $ 28,000 contribution from the advocacy arm of Michelle Rhee's education reform group, Parents and Teachers for Putting StudentsFirst.

Kentucky's Commissioner of Education, Terry Holliday, knew this year's results might cause a backlash from parents and students, so his department partnered with the state's Chamber of Commerce and the Prichard Committee for Academic Excellence, an education advocacy group in the state, to help get the message out to parents about what was in store.

The 2012 Charter School Funding Equity Rally is a feature of this year's Advocacy Week, a special event running from the beginning to the end of the 19th Annual California Charter Schools Conference.