"He ran a very focused campaign on voting for him," Mr. Ross said.
For AT&T, the partnership with NYC & Company represents its first such locally focused campaign, said Chris Schembri, vice president for media services at AT&T in Dallas.
The City Council approved the receipt of a $254,795 grant from the California Office of Traffic Safety for a focused campaign on reducing speed on local streets.
A well-planned and focused campaign needs to be launched for this purpose.
With his peripatetic campus-focused campaign for divestment in stocks of fossil fuel companies and the fight to pressure President Obama to block the Keystone XL pipeline, McKibben has given new meaning to the word overdrive.
Non-profit First Focus Campaign for Children has introduced a bill in Congress to expand HUD's definition, but it does not propose new spending for homeless children.
But groups like First Focus Campaign for Children, a nonprofit children's advocacy group based in Washington, say that many homeless adolescents avoid public places where they could be counted for fear of referral to Child Protective Services and that they avoid shelters out of safety concerns.
Bruce Lesley, president of the First Focus Campaign for Children, told HuffPost in an interview that the funding cuts could ultimately end the CHIP program altogether.
Blumenthal's amendment is set to be endorsed by more than 125 organizations, including the National Education Association, First Focus Campaign for Children and undocumented youth advocacy group United We Dream.
And homeless families tend to eschew shelters, since the ones that are typically open to children, often don't allow men in, which would mean families would have to split up, said Ed Walz, vice president of communications for First Focus Campaign for Children, a children's advocacy organization.
