The effort is part of the company's 23andWe research arm, which has the goal of building grassroots studies from communities of members who are afflicted by various genetic diseases.
The 11th-hour, betraying machinations that shepherded the 2007 House vote exposed the transphobic underbelly of the LGBTQ movement, eventually catalyzing one of the most impactful grassroots studies of transgender experience in history, the National Transgender Discrimination Survey (NTDS).
Even after the switch, though, not a single Latino was elected to the council last November — and none even ran for the two districts that were up for grabs, according to the Grassroots study.
The Haiti Grassroots Watch study -- conducted mostly by Haitian journalists: members of community radio stations, students at the State University of Haiti, and citizen journalists, and coordinated by me -- discovered that maybe farmers always "eat their seed".
Responding to the need for empiricism focused on the phenomenon of SNGO scaling up and possible effects on grassroots, the study reported here examined KIWAKKUKI's experience, using as its analytic framework an established systems model of partnership functioning, the Bergen Model of Collaborative Functioning, abbreviated BMCF (24).
This report pulls together documentation by grassroots groups, national studies, and academic research to unearth and examine evidence of ongoing and pervasive discrimination against LGBTQ people throughout the criminal legal system, from entry to exit.
She is a historian who studies grassroots political movements in twentieth-century America, and she has concluded that our fascination with the boozy, semi-clandestine world that Prohibition created has led us to ignore its more lasting effects.
Basing their philosophy of grassroots development on such studies as The White Man's Burden and The End of Poverty, the Karimu team studied economic theory, but they always deferred to the priorities of the villagers.
It defines and elaborates a critical anthropological approach using Marx's notion of 'social praxis' and Latour's idea of 'modes of existence' to highlight the theoretical contribution of anthropologists exploring beyond traditional divides over social agency through studies of grassroots participative responses to contemporary socio-economic crises.
They also fund academic studies and "grassroots" organizations such as Parent Revolution, along with powerful political lobbies such as the California Charter Schools Association (CCSA).
Agrarian reform and grassroots development: ten case studies, pp. 179 - 204.
