Under that umbrella, competency based education and project-based learning offer pedagogical strategies that we can use to support learners today.
(Other anchor-weight items, such as heavy-duty plastic buckets or table umbrella bases, can also be used).
The International Association of Fire Fighters, an umbrella union based in Washington, spoke out against Mr. Giuliani in March.
While Amini convalesced, her colleagues dissolved the Stop Stoning Forever campaign into an umbrella organization based abroad.
Crime Stoppers International, an umbrella group based in Fort Worth, Tex., said that at the end of 1999 there were nearly 1,100 local Crime Stoppers organizations.
Although themed poetry slams are not unusual, the event here was believed to be the first in the country to specifically address housing, said Mike Henry, a spokesman for Poetry Slam Inc., a nonprofit umbrella group based in Chicago.
The umbrella group based outside Paris includes the People's Mujahedeen, which is blacklisted in the United States as a terrorist organization, but successfully won the removal of the label this year in the European Union.
Jim Pitofsky, director of SEA Change (Social Entrepreneurs Alliancee for Change), an umbrella organization based in New York and San Francisco that helps young entrepreneurs hook up with philanthropic causes, said many people were seeking both immediate and long-term ways to help.
Cleantech Venture Network, an umbrella organisation based in Ann Arbor, Michigan, says VCs invested $2.9 billion in North American clean-technology start-ups in 2006 78% more than in 2005 and 140% up from 2004.
