Through a series of in-person and web-based workshops, ongoing direct legal technical assistance, plain language publications, public education and the development and expansion of state-specific resources, AFJ ’ s Nonprofit Advocacy Project and Foundation Advocacy Initiative provide leaders and organizations with the information they need to navigate these rules and create an open dialogue on public policy.

For more than a decade, AFJ ’ s First Monday program has produced award-winning documentary films and programs designed to educate the public about important social justice issues and to expose students to careers in public interest advocacy.

As a result, the demand for AFJ ’ s services is growing rapidly each year.

With its staff of attorney-trainers, AFJ works to translate these rules into easy-to-understand language, and address questions about the permissibility of specific activities while protecting and expanding the rights of nonprofits to participate actively in public policy development in pursuit of their charitable missions.

AFJ is a recognized leader in promoting nonprofit participation in public policy by offering extensive support to nonprofit organizations on the laws and regulations governing nonprofit advocacy work.

Alliance for Justice ( AFJ ) is a national association of environmental, civil rights, mental health, women's, children's and consumer advocacy organizations in the USA.

* November 20 – The Judicial reform of Alexander II is launched in Imperial Russia.

The organization launched its South Africa program in 2005, and has since provided training to the Department of Correctional Services ( DCS ) and the Judicial Inspectorate of Correctional Services ( JICS ) on sexual abuse prevention, focusing on the link between prisoner rape and the spread of HIV.

The organisations Judicial Watch and Sierra Club launched a law suit ( U. S. District Court for the District of Columbia: Judicial Watch Inc. v. Department of Energy, et al., Civil Action No. 01-0981 ) under the FOIA to gain access to the task force's materials.

Although six cities launched candidacies and made presentations to the full IOC Session, the Selection College chose only two cities to go forward to be voted upon by the full IOC Session: Sion and Turin.

Meanwhile, a new edition of the Pleo, the L Special Color Selection, was launched.

In 2002 the BBC launched their ' listen again ' online radio service and the Essential Mix ( along with the Essential Selection ) became consistently the most popular specialist music show of the whole BBC Radio network amongst internet users.

Every year the Japan Craft Beer Association holds the Japan Beer Cup, while a competing organization, Japan Craft Beer Support, has launched the annual Japan Craft Beer Selection.

The Institute launched the Kavli Nanoscience Institute at Caltech in 2006, the Keck Institute for Space Studies in 2008, and is also the current home for the Einstein Papers Project.

* 1958 – Project SCORE, the world's first communications satellite, is launched.

" In 1988, in response to a campaign against lesbians at the Marine's Parris Island Depot, activists launched the Gay and Lesbian Military Freedom Project ( MFP ) to advocate for an end to the exclusion of gays and lesbians from the armed forces.

* 1959 – Project Vanguard: Vanguard 2 – The first weather satellite is launched to measure cloud-cover distribution.

In 1988, the Greek archaeologist Dora Katsonopoulou launched the Helike Project to locate the site of the lost city.

Several major computer-related organizations have originated at MIT since the 1980s: Richard Stallman's GNU Project and the subsequent Free Software Foundation were founded in the mid-1980s at the AI Lab ; the MIT Media Lab was founded in 1985 by Nicholas Negroponte and Jerome Wiesner to promote research into novel uses of computer technology ; the World Wide Web Consortium standards organization was founded at the Laboratory for Computer Science in 1994 by Tim Berners-Lee ; the OpenCourseWare project has made course materials for over 2, 000 MIT classes available online free of charge since 2002 ; and the One Laptop per Child initiative to expand computer education and connectivity to children worldwide was launched in 2005.

* 1961 – Project Mercury: Mercury-Atlas 5 Mission – Enos, a chimpanzee, is launched into space.

* 1962 – Project Mercury: Sigma 7 is launched from Cape Canaveral, with Astronaut Wally Schirra aboard, for a six-orbit, nine-hour flight.

In order to set a precedent for ' freedom of space " before the launch of America's secret WS-117L Spy Satellites the USA had launched Project Vanguard as its own " civilian " satellite entry for the International Geophysical Year.

Studies generally looked at platforms launched by the Saturn V, followed up by crews launched on Saturn IB using an Project Apollo | Apollo Command / Service Module, or a Gemini capsule on a Titan II-C, the latter being much less expensive in the case where cargo was not needed.

* 13. 300 Mm — Length of roads being rehabilitated and widened under the National Highway Development Project ( launched in 1998 ) in India

A US Army ( formerly German ) V-2 rocket as part of Project Hermes was launched from White Sands Proving Grounds.

The prestigious Inga Project was launched in the early 1970's and at that time the first dam was completed.

* The International Dictionary of Intellectual Historians ( New Project launched by the Journal of the History of Ideas )

Forty days later, the Soviet Union made its first successful underwater launch of a submarine ballistic missile in the White Sea on 10 September 1960 from the same converted Project 611 ( Zulu Class ) submarine that first launched the R-11FM ( SS-N-1 Scud-A, naval modification of SS-1 Scud ) on 16 September 1955.

NASA's Project Mercury and Gemini space flights were launched from Cape Canaveral, as were all of the Apollo flights and Space Shuttles.

For example, in China, the Jane Goodall Institute, through their Shanghai Roots & Shoots division, launched the Million Tree Project in Kulun Qi, Inner Mongolia to plant one million trees to stop desertification and help curb climate change.

The Federal Theatre Project of the Works Progress Administration launched several productions of the play in cities across the United States, including a production with marionettes in Los Angeles in 1938.

Together they launched " Project C " ( for " Confrontation "), a massive assault on the Jim Crow system.

In 2008, the Zinn Education Project was launched to support educators using A People's History of the United States as a source for middle and high school history.

Toledo launched Project Huascaran, which enabled primary and secondary-school classrooms to connect a nationwide computer network of learning systems.

With the Respect for History Project, launched in February 2006, a great transformation has taken place within the borders of Gallipoli Peninsula Historical National Park.

In June 2002, the United Nations Development Programme launched the Wetlands Ecosystem and Tropical Peat Swamp Forest Rehabilitation Project.

In October 2010, the Area Project was launched to develop a sustainable origination for the 21st Century.

The first model was launched in 1985 as a high-end home computer and became popular for its graphical, audio and multi-tasking abilities.

It launched from Kennedy Space Center, Florida, on 29 July 1985, and landed just under eight days later on 6 August.

Challenger launched successfully on its second attempt at 29 July 1985, 17: 00 EDT, after a delay of one hour and 37 minutes due to a problem with the table maintenance block update uplink.

In 1985, CI launched a calculator for the construction industry called the Construction Master which came preprogrammed with common construction calculations ( such as angles, stairs, roofing math, pitch, rise, run, and feet-inch fraction conversions ).

In 1985, TRAX Dance Music Guide was launched by American Record Pool in Beverly Hills.

In 1985 the emergent When Saturday Comes ( a fanzine without a specific club focus that was subsequently launched as a mainstream magazine ) promoted a ' fanzine movement ' that gave birth to many more club titles during the late 80's which was something of a glory period for fanzines.

The Barina was launched concurrently with the Suzuki-sourced Holden Drover, followed by the Scurry later on in 1985.

The 80386 was launched in October 1985, but full-function chips were first delivered in the third quarter of 1986.

* 1985 – Japan Aerospace Exploration Agency launches Sakigake, Japan's first interplanetary spacecraft and the first deep space probe to be launched by any country other than the United States or the Soviet Union.

In January 1985 the Capitalcard season ticket was launched, offering validity on British Rail as well as London Underground and London Buses.

SuperStation WTBS launched Night Tracks on June 3, 1983, with up to 14 hours of music video airplay each late night weekend by 1985.

1985: Universal Immunization Programme was launched.

They founded the Kesmai company in 1982 and in 1985 an enhanced version of Dungeons of Kesmai, Island of Kesmai, was launched on CompuServe.

The High Precision Tracking Experiment ( HPTE ), launched with the Space Shuttle Discovery on STS-51-G, was tested June 21, 1985 when a Hawaii-based low-power laser successfully tracked the experiment and bounced the laser off of the HPTE mirror.

In 1984 and 1985, while he was serving his sentence in Federal Correctional Institution, Danbury, Connecticut, American UC members launched a public-relations campaign claiming that the charges against him were unjust and politically motivated.

Tony Finn went on to do his own negotiations with Darby and company from Australia and the result as mentioned above were the US boards later launched under the ' Skurfer ' brand name in September, 1985.

The machine was simultaneously presented for the first time and launched in September 1985 at the SIMO ' 85 trade show in Spain, with a price of 44, 250 pesetas.

The Sinclair Research C5 is a battery electric vehicle invented by Sir Clive Sinclair and launched by Sinclair Vehicles Ltd in the United Kingdom on 10 January 1985.

The Vega probes to Venus and comet Halley launched in 1985 also used this basic Venera design, including landers but also atmospheric balloons which relayed data for about two days.

The " 2900 " suffix was dropped at System Version 213 ( SV213 ) when ICL launched Series 39 in 1985 as the successor to the original 2900 series ; and the " Open " prefix was added after SV294 when VME became capable of hosting applications written originally for Unix through a UNIX System V Release 3 based subsystem using the ASCII character encoding adapted to run under VME.

In 1985 Aprilia launched a 125 STX and 350 STX.

On June 17, 1985, The Discovery Channel was launched with $ 5 million in start-up capital from several investors ( including BBC, Allen & Company and Venture America ).

One early provider of equipment was SeaTel with its first generation of stabilized satellite antennas that was launched in 1985, the TV-at-Sea 8885 system.

Between 1980 and 1985, nine offensives were launched into the strategically important Panjshir Valley, but government control of the area did not improve.