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The American Nurses Association (ANA) is a 501(c)(6) professional organization to advance and protect the profession of nursing. It started in 1896 as the Nurses Associated Alumnae and was renamed the American Nurses Association in 1911. [3] It is based in Silver Spring, Maryland [4] and Jennifer Mensik Kennedy [2] is the current president.
Association of Welcoming and Affirming Baptists – group of individuals, organizations, and congregations which advocate full LGBT-inclusion in Baptist churches; BAGLY – organization for LGBTQ+ youth in Greater Boston; Bash Back – network of anarchist and anti-authoritarian queer projects; Bay Area Bi+ & Pan Network – organization for ...
The Gay Nurses Alliance (GNA) was a professional association founded to promote the interests of gay and lesbian nurses and their patients in the United States. It was the first nursing organization in America with this mission and existed from 1973 through the early 1980s.
Global LGBTQI+ refugee support and advocacy: Active Rainbow Sash: 1998: Services & Advocacy for GLBT Elders (SAGE) 1979: Active Servicemembers Legal Defense Network (SLDN) 1993: Merged into OutServe-SLDN: Society for Human Rights: 1924: Dissolved Soulforce: 1998: StartOut: 2009: Active Sylvia Rivera Law Project: 2002: Legal aid: Active The Ace ...
Healthcare reform advocacy groups in the United States are non-profit organizations in the US who have as one of their primary goals healthcare reform in the United States. These notable organizations address issues such as universal healthcare , national health insurance , and single-payer healthcare .
His advocacy stemmed from his utilitarian philosophy, in which the morality of an action is determined by the net consequence of that action on human well-being. He argued that homosexuality was a victimless crime , and therefore not deserving of social approbation or criminal charges.
Fran Drescher, (born 1957, Flushing, New York) is an outspoken healthcare advocate and LGBT rights activist. [348] Mason J. Dunn (born 1985), American lawyer, educator, and LGBTQ+ rights advocate based in Massachusetts. [349] John Duran [350] Sarah Kate Ellis (born 1971), President & CEO of GLAAD. [351]
WSNA is a constituent organization of the American Nurses Association (ANA) and is affiliated with ANA, AFT Healthcare and the AFL–CIO. David Keepnews is the Executive Director of the Association. The WSNA's first strike (and the longest nurses strike in U.S. history to that point) began in September 1976.