Focus on the Family, worked on by Paul McCusker, was founded in what year?
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Paul McCusker Paul McCusker is an American writer and producer. He is best known for his work on "Adventures in Odyssey", a nationally syndicated radio drama, and for his work with Focus on the Family's Radio Theatre. He has written over 50 books, 21 plays and 4 musicals. His best known works are the play "Catacombs", the novels "The Mill House" and "Epiphany", and his audio adaptations of C.S. Lewis's works.
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Focus on the Family Focus on the Family (FOTF or FotF) is an American Christian conservative organization founded in 1977 in Southern California by psychologist James Dobson, based in Colorado Springs, Colorado. It is active in promoting an interdenominational effort toward its socially conservative views on public policy. Focus on the Family is one of a number of evangelical parachurch organizations that rose to prominence in the 1980s.
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Louise Palanker Louise Palanker is a co-founder of Premiere Networks, host of the teen social network Our Place, and director of the documentary Family Band: The Cowsills Story.
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Ackerman Institute for the Family The Ackerman Institute for the Family is a training institute for family and couple therapy. The Institute was founded in 1960, in New York City, by Nathan Ackerman, who became its first president and from whom the Institute derives its name. It is located at 936 Broadway, New York City.
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Small Business School Small Business School was a weekly, half-hour television program that began airing in 1994 first in the United States on PBS-member stations and then throughout the world via the Voice of America. The show went on location all over the USA and around the world to visit with the founders of a small business which had created work for at least ten years and they were recognized by their community and industry for their valuable contributions in making the world a better place.
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LDS Family Services LDS Family Services is a private nonprofit corporation owned and operated by The Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints (LDS Church). It offers members of the church and others marital and family counseling, addiction and drug dependency counseling, general psychotherapy, and counseling and other services to women or girls experiencing unintended pregnancy. In addition to individual counseling, classes are offered on strengthening marriage; strengthening families; and the Addiction Recovery Program (ARP), based on the 12-step model and Christian values.
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J. P. McFadden James Patrick McFadden (1930–1998) was an American journalist and publisher who founded the Ad Hoc Committee in Defense of Life in 1973 as a reaction to the Roe v. Wade decision by the United States Supreme Court. He also founded the Human Life Foundation, and in 1974 he launched its publication, the "Human Life Review", a quarterly journal of scholarship opposed to abortion. He also founded the National Committee of Catholic Laymen in 1977.
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Parents for Rock and Rap Parents for Rock and Rap, founded in 1987 by Mary Morello in the United States, is an anti-censorship campaign which focuses on campaigning for the importance of free speech in popular music. For the work that Mary Morello put into this, she won a Hugh M. Hefner First Amendment Award in 1996. The campaign mainly focused on opposition to the Parents Music Resource Center.
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Television Bureau of Advertising Founded in 1953, the Television Bureau of Advertising (TVB) is a private non-profit association for the commercial television industry in the United States.
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Information Television Network Information Television Network, also known as ITV, is an American television production company based in Boca Raton, Florida, founded by Ed and Ana Cristina Lerner in 1992. The company specializes in creating health and wellness documentary-style programming and is best known for producing "Healthy Body, Healthy Mind" which airs on more than 200 PBS affiliates around the United States.
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Whole Child International Whole Child International is a U.S.-based non-governmental organization (NGO) founded in 2004. Whole Child focuses on improving the quality of care for vulnerable children worldwide by working within childcare institutions (orphanages) and in limited-resource childcare centers where children often show the same unmet developmental needs and poor outcomes as those in orphanages. Whole Child's program is built as a countrywide collaboration, working together with a national government and a major local university to implement a unified strategy across a nation's childcare system.
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Capital Research Center Capital Research Center (CRC) is an American conservative non-profit organization located in Washington, D.C. and founded in 1984 by Willa Johnson "to study non-profit organizations, with a special focus on reviving the American traditions of charity, philanthropy, and voluntarism." The group opposes the growth of government-welfare programs and promotes private sector alternatives. It discourages donations by corporations to non-profits supporting what it sees as anti-business or liberal policies. The Capital Research Center is sometimes described as right wing or as being part of the New Right.
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Phillips Graduate Institute Phillips Graduate University is a graduate school based in Chatsworth, Los Angeles, California. It provides graduate education in family therapy, art therapy, and human relations. In the 1950s its founders, Clinton E. Phillips, Ph.D., and David Jansen, D.Min., had pioneered the application of family systems theory and the initiation of family therapy at the American Institute of Family Relations. In 1971 they founded the California Family Study Center which, in 1992, was renamed in Dr. Phillips' honor. In 2016, Phillips Graduate Institute changed its name to Phillips Graduate University.
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Family Policy Council Family policy councils are groups that work to influence government policy on families. Most are nonprofit and volunteer-based, and most are within the United States or one particular state. However, several groups exist in the English-speaking world. Family policy councils may conduct policy analysis, foster strategic leadership involvement, promote an informed citizenry, provide resources for families, and seek to influence public opinion.
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Families Need Fathers Families Need Fathers (FNF), founded in 1974, is a registered charitable organization in the United Kingdom that provides public awareness and support to parents who have become estranged from their children after a separation or divorce.
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Parents Television Council The Parents Television Council (PTC) is a United States-based censorship advocacy group founded by conservative Catholic activist L. Brent Bozell III in 1995. Through publications on its website including staff reviews, (non peer-reviewed) research reports, and web-based newsletters, the Council proclaims television programs or other entertainment products to be beneficial or harmful to the development of children and actively works to ensure broadcasters and content producers conform to the council's advice.
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The Fosters (2013 TV series) The Fosters is an American family drama television series created by Peter Paige and Bradley Bredeweg which first premiered in the United States on June 3, 2013 on the Freeform (previously named ABC Family) television network. It follows the lives of the Foster family led by lesbian couple Stef and Lena, a cop and school vice principal respectively, who raise one biological and four adopted children in San Diego, California.
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National Family Partnership The National Family Partnership (NFP), formerly known as the National Federation of Parents for Drug Free Youth, was created in 1980 by parents across America in response to the rising level of youth drug use. It is a 501(c)(3) non-profit organization. The Partnership also assists in forming parent groups in all 50 States by providing education to parents about the health risks of drug use. Nancy Reagan was founding and honorary Chair of the National Family Partnership.
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Duquesne Family Office Duquesne Family Office is a New York-based investment management firm, founded in 2010 by Stanley Druckenmiller. As of 2016, the firm reported $1,026B in managed securities and a portfolio with a 23.8 percent allocation in the materials sector, a 15.3 percent allocation in the health care sector, and a 14.6 percent allocation in the communications sector.
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Speer Family The Speer Family was a Southern gospel family musical group. It was founded in 1921 by George Thomas ("Dad") Speer (1891–1966), his wife, Lena Darling ("Mom") Speer (née Brock; 1899–1967), and his sister and brother-in-law, Pearl Claborn (1902–1979) and Logan Claborn (William Logan Claborn; 1896–1981).
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Let's Go (book series) Let's Go is a travel guide series researched, written, edited, and run entirely by students at Harvard University. The first of the budget/backpacker-oriented travel guides, "Let's Go" promotes itself as "the student travel guide" but is aimed at readers "both young and young at heart". "Let's Go" was founded in 1960 and is headquartered in Cambridge, Massachusetts.
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Metro Parent Publishing Group Metro Parent Publishing Group is a Ferndale, Mich.-based company that produces family-focused publications, Web content, events and television segments. Its specific target audience is the southeast Michigan region, including the Detroit and Ann Arbor metropolitan areas. The group is a member of the Parenting Publications of America.