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And So It Begins …
The sequester starts at midnight tonight. In the media, we have seen a charged partisan conversation about the overall impact on the government, with some predicting disaster and some predicting no c… more →
Alliance for a Stronger FDA
Generations, transparency, social approaches...organizational culture change is coming
wrote 6 days ago: A recent post from Debra Askanse at Community Organizer 2.0 highlights a new nonprofit organization, … more →
Levels of campaign engagement
wrote 1 week ago: One of the moments when I’m talking with a group of nonprofit executives or Board members and … more →
Advocacy roles for philanthropy...and lessons for nonprofits
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wrote 1 week ago: Recently a foundation colleague and I had an email exchange sparked by this Nonprofit Quarterly arti … more →
The What: Maintaining the balance of powers
wrote 1 month ago: OK, so, I’m cheating a little bit for this last post of “what week”, because, whil … more →
The What: We Still Need Voting Rights
wrote 1 month ago: More ‘whats’, in policy change. Or, in this case, policy not-change. Because, let’ … more →
The What: Investments in Public Health
wrote 1 month ago: Usually, this blog is more about the how of policy advocacy and social change, than the what. I mean … more →
Close knowledge makes a difference
wrote 1 month ago: There was another part from The Ghost Map that made me think about social work, and about you all, w … more →
Blind Spots and Grave Errors: Why do we think we're immune today?
wrote 1 month ago: My oldest son is prone to getting really (REALLY) into something, for a brief period of time, and th … more →
We need 'Little Critter' books for justice
wrote 1 month ago: At least around my house, woe befall the Mommy who, in running out the door with her hands full of k … more →
The link between not enough and too much
wrote 2 months ago: For some work I’ve been doing–some for a health foundation, about the advocacy capacity … more →
Not paying enough today
wrote 2 months ago: This is what taxes look like in Kansas now: Image credit, Think Progress Hence my complaint: I am no … more →
Is there such a thing as 'too passionate' to advocate?
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wrote 2 months ago: I am pretty passionate about a lot of issues. I guess that has been established, no? On a weekly bas … more →
Advocacy Evaluation and Being 'Data-Informed'
wrote 2 months ago: I wrote a post not too long ago about ‘data-driven cultures’. And then I read Measuring … more →
Root causes and urgent fires: Building an Advocacy Agenda
wrote 2 months ago: One of the most important, and most time-consuming, parts of my advocacy technical assistance with n … more →
The charts that are shaping U.S. economic policy. April Fool.
wrote 2 months ago: My oldest son has big plans to switch my toothbrush with my husband’s today, so we’ll se … more →
No excuses
wrote 3 months ago: This isn’t really a fully-formed post. And it’s certainly not an indictment of anyone ot … more →
Patience: An overrated virtue
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wrote 3 months ago: I am not a very patient person. This is probably why, around the time that my kids turn 18 months ol … more →
We can't call it a 'failure'
wrote 3 months ago: The crux of the analysis in A Problem from Hell is really quite chilling: the author came to the con … more →
When our imaginations fail us
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wrote 3 months ago: My children–and many children–have incredible imaginations. My younger son is convinced … more →
