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Advocacy Q&A with Gara LaMarche in Responsive Philanthropy magazine
Original Source NCRP LOOKS AT CREATING IMPACT Highlights two major foundations’ funding for community organizing and advocacy, and critical role of nonprofit leadership WASHINGTON, D.C.-The National Committee for Responsive Philanthropy (NCRP) released today the summer edition of Responsive Philanthropy. This issue features articles on the…
Author: Responsive Philanthropy
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Webinar: How Funders Can Choose to Manage Advocacy Campaigns
Webinar Link On Tuesday, July 15, 2008, over eighty foundation officers and other interested parties participated in a Webinar discussion on the different management styles that funders can employ when supporting an advocacy campaign. The Webinar was presented by the Forum of Regional Associations of…
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Pittsburgh Foundation's new plan embraces advocacy
By Bill Zlatos The Pittsburgh Foundation is broadening its grantmaking — delving into the environment and advocacy — so it can become more of a community leader. “The public face of The Pittsburgh Foundation has been youthful, curious, positive, optimistic and exuberant — a kind…
Author: Pittsburgh Tribune Review
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Funding threat to advocacy groups for immigrants
Original Source by RUADHáN Mac CORMAIC, Migration Correspondent THERE IS a “real question” over the long-term future of immigrant advocacy in Ireland, according to a new report. This is because the two philanthropic bodies that fund much of the sector will cease providing support by…
Author: The Irish Times
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Bold Advocacy: How Atlantic Philanthropies Funded a Movement
By Naomi Rothwell The dramatic story of the recent American health care reform movement – and how foundations had a hand in changing history – has not been widely told. Starting in 2008, Atlantic Philanthropies and others helped fund an extraordinary campaign to push for…
Author: GrantCraft
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Same Sex Marriage: Culture, Law and Advocacy on Three Continents
Achieving full legal equality for gay men and lesbians has never been easy, in any part of the world. Yet in an increasingly globalised media, legal and economic environment, what happens in one country can provide valuable lessons for another. We get an unusual opportunity…
Author: Gara LaMarche
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A Big Bet on Advocacy Helps to Make History on Health Care
“Health care reform is no longer an unmet promise. It is the law of the land.” I can’t tell you what a thrill it was to hear President Obama speak those words, a few hours ago, after signing the Patient Protection and Affordable Care Act.…
Author: Gara LaMarche
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PHI Establishes National Policy/Advocacy Office in DC
Bronx, NY – PHI, a nonprofit working to strengthen eldercare and disability services in the United States, announces that it has opened a national policy/advocacy office in Washington, DC. The opening of the DC-based office caps a year in which the Bronx-based PHI has significantly…
Author: PHI
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Grant Makers Step Up Advocacy Efforts to Help Disadvantaged People, Report Says
Original Source Foundations are stepping up their advocacy efforts to help the poor and other disadvantaged people, according to a report released today by the Foundation Center. The report found that grant makers and charity officials were more optimistic about the efficacy of social-justice grant making —…
Author: The Chronicle of Philanthropy
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America's Voice Laments Tragic Loss of Life at Immigrant and Refugee Advocacy Non-profit in Binghamton, NY
America’s Voice is an Atlantic grantee. Washington, DC — Our thoughts and prayers are with the families of the victims of this terrible tragedy. This is a time for mourning, not a time for pointing fingers and placing blame. The facts of the incident will…
Author: America's Voice