Results List
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Gara LaMarche on Creating Progressive Narratives
The times are difficult and the challenges are great. But a sober analysis of our predicament suggests that there are accomplishments to be celebrated and lessons to be learned from the intense period of history we have just lived through that can inform a comeback…
Author: GRITtv
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A Moment for Progressive Change in America: How Can We Make the Most of It?
Now that we know that Barack Obama will take the office of President of the United States on January 20, the scenario planning that virtually all non-profits and philanthropies have been doing can kick into high gear. My e-mail inbox, and no doubt yours, is…
Author: Gara LaMarche
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USAction to Mark Ten Years of Building National and Grassroots Progressive Leadership
Health Care for America Now is an Atlantic grantee. Tenth Anniversary Progressive Leadership Awards to honor those who have helped build our movement and moved us closer to comprehensive health care reform. USAction will celebrate its tenth anniversary at its annual Progressive Leadership Awards Gala…
Author: USAction
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How Do We Keep Obama's Youth Mobilized?
Original Source Barack Obama’s campaign politicized and organized more youth than any campaign has in recent history. The Prospect asked nine organizers, writers, and thinkers at the forefront of progressivism and youth activism to suggest one way of incorporating these youth into the progressive movement.…
Author: The American Prospect
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Are Well-Off Progressives Standing in the Way of a Real Movement for Economic Justice?
By Alyssa Battistoni Many progressives are affluent and well-educated. Does their elite status stand in the way of a movement to fight attacks on the working class? Over the past few years, it’s become an article of faith among progressives that we’re living through a…
Author: AlterNet
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Oct. 13th Event: Bill Moyers Interviews Gara LaMarche and Deepak Bhargava: Working Towards Progressive Reform and Social Justice
Join your colleagues for an informal interview with Gara LaMarche, CEO of The Atlantic Philanthropies, and Deepak Bhargava, Executive Director of the Center for Community Change, moderated by the award winning journalist and public commentator Bill Moyers. Discussion will focus on pressing issues that the…
Author: Philanthropy New York
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Why Movements Matter
Paradigm-shifting elections don’t shift paradigms if there aren’t corresponding social movements for change. By VIVIEN LABATON AND GARA LAMARCHE One thing we now know with certainty, more than two years into Barack Obama’s presidency, is that change is an uphill battle. We’re already defending hard-won gains on…
Author: The American Prospect
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What Progressives Did Right to Win Healthcare
By Richard Kirsch. One year after the Tea Party insurgency disrupted Democratic Congressional town hall meetings, it’s worth asking how healthcare reform survived. By the beginning of 2010, Scott Brown had taken Ted Kennedy’s Senate seat, reform proponents had lost the national narrative and voters…
Author: The Nation
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Richard Boone and the Field Foundation: Beacons of Leadership for Social Justice Philanthropy
On a mellow California afternoon earlier this month, I drove a few hours up the coast from Los Angeles, where I’d been on a panel at the annual meeting of the Center for Effective Philanthropy, to spend some time with one of the most influential…
Author: Gara LaMarche
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The Road Ahead for Progressives: Back to Basics
by Gara LaMarche and Deepak Bhargava Twenty-one months after Barack Obama was inaugurated on a wave of hope for change in America’s politics and policies, at least two important and seemingly contradictory things can be said. First, there has been a series of significant progressive reforms: an economic…
Author: The Nation