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Improving Early Childhood Development Policies and Practices

To improve early care and education, federal policymaking must focus on improving the quality of care for infants and toddlers, and for the children of working families, Gina Adams, an Urban Institute senior fellow, told the House Subcommittee on Early ...

(research/study, text, 2009)

An uncommon hero makes the healthcare industry "healthy" for the environment (Uncommon Heroes: Gary Cohen )

While writing a book on toxic chemicals, Gary Cohen felt compassion for families who were living near waste sites and were struggling to protect their children. He cofounded Health Care Without Harm in 1996 to inspire health care providers to adopt ...

(caselet/profile, video, 2009)

Bottom Line on International Trade

By encouraging clean technology deployment and imposing new costs on commonly traded commodities, climate policy would have significant impacts on international trade flows. This document answers basic questions about climate policy and its implications ...

(research/study, text, 2008)

The Justice Project: Using Strategic Planning to Increase the Impact of Advocacy

Successful advocacy organizations are notable for their ability to mobilize quickly when events open a window for change. But the more successful such organizations become, and the broader the agendas they pursue, the more challenging it can be to keep ...

(case/model, text, 2008)

Poverty: A Challenge to Business Schools

Business schools, particularly in Brazil, have done surprisingly little work on the topic of poverty. This article explores student and faculty awareness regarding this significant issue and assesses the perceived responsibility of elite business schools ...

(research/study, text, 2008)

Learn to Love Lobbying

Most nonprofits don’t know how to lobby and, worse, think that it entails cutting shady deals with sleazy characters. Yet lobbying is nothing more than educating legislators – a right that our democracy guarantees. To make the changes they want to see in ...

(tips/guidelines, text, 2007)

Advocacy Expert Series: Civil Society and Advocacy (An introductory look at civil society and its advocacy role.)

This manual outlines ways that civil society and citizens can be involved in the political process and work in partnership with government to create policies and laws. It offers general guidelines to the role of civil society, and some guidelines on how ...

(toolkit/manual, text, 2005)

NGO Capacity Analysis Toolkit: A toolkit for assessing and building capacities for high quality responses to HIV/AIDS

In many countries, community-based and non-governmental organisations have mobilised to respond to HIV/AIDS. As responses are scaled up, organisations are finding that they need to develop their own capacity to deliver and support these programmes. ...

(toolkit/manual, text, 2004)

Strategic Planning: From the "Organizational Effectiveness" Series

The purpose of this training manual is to provide learners with the fundamentals of building a successful strategic plan for operating a nonprofit support organization for AIDS advocacy, prevention and treatment. ...

(toolkit/manual, document (pdf), 2003)

Practical Action in Advocacy

This advocacy toolkit provides step-by-step advice on successful advocacy strategies, explaining the 'advocacy cycle' and providing key insights into effective issue identification, research and analysis, strategic planning, advocacy ...

(toolkit/manual, text, 2002)

Advocacy Tools and Guidelines: Promoting Policy Change

This manual outlines ways to contextualize policies, or the lack of them, in order to develop the most appropriate strategies to influence policy decision-makers. It recognizes the frequent need to incorporate advocacy into projects in order to tackle the ...

(toolkit/manual, text, 2001)

Dealing with Advocacy: A Practical Guide

This toolkit describes the components of a successful advocacy campaign and how to integrate advocacy into the daily work of NGOs. ...

(toolkit/manual, text, 2001)

Monitoring & Evaluating Advocacy: A Scoping Study

The scoping study identifies approaches and frameworks to advocacy assessment, particularly those of NGOs. The research aims to develop appropriate methodologies for assessing the value of advocacy work, methodologies that reinforce a transparent and ...

(research/study, text, 2001)

The Lobbying Process and Building Advocacy Networks

Advocates need to be more effective by mastering the basic technical skills in issue-identification, setting goals and objectives, communication, planning, lobbying and networking. This paper focuses on the lobbying process and building advocacy networks ...

(toolkit/manual, text, 2000)

Quick 'n' Easy Guide to Online Advocacy

This guide presents advocates with tools they can immediately use in their campaigns and communications. It is a collection of the best and most popular online services that can be used for advocacy with little to no technical support. There are services ...

(toolkit/manual, text)