Guest post by Jay Readey, executive director, Chicago Lawyers' Committee for Civil Rights Under Law

On Sunday, October 30, 2011, 150 NGen participants broke bread over with 40 NGen Ambassadors and engaged in dynamic conversations which included questions such as:
- What interests or excites you about the work you do?
- What do you aspire to accomplish?
- What are the barriers you see for the sector and its impact? 
- What are the trends or issues we should be paying attention to as a sector?

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Guest post by Elizabeth Snyder, director of advocacy & public policy at the American Fraternal Alliance

My advocacy website vendor is awesome – which doesn’t matter as much when the Fraternal Alliance isn’t running an advocacy campaign and pushing members to use web forms, talking points, etc. Keeping advocates engaged and motivated to build relationships with elected officials is a constant challenge, especially at a small staff association where time and resources are limited.

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Guest post by Danielle Hirsch, director of advocacy of The Chicago Bar Foundation

The topic of the first session for the 2011 Public Policy Action Institute was, as always, provocative and engaging.

The two speakers, Rob Reich, co-director for Philanthropy and Civil Society at Stanford University and Evelyn Brody, professor of Law at Chicago-Kent College of Law spoke to the many challenges facing the nonprofit sector.

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Muhammed Chaudhry, president and CEO of the Silicon Valley Education Foundation in San Jose, California recently shared his experience attending the CEO Track at the 2010 IS Annual Conference in Atlanta.

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We are thrilled to have some outstanding participants at this year’s Public Policy Action Institute. 

Here are just some of the names of the people who have agreed to share their wisdom with us in Chicago, October 29-30:  

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