Oct
30
Guest post by Kristin Hurdle, director state policy, of the YMCA of the USA
Thinking ahead to next year, the Public Policy Action Institute wrapped up this morning with a Presidential Debate. No, there wasn’t Rick Perry, Herman Cain, or Mitt Romney on stage.
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Oct
30
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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Oct
29
Annual Conference
,
Collective Impact
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Congress
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Democracy
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Elections
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Government
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Leadership
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Nonprofit
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Partisanship
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Policy
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PPAI
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social compact
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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Sep
12
Today we launch The Hub,
an online community for the IS Annual Conference. The Hub was created
to allow attendees and speakers to meet and engage with one another
before, during, and even after the conference this year in Chicago.
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Sep
2
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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