Backtracking on Fees Bank of America’s much-maligned proposal to levy a $5 monthly fee on customers for debit card-use is no more. Now, the media is busy talking about the growing power of the consumer advocate.

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From Me to You
Miriam’s Kitchen works every day to tackle homelessness in the DC area by offering food and services to roughly 4,000 people each year. A tough job, certainly—but volunteers lighten the load. Among their creative strategies to engage volunteers,
Over-Inflated Rhetoric?
WorldNetDaily is a window on a worldview your friends at the Advocacy Planning and Evaluation Program (APEP) may not, um, fully share. But advocates benefit from seeing how others (and especially opponents) frame an issue—sometimes with heart-shaped balloons, as it turns out.
A Question of Trust
WAND offered a webinar with the Demos Institute on “Making the case for government”—a timely topic. As pollster Stanley Greenberg argued in the New York Times, the debt ceiling crisis was driven in part by declining public trust in government’s
Improving Maternal Health One Vote at a Time
OK…we all agree that “The Twilight Saga: Eclipse” was our favorite movie in 2010. Or so say The People. Even USAID—not always known for innovative social marketing—is using this web-based “People’s Choice” campaign to promote innovative ideas
RSVP for our Advocacy Evaluation Breakfast 8:15 - 9:45 AM on Friday, July 15th
Last week, we told you about our upcoming breakfast event with special guests Steven Teles and Mark Schmitt, authors of "The Elusive Craft of Evaluating Advocacy" published in the Summer 2011 issue of the Stanford Social Innovation Review, and
Save July 15 for Our Next Advocacy Evaluation Breakfast
In a recent article in the Stanford Social Innovation Review, Steven Teles and Mark Schmitt argue that evaluating advocacy is a fundamentally different task than evaluating services. Evaluating advocacy is, to put it bluntly, evaluating political activity,
A “Funding Boost” for Sexual and Reproductive Health Means More Evaluation
Those who have taken sex ed. courses in school know that it takes a very special approach to get the safe sex message across to a group of—let’s say—“energetic” teenagers. We were particularly excited to read that the New Zealand Health
The Government is Out of Touch With the Average American
And the average American knows how to reduce the deficit. According to a Program for Public Consultation study released yesterday, most Americans would cut defense spending, increase taxes and spend 130% more
State the Union Confusion on Foreign Policy
You’ve got questions about the State of the Union? Foreign Policy has answers (or at least some snarky comments). Read how Josh Rogin translates the speech for the benefit of the confused. Or if you’re in a more serious mood, see how close FP
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