Are You Checking Out My Girl Power?
The Nike Foundation and the Commonwealth Countries League Education Fund have launched two advertising campaigns in support of women’s rights. Our friends at Oxfam International suggest that beyond the surface similarities you’ll find
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Sep 23 2011
Sep 16 2011
Upcoming Advocacy Evaluation Breakfast on Oct. 4th, 8:15 - 9:45 AM
From 2001 to 2009, The California Endowment invested more than $18 million to support the advocacy capacity building efforts of community clinic associations across the state. At this breakfast, Dr. Annette Gardner, lead evaluator for this project,
Sep 09 2011
Understanding Fear
Most of us are familiar with the use of scare tactics in American politics. Take a close look at some of the campaign ads airing right now and you’ll know what we mean. The Center for American Progress and U.S. in the World focus on these and
Sep 02 2011
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,
Aug 26 2011
By lmolinaro
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.
Aug 19 2011
Want Popcorn With That?
Vital Voices hosted a twitterchat last Friday about human trafficking and modern slavery to coincide with the DC release of The Whistleblower. The film narrates one peacekeeper’s struggle to expose the UN’s role in the illegal sex trade in Bosnia
Aug 12 2011
Back to School
As cheating scandals continue to plague public school systems around the country, teacher performance is once again under the microscope. Here in DC, this means more talk about the system-wide IMPACT evaluation standards. But we wonder: is an
Aug 05 2011
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
Jul 29 2011
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
Jul 22 2011
Lessons from Education
While many of us are worried about the debt ceiling crisis and the flailing economy, recent headlines in several major newspapers including The Washington Post and The New York Times are directing our attention to the dismal state of our public education
