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Advocacy Evaluation Breakfast: Assessing Coalitions with Innovation Network on May 22nd
During Q&A at our last breakfast event, someone in the audience asked Serra Sippel of the Center for Health and Gender Equity about the challenges of assessing an advocacy coalition
Upcoming Advocacy Evaluation Breakfast: Wednesday, January 30th at 8:15AM
For roughly nine years, The Connect U.S. Fund supported advocacy coalitions working on issues critical to America’s foreign policy. Now, as the Fund prepares to close shop,
Changing Attitudes, Globally
On December 3rd, Under Secretary for Public Diplomacy and Public Affairs Tara Sonenshine spoke at the Heritage Foundation about ongoing efforts to evaluate US diplomacy.
En•gage•ment (Noun, /en'gājmənt/)
Beth Kanter's blog always offers some useful food for thought and this week is no different. In writing about her upcoming webinar for the Nonprofit Technology Network,
RSVP for the Advocacy and Policy Change TIG Business Meeting and Reception on Oct. 25th
The American Evaluation Association’s annual conference is almost upon us and we’re getting our bags ready to join the fun in Minneapolis.
Writing
We really love good writing. In fact, we’ve been known to write a thing or two about the topic in past newsletters. This week, we were just bowled over by Eric Newton’s July 2012 blog post on why clear writing matters in philanthropy.
If It Looks Like A Duck, Swims Like a Duck, and Quacks Like a Duck…
Is it a duck? Well, not necessarily. That’s what we tell clients trying to understand how events or trips they’ve hosted potentially influence participants. In our experience, even if participants claim that an event (like, say, the TechSoup Global Summit)
Telling your Story in Style
We recently came across a very cool tool: Sparkwise. This website helps non-profits select the kinds of online data they want tracked and puts it all together in a user-friendly dashboard. Want to keep tabs on likes and re-posts of your
How Much For That “Like”?
Three weeks ago, we wrote about the challenges Facebook faces in turning a profit from its massive reservoir of user data. Since its IPO went bust, Knowledge@Wharton asks: what is all that data worth?
Digital Advocacy
Remember Komen’s defunding of Planned Parenthood? (Yup, it’s been a few months—ages in our speedy news cycle.) Well, this week The Chronicle of Philanthropy did a piece on Planned Parenthood’s extremely effective social media response.
