Education Nation
APEP got the chance to witness television magic this week at the Education Nation Summit thanks to our work with the Bill and Melinda Gates Foundation and NBC News. We’re helping to define and assess
"So What?" - Your Weekly Guide to Advocacy With Impact is a short, and (we hope) catchy update on what’s new, savvy, shocking, or inspiring in the worlds of policy advocacy and advocacy evaluation. Sign up now!
Archives for blog topic “US Politics”
Sep 28 2012
Sep 21 2012
Fighting Poverty
Sojourners has recruited President Obama and Governor Romney to speak out, in separate videos released this week, about what they intend to do to address poverty across the country.
Sep 14 2012
Problematic Problems
Thaler Pekar’s latest blog post for the Stanford Social Innovation Review advises non-profits to deploy messages based on paradox, not problems.
May 25 2012
Bipartisanship?! Really?
The Kaiser Family Foundation published the results of their latest poll of the American public—this time on spending in global health projects in the developing world. The majority of Democrats (74%), Republicans (66%), and Independents (66%)
Dec 02 2011
Save the Date: Advocacy Evaluation Breakfast on Dec. 15th
Colleagues from the United Nations Foundation will be dropping by on Dec. 15th at 8:15am to describe their new internal performance management plan designed to quantify and measure advocacy impact. Central to the plan is the concept
Oct 21 2011
Think Global
Your pals at APEP work for the scrupulously non-partisan and open-minded Aspen Institute. We convene folks and let the Ideas fall where they may. Everyone knows that the 2012 election is all about jobs here in the US of A. But we’re glad that the GOP
Oct 14 2011
You've Got Mail
The Congressional Management Foundation just released “How Citizen Advocacy is Changing Mail Operations on Capitol Hill” incorporating results from their latest survey of congressional staff. The report shows that from 2005 to 2010 there
Sep 30 2011
Join Us for Breakfast at the Aspen Institute on Oct. 4th at 8:15am
When The California Endowment wanted to evaluate the impact of their Clinic Consortia Policy and Advocacy Program (an 8-year, $18.8 million, multi-site project), they turned to Annette Gardner for help. At our Advocacy Evaluation Breakfast on Oct. 4th,
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
Jun 03 2011
The Elusive Craft of Evaluating Advocacy
We were intrigued that the Stanford Social Innovation Review’s summer edition featured a cover story on advocacy evaluation. Steven Teles & Mark Schmitt describe the complex nature of political processes and make the case for funding advocacy.
