Straight from the Tropics, with Love
We give the creative advocates at Radi-Aid a standing ovation for making us aware that Norway is pretty damn cold. As the song goes, it's time for us to care, folks.
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Archives for blog topic “Foreign Aid”
Mar 16 2012
Mass Advocacy and Controversy
Invisible Children’s Kony2012—a 30-minute YouTube video—has gone famously “viral,” garnering more than 70 million views in a week, with numbers still growing. Yet, criticism is growing almost as fast: long-time advocates in Uganda
Jan 27 2012
From NOLA With Love
Our friends at Moving Forward Gulf Coast released their first video newsletter of the year highlighting the great work of grassroots advocates involved with the national 2025 Campaign for Black Men and Boys. With all our fancy technology and shiny graphics,
Jan 13 2012
Resolve
We have highlighted a few contests and competitions that aim to promote positive policy development. And here’s one that’s close to our hearts: the Resolve Award seeks to recognize leaders doing the most to promote reproductive health and family planning
Nov 18 2011
Scorecards? Take a Number!
The Millennium Challenge Corporation’s scorecards, which are used to evaluate a country’s eligibility for foreign assistance programs, have been recently updated with new selection criteria and methodology. Running the gamut from fiscal policy to girls’
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 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 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
Jul 15 2011
On CNN, Today @ 1:30 ET
Today, CNN will air portions of a forum on modern-day slavery and human trafficking organized by our friends at the Alliance to End Slavery & Trafficking (ATEST). Held in late June, this event featured a number of champions on this issue—from political
Feb 25 2011
By Paul L. Sparks
Budget Wars, Yes, But it Could be Worse
Wisconsin’s budget battle has become a flashpoint in the broader partisan and philosophical conflict over U.S. government priorities. Despite general agreement that compromise is the preferred path, legislators at the
