Content tagged with “Advocacy and Social Media”
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...
Tags: Education, Evaluation Theory and Methods, Advocacy and Social Media
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...
Tags: Foreign Aid, Advocacy and Social Media, Advocacy Strategies
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...
Tags: Foreign Policy, Advocacy and Social Media, Advocacy Strategies
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...
Tags: Evaluation Theory and Methods, Advocacy and Social Media, US Politics
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...
Tags: Maternal Health, Advocacy and Social Media, LGBT Rights
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...
Tags: APEP News, Women's Rights, Advocacy and Social Media
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...
Tags: APEP News, Advocacy and Social Media, Income Inequality
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...
Tags: Reproductive Health, APEP News, Advocacy and Social Media
The Government is Out of Touch With the Average AmericanAnd the average American knows how to reduce the deficit. According to a Program for Public Consultation study released yesterday, most...
Tags: Advocacy and Social Media, Advocacy Strategies, US Politics
State the Union Confusion on Foreign PolicyYou’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...
Tags: Foreign Policy, Foreign Aid, Advocacy and Social Media