Content tagged with “Advocacy Strategies”
APEP at the AEA ConferenceWe braved long security lines (and in-flight coffee of "questionable" quality) to make our way to Minneapolis for the AEA’s annual conference. Yes, it rained…and snowed. But...
Tags: Advocacy Strategies, Evaluation Theory and Methods
Measuring What "Makes Life Worthwhile"Well, let’s start with a pretty important question: so, how do you capture what makes life worthwhile… globally? The Legatum Institute’s Prosperity Index...
Tags: Advocacy Strategies, Evaluation Theory and Practice
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...
Tags: Advocacy Strategies, Advocacy and Social Media
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...
Tags: APEP News, Advocacy and Social Media, Advocacy Strategies
Change From The InsideMary Robinson, former President of Ireland, former UN High Commissioner for Human Rights and current chair of the Aspen Institute’s Global Leaders Council for Reproductive...
Tags: Advocacy Strategies, Evaluation Theory and Practice, Health
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...
Tags: Education, Advocacy Strategies, US Politics
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....
Tags: Global Poverty, Advocacy Strategies, US Politics
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. Pekar smartly points out that...
Tags: US Politics, Advocacy Strategies
Complexity & Development Last month, the Center for Global Development’s Owen Barder wrote a blog post about applying complexity theory to development work. Barder noted that the interaction...
Tags: Advocacy Strategies, Development, Global Poverty
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...
Tags: Philanthropy, APEP News, Advocacy and Social Media, Advocacy Strategies