Transforming Activism: Digital Era Advocacy Organizations
New types of civil society organizations are powerfully and successfully using technology to campaign online and offline for social, economic, and environmental change.
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Funding Research for Advocacy
How a commitment to effective messaging research helped reframe the debate around freedom to marry and win greater support.
Behind Today’s Breakthrough Advocacy Campaigns
New sources of power and grassroots energy are driving certain campaigns to scale with surprising speed and force.
Catching the Wave
How a powerful communications strategy helped the Surfrider Foundation and a coalition of other organizations mobilize a local grassroots effort and save a rare natural resource.
Encouraging Imams to Promote Family Planning
In Senegal, where many believe contraception is inconsistent with Islamic values, religious leaders can play an important role in improving reproductive health statistics.
Beyond the Holy Grail: Private Innovation, Public Funding, and What Comes Next
After a decade of research and evidence gathering, one education nonprofit convinced Congress that its model is worthy of federal dollars—but even the architect of the model wonders how it will fare in the public sector.
Flush With Equality
Amid pushbacks against LGBTQ rights elsewhere, a New York City executive order ensures equal access to bathrooms.
One Day at a Time
An incremental approach to fostering sustainable eating habits is the hallmark of Green Monday, an organization based in Hong Kong.
Charity Versus Innovation
The response by US foundations to federal welfare reform in the 1990s illuminates their role in policy development.
A Chorus for Wildlife
How World Wildlife Fund helped organize a global clarion call to stop wildlife crime.