Advocacy Best Practices
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The Connect U.S. Fund works to ensure that the whole of advocacy is greater than the sum of its parts. We promote more effective collaborations across issue areas among foundations, among NGOs and between the two; and more integrated and powerful efforts to influence the policy debate. We actively support community members’ efforts to collaborate effectively within and between issue areas, to engage policy makers, and to bring issues to the attention of the media – and help community members find the tools and trainings to do their jobs better.
Blogs
Leaders in the Climate and Development Communities Talk Subsidies and Climate Finance at Treasury
Posted On: March 5th, 2010
Posted By: Francesco_Femia
On February 22, the Connect U.S. Fund convened a group of civil society leaders representing both the environmental and development communities to discuss a set of common asks for The Treasury Department’s top climate and energy official, William Pizer.
Primary Issues:
Environment
Climate Change and Energy
International Institutions
Advocacy Practices:
Policy Advocacy
U.S. Global Engagement in the Age of Interconnectedness: An Inquiry into a Systems Approach to Policy-Making.
Posted On: March 5th, 2010
Posted By: Heather_B_Hamilton
On February 16 The Connect U.S. Fund, the Rockefeller Brothers Fund and Global Systems Initiatives convened a one-day conversation on U.S. Global Engagement in the Age of Interconnectedness: An Inquiry into a Systems Approach to Policy-Making.
Primary Issues:
Other
Advocacy Practices:
Internet-Network Centric
Networking-Coalition
Policy Advocacy
Foreign Assistance Messaging and Haiti
Posted On: February 22nd, 2010
Posted By: Joanna_Hecht
Advocates and communication experts from the Connect U.S. Fund community gathered on February 18 to discuss how to connect relief efforts from the Haiti earthquake to sustained development efforts. Priscilla Lewis of U.S. in the World presented some basic guidance on foreign assistance messaging (available in the USITW guide, "Talking Global Issues with Americans: A Practical Guide").
Primary Issues:
Development-Foreign Assistance
Humanitarian Assistance
Advocacy Practices:
Media-Communication
VP Biden: The Path to Nuclear Security
Posted On: February 19th, 2010
Posted By: psidirector
In a speech at the National Defense University yesterday, Vice President Joe Biden talked about the future of the United States’ nuclear deterrent capabilities and laid out the plan for implementing the President’s nonproliferation and nuclear security agenda.
Primary Issues:
Nuclear Weapons
Arms Control-Disarmament
National Security-Defense
Advocacy Practices:
Policy Advocacy
Other
How to Talk About Climate Change: A Laundry List of Resources
Posted On: January 28th, 2010
Posted By: Francesco_Femia
The Copenhagen conference came and went, and the consensus amongst civil society leaders working on climate change is that there is whole lot to be done, and it needs to happen soon.
Primary Issues:
Climate Change and Energy
International Law
International Institutions
Advocacy Practices:
Media-Communication
Policy Advocacy
Events
Writing To Make The News
Mar 18, 2010, 10am EDT
Columbia College
Columbia College
Learn the basics and more including: how to write a press release, the difference between a media...
Resources
Staff Assistant, Public Policy Department, NAFSA: Association of International Educators
NAFSA, through its public policy department, is the leading association advocatin...
