Advocacy Best Practices | Connect U.S. Fund

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

A Marshall Plan to Combat Climate Change in the Asia-Pacific: The Missing Piece of the New U.S. Security Strategy

February 8, 2012 at 12:49pm by

This article is cross-posted from e-International Relations and the Center for Climate and Security

New Climate and Security Resources Page

January 25, 2012 at 4:31pm by

With infinite gratitude to all those heroic excavators and compilers of information that came before us (as well as the authors who produced that information), we at the Center for Climate and Security are launching a new...

October 4, 2011 at 11:06am by

Social Media for Development

August 1, 2011 at 4:18pm by

The Connect U.S. Fund hosted a panel on Thursday, July 28 entitled “Social Media for Development: How Others Do It.” The panel, moderated by Mark L. Goldberg, managing editor at UN Dispatch, consisted of communications experts at various international development organizations that use social media to spread awareness of their organizations.

March 29, 2011 at 3:23pm by

On March 14, the Connect U.S. Fund convened a group of over fifty key leaders and experts in the environmental, development, faith and national security communities to discuss the future of U.S. climate policy. The group focused on those issues related to climate change that the U.S.

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Creating a Constructive Dialogue on National Security: A Media Relations Toolkit

The "war on terrorism" narrative is so deeply entrenched in our national discourse that it no longer needs regular reinforcement in the media or in political debate. With Americans still vulnerable to fear mongering about terrorism, how can progressive leaders promote a more constructive dialogue on national security? That challenge was the focus of a multi-year project by U.S. in the World on "Managing the Fear Factor," which led to...