AWS Public Sector Blog

APRIL 4, 2023

The following are some examples of the innovations nonprofits have developed with support from this program: Amplifying citizen advocacy across Africa ONE is a global movement to end extreme poverty and preventable disease by 2030. To help reach audiences across Africa, ONE launched a mobile chatbot built on AWS.

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Super Library Marketing

JUNE 10, 2024

When Austin Railey III joined DML as the new Government Relations and Advocacy Director we started brainstorming how we could strategically tell our stories to decision-makers. Claudine’s team is also working on a new branding campaign called Free to Belong. The new campaign is in its second phase.

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Open Space Radio: Parks and Recreation Trends

JUNE 13, 2023

In fact, just last week, the Human Rights Campaign, the nation’s largest LGBTQ+ advocacy group, declared a state of emergency for LGBTQ+ people in the U.S. And while we are thrilled to celebrate Pride Month this year, the reality is that our LGBTQ+ friends, family, colleagues and community members have been under attack.

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Bang the Table

FEBRUARY 17, 2022

In the last few years, there’s been an understandable reassignment of many key communication staff to booster public health campaigns, with few able to prioritize the essential task of updating (now painfully old) policy. Run a community advocacy program . Consult early on policy decisions.

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Rebuilding Place in Urban Space

JULY 4, 2023

In DC, the Palisades Parade is probably the biggest neighborhood parade, and often a great spot for campaigning. Many neighborhoods and cities have parades on the Fourth of July. Capitol Hill has developed one over the past decade. And Takoma Park, Maryland has a great one which is embraced by both TP and the Takoma DC neighborhood.

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Rebuilding Place in Urban Space

JUNE 27, 2024

There is a local walking and transit advocacy group called Sweet Streets , that helped promote this change.) Road Witch was a campaign in England 20+ years ago, focusing on rebalancing the use to streets toward residents, not automobiles. See Fighting Traffic:The Dawn of the Motor Age in the American City.

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Peak Proposals

DECEMBER 21, 2020

This is because 1) there are grantmakers that focus on education and provide grants to support academic achievement among at-risk populations; and 2) local programs are typically supported at least in part through fundraising campaigns, collecting contributions from local community members and businesses. Are you a registered nonprofit?

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Rebuilding Place in Urban Space

APRIL 18, 2024

Campaigns, especially focused on workers and the multiunit buildings, are in order. Some cities like Boston , Denver and Seattle have active pro-walking groups which are a model for improving places, technical assistance, and advocacy. -- In Arlington County, WalkArlington does community walks. Planning and advocacy.

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Rebuilding Place in Urban Space

MARCH 31, 2024

I mean how could the schools advocacy publication Catalyst , which was focused solely on Chicago's schools, go out of business (" Linda Lenz, founding editor of Catalyst Chicago, dies at 77 | Technical assistance for local schools advocates ") if there were serious technical assistance provided to Chicago's LSCs.

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AWS Public Sector Blog

JANUARY 30, 2023

Nonprofits can use CiviCRM to store contact data, send personalized messages, plan events, manage membership programs, organize advocacy campaigns, and more. About CiviCRM Over 11,000 nonprofit organizations around the world use CiviCRM to build and manage their donor, member, and constituent bases.

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Peak Proposals

DECEMBER 22, 2019

Alzheimer’s, veterans, or energy) you may want to look for funding opportunities sponsored by foundations and advocacy organizations associated with these issues. A project-oriented grant might be based on an outreach campaign to try to improve food access and healthy eating within the target community.

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The Stoop (NYU Furman Center)

JUNE 10, 2024

This blocking has been enabled by extensive political advocacy and lobbying, especially aimed at elected members of Congress and state legislatures, and stands out for how effective it has been. Industry lobbying and advocacy are now also focused on the CFPB in response to its public announcement of an investigation. Appraisals.

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Rebuilding Place in Urban Space

OCTOBER 6, 2022

problem with Blogger -- He has a pro-public space, pro sustainable mobility based campaign. From the article: The thread running through Penalosa’s campaign is that Toronto is a good place to live, but its timid leadership has held it back. But there are a couple dozen candidates, along with the incumbent John Tory.

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Rebuilding Place in Urban Space

APRIL 19, 2023

Pedestrian advocacy organizations like Feet First in Seattle have provided a great deal of support to Walk to School efforts. Interestingly, the Tacoma Washington SRTS program adds "Engagement" to the traditional 5/6 E's framework for bike and pedestrian planning. Nationally, the Safe Routes to School Partnership is the primary resource.

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Open Access Government - Technology News

MAY 20, 2024

TikTok is crucial for political campaigns looking to reach new audiences through digital advocacy. (4) The Use of TikTok for political campaigning in Canada: The case of jagmeet Singh. The influence on social interaction Wikis, blogs, and intranets are being utilized in enterprises to organize training and share knowledge.

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Rebuilding Place in Urban Space

JANUARY 18, 2024

Years ago I wrote a piece (" Outline for a proposed Ward-focused (DC) Councilmember campaign platform and agenda ," 2015) about what would be an ideal approach to a truly ward-focused Councilmember election and governance platform, including having a dashboard on ward-specific data on traffic safety. Ward focused traffic safety programming.

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Rebuilding Place in Urban Space

APRIL 22, 2024

The latter conference includes advocacy activities, while Park Pride focuses on technical training. In any case, people like to volunteer, hold classes, do demonstrations, etc., at farmers and public markets. I believe in conferences can be great training events. Park People of Canada does local events and a national conference.

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Rebuilding Place in Urban Space

FEBRUARY 6, 2024

For example, in his 2008 campaign, Barack Obama argued his candidacy was an extension of the 20th-century Black freedom movement. And he appointed a flunky, someone who worked for the Executive Branch, and therefore the Executive overly shaped the agenda and reduced the independence/objectivity/advocacy capacity of the group.

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The Stoop (NYU Furman Center)

JANUARY 7, 2025

In addition to those needed to fulfill campaign promises, various interest groups are advocating to add to that list, including calls to prioritize having Freddie Mac and Fannie Mae, the two large government-sponsored enterprises (GSEs) [1] , exit their 16-year-long conservatorships.

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Public Policy Blog

JANUARY 3, 2014

He specifically distinguishes social movements from political parties and advocacy groups. Not surprisingly, there is growing scholarly interest in the mediation of activism and political campaigning. Collective action (CA) can be defined as all activity of common or shared interest among two or more individuals (Olson, 1971).

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Poverty & Policy

JUNE 8, 2017

We can donate to advocacy organizations, if we can afford to, join their social media campaigns, etc. Advocacy organizations formed issue-specific and linked coalitions. We surely can make our views known to our elected representatives — unless, of course, if we’re disenfranchised residents of the District of Columbia.

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