et me introduce you to a fairly normal American man. He is a father of four and a lifelong Boy Scout with a sash full of badges. Friends describe the sixty-two-year-old as honest and straightforward. One friend has publicly applauded this man’s refusal to bribe an official in the Middle East where his company has some business, a sign of uncommon integrity. Others report that … [Read more...]
Seven Ways to Improve Advocacy Organizations – A Look at the Literature
Expert advice on how to build more effective advocacy groups.
ovements are hard. Building organizations, what a pain. A lot of folks do it poorly, unsystematically, unsophisticatedly…understandably. There’s frequent burnout and turnover, coffers seem always near empty, lots of flailing. Of course there’s no easy answer to all the struggles of advocacy, but many have written volumes exploring ways of doing things better. And right now, … [Read more...]