Finding the Common Ground
By R. Christine Hershey
The recent debt ceiling debate is a brilliant example of targeted communications and using messages to great effect. It's just unfortunate that in this case - the effect is to polarize.
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By Anne Whatley
Cause Communications is a strong believer in evaluation. Metrics help make incremental progress more visible and work that sometimes feels intangible more understandable. Assessment findings also showcase impact, providing useful insights into ideas for tweaks to a program in a next iteration and powerful evidence that what you are doing is working. But too often evaluation reports become doorstops or paperweights. Read More>>> |
Los Angeles: Blazing Trails for Place-Based Initiatives
By Jan Kern
Neighborhoods and communities across the country are getting familiar with a new kind of civic engagement and philanthropic approach: place-based initiatives. Simply put, these efforts focus on making improvements in specific communities. They target the needs in the neighborhoods and develop comprehensive plans with community residents to address critical areas such as housing, education and jobs.
Los Angeles is no stranger to place-based work...
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And the award goes to ... Arts for All!
Congratulations to our client, Arts for All, who has been
awarded the 2011 Arts Education Award by the nation's leading arts advocacy organization, Americans for the Arts (AFTA). Honored for their dynamic, countywide collaboration to restore standards-based arts education into the public school core curriculum, this win is even more remarkable given California's budget crisis.
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