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National Family Week is an annual celebration during Thanksgiving. It encourages celebration of strong families and advocates for policies that foster community connections.
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Guide for advancing a nonprofit’s goals through advocacy. Provides steps for implementing an advocacy agenda and tips for educating staff, board members, and volunteers.
Alliance Civic Engagement Measurement Project

The Alliance for Children and Families civic engagement program embarked on a new project in 2011. In partnership with United Neighborhood Centers of America, the project is designed to help nonprofit human service organizations measure the impact of their civic engagement efforts.
Understanding the impact of civic engagement activities is a vital step toward enhancing the effectiveness of services over time. In addition, evaluating civic engagement efforts supports organization-wide planning efforts related to mission fulfillment. … more
Apply Now: Intergenerational Mentoring Mini-Grants
The Alliance for Children and Families recently released the request for proposals (RFP) for the first cycle of the MetLife Intergenerational Mentoring Mini-Grant program.
This grant program is designed to support and strengthen the civic engagement work of intergenerational mentoring pairs in communities across the country. … more
New Article: Power of Board Members’ Voices
Most nonprofit organizations recognize the value of their board directors’ abilities to build relationships and solicit donations. … more
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Alliance Intellectual
Capital Division
The Alliance Intellectual Capital Division is responsible for generating new initiatives, ideas, and solutions to move the nonprofit human service field forward. Currently within the division's purview are:
- Civic engagement program
- Evaluation and research services
- Executive Consultant Select Group
- Executive Leadership Institute
- Families in Society social work journal
- New Age of Aging initiative
- Strategy Counts! initiative













