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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.
New Publication Articulates Findings of Alliance Civic Engagement Program
The Alliance for Children and Families and its sister organization United Neighborhood Centers of America (UNCA) recently released, Civic Engagement: The Next Chapter.
This piece communicates the key findings and beliefs of the Alliance and UNCA Civic Engagement Steering Committee, following the first seven years of the Alliance and UNCA Civic Engagement program. This program is a joint effort to encourage members to work for social change in their communities. … more
Alliance Mission-Based Advocacy Toolkit Available for Download
The Alliance for Children and Families released its members-only Mission-Based Advocacy Toolkit for human service organizations to better advance their mission through civic engagement. The toolkit will provide valuable information to board members, staff, and volunteers.
The goal of the toolkit is to engage board members, staff, and volunteers and motivate the whole structure of the nonprofit human service sector to be more effective in their advocacy practices. … more
Get Out the Vote! Help Your Community Participate in this Democracy
As we quickly approach the 2012 GOP primary/caucus Super Tuesday in what feels like a very long process to the November presidential election, I must remind you that now is the time for the nonprofit human services sector to consider how it will help to ensure that all Americans—regardless of race, education, or economic status—exercise their responsibility and right to vote.
Will this sector provide opportunities for folks to register to vote? Will we provide information on how to vote? Will we offer opportunities to learn about the issues and consider the positions of the various candidates? … 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













