Insights & Perspectives Improving Advocacy Coalition Support and Effectiveness Like it or not, policy advocacy is a large group project. Different advocacy organizations supporting the same policy bring different insights, resources, skills, and abilities to do the work. The form of these advocacy group projects is often advocacy coalitions. More than 10 years ago, we first started examining advocacy…
Insights & Perspectives Getting up to Speed on Supporting Grassroots We only arrived in this decade a few years ago, and already the 2020s are a time of transformational social and policy change. A pandemic, the increasing threat of climate change, and significant racial justice awareness have increased the importance of policy and advocacy campaigns more than ever. With a…
Resources Investing in Grassroots Advocacy: A Funder’s Guide Many foundations focused on equity have increased their support for Grassroots Advocacy Organizations (GRAOs) in recent years. The Connecticut Health Foundation, with a mission focused on improving health outcomes for people of color and ensuring that all Connecticut residents have access to affordable and high-quality care, commissioned TCC Group to…
Insights & Perspectives Spotlight on TCC Group Changemakers: Kiandra Morton This newsletter’s theme is taking action, with a focus on the approach taken to advocacy work through our services. Please share how you incorporate this in your work at TCC Group? I’m currently working with a national civil rights organization on its strategic plan (specifically, succession planning). Its mission is…
Insights & Perspectives Spotlight on TCC Group Changemakers: Rose Konecky How do you inspire action in your advocacy work with your clients at TCC Group? The responsibility to take action lies with all of us. We want our clients to be able to immediately leverage our work so they themselves can take action. That can take the form of…
Insights & Perspectives Funding Health Advocacy in Turbulent Times: Three Practices to Adopt Introduction Effective health advocacy is not an easy endeavor, but when executed correctly, the results can be game-changing. Health advocates, whether operating through organizations, coalitions, campaigns, or movements, are accustomed to spending long periods of time with no outwardly visible activity or tangible progress, followed by an immediate sense of…
Insights & Perspectives New Questions for Advocacy Evaluators As we’ve been sharing recently, TCC Group conducted three research studies over the last year about good practices for supporting or conducting advocacy in modern times. These pieces focused on understanding how funders can best support advocacy coalitions, how funders can best support grassroots organizations, and the best ways to…
Insights & Perspectives Re-Shaping Evaluation in Today’s World We, as evaluators, have a responsibility to “to help transform the systems, policies, and practices that have created today’s challenges, and help build toward a more equitable, sustainable future.” This was the overarching message at last week’s American Evaluation Association (AEA) conference. The conference focused on three significant shifts that…
Resources Pathways to Policy Durability: Insights for Advocates and their Funders For over a century, American policymakers have worked to implement policies that conserve natural resources and protect the environment, from Theodore Roosevelt’s efforts to establish national parks and the measures enacted in the wake of the Dust Bowl all the way to the efforts of the late twentieth and early…