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Record Nr.

UNINA9910827640903321

Titolo

Nonprofits and advocacy : engaging community and government in an era of retrenchment / / edited by Robert J. Pekkanen, Steven Rathgeb Smith, and Yutaka Tsujinaka

Pubbl/distr/stampa

Baltimore, Maryland : , : Johns Hopkins University Press, , 2014

©2014

ISBN

1-4214-1350-7

Descrizione fisica

1 online resource (320 p.)

Disciplina

361.7/630973

Soggetti

Nonprofit organizations - United States

Advocacy advertising - United States

Policy sciences - United States

Lingua di pubblicazione

Inglese

Formato

Materiale a stampa

Livello bibliografico

Monografia

Note generali

Includes index.

Nota di bibliografia

Includes bibliographical references at the end of each chapters and index.

Nota di contenuto

The group basis of city politics / Jeffrey Berry and Kent Portney -- Nonprofit advocacy in Seattle and Washington, D.C. / Robert Pekkanen and Steven Rathgeb Smith -- Direct and indirect advocacy : shaping the government-nonprofit partnership / Elizabeth T. Boris and Matthew Maronick with Milena Nikolova -- Nonprofit advocacy in the nation's capital / Carol DeVita, Milena Nikolova, and Katie L. Roeger -- From skid row to the statehouse : how nonprofit homeless service providers overcome barriers to policy advocacy involvement / Jennifer Mosley -- Advocacy in hard times : nonprofit organizations and the representation of marginalized groups in the wake of Hurricane Katrina and 9-11 / Dara Z. Strolovitch -- Gender identity and the shifting basis of U.S. women's groups' advocacy, 1920-2000 / Kristin Goss -- The political voice of American children : nonprofit advocacy and a century of representation for child well-being / Doug Imig -- Analyzing the practice of nonprofit advocacy and human service networks : comparing the community action partnership and the alliance for connected communities / Jodi Sanfort -- Effective advocacy : lessons for nonprofit leaders from research and practice / Gary D. Bass, Alan J. Abramson, and Emily Dewey.