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Voter Technology Web Seminar

If you're struggling to get a handle on integrating your voter work with your ongoing organizing, you should join in these calls and online web seminars.

We're offering these online seminars to the community organizing community. There will be two sessions consisting of a presentation from PTP and then questions and open dialogue with your peers about the work.read more >>

GrantCraft's Guide to Funding Community Organizing: How This New Resource Can Support the Practice of Grassroots Grantmaking

Join Us for our Next Topical Conference Call

GrantCraft's Guide to
Funding Community Organizing:
How This New Resource Can Support the Practice of Grassroots Grantmaking
Tuesday, February 17, 2009
3:00 - 4:30 ET (2:00 CT/1:00 MT/12:00 PT/10:00 HT)
When we talk about the layered strategy of grassroots grantmaking, community organizing shows up as an important if not essential tool for that third layer - supporting citizen-centered change.read more >>

Power Shift 2009 Briefing

Please join us on April 16 at 3 p.m. ET to hear from Jessy Tolkan, the Executive Director of the Energy Action Coalition. In addition to a full report on the Power Shift 2009 Summit, she will update us on the youth movement’s plans to make sure Power Shift is just the beginning of a major policy and energy shift in the U.S.

Feel free to pass this invitation to others who may be interested. To join the call, please RSVP to Orelda Hicks, ohicks [at] sorosny [dot] org and call in to the following number:read more >>

NEW REPORT! Dynamic Families: How Small Foundations Decide to Make Big Changes Through Public Policy

The Sillerman Center for the Advancement of Philanthropy highlighted one of FCCP's members, Access Strategies Fund, in a report describing how small family foundations make major impacts by funding public policy change.

The report reviews the literature concerning foundations and policy, considers historical trends in philanthropic involvement in policy, and highlights recent interest in engagement between foundations and the policy sphere.read more >>

Wallace Global Fund Seeks Senior Program Officer for Citizens' Empowerment and Democracy

WALLACE GLOBAL FUND

JOB DESCRIPTION

SENIOR PROGRAM OFFICER, CITIZENS' EMPOWERMENT AND DEMOCRACY

The Wallace Global Fund, a private charitable foundation located in Washington DC, with program areas in environmental sustainability, international family planning and reproductive rights, criminal justice and civil rights, and media reform and civic participation, is seeking a Senior Program Officer for its Citizens' Empowerment and Democracy Program.read more >>

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