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Activities to address HIV/AIDS in Native American Communities
[Mary Helen Deer].Cover title."March 2008.""This document was produced with funding from the Division of HIV/AIDS Prevention, National Center for HIV/AIDS, Viral Hepatitis, STD and TB Prevention, U.S. Centers for Disease Control and Prevention, U.S. Department of Health and Human Services. The content of this document are solely the views of the author(s) of this document and do not necessarily represent the official views of the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention. This Issue Brief was written by NASTAD Consultant Mary Helen Deer (Kiowa/Muscogee). NASTAD staff member Lynne Greabell and former staff member Federico Gutierrez provided guidance and coordination on the document. NASTAD particularly thanks members of the NASTAD Native American Networking and Stakeholder groups, who provided significant input and review of the document, and thanks all jurisdictions and programs profiled in this report update." - p. 37Also available via the World Wide Web.System requirements: Adobe Acrobat Reader.Includes bibliographical references (p. 24-25)
Assessing the Increasing Strength of Charter Laws
Since 2005, the National Alliance for Public Charter Schools (National Alliance) has advocated for high-quality public charter school laws. With the support of a working group with deep expertise in public charter school law, we released a model charter law in 2009 with 20 essential components focused on creating and supporting high-quality public charter schools.After we released the model charter law, we then undertook an extensive review of all existing state charter laws in comparison to the model law and issued annual state charter laws rankings reports in 2010, 2011, 2012, 2013, 2014 and 2015. Each year, we sought input on the rankings reports from a variety of charter stakeholders and made adjustments to the reports' scoring rubrics as needed. In the rankings reports, we showed where state scores shifted as a result of policy change, but we also noted where changes occurred as a result of adjustments in our scoring rubrics or further clarifications about existing policies in states that would affect the state's rankings score.The purpose of this report is to sync the ratings from the multiple rankings reports so that rating changes over time are primarily the result of changes in policy, not from changes to our scoring rubrics and clarifications about existing policies
National Alliance for Public Charter Schools: The Numbers Add Up 2014 Annual Report
2014 was another outstanding year for the National Alliance and for the public charter school movemement. The National Alliance continued to solidify support for public charter schools in Congress and in state legislatures, worked closely with national and local partner organizations to build a stronger movement, and further established the National Alliance as the leading national nonprofit organization committed to advancing the quality, growth, and sustainability of charter schools. Discover how the "Numbers Add Up" for charter schools in the 2014 annual report
State of Civil Society 2013: Creating an Enabling Environment
Welcome to the second edition of the State of Civil Society report produced by CIVICUS: World Alliance for Citizen Participation. This report is not ours alone. The 2013 State of Civil Society report draws from nearly 50 contributions made by people active in civil society all over the world -- from our members, friends, partners, supporters and others in the CIVICUS alliance. They contributed 31 new pieces of analysis and thinking on the state of civil society. Our analysis also benefits from 16 responses to a questionnaire from national civil society platforms that are members of either our Affinity Group of National Associations (AGNA), or the International Forum of National NGO Platforms (IFP). Together, their contributions, published at http://socs.civicus.org, form the full report. Our summary report is a synthesis of this impressive array of perspectives. We believe that together their contributions offer a body of critical, cutting edge thinking about the changing state of contemporary civil society. We thank them for their efforts and continuing support. It is also important to acknowledge in this report the work of coalitions such as the Open Forum for CSO Development Effectiveness and BetterAid, and the subsequent CSO Partnership for Development Effectiveness, in bringing together many CSOs working in the development sphere in recent years to advance the debate on civil society's contributions to development effectiveness, including on the issue of the enabling conditions for civil society that are a necessary part of increasing CSO effectiveness. This report is also intended as a contribution to those wider efforts, in which we at CIVICUS are happy to be active partners
Letter: Vicki Wengrow to Ministerial Alliance Members
Letter from Vicki Wengrow - Representative for Alliance for Ratification of the ERA to Ministerial Alliance member care of Chaplain Ronald Mudd, President thanking them for their support for ERA. Local participation in state and national issues: Alliance for Ratification of the Equal Rights Amendment / Jacksonville Coalition for the Equal Rights Amendment (ERA), 1972-1975?
Letter: Vicki Wengrow to Dr. C. Earl Cooper
Letter from Vicki Wengrow - Representative for Alliance for Ratification of the ERA to Dr. Cooper - Pastor, Riverside Baptist Church inviting the Jacksonville Ministerial Alliance to participate in the effort to ratify the Equal Rights Amendment. Local participation in state and national issues: Alliance for Ratification of the Equal Rights Amendment / Jacksonville Coalition for the Equal Rights Amendment (ERA), 1972-1975?
Education Policy Impacts: 2007-2014
Communities for Public Education Reform (CPER) is a national funders' collaborative committed to improving educational opportunities and outcomes for students -- in particular students of color from low-income families -- by supporting community-driven reforms led by grassroots education organizing groups. A project of NEO Philanthropy, CPER has engaged 76 local and national fund members, investing $34 million in 140 community groups, advocacy allies, and national coalitions over the Fund's eight year lifespan.Powered by multi-year campaigns that involved organizing, advocacy, research, communications, and alliance building, CPER grantees played a key role in securing more than 9 policy wins at the school, district, state and federal level between 2007 and 2014. This summary of selected wins begins with those achieved at the federal level and follows with district- and state-level reforms grouped by CPER's six investment sites across the country. Organizations must remain united to defend these wins, monitor their implementation, and ensure that policies will stick
A New Alliance in New York State: A Progress Report on the Labor Movement’s Restructuring, Capacity Building, and Programmatic Work
The labor movement in New York State has undergone a dramatic restructuring that is part of a national AFL-CIO program called the New Alliance. The purpose of the New Alliance is to build the capacity of local labor movements and empower unions to help shape a region’s political and economic agenda. The restructuring in NYS led to the consolidation of 25 central labor councils into 5 area labor federations, each of which is developing the resources, staff and leadership to help grow labor’s regional power across the state. This article describes the origins of the New Alliance, the nature of the restructuring process, the ways in which the capacity of local labor movements are expanding, the programmatic work the restructured central bodies have undertaken in the last five years, and the impact of the national split on local and regional central bodies across New York State
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