Senior Advocacy Manager
Third Way is a national think tank that champions modern center-left ideas. Our work is grounded in the mainstream American values of opportunity, freedom, and security. But we identify as center-left, because we...
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Advocacy Lead (Director)
The LEGO Foundation is a Danish corporate foundation headquartered in Billund and working globally. We passionately believe in the power of play in education and social development more broadly. Our aim is to build a...
Rating and ranking institutions to drive change: a ten-step guide for think tanks and advocacy groups
Ratings and rankings have become a staple output of advocacy groups and think tanks worldwide. Here’s a quick ten-step guide on how to achieve maximum impact by using ratings and rankings...
Rating and ranking institutions to drive change: a ten-step guide for think tanks and advocacy groups
Ratings and rankings have become a staple output of advocacy groups and think tanks worldwide. Nevertheless, I recently encountered a think tank working on a ranking that...
Think Tanks and Tax Status: A note on the 501(c)3 and 501(c)4 Tax Categories
In order to understand the activities of US non-governmental organizations, it is helpful to take a look at the US tax code. The tax status of a...
Writing for Change: An Interactive Guide to Effective Writing, Writing for Science, and Writing for Advocacy
Most of us have to write formally as part of our work and, as we know, effective writing gets results. Few of us, however, have been trained to write effectively and many of us see writing as...
Advocacy tools and guidelines: promoting policy change
This Toolkit,Advocacy tools and guidelines: promoting policy change, by Sofia Sprechmann and Emily Pelton, from CARE, presents a manual and tools for developing advocacy strategies.
Think Tank Exchange Sessions: on balancing research and advocacy, and its implications for quality research
This is the fourth set of videos from the TTI Exchange sessions. This panel was about discussing how think tanks balance research with advocacy, and how this impacts the quality of...
The People, The Planet, The Can: emerging lessons from policymakers’ perspective
My journey up until now, since my last post, has been somewhat slow. Other work commitments and not being able to engage with some prospective interviewees has hampered...
When research is not good enough
The Huffington Post´s Sabrina Stevens recently blogged about the possible effects of bad education research on policy, in light of the National Education Policy Centre´s annual “Bunkum...
Research based Evidence Advocacy guidebook by Young and Quinn
Eoin Young and Lisa Quinn have published a guidebook on research based evidence advocacy. The guidebook is based on their work with the Open Society Foundations. The guidebook is an...
Celebrity academics: they do more than just advertise their own work
One of the things that I like most about British television (and radio) is that not a day goes by without a show written and presented by academics. These shows range from...
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