Earlier this week, a school shooting devastated Nashville, the city I called home for ten years. Three nine-year-olds were shot to death, and so were three of their school’s staff members. I’ve been urging people to call their lawmakers to ask them to pass legislation that can end the gun violence epidemic in our country.
What Nonprofit Professionals Can Do to Respond to Gun Violence After the Nashville Shooting
Y’all. Three children died today.
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Public Policy Advocacy: An Intro for Nonprofits
Advocacy (which does not necessarily include lobbying!) is one of the most effective tactics a nonprofit can use to serve its mission. This week on the Nonprofit Jenni Show, advocacy expert Brenda Gadd from Rethink Public Strategies is here to share some examples of how nonprofits can engage in public policy advocacy. She also gives us a quick recap about the difference between advocacy and lobbying.
Combatting Systemic Issues Through Your Nonprofit
This week on the Nonprofit Jenni Show, we chat with Joanne Samuel Goldblum, founder of the National Diaper Bank Network and coauthor of the new book “Broke in America: Seeing, Understanding, and Ending U. S. Poverty”. Joanne offers advice for nonprofit leaders who are working to combat deep-rooted systemic issues, like poverty.
Let’s Tackle the Incarceration Problem, with Ameelio
There are a million interconnected issues which have created our monstrous incarceration systems, and incarceration is just one more area where racial inequities become so glaringly obvious. This week on the Nonprofit Jenni Show, two Ameelio representatives come on the show to have a conversation with me about some of the specific failures of our incarceration systems. We discuss the solutions Ameelio offers to nonprofits, those who are incarcerated, and their loved ones.