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Helping Families Save their Homes Act (and HEARTH): What it Means for Kids
Congress passed the Helping Families Save Their Homes Act, which includes the HEARTH Act reauthorizing the HUD McKinney-Vento Homeless Assistance Act programs. Is it good for children and youth? Yes—but there's a major missed opportunity, according to an analysis from the nonpartisan advocacy group First Focus.
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Posted on February 16, 2009
Looking for details on federal investments benefiting children? This new interactive website has customable information on more than 160 federally funded programs.
Whether you're just getting started in your hometown or are part of a group already at work on behalf of kids and families, you can make a difference—but not without adequate funding. Here are some ideas Connect for Kids has compiled, with help from our online community, to get you started.
Posted on July 1, 2009
Grant makers tend to be cautious about funding advocacy, and for good reason
— yet advocacy can play a crucial role in advancing a foundation’s mission.
In this guide, contributors explain that advocacy includes a lot of opportunities
to improve public policy through work that is well within the limits of the law.
Whether your purpose is to advance an idea, argue a position, or enrich the
policy debate, the guide offers resources and strategies for planning your
work, reaching your audience, assessing impact, and more. This guide highlights: what’s permissible for foundations, working with grantees who lobby, building a case, cultivating a constituency, and preparing for opposition.
Can Twitter and Facebook really perform miracles for hardworking child advocates? Journalist and Child Advocacy360 blogger Ray Schultz takes a look at the brave new world of social networking.
The advocacy organization Every Child Matters persuaded hundreds of members to congratulate President Obama on his first 100 days and on the “kid-friendly parts” of his budget. How did it mobilize so many? Through e-mail, Facebook and Twitter, among other things. But can children’s champions use social media to make a real-world impact? Commentator Ray Schultz talked with Every Child Matters.
Congress passed the Helping Families Save Their Homes Act, which includes the HEARTH Act reauthorizing the HUD McKinney-Vento Homeless Assistance Act programs. Is it good for children and youth? Yes—but there's a major missed opportunity, according to an analysis from the nonpartisan advocacy group First Focus.
A national campaign is gaining momentum to urge President Obama and Congress to create a White House Office on Children and Youth, that will centralize leadership across the 12 departments and agencies that provide federal services and funds for children and youth.
 The latest federal budget is making its way through Congress. So what's in it for children and young people?
How a student YouTube posting brought top-level attention to a growing initiative that connects under-represented young people to college campuses—Jamaal Abdul-Alim of Youth Today reports.
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