GCYF has again partnered with the Alliance for Justice to present a series of webinars on policy and advocacy grantmaking. The three part series will give foundations the opportunity to explore how foundations can engage in various types of advocacy and provide an overview of activities that constitute advocacy and public policy work; evaluate the impact of advocacy grants; and explore advocacy activities that foundations themselves can engage in. Each session in the series will be offered twice and will be presented in the context of a different issue effecting children, youth and families.  

Is your foundation ready to take on a more active role as an advocate? Join GCYF and the Alliance for Justice for an exploration of the various ways in which foundations can engage in advocacy, and reasons why they would want to do so. This training webinar will be discussed in the context of early education/child care (November 2010 session) and extending foster care (May 2011 session).

Participants will learn about and discuss: 

• Activities that constitute advocacy and public policy work

• Various advocacy roles for foundations

• Deciding when to advocate

• Limits on how much lobbying can be done (for public foundations)

• Activities that are exceptions to the definitions of lobbying, including those in which private foundations may engage
  

Featured Speaker:

• Ruth Mayden, Senior Fellow/Associate Director, Children Healthy and Achieving, The Annie E. Casey Foundation

Registration:

Those who are seeking to participate in this event are interested in assessing their foundation's current policy and advocacy work as a tool to advance broader CYF goals, and learning how grantmaker collaboration can deepen the impact of advocacy work.

Registration is free for GCYF Members; $40 for Non-Members. Receive a 15% discount for registering for 2 or more webinars at a time.

Please note that you will be required to complete a brief survey before accessing the registration page, where you can register for multiple events in the series.

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Participation is limited to representatives of grantmaking institutions, philanthropic advisors and grantmaking affinity groups.

If you are unable to attend this session, save the date or register early for the second session, to be held on May 18, 2011 2-3:30 p.m. ET.

• Featured Speaker: Antoinette Malveaux, Managing Director, Strategic Alliances, Casey Family Programs (invited)

Learn more and register for other events in the series:
Webinar I - Getting Impact: Foundation Support for Advocacy
Webinar II - Measuring Impact: Advocacy Evaluation & Capacity Building