Political Polarization in America

Lisa Cirincione, Senior Resource Development Associate at Joining Vision and Action Lately, I am at a complete loss about how the “other side” can justify the rightness of many of their actions to themselves and other people. For example, I catch myself thinking things like: “How can people actually believe it’s a good thing to [...]

The Science of Resistance: A Vibrant Forum on Effective Advocacy, Organizing and Conversations

On March 8, Joining Vision and Action (JVA) welcomed guests and panelists to the latest “Conversations that Matter” event at JVA offices, 2465 Sheridan Blvd. in Edgewater. Conversations that Matter is a series of salon-style forums hosted jointly by JVA and Social Enterprise Alliance on the second Wednesday of every month, enabling deep-dive conversations on [...]

The Affordable Care Act: An Employer’s Perspective

By Marshall Vanderburg, Director of Operations at Joining Vision and Action With increased public discussion regarding the Affordable Care Act (ACA), one important element easily overlooked is the role employers have in providing health insurance. Conversely, ACA’s effect for employees deciding whether to take advantage of employer-provided health insurance coverage. Employer-provided health insurance coverage trends break [...]

What We Learned from the Skinny Budget

By Lisa Cirincione, Joining Vision and Action President Donald Trump has released his skinny budget, “America First,” which gives us some broad stroke glimpses of where he would like Congress to approve cuts to domestic, discretionary programs in the 2018 fiscal year. At a high level, it will squeeze federal grant programs, which have already [...]

The Latest Glimpse into the Federal Budget

By Lisa Cirincione, Joining Vision and Action More glimpses, but nothing concrete. Despite hopes that President Donald Trump’s speech to Congress on February 28, 2017, would illuminate what to expect from the federal budget, we still have very little clarity. The big, concerning thing that we did hear the president say before his speech is [...]

What About the Federal Budget?

Lisa Cirincione, Joining Vision and Action Will the federal grant programs that support our organization’s critical safety net projects be included in President Donald Trump’s budget? That’s the multi-trillion dollar question that JVA is very concerned about. As background, the U.S. spent $4 trillion dollars last year, and about $2.5 trillion of that was used [...]

Advocacy and Action in the Trump Era: Highlights from our Panelists and Actions to Take

By Erin Shaver and Janine Vanderburg, Joining Vision and Action It was standing-room only at Joining Vision and Action on Wednesday night, when more than 100 people from all over the local community showed up, ready to listen, learn and share their experiences at the panel/workshop, Advocacy and Action in the Trump Era. A joint [...]

What Might Happen to Federal Grants under a Trump Administration?

By Lisa Cirincione, Joining Vision and Action At JVA, we are anxiously speculating about what will happen to critical federal funding in the coming years. While there is no absolute certainty, I am going to try to summarize what we do know. Trump Nominees First, President Donald Trump has nominated people to serve in his [...]

Will Social Enterprise Survive the Trump Era?

By Rolfe Larson, Senior Consultant for Strategic and Business Planning, Joining Vision and Action (JVA) We expect big changes. This week, we enter a new era. Starting January 20, there will be significant policy and funding changes in the U.S. in healthcare, education, immigration and the environment. While we cannot predict accurately what those changes [...]

2018-05-21T19:58:33-06:00January 19th, 2017|2017, Blog, Policy and advocacy|0 Comments

Can I Advocate? General Guidelines for Nonprofits

By Jill Iman, Ph.D., Joining Vision and Action In light of recent events, we’re dusting off this blog on nonprofit advocacy from 2014 to share with you again. Image via Linnaea Mallette Can I advocate? A question many nonprofits likely ask themselves at some point during their lifetimes, and one we hear [...]

2020-12-12T15:07:39-07:00November 16th, 2016|Blog, Policy and advocacy, Unconsultants|0 Comments
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