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Getting to Know Our Consultants: Christy Gilmour

Momentum Nonprofit Partners

on Capitol Hill, and working for a law firm in their lobbying group. I decided to return home to Chicago, where I worked for a city/county health initiative promoting community health, worked with the YMCA Metro Chicago, where I oversaw strategic planning, and then worked in patient and orthopedic advocacy for a specialty medical association.

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Get to Know Our New Director of Government Relations and Public Policy, Sherry Rout!

Momentum Nonprofit Partners

Sherry has been a presenter at national and state conferences on a wide range of government relations topics, a guest lecturer on effective advocacy at Rhodes College in Memphis, TN, and spent many years as a guest lecturer on animal law and lobbying at the University of Tennessee’s Schools of Law and Veterinary Medicine in Knoxville, TN.

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Get to Know Our New Director of Government Relations and Public Policy, Sherry Rout!

Momentum Nonprofit Partners

Sherry has been a presenter at national and state conferences on a wide range of government relations topics, a guest lecturer on effective advocacy at Rhodes College in Memphis, TN, and spent many years as a guest lecturer on animal law and lobbying at the University of Tennessee’s Schools of Law and Veterinary Medicine in Knoxville, TN.

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Collaboration Across Social Boundaries: A Practical Guide

Stanford Social Innovation Review

By Karl Haushalter & Paul Steinberg A local public health official has been tasked with increasing vaccine use in an underserved community. Changing the law will require lobbying strategies, connections to policy makers, and legal expertise. Simply put, social change requires social collaboration.

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Unlearning to Relearn: An Interview with Stephanie Bowman of Mothers Out Front

NonProfit Quarterly

At 14, I began to see the lack in resources, which eventually led to my start in food justice. I started off growing fruits and vegetables in a community garden and delivering them to elders in my neighborhood, as it was a food desert. So, I went to college at Hampton University and studied political science.

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Movement Economies: Building an Economics Rooted in Movement

NonProfit Quarterly

This was not so often the case in the 1960s, when civil rights laws were passed and long-term employment, at least in unionized sectors, was the norm; it is the case today. The Politics of Movements How have movements responded to the causes and effects of skyrocketing inequality?