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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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[ENHANCEMENT] Additional User Permissions

Bloomerang

Cody holds a Bachelor of Arts degree in Political Science and Rhetoric from Wabash College. He also holds a Juris Doctor degree with a concentration in Health Law from Indiana University School of Law – Indianapolis. He's been a valued member of Bloomerang since the doors opened in 2012.

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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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What Does It Mean to Dismantle Racial Capitalism Anyway?

NonProfit Quarterly

Robinson, a professor of political science and Black studies. 11 A study by the MacArthur Justice Center at Northwestern Law School in Evanston, IL, found that ShotSpotter has a false alarm rate of 89 percent. It’s a strategic choice made by a set of actors.” 4 The term racial capitalism was popularized by Cedric J.

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[VIDEO] Creative Ways People Contribute to Community

Bloomerang

And then if you’re getting into a debate, you know, these techniques that I’m going to talk about today can range from any form from your nonprofit to your religious organization, to your mom’s group, to your friend group, and even to a debate, political science. . The next is contributing something of value.