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National Family Week is an annual celebration during Thanksgiving. It encourages celebration of strong families and advocates for policies that foster community connections.
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Guide for advancing a nonprofit’s goals through advocacy. Provides steps for implementing an advocacy agenda and tips for educating staff, board members, and volunteers.
New Webinar: Leveraging Limited Dollars by Funding Policy and Community Engagement
The Alliance for Children and Families is offering a new webinar March 2 from 1-2 p.m.
This free webinar will discuss a recent report from the National Committee for Responsible Philanthropy. The report provides solid evidence of around the impact of foundation-funded policy advocacy, community organizing, and civic engagement. … more
Alliance Civic Engagement Measurement Project

The Alliance for Children and Families civic engagement program embarked on a new project in 2011. In partnership with United Neighborhood Centers of America, the project is designed to help nonprofit human service organizations measure the impact of their civic engagement efforts.
Understanding the impact of civic engagement activities is a vital step toward enhancing the effectiveness of services over time. In addition, evaluating civic engagement efforts supports organization-wide planning efforts related to mission fulfillment. … more
New Article: Power of Board Members’ Voices
Most nonprofit organizations recognize the value of their board directors’ abilities to build relationships and solicit donations. … more
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Alliance Intellectual
Capital Division
The Alliance Intellectual Capital Division is responsible for generating new initiatives, ideas, and solutions to move the nonprofit human service field forward. Currently within the division's purview are:
- Civic engagement program
- Evaluation and research services
- Executive Consultant Select Group
- Executive Leadership Institute
- Families in Society social work journal
- New Age of Aging initiative
- Strategy Counts! initiative













