Advocacy Report Shows Performance of Arkansas' Non-Profits
By Lauren Clark
Today’s THV
October 12, 2011
The future of children and families.
The reason several leaders gathered Wednesday at Philander Smith College to share ideas and hear more about advocacy in Arkansas. "The message we want to get out is that these organizations are worthy of investing in and the work they've done up to this point has had a positive impact on the state!" says Cory Anderson, vice president of the Winthrop Rockefeller Foundation. He is excited about what is being done for underprivileged children and families in Arkansas.
The five organizations in the report, Arkansas Advocates for Children and Families, Arkansas Public Policy Panel, Center for Artistic Revolution, Northwest Arkansas Workers' Justice Center, and Rural Community Alliance, will spend the month of October celebrating the findings of the report and promoting advocacy and organizing. In addition, the advocacy organizations will lead the Arkansas release of the new national report, Strengthening Democracy, Increasing Opportunities: Impacts of Advocacy, Organizing, and Civic Engagement in the Gulf/Midsouth Region, produced by the National Committee for Responsive Philanthropy (NCRP) and partially funded by the Winthrop Rockefeller Foundation.
