Image by Lee Murry from Pixabay. Welcome to another episode of the Partnership for America’s Children blog! Today, we’re diving headfirst into a topic that’s music to our ears: how...
Photo by Claudia Raya on Unsplash. This blog is the first in a two-part series on Public Policy for Economic Mobility. The Biden administration’s response to the COVID-19 pandemic created...
SPARC Releases Resources on Preventing Child Welfare System Involvement and Harm to Children
By
Lisa Pilnik
Families, advocates, and policymakers agree on the importance of preventing child welfare system involvement—and the circumstances that lead to it—but communities still struggle to identify, prioritize, fund, and implement specific...
Partnership for America’s Children Nurtures a New Generation of Advocates and Leaders
By
Mark Swartz
Cross-posted with permission from Early Learning Nation. Marquita Little Numan took the helm of Partnership for America’s Children last August, just a few weeks before the Executive Directors Retreat of this national...
2024 Legislative Preview: Hot Topics in Child Advocacy
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Fawn Pattison
Photo by Philip White via Unsplash As states roll into the 2024 legislative sessions, we took a look at our members’ legislative agendas to find out what issues child advocates...
SPARC 2023 Convening: Working and Learning Together for Transformational Change in Child Welfare
By
Lisa Pilnik
In December, SPARC members had the opportunity to convene in Baltimore at the Annie E. Casey Foundation offices. (State Policy Advocacy and Reform Center, or SPARC, is a network of...
Photo by @PatrickPerkins via Unsplash Three Partnership members share creative strategies they’re using to build financial independence and weather the frequent storms of nonprofit funding cycles. One feature that all...
Building a community of courageous leaders for kids
By
Marquita Little NuMan
Image courtesy of Michelle Hughes. Just a month into my tenure as executive director, I had the opportunity to share space with child advocacy leaders from all over the country...
How child advocacy organizations tackle the biggest challenges in youth organizing
By
Fawn Pattison
Image courtesy of Michigan’s Children. Organizing with youth can be a powerful way to achieve lasting policy change that directly benefits children in your community. But it also brings a...
When Kids Forward announced in 2020 that their organization would transform into an antiracist policy center, focused on the people most impacted by racist policies in Wisconsin, they knew their model of...
