Are you ready for the 2025 legislative session?
Youth-led candidate forum, photo courtesy of Michigan’s Children The results of the 2024 election will bring a wave of changes to the child advocacy landscape, from a new federal administration, to shifting leadership in the US Senate, and many new officials in governor’s offices, state houses, and local governments across the nation. No matter who […]
Nest eggs for babies
Photo by Jomjakkapat Parrueng on Unsplash This blog is the second in a two-part series on Public Policy for Economic Mobility. Around the nation, families are grappling with rising costs of big-ticket items like housing, child care, and college tuition. Vital, yet, chronically underfunded direct cash assistance programs like TANF have lost buying power in […]
Holding space for the people who drive change
In September, child advocates from across the U.S. gathered in Little Rock, Arkansas, for the Partnership for America’s Children’s annual retreat and to celebrate our tenth anniversary. As the Executive Director, it was a special privilege to host this event in my hometown and share Little Rock’s rich civil rights and organizing history with my […]
A Bold New Path: The Partnership for America’s Children Unveils Strategy Roadmap
This is a pivotal moment for the Partnership for America’s Children to release a new Strategy Roadmap. Our political landscape is more fractured and unpredictable than ever before, presenting both challenges and opportunities for child advocacy. Simultaneously, we are seeing a new generation of leaders step into key roles within many of our member organizations, […]
Be prepared for success!
Photo by Artem Kniaz via Unsplash “Chambers of commerce are a terrific source of leadership on children’s issues,” says Sara Watson, founder and former National and Global Director of the business group ReadyNation. Sara has years of experience building collaborations between early childhood and business leaders. She recently helped Under 3 DC, a coalition of DC Action for […]
Building work culture with intention and care
Photo by Mahmud Ahsan via Unsplash Building team culture and connection has gained so much importance for organizational success since remote work became the norm. Many organizations had to make a sudden leap in 2020 from a mostly in-office work culture to a whole new way of working – and most of us are still […]
Tune in this week: Podcasting for child advocates
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 child advocacy organizations are using podcasts to build support for their work. Tune in for podcast profiles, hot tips, plus a fresh playlist of our […]
