TY  - BOOK
AU  - Pekkanen,Robert J.
AU  - Smith,Steven Rathgeb
AU  - Tsujinaka,Yutaka
TI  - Nonprofits and Advocacy: Engaging Community and Government in an Era of Retrenchment
SN  - 9781421413501
AV  - HD62.6 .N693 2014 
U1  - 361.7/630973 
PY  - 2014///
CY  - Baltimore
PB  - Johns Hopkins University Press
KW  - Nonprofit organizations-United States
KW  - Advocacy advertising-United States
KW  - Policy sciences-United States
KW  - Electronic books
N1  - Cover -- Contents -- Preface -- Acknowledgments -- Introduction: Nonprofit Advocacy: Definitions and Concepts -- Part One: The Local and National Dimensions of Nonprofit Advocacy -- 1 The Group Basis of City Politics -- 2 Nonprofit Advocacy in Seattle and Washington, DC -- 3 Shaping the Government-Nonprofit Partnership: Direct and Indirect Advocacy -- 4 Nonprofit Advocacy in the Nation's Capital -- 5 From Skid Row to the Statehouse: How Nonprofit Homeless Service Providers Overcome Barriers to Policy Advocacy Involvement -- Part Two: Organizational Politics, Strategy, and Tactics -- 6 Advocacy in Hard Times: Nonprofit Organizations and the Representation of Marginalized Groups in the Wake of Hurricane Katrina and 9/11 -- 7 Gender Identity and the Shifting Basis of Advocacy by US Women's Groups, 1920-2000 -- 8 The Political Voice of American Children: Nonprofit Advocacy and a Century of Representation for Child Well-Being -- 9 Analyzing the Practice of Nonprofit Advocacy: Comparing Two Human Service Networks -- 10 Effective Advocacy: Lessons for Nonprofit Leaders from Research and Practice -- List of Contributors -- Index -- A -- B -- C -- D -- E -- F -- G -- H -- I -- J -- K -- L -- M -- N -- O -- P -- Q -- R -- S -- T -- U -- V -- W -- Y
N2  - The research is relevant for policymakers involved in cross-sector public policy initiatives as they strive to provide more efficient public-private solutions to challenging governance issues
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ER  -