Advocacy
Apple Confirms Pride Band Sales Support LGBTQ Advocacy
Apple confirmed this week that a portion of the profits from its Pride Edition Woven Nylon Apple Watch band will go toward supporting LGBTQ advocacy …
LGBTQHousing advocate: 'It's ridiculous to ask these families to pay this much.'
Six out of the seven least affordable metropolitan areas across the U.S. are in California. They are Los Angeles, San Francisco, San Jose, San Diego, …
HousingCasinos And Energy Dominate Lobbying Spending At The Capitol
Businesses, nonprofits and cities and towns spent more than $25 million this legislative session trying to win favor with lawmakers and the Malloy …
LobbyingHappy 7th Birthday To An LGBTQ Advocate – My Daughter.
That her birthday will always be one day after the observance of Pulse is what reminds me that in a world of evil, hope is born again.<p>As a transgender advocate, there’s a lot of people who question my parenting – though most are nice/wise enough to keep their opinions to themselves. Most.<p>One …
ParentingUber slapped with fine for underreporting lobbying
Uber took state regulators for a ride — and now it’s paying a hefty price.<p>The ride-sharing service has agreed to pay a $98,000 fine for …
LobbyingCongress hears from Taxpayer Advocate about reforming the IRS
The House Ways and Means Oversight Subcommittee held a hearing Friday featuring National Taxpayer Advocate Nina Olson to discuss how to improve …
Internal Revenue ServiceUCLA Hiring Student ‘Social Justice Advocates’ to Fight Against ‘Whiteness’ and ‘Patriarchy’
The University of Arizona isn’t the only institution to hop aboard the social justice bandwagon with official positions for social justice warriors. …
Social JusticeAdvocacy & Legislation Co-Chairs Go To Washington - #NLLD17
Greetings ALSC community! It’s Africa and Kendra, co-chairs of the Advocacy and Legislation Committee.<p>Two weeks ago we participated in our first …
Advocate Marketing: 3 Toxic Customer Behaviors that May be Signs of a Potential Advocate
Be honest. No one is insusceptible to an occasional noxious act. As much as we love our customer advocates who share glowing, positive reviews of us …
Customer ServiceStressed about marriage prospects, Mumbai woman tries to commit suicide, rescued
<i>(From left) Inspector Shalini Sharma talks to the advocate</i><p>Three hours of talk and six feet of walk later, a female constable talked a 30-year-old …
CrimeWhat has trail advocacy ever done for us?
Yes, advocacy really does work.<p>Here are some examples of what trail advocacy has achieved. And here are a number of things that you can do to help …
CyclingState and Local Resources
State and Local Advocacy<p>The ALA Chapter Relations Office (CRO) supports ALA’s library advocacy efforts by tracking state and federal legislation …
LibrarianshipTech Giants, Carmakers Rev Up Lobbying on Autonomous Vehicles
Once a science-fiction fantasy, self-driving vehicles are the new frontier for the automobile industry—and tech giants, century-old automakers and …
LobbyingHolistic Advocacy, or The Case of the Annoyingly-Optimistic Librarian
<i>ACRLog welcomes a guest post from Courtney Block, Instruction, Reference, and User Engagement Librarian at Indiana University Southeast.</i>Storytellers. …
LibrariesMarvin Shanken appoints himself as editor for Whisky Advocate
Marvin Shanken, the publishing entrepreneur behind Cigar Aficionado and Wine Spectator, said he is adding the editor-in-chief and publisher title at …
Psych Central Attends HealtheVoices 2017 Patient Advocacy Conference
This past weekend, a group of over 100 online health advocates gathered in Chicago to attend the third annual HealtheVoices conference. I attended …
Mental HealthHuffPost blog prejudicial, not hate advocacy
MEDIA<br>The press ombud’s ruling against Huffington Post SA highlights the confusion of South Africa’s laws on offensive speech. Ominously, it threatens …
CensorshipWith H-1B under threat, Alphabet is the only big tech company to ramp up immigration lobbying
The tech industry was quick to voice its opposition to US president Donald Trump’s first executive order on immigration in January, which banned travelers from seven majority-Muslim nations from entering the country. Companies penned scathing letters and signed amicus briefs. Their employees staged …
Lobbying3 Best Practices For Employee Advocacy Success from Vodafone
We recently had the great pleasure of co-presenting a webinar with the External Communications team at Vodafone, a multinational telecommunications …
Employee EngagementMichael Flynn’s Turkish lobbying linked to Russia
The Turkish man who gave Mike Flynn a $600,000 lobbying deal just before President Donald Trump picked him to be national security adviser has …
LobbyingMeet the fixer: This advocate connects green Latinos.
Ten years ago, Mark Magaña was a D.C. lobbyist, when the Bipartisan Policy Center hired him to rally Latino support for an ill-fated bill to limit …
EnvironmentalismChildren's advocate wanting to take new direction in the future
The children’s advocate’s job is to be the voice of the children, but Corey O’Soup wants to put the voice back in the hands of the children.<p>“We …
Canadian NewsLobbying Spending Database - PDVSA, 2016
Loading Chart<p><b>Client Profile: Summary, 2016</b><p>A special interest's lobbying activity may go up or down over time, depending on how much attention the …
LobbyingBanddirector.com - The #1 Online Resource for Band Directors!
How We Go About It<p>Tim Lautzenheiser<p>In discussing music advocacy we often look at the "big picture," that is, how we communicate and what we say about …
FluteTop Tips from Congressional Action Teams on Advocacy Day
Congressional Action Team members offer some top tips to highlight their experience on Advocacy Day
UNICEFGrowing life span inequality has given the rich an extra $130,000 in government benefits
A powerhouse new study’s surprising revelations about inequality.<p>The federal government spends a large amount of money to support the living standards of elderly people — primarily through Social Security and Medicare but with significant helping hands from Medicaid and disability insurance. That …
Social SecurityFacebook, Google and others are focusing some D.C. lobbying dollars on fighting Trump
Plus, Apple starts lobbying on autonomous vehicles.<p>Tech giants like Facebook, Google and Microsoft focused some of their lobbying dollars in Washington over the past three months on combating President Donald Trump, as he eyed major changes to the U.S. tax code and imposed new restrictions on …
LobbyingGrowing life span inequality has given the rich an extra $130,000 in government benefits
The federal government spends a large amount of money to support the living standards of elderly people — primarily through Social Security and …
Social SecurityIn The First Months Of The Trump Era, Facebook And Apple Spent More On Lobbying Than They Ever Have
The world’s largest social network spent $3.2 million on federal lobbying, but Google topped the tech world shelling out $3.5 million in the first quarter of 2017.<p>As Facebook has been tinkering with brain–computer interfaces and an augmented-reality camera platform, it’s also been cultivating some …
LobbyingTarget, Other Retailers Boost Lobbying in Border-Tax Battle - Bloomberg
Three top U.S. retailers almost quadrupled their combined spending on lobbying in Washington during the first quarter of 2017, as they work to defeat …
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