Celebrating National Adoption Day – Like many women in this lobbying business I started as a volunteer 45 years ago.
Like many women in this business, I started as a volunteer. I belonged to an adoptive parent group. We had decided to “do something” about an existing law that forbade the adoption of children across religious lines. Through our parent support network we had learned that more than a thousand children, legally free for adoption,...
On winning; “It felt great, It felt like we were able to accomplish something huge.”
NEW LAW WILL BOLSTER CIVICS EDUCATION IN SCHOOLS Rep. Andy Vargas, a Haverhill Democrat who joined the House after winning a special election last year, visited the State House for the first time eight years ago as a high school student to lobby for a version of the bill. He gave his first speech as...
Ten years ago today we celebrated and then got right down to organizing health care reform.
So, public policy advocates, what are you doing tomorrow? Planning to promote positive policy change in your state? You will find keys to building a winning public policy campaign in this little book Lobbying on a Shoestring Check out the introduction outlining the three rules of Lobbying and the Hero Opportunity
Updated list of public policy players endorsing 4th Edition Lobbying on a Shoestring
More important than ever – positive policy change on the state level. Here’s what professional and volunteer lobbyists and organizers are saying about the newly-released 2018 edition of Lobbying on a Shoestring, by Judith C. Meredith and Margaret E. Monsell:
What People Are Saying
More important than ever – positive policy change on the state level. Here’s what professional and volunteer lobbyists and organizers are saying about the newly-released 2018 edition of Lobbying on a Shoestring, by Judith C. Meredith and Margaret E. Monsell: Making effective and lasting change is harder than ever but doable. Activists must go on...
What is Public Policy Anyway?
Do you have an answer to this basic question? What is pubic policy Anyway? At Real Clout we say that policy are rules made by people in authority to control others in their family, workplace, government. Ask a room of youngsters to tell you what family policies that hate most and they will come up with...
Keys to Winning Positive Policy Change in 2019 – Start Now!
Here’s the Introduction to the 4th Edition of Lobbying on a Shoestring outlining the Three Rules of Lobbying and the Hero Opportunity
New! 4th Edition of Lobbying on a Shoestring Is Here!
Lobbying on a Shoestring offers a common-sense, practical approach to political action. Premised on the idea that real people should have a real impact on the development of public policy, this powerhouse of a paperback conveys truths about the legislative process and hard-won, strategic insights. The 2018 Revised Edition gets you and your clients up and...
We could not reach consensus —
I may have been around tool long but I don’t remember this excuse……………. We could not reach consensus. We used to blame people.
4th Edition of Lobbying on Shoestring – looking for new and experienced lobbyists to share a story
We are looking for new and experienced lobbyist familiar with Lobbying on a Shoestring willing to share a lobbying story as a reviewer of the 4th Edition. Maybe we have been working side by side for years practicing a much misunderstood and maligned profession called “lobbying.” Maybe we worked together developing a strategic plan for...
Nobody said it was going to be easy –the Speaker and the President cannot avoid conflict; they must confront it, resolve it, and take the blame for it
Closing days of a session are always a test of Leadership… from Chapter 2 of the draft 4th Edition of Lobbying on a Shoestring “Leadership, like other legislators, must be reelected. Because it is particularly embarrassing for a party leader to lose a local election, leaders listen to their constituents very closely and use the...
