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Showing 1 to 13 of 13 for “"advocacy organization"”.
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Bridging the Gap: Bringing Preservation to the People
… practices and social equity. It looks at how organizations communicate about preservation and how those methods may help or hinder the advancement of social equity. The focus is on practices of Philadelphia-based non-profit preservation groups, community development corporations and city …
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Predator Drones and Public Discourse: A Framing Analysis of the Killing of Anwar al-Awlaki
… media broadcast transcripts and publications, advocacy organization press releases, and government statements to analyze the framing of the drone program in the aftermath of the incident as compared to an earlier strike on a non-US citizen, Baitullah Mehsud. The study found that the killing of …
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Diagnosis NABJ: a preliminary study of a post-civil rights organization
… Journalists, the nation’s oldest and largest advocacy organization for reporters of color. Founded in 1975, NABJ represents the quintessential post-Civil Rights organization, in that it was established following the end of the struggle for freedom rights. This piece argues that NABJ, like many …
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Network Rhetoric: A Network Ethnography of the Knowledge Work of System Builders in Child Care and Early Learning
… of field research at a nonprofit resource and advocacy organization (QCR) that is conducting a messaging campaign to build public will for improving the quality of child care in Washington State. My work traces how participants translate for QCR's diverse stakeholders the state’s official model …
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Exploring the Experience of Embodiment of Diverse Leaders
… of ten executive leaders on the board of a fat advocacy organization to better understand how they experienced embodiment as they led.</p> <p>Through interviews, document and artifact analysis and observation of social media, this investigation suggests that early fat body consciousness was a …
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The unfulfilled promise of neoliberal housing policy : how the dynamics of the rental housing market influence the spatial concentration of voucher holders in New York City
… officials, landlord associations and a legal advocacy organization to better understand the role that intermediaries, public policies and city agencies play in influencing these decisions. Findings provide detailed accounts of the policies and agency practices landlords and realtors are …
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“On the Floor” and “At the Table”: Child Care Work, Advocacy, and the Devaluation of Social Reproduction in Canada’s Non-Profit Sector
… neoliberal austerity in Canada, where non-profit organizations have become both indispensable and increasingly precarious providers of care. Drawing on social reproduction theory, it conceptualizes community-based non-profit work as a critical yet persistently undervalued site of social …
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The Story of Our Journey
… and video interview footage provided by refugee advocacy organization Their Story is Our Story allows the refugees themselves to share details of their journeys from Africa to Italy, from Afghanistan to Central Europe through Greece, and from Honduras to the United States. In partnership with the …
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Sanctuary for Who?
… In 2019, Juntos, the city's foremost immigrant advocacy organization, criticized Philadelphia's Sanctuary status as inadequate. Cited the ongoing persecution of its communities and the declining quality of life for all residents, the organization urged the city to abandon the term "Sanctuary." …
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Corporate bodies and chemical bonds : an STS analysis of natural gas development in the United States
… within a small scientific advocacy organization, The Endocrine Disruption Exchange (TEDX), I follow the development of a database of chemicals used in natural gas extraction, a database that seeks to document not only what these chemicals are (many are proprietary), but also …
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When Do Party Leaders Democratize? Analyzing Three Reforms of Voter Registration and Candidate Selection
… from the archived materials of the leading advocacy organization of the reform, Human SERVE, I test the following three general hypotheses statistically: 1) the Democratic Party is interested in mobilizing the poor, 2) electoral competition enhances mobilization efforts by parties, and 3) …
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Revolutions and 'Rough Cuts': Bodily Technologies for Regulating Sexuality in Contemporary Iran
… marriage, iconic public statues, and a HIV-AIDS advocacy organization in Tehran. In each site, I identify, compare, and contextualize the methods of regulation, posing the following questions: how are bodily technologies constructed discursively and socially in Iran? And, in particular, what …
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Organizational Democracy and Women's Empowerment: An Examination of Four Advocacy Organizations in Bangladesh
… of the development activities of Non-Government Organizations (NGOs) in Bangladesh. In a patriarchal society, women experience discrimination and their participation in decision making processes often is not allowed in domestic, political and economic affairs. Most women's organizations mainly …