Moving People to Action
On Wednesday I had the pleasure of participating in a panel discussion about the Kansas Dental Project at a conference hosted by Oral Health Kansas and the Kansas Association for the Medically...
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Occupy Wall Street: Are values enough?
Occupy Wall Street has created easy headlines for newspapers and ready-made media moments for TV news. At first the coverage was dependent on tabloid-worthy conflict between the protesters and law...
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Civic Drag
There is a principle in aerodynamics that if you want to increase efficiency, then it is necessary to decrease wind resistance or “drag”. It seems to me that the same basic principle is applicable to...
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Voting in Kansas in 2012
As Stephen Colbert noted this summer, research by the Brennan Center revealed fraudulent votes accounted for a whopping 44 one-millionths of one percent of the votes cast in our democracy, so the...
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We are grateful for…
There is so much we are grateful for here at Kansas Grassroots. At the top of the list is getting to spend every day working with great clients doing the important work of getting people involved in...
View ArticleUse Social Media to Improve Your Advocacy Campaigns
We’re all familiar with action emails in advocacy campaigns. They usually look a little something like this: Dear Friend, As a long standing supporter of _______, we thought you’d be interested to...
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From a New Hampshire Road Trip, a Lesson on the Importance of Media
Mitt Romney is surrounded by the press at Webster Elementary School in Manchester, N.H. Photo by Rhys Heyden. The Kansas Presidential Caucuses are coming up. This year, Republicans are caucusing on...
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Voter Suppression in Kansas
Last fall we outlined the new rules regarding photo identification that Kansas voters will have to abide by in order to participate in elections beginning in 2012. There is another major change that...
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A faster, simpler district match tool.
I am going to come right out and admit it – I am a civic-tech nerd. Imagine a venn diagram with community organizing on one side and technology on the other. You will often find me standing in the...
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Telling Your Story to Make a Difference
We believe in the power of stories to make change, so we are excited about an opportunity to learn from one of the experts on this very topic. The Sunflower Foundation is currently hosting an event...
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