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Public Campaign

By Dennis Osorio on May 9, 2011

This is the sixth part in a series of posts that will explore some of the leading organizations from around the country that are engaged in unearthing and combating the influence of money in the political process.

Role in the Landscape

Public Campaign conducts campaigns to improve campaign finance laws and to promote public financing of elections. They offer research and messaging support to community organizations, focusing on connecting the dots between how elected officials raise money and the actions they take that hurt regular people. Continue reading »

Guide to Money in Politics: Research Tools for Issue Campaigns

By Dennis Osorio on April 29, 2011

This guide contains an overview of some of the leading organizations from around the country that are engaged in unearthing and combating the influence of money in the political process.

Click here to download the full report. Continue reading »

Main Street Alliance Leaders Plant Flag for Small Business Values in Washington, D.C.

By Sam Blair on August 25, 2010

In late July, small business owners from all across the country – from Maine to Montana, Louisiana to North Dakota – left their homes and their businesses on a mission: to carry a message about small business values direct from their Main Streets back home all the way to Washington, D.C. It was the “America’s Small Business Values at Work” summit, sponsored by the Main Street Alliance, NWFCO, and Community Organizations in Action. Continue reading »

NWFCO Celebrates New Health Care Law!

By Gerald Smith on May 18, 2010

I’m signing [this health reform bill] for 11-year-old Marcelas Owens, who’s also here. Marcelas lost his mom to an illness. And she didn’t have insurance and couldn’t afford the care that she needed. So in her memory he has told her story across America so that no other children have to go through what his family has experienced. — President Barack Obama, March 23, 2010 Continue reading »

Marcelas Grows Up in Community Organizing, Finishes What His Mother Started

By Julie Chinitz on May 1, 2010

History loves a hero. The historic health reform legislation signed this year by President Obama received its hero in the form of Marcelas Owens, eleven-year-old Seattleite who, in the weeks leading to the bill’s passage, became the country’s most visible spokesman for reform.

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Is Health Care Reform Just For White People?

By Jill Reese on April 13, 2010

Northwest Federation of Community Organizations Campaigns for Racial Justice in Health

Although the face of the health care debate was mostly a white one, community organizations and progressive groups across the country, including the Northwest Federation of Community Organizations and the Health Rights Organizing Project, prioritized health equity in their demands for comprehensive health care reform. They went into the fight bolstered by a big win for health justice – the reauthorization of the Children’s Health Insurance Program with the removal of the five-year bar that prevented immigrant children from accessing the program. Their commitment to addressing racial disparities in health was front and center when they joined Health Care for America Now (HCAN), the largest national grassroots campaign fighting for national health care reform. Continue reading »

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