The Humboldt Area Foundation invited North Coast Community organizers over coffee and bagels for a talk on advocacy and lobbying. The presenters of the talk are Troy Fletcher of HAF, Connie Stewart of California Center for Rural Policy, Allan Katz of Community Health ORganizations, and Zuretti Goosby, a senior field rep.
The presenters focused on the difference between advocacy and lobbying. They defined advocacy as supporting a cause, while loobying is supporting or opposing a specific piece of legislation.
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Senay Ataselim-Yilmaz, Chief Operating Officer, Turkish Philanthropy Funds, writes that philanthropy often solves the very problems that stems from market failure. Some social issues, however, cannot be tackled by questioning the return on investment.