From your assignment:
Solutions (2 pages)
Provide any related solutions/recommendations that organizations are using to address this social issue. We encourage you to find and cite solutions that various organizations have implemented.
Please use 2-4 organizations as examples and at least half of them should be local organizations (i.e. the DMV area)
What part of the social change wheel are they using to address this issue? How do they measure success?
To locate organizations you have not discovered while researching, use google and the site:org limiter. You can further limit the results by adding states:
Examples:
"reproductive justice" Maryland site:org
"food desert*" maryland solution* site:org
Library guide from Penn State.
"The Annenberg Public Policy Center of the University of Pennsylvania has been the premier communication policy center in the country since its founding in 1993."
"A free weekly briefing summarising the most exciting news and innovation from the policy world as it happens (covering 140+ countries). Our writers include former heads of state, mayors, and world-leading academics and researchers. Apolitical connects public servants to the ideas, people and partners they need to solve society’s hardest challenge"
From The Center for Governmental Studies (CGS). PolicyArchive " is an innovative, new digital archive of global, non-partisan public policy research. It makes use of the power, efficiency, and economy of modern Internet technology to collect and disseminate summaries and full texts, videos, reports, briefs, and multimedia material of think tank, university, government, and foundation-funded policy research."
"The Brookings Institution is a nonprofit public policy organization based in Washington, DC. Our mission is to conduct in-depth research that leads to new ideas for solving problems facing society at the local, national and global level."
"KFF is an endowed, nonprofit organization filling the need for trusted, independent information on national health issues. Legally we are a public charity — not a foundation — and as I hope you know, we are an independent national organization, headquartered in San Francisco, without any connection to Kaiser Permanente.
We are an information organization, and we accomplish our mission through policy analysis, polling, journalism, and social impact media campaigns — the core components of KFF which enable us to play our national role."
"For more than 40 years, Cato has led the charge for liberty in our nation and around the world. The Cato Institute is a public policy research organization—or think tank—that creates a presence for and promotes libertarian ideas in policy debates. Our mission is to originate, disseminate, and advance solutions based on the principles of individual liberty, limited government, free markets, and peace."
