Health Care Mobilization

October 2009

We are working with the NAACP National Voter Fund, the National Council of La Raza and other national organizations to help mobilize communities of color in the current health care debate.
Read the press release.

 

New Toolkit for Engaging Elected Officials in EITC Outreach

Fall 2009

One of the most effective ways to raise awareness of the Earned Income Tax Credit (EITC), the importance of Volunteer Income Tax Assistance (VITA) sites, and the need to build support for EITC benefit expansions is to engage elected officials.  Our elected officials have the ability to bring greater awareness of these services by partnering with organizations in their EITC outreach efforts. To help advocates and community tax assistance sites in this work, the National Community Tax Coalition and The Hatcher Group put together a toolkit that includes EITC outreach ideas for engaging elected officials and template materials such as site visit invitations, press releases and opinion-editorials.

View the toolkit

 

New Media & Social Change

Fall 2009

A new Hatcher Group report reveals how nonprofits are using new media technologies to advance social change. Based on interviews and a 70-question online survey of 30 nonprofits working on state-level advocacy issues, “New Media & Social Change: How Nonprofits are Using Web-based Technologies to Reach Their Goals” shows what new media tools are being used and how, what’s working -- and what’s not. The report offers advice and resources to help nonprofits use these increasingly important technologies to successfully promote their agendas. It’s must reading for organizations looking to make a difference, and their funders. Order a hard copy of the report.

 

Policy Forum

June 2009

The Hatcher Group worked with the National Institute for Health Care Management Foundation to help organize and publicize its 15th anniversary policy forum: “The Future of Health Care in America.” More than 170 people attended the event which was covered on C-SPAN.
View materials from the forum
Watch the forum on C-SPAN

 

Child Indicators Legislation

May 2009

The Hatcher Group is working with the Annie E. Casey Foundation to build support for legislation that would provide better state-level data on children. On May 21, bipartisan legislation was introduced in both the House and Senate to greatly expand the data available on child well-being that is current and statistically reliable for every state.
Visit the Child Indicators Website

 

Media Campaign
Winter/Spring 2009
Maryland Citizens Against State Executions

We have led a high-visibility media campaign as part of a major effort to repeal Maryland’s death penalty law. We have written a series of published OpEds, arranged editorial board visits, prepared remarks, developed advertising and done ongoing outreach to media to raise the profile of this campaign. We worked closely with advocates and lobbyists and helped organize a press conference with two former governors, a former senator and other elected officials to discuss their opposition to capital punishment. The campaign culminated with passage of a landmark bill that places the nation’s tightest restrictions on the kinds of cases in which the death penalty can be sought.

 

Report Release

March 2009

The Hatcher Group is managing the national release of a new report from the National Consumer Law Center on used car sales and financing scams. 

View the press release (pdf)

Read the full report (pdf)

Read an executive summary (pdf)

 

Report Release

March 2009

The Hatcher Group is working with the Working Poor Families Project and 20 national nonprofits to release a set of seven principles that will help states ensure that stimulus money benefits those hurt most by the recession.

View the press release (pdf)

View the principles (pdf)

Awards Ceremony

January 2009
On the eve of the Presidential inauguration, The Hatcher Group worked with Realizing the Dream, Inc., to organize the Martin Luther King, Jr. Day Commemoration and Awards Celebration.   For more information, click here (pdf).