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Advocacy in the Age of Obama
Dec 01, 2009The Nonprofit Quarterly
- The Non-Profit Quarterly recently featured our work in an article on how non-profits are faring in today's economically challenging and tumultuous environment.. Their story spotlights some successes of our place-based organizing model, and also highlights the challenges that local groups face. Executive director Bill Kopsky talks about a prescient 1988 Winthrop Rockefeller Foundation study "Building Constituency" that pointed the way forward and is still relevant today.
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Questions about proposed Lee Creek dam remain unanswered
Oct 25, 2009
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Energy change pushed in D.C.: Arkansans take part in lobbying
Oct 08, 2009Arkansas Democrat-Gazette
- A contingent from Arkansas pushed for a national renewable energy standard in Washington, D.C., this week in hopes of spurring related economic development in the state.
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Group hands out grades
Jun 03, 2009Stuttgart Daily Leader
- The Arkansas Citizens First Congress is a statewide grassroots organization comprised of other organizations. This group has come together to give state legislators a grade in performance.
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4 bills seek oversight in closing academic gap between races
Apr 26, 2009Arkansas Democrat-Gazette
- Lawmakers interested in closing the academic achievement gap between better-performing white students and their black and Hispanic counterparts say the state has spent a lot of money to help narrow the distance in the test scores between those groups but needs more oversight and accountability.
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Beebe signs measure cutting state energy use
Apr 14, 2009The Associated Press
- Gov. Mike Beebe on Tuesday signed into law a measure aimed at cutting state buildings’ energy consumption by 30 percent over the next eight years, one of the few victories for a commission that pushed for other reforms to cut down on the state’s pollution.
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Beebe signs energy efficiency bill into law
Apr 14, 2009Arkansas News Bureau
- Gov. Mike Beebe signed into law Tuesday a bill setting energy-efficiency goals for public buildings, one of a handful of measures to come out of this year’s legislative session that were based on recommendations by the Governor’s Commission on Global Warming.
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Global Warming Bills Meet With Limited Success
Apr 05, 2009The Morning News
- "Arkansas hasn't woken up enough to the global warming issue yet," said commission member Art Hobson. "So you don't see much concern about it in the Legislature. But we're going to wake up to it more and more."
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Aquifers at critical low, report says
Apr 05, 2009Arkansas Democrat-Gazette
- Groundwater depletion in northeast Arkansas has reached such a critical stage that some area residents are assessing local support for a more comprehensive response to the problem.
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Lawmakers introduce legislation aimed at saving energy
Feb 27, 2009Arkansas Democrat Gazette
- Lawmakers aiming to increase energy efficiency introduced "common-sense, consensus" legislation Thursday to retrofit state buildings, encourage utilities to become more energy-efficient and ask voters to approve bonds to help governments go "green."
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New bills seek to combat global warming
Feb 26, 2009Arkansas News Bureau
- A group of state lawmakers on Thursday filed three bills based on recommendations of the Governor’s Commission on Global Warming and said others are in the works.
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Good government group lists legislative priorities
Feb 23, 2009Camden News
- On Thursday, members of SAGG joined individuals and grassroots organizations from across South Arkansas and the Delta in traveling to Little Rock to lobby legislators on the items they helped develop with the Arkansas Citizens First Congress: The "10 Priorities for a Better Arkansas."
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