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		<title>Reflections on Impact</title>
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		<description><![CDATA[By Gerald P. McCarthy, formerly of Virginia Environmental Endowment Gerald (Jerry) McCarthy recently retired after serving for 36 years as executive director of Virginia Environmental Endowment, a private grantmaking institution whose work focuses on environmental conservation. Jerry participated in ASF’s Impact Working Group since its creation in 2011, and we asked for his reflections on [&#8230;]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=philanthrofiles.org&#038;blog=32236902&#038;post=3601&#038;subd=philanthrofiles&#038;ref=&#038;feed=1" width="1" height="1" />]]></description>
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		<title>How to Win Friends and Influence Public Policy Without Lobbying</title>
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		<description><![CDATA[By Gerald P. McCarthy, Virginia Environmental  Endowment In his previous post on PhilanthroFiles, Jerry McCarthy shared pointers on lobbying. Here he offers ways to inform and influence policymakers without lobbying—all strategies to start now with the new Congress in place. In conversations with elected representatives in Congress over the years, I have been impressed with how willing they [&#8230;]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=philanthrofiles.org&#038;blog=32236902&#038;post=2882&#038;subd=philanthrofiles&#038;ref=&#038;feed=1" width="1" height="1" />]]></description>
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		<title>Foundations and Lobbying: Sorting Out the Do&#8217;s and Don&#8217;ts</title>
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		<description><![CDATA[By Gerald P. McCarthy, Virginia Environmental Endowment &#8220;If your foundation is not engaging in public policy, you could be missing out on one of the most effective tools in your foundation toolbox,&#8221; said Jerry McCarthy in his first post on PhilanthroFiles. Here he takes a look at the Do&#8217;s and Don&#8217;ts of lobbying. “Can we [&#8230;]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=philanthrofiles.org&#038;blog=32236902&#038;post=2682&#038;subd=philanthrofiles&#038;ref=&#038;feed=1" width="1" height="1" />]]></description>
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