Michael Weinberg — Advocating for State-Level Systems Change Part 3: Tips for Getting Started

Michael Weinberg reflects on what he learned working in a successful advocacy coalition over several years, and shares tips for how foundations of any size can lay the ground to catalyze significant policy-level change on issues they care about. 

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Bio: Michael Weinberg is a Policy Officer at the Thornburg Foundation. His previous roles include program evaluation manager for New Mexico’s Legislative Finance Committee, public school teacher, and principal. Michael earned his doctorate in education from the University of New Mexico and lives in Albuquerque with his wife and two teenage daughters.

Michael's blogs:

• Advocating For State-Level Systems Changes: Policy Work By a Small Foundation