2025 Eddies Awards: Best Collaboration

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The Eddies—annual, advocate-nominated and voted awards—feature strategic advocacy that is driving impactful policy change. This Eddies category features unique coalitions of leaders and organizations who worked together to achieve a significant impact for students and families. Working in coalition can be incredibly powerful—and incredibly challenging. This category honors the hard work of coalitions that organized artfully to […]

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Best Practices for Setting Your Annual Parent Agenda

DC Pave is a leader in our field for a truly democratic process to determine their policy agenda. Their signature Parent Policy Summit enables parents across DC to decide what issues the organization will work on. Learn how they have designed this approach, what lessons they have learned, and what is so powerful about giving […]

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Rulers & Pencils Happy Hour

Join your DC-area PIE Network colleagues for the third Rulers and Pencils happy hour convening in-person on Tuesday, October 10th, from 4:00 – 6:00 pm ET at the Thomas B. Fordham Institute offices located at 1015 18th St NW, Washington, D.C. 20036. We’ll network, enjoy some refreshments, and speak with four of the members of […]

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