SPPG + Evergreen

On social connection and policy

For last week’s class, we got off campus and into the “field” — and it was wonderful. We started the day…

Who speaks for community?

In the first class of our course on community-based policy-making, we spent a little time discussing definitions. What do we actually mean when we talk about “community,” “impact,” and “community-based policy-making”?

Virtual Reality (VR): A policy tool for impacting change?

Understanding the Needs of a Community

Last week our class focused on approaches to understanding a community. In the morning, the…

Empathy, the User and Public Policy

This past week demonstrated the “in-the-field” approach taken during this intensive course: We…

Virtual reality is no substitute for real-life interaction

Through the Lens of the NGO

Public policy, as defined by Susan Carter (2011), refers to “decisions taken concerning the selection of goals for society and the means of achieving them” (p. 428). These decisions are based on approaches formed and agreed upon by governments to address problems through explicit…

The Persistence Tactic

Last week, we gained some concrete tactics on how to influence policy change from outside the government, hearing…