Abstract
In 2008 in Ireland there was a real sense that social justice advocacy, by non-profit organisations, was under threat from the state. The experience of many advocates and their organisations was that the state was actively working to silence advocacy. However there were no or few spaces where the non-profit sector (in Ireland often referred to as the community and voluntary sector) could reflect and dialogue about social justice advocacy: the threats it faced, its purpose, methodologies, effectiveness, assumptions, and legitimacy. Where spaces did exist there were low levels of trust and not always room for dissent from dominant narratives (Murphy 2014). The Advocacy Initiative was established to provide the opportunity for the sector to come to grips with these challenges and consider more deeply its advocacy function.
Highlights
There comes a point where we need to stop just pulling people out of the river
The Advocacy Initiative was a partnership of a broad range of leading nonprofit organizations in Ireland, which wanted to get to grips with the challenges facing their social justice advocacy work
In 2008, there was a real sense in Ireland that social justice advocacy by nonprofit organizations was under threat from the state
Summary
Complex non-profit collaboration: a case study of The Advocacy Initiative. Project Management Research and Practice, 3, 5121. The Advocacy Initiative was a partnership of a broad range of leading nonprofit organizations in Ireland, which wanted to get to grips with the challenges facing their social justice advocacy work. This case study explores lessons of collaborative project implementation from The Advocacy Initiative
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