
Ep333 - David Kirp | Kids First: Five Big Ideas for Transforming Children's Lives (National Day of Hope)
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How to Use Your Talents to Help Kids
I think the most useful thing to do and I'm thinking aloud, this question, is to get involved if there's a political campaign for a national office that pits somebody who's got a record of being effectively anti-kid against the challenger. Politicians are risk-averse folks. They see a few politicians go down to defeat on kids' issues; they're going to change their tune. And when it comes to organizations, there is nothing that really spans this terrain. So I would say you look for groups that are doing either good substantive work, good research work or good policy work on behalf of particular groups of kids.
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