Souza Briggs
- Published in print:
- 2008
- Published Online:
- August 2013
- ISBN:
- 9780262026413
- eISBN:
- 9780262269292
- Item type:
- chapter
- Publisher:
- The MIT Press
- DOI:
- 10.7551/mitpress/9780262026413.003.0010
- Subject:
- Political Science, Democratization
This chapter discusses how the Coleman Advocates, a civil society organization that is not a mass membership group, helped in making the San Francisco children's movement successful and also played a ...
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This chapter discusses how the Coleman Advocates, a civil society organization that is not a mass membership group, helped in making the San Francisco children's movement successful and also played a role in freeing critical children's services from non-profit patronage politics in San Francisco. The focus of the children's movement on public spending priorities and accountable use of funds helped to make problemsolving a priority rather than constructing a nonprofit empire of child bureaucracies. With the implementation of the Children's Amendment and the strategic leadership of Coleman Advocates, the children's movement mastered the electoral process in the city and also took hold of the municipal budget cycle.Less
This chapter discusses how the Coleman Advocates, a civil society organization that is not a mass membership group, helped in making the San Francisco children's movement successful and also played a role in freeing critical children's services from non-profit patronage politics in San Francisco. The focus of the children's movement on public spending priorities and accountable use of funds helped to make problemsolving a priority rather than constructing a nonprofit empire of child bureaucracies. With the implementation of the Children's Amendment and the strategic leadership of Coleman Advocates, the children's movement mastered the electoral process in the city and also took hold of the municipal budget cycle.
