Boston Children's Hospital Children's Advocacy Network (2006)
The Public Policy Institute is providing training and curriculum development expertise to Boston Children's Hospital and its Children's Advocacy Network of over 800 health care providers, parents and advocates. PPI is helping to create an intensive training institute to give advocates real skills to improve their ability to communicate effectively with key decision makers, co-workers and others about issues vital to the health and well being of children and families.

BPON (Boston Parent Organizing Network) and Project RIGHT (Rebuild and Improve Grove Hall Together) (2005)
Funded in part by the Hyams Foundation, PPI designed a customized coaching and leadership development program for board members and staff of BPON and Project RIGHT, assisting each organization with efforts to strengthen its own internal capacity to promote positive policy change city wide.

Center for Community Change Housing Trust Fund Project (2006)
PPI is providing policy analysis and survey expertise to this national project. CCC's Housing Trust Fund Project provides technical assistance and organizing support to local and statewide communities interested in establishing, preserving or expanding a housing trust fund. PPI is collaborating with the Project to produce a national report in the status of housing trust funds nationwide.

Community Health Leadership Program (2005-2006)
The Community Health Leadership Program annually recognizes outstanding community health activists who have developed a unique community-based access model. PPI provides one-on-one coaching to Community Health Leaders who wish to promote larger-scale policy change that improves or replicates their model at the local, state or federal level.

Community Labor United (CLU) (2006)
Community Labor United unites the joint power of community-based organizations and labor unions to protect and promote the interests of low- and moderate-income working families in the greater Boston area. PPI is developing curriculum for CLU's pilot Leadership Institute and facilitating the leadership programs.

Connecticut Primary Care Association (CPCA) (2005-2006)
PPI, in partnership with visiting faculty Michael Miller of Community Catalyst and Bill Lottero of Puddingstone Collaborative, is conducting a series of policy advocacy empowerment trainings for boards, senior staff and providers in each of the Federally Qualified Health Center (FQHC) across the state of Connecticut. The CPCA is developing a statewide cadre of trained board members who can build and mobilize community coalitions with the goal of increasing public awareness and support for high-quality health care, as well as advocating for universal health care on the state and federal levels. The strategy also includes innovative mapping approaches to highlight demographic trends among uninsured people.

Divorce Health Access Project (2005 -2006)
PPI is working with Clare McGorrian, Esq., a seasoned consumer health care attorney to offer coaching and specialized technical assistance to multiple health advocacy organizations in New England. These groups are engaged in policy change efforts specifically targeted to ensure continued health care for spouses who may have lost coverage as a result of a change in marital status. Working together to strengthen the health care advocacy community across the region, our state partners are Maine Women's Policy Center, the University of New Hampshire's Carsey Institute, The Endowment for Health, and emerging coalitions of health advocates in Vermont and New Hampshire. This project is funded in part by the W.K. Kellogg Foundation and the Endowment for Health.

Health Foundation of Central Massachusetts (2005-2006)
PPI is providing a coaching and training program for board members, staff and grantees of the Health Foundation of Central Massachusetts. The program is organized around the foundation's Synergy Taskforces, which are focused on policy change in oral health, child abuse and early childhood education.

Health Care for All (2005-2006)
PPI is customizing a coaching and technical assistance program for Health Care For All senior staff, who are engaged in a wide range of health policy change strategies, including initiatives to expand access to affordable health coverage to every person in Massachusetts, to control and lower health care costs, and to improve health care quality and overall public health.

The MIRACLE Campaign (Massachusetts Immigrant health Restoration Advocacy Campaign for Long Term Equality) (2005-2006)
Funded in part by the Blue Cross/Blue Shield Foundation of Massachusetts, and Partners HealthCare, PPI assists the MIRACLE Campaign's convening partners in leading a coordinated statewide effort to restore health benefits to legally-residing immigrants. Convening partners include the Latino Health Institute, the Massachusetts Immigrant and Refuge Advocacy Coalition, Massachusetts Law Reform Institute and SEIU 615/Voice for the Future Fund. Learn more at www.realclout.org/miracle.

ONE Massachusetts (2006)
With the help of generous support from the Schott Foundation for Public Education and The Boston Foundation, PPI is committed to bringing together a broad and diverse coalition of people and organizations who share an interest in serving as a powerful statewide voice to promote and defend the role of our government in society. ONE Massachusetts will provide members with strategic communications, advocacy, state budget, and leadership trainings conducted together with the Mass Budget and Policy Center and other local and national experts. We will tap into and reinforce people's desire to work together to solve problems and empower them to influence change-in doing so, we will create the public will to protect a strong public sector and its important functions. During our initial organizing this spring, summer and fall, PPI is making a particular effort to engage community leaders and organizations of color so that the coalition, once launched, is satisfactorily diverse. By its formal launch in 2007, ONE Massachusetts will serve and represent organizations focused on a wide range of issues, from education, affordable housing, health care security, income inequality and human services, to economic development, vibrant communities, environmental protections, workforce development, and job creation. The array of participants will be equally distinct: grassroots organizations representing low-income families; core leaders and organizations of color; successful business leaders who believe in an effective public sector; labor unions; faith-based organizations; non-profits; issue advocacy groups; parent organizations; local and state government officials; and consumer advocates.

Partners for a Healthier Community (2005-2006)
Partners for a Healthier Community, led by Frank Robinson, sponsored PPI's work on a six-month Child Health Policy Training Program in the Springfield and Western Massachusetts region in 2005. Participants were citizen health advocates interested in promoting positive policy change to benefit children's oral health and the expansion of health care to underserved populations. Partners for a Healthier Community is sponsoring a series of PPI Insider Budget Briefings across Western Massachusetts in 2006.

Service Employees International Union Local 615 (2005-2006)
PPI is coaching board members and senior staff of SEIU 615 to help them build strong internal capacity for promoting positive policy changes for the group's members.

Teens Leading the Way (TLTW) (2005-2006)
In partnership with Health Care for All and the United Teens Equality Center in Lowell, PPI is working with over 25 teens from across Massachusetts in Teens Leading the Way. TLTW is a statewide coalition of young people using public policy to address teen health issues in Massachusetts. The teens independently select an issue on which to focus and develop ideas to address those issues. These ideas become legislative goals, campaigns and, ultimately, the heart of TLTW activity. This project is funded in part by the Herman & Frieda L. Miller Foundation.