July 28, 2014 – Institute for Leadership and Service Blog

Roll Down Like Waters

This entry was posted on July 28, 2014 by nateking

It’s hard to believe, but only one week remains in my summer 2014 CAPS Fellows tenure here at Lutheran Services in America (LSA). The weeks have seemingly flown by, with new happenings popping up for me every day as the Public Policy and Advocacy Fellow. After wrapping up a benchmarking and research project regarding our advocacy social media outreach at the end of June, I revived our advocacy Twitter account and am currently managing our tweets from that platform. So if you are looking to follow the Federal advocacy and policy work of LSA, be sure to give @LSAAdvocacy a follow! In addition to my work with social media, one of the most exciting developments in my work with LSA is tracking a piece of legislation – which actually just passed the House on July 23rd! I began the summer following the Preventing Sex Trafficking and Improving Opportunities for Youth […]

Helping is Hard Work 1 comment

This entry was posted on July 28, 2014 by calebrollins

“Poor people are the hardest working people in America.” This is what Representative Dan Kildee (D-Mich.) told the crowd at a poverty simulation for members of Congress and their senior staff on July 15, at the Capitol Visitor Center. Lutheran Services in America (LSA) joined Catholic Charities USA, Entergy, and other collaborators in the Future Without Poverty coalition to put on this event that received bipartisan support and was attended by nearly one dozen members of the House. I had the amazing opportunity to attend as a volunteer representing LSA. I had never experienced a poverty simulation, as a participant or as a volunteer. And while I did listen in on a conference call training session for volunteers and knew that I would play the role of a caseworker at the Department of Social Services, I really had no idea what to expect. After multiple House members addressed the crowd […]