Many of you might not know this but Common Cause does a considerable amount of collaboration with similar organizations all over the world. Civil society groups from emerging democracies visit our offices on a fairly frequent basis and have done so over our nearly 40-year history. It is not often we get the opportunity to go and collaborate with organizations like ours on their home turf but I was fortunate last week to spend some time in Warsaw, Poland with some very inspiring leaders from the nonprofit sector. Common Cause was invited by the Stefan Batory Foundation to do a series of workshops on how to run effective campaigns to hold government officials accountable.