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title: BoardSource Blog - The Leader in Nonprofit Board Governance | Dawn Rains
description: Dawn Rains is Chief Policy & Strategy Officer for Treehouse, Washington’s leading organization working to ensure educational equity for children and youth in foster care.
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## Dawn Rains

Dawn Rains is Chief Policy & Strategy Officer for Treehouse, Washington’s leading organization working to ensure educational equity for children and youth in foster care.

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## [How Treehouse Used Advocacy to Advance its Mission and Win Last Year's Stand for Your Mission Awards](https://blog.boardsource.org/blog/how-treehouse-used-advocacy-to-advance-its-mission-and-win-last-years-stand-4-your-mission-awards)

 Posted by [Dawn Rains](https://blog.boardsource.org/blog/author/dawn-rains) on Jan 17, 2019, 1:07:52 PM

*Treehouse was the winner of the 2018 Stand for Your Mission Award for successfully advancing its mission through establishing advocacy as an expectation for engaged and effective board leadership. In this post, we learn how the organization continues to achieve its goals through advocacy. *

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