Advancing Missions Through Advocacy
Advocacy is essential to advance and achieve nonprofits' missions.
To demonstrate how common nonprofit advocacy is – and how effective it can be in advancing missions, improving lives, and strengthening communities – each edition of our free e-newsletter, Nonprofit Advocacy Matters, concludes with a current example of “Advocacy in Action.” Here are some recent examples:
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What’s a nonprofit to do when the government takes adverse actions against it that just seem wrong? Advocate on behalf of its mission, of course. And in this case, the nonprofits were right, the IRS wrong, and justice prevailed. This story of the middle part of the connection between recognition... Read More
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Thanks to the great work of many nonprofits, including many among our readers, our nation is headed to potentially the largest voter turnout rate in the modern era. We celebrate the turnout as... Read More
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When all of the candidates agree with the priorities of the nonprofit community, then the people served “win” an election regardless of which candidate gets the most votes. But without all of the tools interest groups have for influencing elections (e.g., PACs, fundraisers, endorsements),... Read More
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The stability of the nonprofit community in the midst and aftermath of the COVID-19 pandemic is in doubt. The same can be true for other segments of the economy; airlines and restaurants certainly have significant challenges too and have attracted tremendous attention from policymakers and the... Read More
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Last Friday, Yahoo! Money posted an article, Poverty groups brace for influx of need as extra unemployment benefits expire, exploring the harmful... Read More
About Advocacy in Action
Pick your cliché, the Advocacy in Action feature is where “the rubber hits the road” and where we feature nonprofits not only “talking the talk,” but also “walking the walk.” For us, it’s not enough just to report what’s going on. Here, we share the inspiration of advocacy activities by practitioners around the country. Advocacy in Action articles in 2018 featured innovations in the areas of relationship building, messaging and communications, subject-matter expertise, policy development, grassroots mobilization, and more. The articles don’t just end the newsletter on a high note (which they do); they also encourage us (and hopefully you) to identify and learn from everyday advocacy successes that are mission-centered and proof that advocacy works.
