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 Updates, concludes with a current example of “Advocacy in Action.” Here are some recent examples:
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The few minutes it takes you to fill out a survey can drive months, even years, of advocacy work that shapes legislation and improves nonprofits’ ability to advance their missions. By providing input and sharing experiences, you help document challenges, expose trends, and identify solutions. A... Read More
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Charitable nonprofits are famously and appropriately barred from engaging in partisan, election related activities thanks to the longstanding Johnson Amendment. But that doesn’t mean 501(c... Read More
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There are surprising new fiscal realities that no one anticipated two years ago: most states are running large budget surpluses and... Read More
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Policymakers and officials listen to nonprofits because nonprofit professionals often are the closest to their communities. Nonprofits are on the frontlines of where the needs are, see what those needs are, and know the solutions to meet those community needs. Policy briefings and listening... Read More
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The City and County of Honolulu, which are home to two-thirds of the state’s population, went to the people to ask their views on where the $386 million from its Fiscal Recovery Fund (FRF) should be spent. The results are informing nonprofit advocacy to... 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.
