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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Last Friday, Yahoo! Money posted an article, Poverty groups brace for influx of need as extra unemployment benefits expire, exploring the harmful... Read More
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Nonprofit advocates have been working full time since the pandemic began seeking to adapt public policies to enable nonprofits to provide relief to people and recovery in communities. With a significant COVID-relief bill stuck in impasse and passage far from certain, have these advocacy efforts... Read More
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Lots of organizations are surveying nonprofits on what they are experiencing during the pandemic, documenting increasing demand for services, revenue declines, operational disruptions, and more. The data help nonprofit boards and executives see emerging trends, assist policymakers make informed... Read More
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On Friday afternoon, July 24, the power and value of sign-on letters became gloriously apparent. Senate Democratic Leader Chuck Schumer (D-NY) informed nearly 1,000 nonprofits on a... Read More
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Charitable nonprofits typically have difficulty amassing compelling data on impact and a dickens of a time convincing government officials to take notice. Which makes this story all the more impressive – the Comptroller of New York City and an association of nonprofits jointly issued a report... 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.
