+The National Council of Nonprofits (Council of Nonprofits) today expressed strong opposition to the latest attempts to politicize charities and foundations, including legislation reintroduced by Rep. Walter Jones (H.R. 172), and proposed by Sen...
+With so much at stake, if you lead a nonprofit it’s important that you get your board to champion advocacy as a core part of your organization’s mission.
+Nation’s largest network of nonprofits builds on recent successes
to advance and protect nonprofits in local communities across the country
+Make a habit of advocating for your nonprofit’s mission in some way each and every day.
+While so much advocacy and public education happens at the grass-roots level, I also encourage nonprofits to start with their boards to stand for their missions.
+During the 2015 state legislative session, the KNN championed a bill to set up a Government-Nonprofit Contracting Reform taskforce that received the unanimous support of both chambers.
+Smucker was among the founders of CLPI in 1988. The organization’s program content and materials was folded into the National Council of Nonprofits in 2012.
+Committee staffers are specialists by nature, whereas staffers in members’ offices tend to be generalists.
+Meanwhile, both sides have tried to claim the allegiance of the nonprofit sector, which is torn between a belief that the rule might help low-income people and the recognition that complying with it could strain their own budgets.
+Why is state-level advocacy so effective? For one thing, “because all politics is local,” says Jeff Shaw, director of public policy at the Connecticut Association of Nonprofits.
