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10 Tips for Local Advocacy - From the Women & Girls Foundation of Southwest Pennsylvania
1) Know your rights. If you are a nonprofit leader, learn everything you can about the 501(h) election. 2) Get your board on board. Again, make sure you give your board enough information so that they can feel comfortable and excited about your organization engaging in advocacy. You want the board involved so that you can leverage and activate their relationships ...
Keynote Address by Elizabeth Heagy at ASU 9th Annual Forum on Nonprofit Effectiveness
Good morning. Thank you for the opportunity to speak with you all today. I’m thrilled that the Alliance for Arizona Nonprofits has declared 2007 “The Year of Nonprofit Advocacy!” You all have visionary leadership around nonprofit engagement in the policy process and I can say wholeheartedly that the Center for Lobbying in the Public Interest would love to do anything we can to support your unique efforts.
Sending your correspondence to members of Congress in a way that will get their attention is a fundamental concern of all nonprofits wanting to influence public policy. Recent changes related to electronic mail, faxes, and Web sites have modified how correspondence is received in Congress and therefore, what is the best way, currently, to send correspondence.
Organizations are asking with increasing frequency how to evaluate the performance of a nonprofit lobbyist. There is no one set of performance guidelines that provides certainty regarding such evaluation. However, there are a number of performance clues related to a lobbyist’s activities that can help you judge how well your lobbyist is serving your organization.
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