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Winter 2007

Advocacy Toolbox

Foundation Advocacy Initiative
Alliance for Justice seeks to educate grantmakers on their legal rights to support nonprofit advocacy work, which allows nonprofits to influence public policy. Find Foundation Advocacy Resources at allianceforjustice.org/foundation.


Foundation Advocacy Bulletin
Bi-monthly e-newsletter
Sign up for the free e-newsletter, which brings grantmakers up-to-date on events affecting foundation support for advocacy.
 
Advocacy Advisories
Periodic series on advocacy rules for grantmakers
Topics include "Grants to Organizations that Lobby," "International Projects and Grantees," and "Legislative Visits by Private Foundations and Foundations and Ballot Measures," among many others.
 
Build Your Advocacy Grantmaking:
Advocacy Evaluation Tool & Advocacy Capacity Assessment Tool

Alliance for Justice, 2006
Developed with input from advocates and funders, this tools was designed to help funders get information they need about the results of their advocacy grantmaking. At the same time, grantees will gain insight into how to strengthen their advocacy work. Grantees can use the tools to evaluate their work and report back to funders on their progress and successes. Included is a detailed checklist for assessing a nonprofit's capacity to engage in advocacy work. The tool is sold together with Investing In Change: A Funder's Guide to Supporting Advocacy; order online, $60.
 
Myth v. Fact: Foundation Support of Advocacy
Alliance for Justice, 26 pages, 1995
The classic handbook dispels the myth associated with funding advocacy organizations and offers a full range of advocacy activities that foundations can support.
> Download PDF
 
Worry-Free Lobbying for Nonprofits
Alliance for Justice, 12 pages, 1999
This booklet describes how nonprofit groups, and the foundations that support them, can take advantage of the clear and generous provisions in federal law that encourages their lobbying activities.
> Download PDF
 
Investing in Change: A Funder's Guide to Supporting Advocacy
Alliance for Justice, 2004
An indispensable guide for foundations in explaining the various roles they can play in the advocacy process. Order online, $40.
 
Grant Agreement Letters and Advocacy
Alliance for Justice, 1 page, 2003
> Download PDF
 
Grant Agreement Sample
Alliance for Justice, 2 pages
> Download PDF


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