Stepping into the Fight: A Guide for Nonprofits to Understand and Engage in Legal Advocacy January 12, 2016 By Visceral_Dev_Admin This guide introduces advocates to the concept of legal advocacy, shares implications that legal advocacy can have for other kinds of advocacy work, talks through partnering for legal advocacy, and finally shares what outcomes can be achieved through using legal advocacy as a strategy.
Stepping into the Fight: A Funder’s Guide for Understanding and Supporting Legal Advocacy January 10, 2016 By Visceral_Dev_Admin This guide introduces funders to the concept of legal advocacy, what questions funders should ask themselves to know if the foundation is ready to fund legal advocacy, and how to best support legal advocacy.
Unprecedented: The First Year of a New Presidency Moves Philanthropy to Action January 5, 2018 By Visceral_Dev_Admin This report documents how philanthropy has demonstrated flexibility, nimbleness, and a willingness to collaborate in the first year of the new presidential administration that can serve as a model of creative adaptation for the field going forward. It also emphasizes the critical role of philanthropy-serving organizations and funder collaboratives in supporting funder learning, facilitating networking … Continued
Foundations Need Capacity Too: Initial Findings from the Foundation Core Capacity Assessment Tool March 25, 2017 By Visceral_Dev_Admin For many years, the social sector has paid substantial attention to the issue of nonprofit effectiveness. By contrast, comparatively little attention has been paid to the capacities that foundations themselves need to achieve impact. What capacities are essential to advancing a foundation’s own mission? How do these elements compare to the capacities their grantee partners … Continued
Effective Strategies to Support Advocacy Campaigns: Considerations for Funders and Advocates February 24, 2017 By Visceral_Dev_Admin This briefing paper shares collected insights from funders and advocates across the country, in the hope that their observations will helpfully contribute to other funding and campaign efforts. These respondents noted that while considerable attention has been paid to factors informing the development of sound campaign strategy, comparatively less attention has been paid to the … Continued