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How Lessons Learned From Fighting Food Insecurity Can Help Your Nonprofit

Blue Avocado

This is definitely what happened for our story: we started with a simple idea and then were incredibly surprised at how helpful an extra bag of groceries could be to a lot of households. After many years of lobbying and hard work, the GSA was passed, enabling all parties to help people.

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Sharpshooter Communications

After calling and clarifying (which took two phone calls and three emails), I fell into a rabbit hole because I realized I didn’t actually KNOW the definition of each of these categories - certainly not off the top of my head. They are allowed to lobby as a primary activity but they cannot support political candidates.

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Nail Your Request for Donations During Economic Ups, Downs, and Crisis Times

Get Fully Funded

We all grew up learning that it wasn’t polite to talk about money and it definitely wasn’t right to ask your friends and family for handouts. Lobbying for a law to change?). For most of us, fundraising isn’t something that comes naturally, especially a straight request for donations. Asking for money, can be uncomfortable, right?

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