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How Lessons Learned From Fighting Food Insecurity Can Help Your Nonprofit

Blue Avocado

After many years of lobbying and hard work, the GSA was passed, enabling all parties to help people. This means you need to think through some of the logistics of what it takes to actually access your services. At Nourish LA, we help combat multiple issues just through local food redistribution.

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501c.yada, yada, yada

Sharpshooter Communications

There are probably a million loopholes through and around these requirements. Therefore, in addition to a notification requirement , Type III supporting organizations must pass separate responsiveness and integral part tests. 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

Sometimes you can ask for donations solely online; in other cases, it may be better through a one-on-one meeting, a presentation, or a phone call. Your passion will come through. If you’re presenting to a group, you can say something very similar, and use these couple of minutes to pass out materials if you have any.

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March Cause Awareness: Women’s History Month

Qgiv

The annual week-long celebration continued until a collection of women’s groups and historians led by the National Women’s History Project (now the National Women’s History Alliance) successfully lobbied Congress to pass Pub. 100-9 which designated the month of March 1987 as “Women’s History Month.”

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Alt-labor: What are workers’ rights nonprofits?  

Candid

However, we can revisit the topic of workers’ rights through a new lens by exploring the increasing role that a newer breed of labor organizations plays in the social sector. For example, the National Domestic Workers Alliance (NDWA) undertook a six-year lobbying campaign in New York to pass better protections for domestic workers.

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How Boston’s Top Nonprofits Got Their Butts Kicked & What We Can Learn From Rabbi Chaim

Selfish Giving

But as each day passed they gained on us. We tried to address this by setting up computers in the lobby areas and cafeterias so people could vote directly, but we had trouble with Internet connections and Wi-fi. . The day before the competition ended I left the office at 5pm and the Friends were at 1800 votes and we were at 2700.

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The 2024 Election: A Grant Writer’s Post Mortem

Seliger + Associates Grant Writing

In early 1981, I went to Washington DC for a NAHRO (National Association of Housing and Redevelopment Officials) conference and some lobbying on the Hill. Congress has yet to pass any FY ’25 (the new FY started Oct. The lame duck Congress will pass FY ’25 CRs by mid-December, which will likely mirror FY ’24.

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