Worry-Free Lobbying For Nonprofits How to Use the 501(h) Elecction to Maximize Effectiveness (PDF)

Alliance for Justice

A handbook for funders and grantees bout using the 501(h).

http://www.afj.org/assets/resources/resources2/Worry-Free-Lobbying-for-Nonprofits.pdf

Advocacy Advisories

Alliance for Justice

This is a collection of periodic summaries for grantmakers on the advocacy rules on a wide array of topics.

http://www.afj.org/for-nonprofits-foundations/about-advocacy/foundation-advocacy.html

Funding Nonprofit Advocacy: The Increasing Role of Foundations

NFG Reports

From the Fally 2002 issue of the newsletter of the neighborhood funders group, written by Nan Aron.

http://www.nfg.org/reports/93increasingrole.htm

The Challenge of Assessing Policy and Advocacy Activities: Part II-Moving from Theory to Practice (PDF)

The California Endowment

http://www.calendow.org/uploadedFiles/challenge_assessing_policy_advocacy2.pdf

A Guide to Measuring Advocacy and Policy

The Annie E. Casey Foundation

The Annie E. Casey Foundation commissioned this guide to help determine meaningful ways to measure and evaluate the impact of its advocacy and public policy grantmaking. This guide also serves as a broad call to grantmakers to build and advance the field of evaluation in this area.

http://www.aecf.org/upload/publicationfiles/DA3622H5000.pdf

Lobbying & Public Policy: What Every Grantmaker Should Know

Minnesota Council on Foundations

The Dec/Jan 2005 edition of MCF Notes, answering the most frequently asked questions about lobbying.

http://www.mcf.org/mcf/forum/pdf/2007winter.pdf

Kate Cassidy

Forum of Regional Associations of Grantmakers

Foundation Advocacy Resources
Alliance for Justice
A collection of resources for grantmakers on their legal rights to support nonprofit advocacy work.
www.allianceforjustice.org/foundation

Myth V. Fact: Foundation Support of Advocacy (PDF)
Alliance for Justice
The handbook dispels the myth associated with funding advocacy organizations and offers a full range of advocacy activities that foundations can support.
www.allianceforjustice.org/images/collection_images/myth.pdf

Grant Agreements & Advocacy
Alliance for Justice
Guidance for foundations on the correct language to use in grant agreement letters grading lobbying or other advocacy activities, including a sample grant agreement letter.
www.allianceforjustice.org/foundation/technical_resources/grant_agreements.html

What the Law Allows
Council on Foundations
This article gives an overview of the laws that govern what private foundations can and can’t do regarding involvement in the public policy process.
www.foundationnews.org/CME/article.cfm?ID=2454

Legal Parameters for Public Policy Grantmaking
Northern California Grantmakers
Links to legal resources on public policy grantmaking, from NCG’s Public Policy Grantmaking Toolkit.
www.ncg.org/toolkit/html/gettingstarted/legalparam/index.html

Funding Advocacy: The Philanthropy of Changing Minds (PDF)
GrantCraft
This guide describes various opportunities for grantmakers to improve public policy through work that is well within the limits of the law.
www.grantcraft.org/catalog/guides/advocacy

Funding Nonprofit Advocacy: The Increasing Role of Foundations
Neighborhood Funders Group
This article covers the basics of how and why foundations can and should support nonprofit advocacy.
www.nfg.org/reports/93increasingrole.htm

Key Lessons From Grantmakers on Funding Advocacy
GrantCraft
www.grantcraft.org/catalog/guides/advocacy/key_advocacy.html

Advice From Grantseekers on Funding Advocacy
GrantCraft
www.grantcraft.org/catalog/guides/advocacy/advice_advocacy.html

Funding and Engaging in Advocacy: Opportunities for Small Foundations
Association of Small Foundations
This primer explains the wide "comfort zone" the law offers a private foundation for funding and engaging in advocacy activities, and how advocacy can leverage a foundation’s resources for maximum impact. Available for purchase.
www.smallfoundations.org/programs/primer_series

Megan Wentworth

For Additional Resources, please see the Lobbying section of the Grantmakers of Oregon and Southwest Washington website: