Forum of Regional Associations of Grantmakers
Public Policy Grantmaking Toolkit
Northern California Grantmakers
This toolkit can help foundations build their capacity to engage in public policy initiatives, and includes public policy definitions, engagement strategies and case studies.
www.ncg.org/toolkit/home.html

What Is Advocacy?
GrantCraft
A summary of the three basic types of public policy advocacy.
www.grantcraft.org/catalog/guides/advocacy/tool1.html

Choosing An Advocacy Strategy
GrantCraft
A summary of the basic ways for grantmakers to be involved in public policy advocacy.
www.grantcraft.org/catalog/guides/advocacy/tool2.html

Elevating the Public Dialogue
Minnesota Council on Foundations
This article looks at how some Minnesota grantmakers have taken steps to be involved in public policy and advocacy.
www.mcf.org/mcf/forum/2002/publicpolicy.htm

Megan Wentworth

Playing Matchmaker for Grantmakers (PDF)

Global Business Network and Monitor Institute

by Andy Goodman

"By helping to forge unusal (and some might say unlikely) partnerships, the Council of Michigan Foundations is finding new ways to strenghten the philanthropic sector in its home state and beyond."

http://www.futureofphilanthropy.org/files/usPhil_goodman_2matchmaker.pdf

Oregon Center for Public Policy

The Oregon Center for Public Policy has published a series of Issue Briefs on topics such as food stamp programs, Oregon's TANF Program, income credit, the Healthy Kids Plan, corpoate profits, undocumented workers, and more. To see these documents, visit the OCPP website:

http://www.ocpp.org/cgi-bin/display.cgi?page=reports

Applying Policy Tools to Achieve Long-Term Change

W.K. Kellogg Foundation

This guide to creating change is available to order on the foundation website:

http://www.wkkf.org/default.aspx?tabid=101&CID=145&CatID=145&ItemID=1450033&NID=20&LanguageID=0

Office of Foundation Liaison Fact Sheet (PDF)

Council of Michigan Foundations

http://www.michiganfoundations.org/s_cmf/bin.asp?CID=2513&DID=11910&DOC=FILE.PDF

Kate Cassidy

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