NPAction Update
Vol 4, Issue 4
February 24, 2006

Welcome to the NPAction Update. In This Issue:

Featured Article: Adding Advocacy: From Service Delivery to Service and Advocacy
Related Article: Goals, Objectives, Assessment, Evaluation: Which One and Why?

*Featured Article*
Adding Advocacy: From Service Delivery to Service and Advocacy
After over 100 years providing mental health services to California youth, the Edgewood Center for Children and Families determined that sustaining its quality of care was dependent upon getting involved in public policy. The agency's leadership brought in a wide range of stakeholders, including board, staff, and local community members, to help redefine the mission to allow greater emphasis on advocacy. Through hard work with other nonprofits, construction of relationships with elected officials, and involvement of staff members, Edgewood quickly established itself as an important team player in California's mental health community. The organization's success demonstrates the power of advocacy and coalition building to increase government funding streams and generate public support for nonprofit organizations' key service-delivery activities. Click here to read more.

*Additional Article*
Goals, Objectives, Assessment, Evaluation: Which One and Why?
Nonprofits, for a variety of reasons, both want and need to be able to measure their advocacy potential and advocacy activities. This touches on elements including (but not limited to) organizational strengths and weakness; policy successes, and the ability to sustain and repeat them over a period of time; and even more intangible factors like an organization's reputation, relevancy, and standing in advocacy venues. Click here to read more.

*"Steal This Code": Put NPAction on Your Site*

NPAction invites organizations to share our tools on their websites. Just copy the HTML code from our site, and you're ready to go (but when you steal the code, just let us know!).

"Steal the Code" today
http://www.npaction.org/article/articleview/600/1/1988

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