NPAction Update
Vol 4, Issue 17
September 18, 2006

Welcome to the NPAction Update.

Featured Article: How To: Empowering People In Need The Oregon Food Bank found a powerful resource to make their advocacy against hunger more effective: their clients! They recruited their clients to a committee that worked in partnership with staff. Together they decided advocacy priorities, brainstormed strategy and met with public officials and the media. The investment of resources and staff time and paid off in successful advocacy campaigns. Their next step was to share their experience in a how-to a manual, Connecting People to Power: How Service Providers Can Mobilize Volunteers for Advocacy, written by Matt Lewis, a Bill Emerson Hunger Fellow who worked on the campaign. They have agreed to have the entire contents of the manual posted on NPAction.org. This summary has links to the chapters. Click here to read more.

NEW on NPAction.org

For Public Employees: Being an Advocate From the Inside

Definition of Grassroots Lobbying for Federal Grantees

HHS Guidance on Keeping Federal Funds Out of Religious Programs

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