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NPAction Update
Vol 4, Issue 20
November 21, 2006

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Featured Article: Advocacy and Grassroots Organizing Among Top Priorities of Nonprofit Congress

For two days in October 2006 over 380 nonprofit delegates from 47 states and the District of Columbia met in Washington to "chose their priorities and began to develop tactics to get us there", according to Audrey Alvarado, executive Director of the National Council of Nonprofit Associations (NCNA). The meeting "was long overdue in that it purposefully brought together in dialogue the small-to-mid-size and often excruciatingly-local groups that make up the largest proportion of nonprofits in the U.S.," according to a column by Ruth McCambridge, in the Philanthropy Journal . She noted that selection of advocacy and grassroots community activity as one of the top priorities, "if embraced, could re-introduce this sector to the base and practice of its potential power and effectiveness." The other two priorities are organizational effectiveness and public awareness and support.

This effort has already generated healthy discussion and debate about how nonprofits can be more effective at achieving their goals, the need for a broader role in setting public priorities in addition to delivery of services, and the role that advocacy and grassroots organizing play in making positive change. Learn more about what the Nonprofit Congress is doing nationally and in your state, and join the dialog on what comes next. Click here to read more.

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