New Featured Resource: Make a Difference for Your Cause: Strategies for Nonprofit Engagement in Legislative Advocacy

The Center for Lobbying in the Public Interest (CLPI) has produced this very valuable resource for nonprofit organizations, Make a Difference for Your Cause, free online and available to purchase in bulk copies. It describes all the steps and resources needed for a nonprofit organization to use legislative advocacy to advance their mission.

The guide tells the stories of other nonprofits that have used advocacy to advance their goals, such as the Mississippi Health Advocacy Program. It addresses all of the elements to build organizational capacity and the components to develop a strategy. The publication also details the legal issues involved, outlining the lobbying activities nonprofits can and cannot do.

As an important democratic tradition, lobbying can make a difference, and in turn help nonprofits through advancing their causes. With helpful charts and graphs, this easy to read resource will be very valuable to any nonprofit organization. The information provided will help advance the message that nonprofits can further achieve their goals through legislative advocacy. "Lobbying and other forms of legislative advocacy are crucial ways to give a voice to people and causes that are often neglected." Click here to read more and to download the publication.