| Poll: | Description: |
|---|---|
| Advocacy Staffing | Does Your Organization Have a Person (or Persons) Specifically Charged With Advocacy? |
| Advocacy Training | Does your organization provide some form of advocacy training to other groups? |
| Agency Comments | Does your organization file comments with a government agency in response to proposed regulations or rule changes? |
| Association Membership | Does your organization have membership in a national association? |
| Broadcast Issue Ads | Have you ever used broadcast advertising to promote an issue? |
| Congressional Break Activity | Does your organization contact members of Congress at their district offices during breaks or district work periods? |
| Contacting Policymakers | How often does your organization contact policymakers? |
| Covering for the Government | With lots of discussion about cutting social safety net programs such as Medicaid, has your organization seen an increase of people looking for help that used to be provided by the government? |
| Daylight Savings | Did you remember to turn your clock ahead on Saturday night? |
| District Office Visits | Have you ever visited a member of Congress at their district office during a Congressional recess? |
| E-mail in advocacy | Do you use email (or a web-based mail interface) to contact policymakers? |
| Election Administration | Did voters in your community have problems with: |
| Election Related Activities. | Has your organization ever done any election-related activity? |
| Electoral College | What's your view on the Electoral College? |
| End of year giving | Does your organization have a holiday or end of the year fundraising campaign? |
| Federal Funding and Lobbying | Does your organization receive federal funds and lobby? |
| Federal Grants Identifier | Has your group obtained its Data Universal Numbering System (DUNS) number, required by federal agencies as a single common identifier for grant applicants as of 10/1/03? |
| Government Secrecy | Is government information secrecy an obstacle to your organization's work? |
| Hired Lobbyist | Has your organization ever hired a professional lobbyist to do advocacy work? |
| Issue Ads | Has your organization ever run an issue ad? |
| Lobbying Law Knowledge | How knowledgeable are you or your organization when it comes to nonprofit lobbying laws? |
| Membership Donations | Does your organization favor donations through membership, or simple donations? |
| Nonprofit Employees & Voting | Does your organization encourage employees to vote and/or volunteer at their precincts/polling places during elections? |
| Organizing Demonstrations | Has your organization ever organized a demonstration or rally? |
| Past Month's Lobbying | If your organization has lobbied government in the past month, it was to: |
| Planning Issue Campaigns | Before undertaking an issue campaign, how far ahead does your organization usually plan its activities? |
| Public Forums | In which of the following types of forums has your group participated this year? |
| Should Charities Be Allowed to Endorse Candidates? | IRS regulations currently prohibit 501(c)(3) charities from endorsing candidates for office. Should this be changed? |
| Time or Money? | Which do you think is a more important gift to a nonprofit, money or volunteer time? |
| Work Cycle | Is your organization's workload relatively steady throughout the year, or is it cyclical, or even random at times? |
| Working with Voters | Is your organization working with voters this election season (mobilizing, registering, voter guides, etc)? |
| Write Letters to Editor? | How frequently do you, or your organization, submit letters to the editor or opinion editorials ("op eds") to your local paper? |