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ANNOTATED TABLE OF CONTENTS
- Why Foundations Support Advocacy
For foundations, the pursuit of better public policy is often crucial to achieving their fundamental missions. Advocacy can be an important part of the strategy.
- Defining Your Role as an Advocacy Funder
An advocacy strategy needs to match a foundation’s mission, values, and long-term goals. It should also be in alignment with your level of persistence, grant-making style, and tolerance for public attention.
- What’s Permissible: Foundations, Advocacy, and the Law
Federal law prohibits private foundations from lobbying or expressly funding lobbying — that is, promoting a particular position on pending legislation. Yet those restrictions still leave a lot of open territory for grant makers who want to improve public policy.
- Building Knowledge and Will: Tools and Techniques
Grant makers in advocacy also help to define and describe problems of public concern, and to educate policy makers and their constituents about possible solutions.
- Identifying and Cultivating a Constituency: Tools and Techniques
Advocacy is typically a collaborative effort in which organizations, coalitions, or movements deliver their message to the wider public. Organizing people and groups that share a common interest and a determination to make change may therefore be part of the task.
- Preparing for Opposition: When Advocacy Meets Resistance
When advocacy comes up against opposition, the options for action are not solely to attack or retreat. Success may depend on striking the right balance between confrontation and negotiation, resistance and engagement.
- Defining and Measuring Success
One common fear that keeps grant makers from funding advocacy is that success is hard to measure. In this section, grant makers offer approaches to assessing advocacy work.
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