coalitions
Report Shows Ways to Leverage Local Government to Achieve Advocacy Goals
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While nonprofits often focus their policy efforts on Washington, as much or more can often be achieved through community organizing at the local level.
land use
What Can Nonprofits Learn from Michigan’s Wildlife Cooperatives?
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As Michigan’s wildlife cooperatives demonstrate, collaborations can be wildly successful at achieving a mutual goal and the key to achieving success is altering the perceptions of stakeholders by identifying a mutual benefit.
Connecticut
Nonprofits and Grantmakers Bear the Weight of CT’s Enduring Budget Crisis
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Waves upon waves of budget cuts make it beyond difficult for Connecticut’s nonprofits to manage. Yet another state budget crisis lands directly on nonprofit shoulders; can they emerge with something new?
coalitions
Controlling the Sun: Why Nonprofits Need Friends and Allies
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Nonprofit collaboration is not only for programs. When up against a formidable foe, a disaster strikes, or even changes in rules, a nonprofit can benefit from the advocacy and action of other nonprofits.
sectoral collaboration
Multisectoral Campaign Develops in Defense of DREAMers
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Legislators, chief executives of corporations, and immigrant rights activists join DREAMers in defense of DACA.
coalitions
Coalition on Carbon Emissions Reduction Will Effect Change in 9 States
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Nine states across the Northeast and mid-Atlantic have committed to an aggressive plan to reduce carbon emissions by 30 percent over the period 2020 to 2030.
coalitions
Influential NGOs Join Forces to Fund Famine Relief
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CARE, Oxfam, Mercy Corps, and others create the Global Emergency Response Coalition.
Voices from the Field
Coalitions of the Nonprofit Willing: Who’s Willing, and Why?
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In this “Voices from the Field,” Paul Hogan, Oishei Foundation’s executive vice president, shares this thought-provoking keynote address he gave at the Niagara Community Partnership Project event earlier this month.
tax exemptions
Nonprofits Oppose New CT Plan that Would Cut Sales Tax Exemption
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As the CT Community Nonprofit Alliance contends, “Nonprofits are uniquely positioned to leverage private contributions and donated volunteer time for the public benefit. Tax exemptions are a small price to pay for the value that nonprofits add to the life of every resident in Connecticut.”
Nonprofit News
PA Nonprofit Leaders Launch Increasingly Blunt Challenges to Gov’s Priorities
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Amid a state budget impasse, Pennsylvania nonprofit leaders and organizations are publicly demanding that the state’s politicians provide adequate funding for society’s most vulnerable people.