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The
Lobbying and Advocacy Handbook| Regular Price: $30.00 | MCN Members: $20.00 |
If lobbying is new to you, the Lobbying and Advocacy Handbook for Nonprofit Organizations will help you decide whether to lobby and then put plans in place to make it work. This guide will also reinvigorate experienced organizations and lobbyists with new ways to approach lobbying. Resources, worksheets, and samples will guide you each step of the way.
Written by Marcia Avner, MCN public policy director and published by the Amherst H. Wilder Foundation, 2002.
With this Handbook you will:
- Understand your nonprofit's role in shaping state and local public policy.
- Discover how lobbying can help fulfill your organization's mission, service and program goals.
- Set up systems in your organization to support lobbying.
- Learn how to initiate, support, or defeat bills.
- Develop skills to make your lobbying efforts effective.
- Build and mobilize supporters of your efforts.
- Influence the government to support your policy positions.
- Use the media to build support for your positions.
- Comply with federal and state regulations.
Worksheets and Examples Guide You
Worksheets, sample agendas, and checklists break the
process into doable steps. They’re also helpful for evaluating and
improving programs already in place.
A complete case study, numerous examples, and sidebars bring the process to life. You’ll see how an actual campaign was put together—including samples of all of their materials—from concept presentation through final passage.
Lobbying is exciting and rewarding work! Get The Lobbying and Advocacy Handbook and build your case with the right people, at the right time, for the greatest impact.
Table of Contents
| Foreword | |
| Acknowledgements | |
| Introduction: Why Lobby | |
| Who This Book is For | |
| How to Use this Book | |
| What's Ahaed | |
| Chapter One: Get Ready! Create a Planning Process | |
| Launch the Discussion | |
| Get Approval to Develop a Public Policy Plan | |
| Select the Planning Team | |
| Outline the Planning Process | |
| Summary: You're Ready! | |
| Chapter Two: Get Set! Develop Your Lobbying Plan | |
| Planning Step 1: Prepare the Planning Team | |
| Planning Step 2: Articulate Vision and Goals | |
| Planning Step 3: Establish Criteria and Identify Issues | |
| Planning Step 4: Target Arenas of Influence | |
| Planning Step 5: Choose Strategies and Tactics | |
| Planning Step 6: Design Organizational Infrastructure | |
| Planning Step 7: Create Your Work Plan | |
| Planning Step 8: Present the Work Plan | |
| Summary: You're Set! | |
| Chapter Three: Go! Implement Your Lobbying Plan | |
| Put the Plan in Place | |
| Initiate Lobbying Activity | |
| Summary: Now Go! | |
| Chapter Four: Nonprofit Lobbying and the Law | |
| The 1976 Lobby Law | |
| Reporting Lobbying Expenditures | |
| State Lobbying Laws | |
| Summary: It's Your Legal Right | |
| Afterword | |
| Appendix A: Rapid Responses to Crisis or Opportunity | |
| Appendix B: Resources for Nonprofit Lobbying | |
| Appendix C: Legislative Guide | |
| Appendix D: Samples | |
| Appendix E: Worksheets | |
| Index | |
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