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Advocacy & Civic Engagement
Resources related to political advocacy and lobbying activities.
12 Ways to Build Your Influence from Nonprofit Learning Center is an easy-to-use guide to make advocacy feel doable for small nonprofits. The playbook includes 12 actions and 5 worksheets for small steps nonprofits can take to lift their voice for their missions.
- Learn how to talk with your community about voting to help the people you serve find their civic voice.
- Gathering to discuss how NC can create economic rules that keep costs affordable for all and creates a foundation for a just economic future.
- The Center is offering this free webinar on Tuesday, February 10 from 1-2 p.m. In this webinar, you'll learn the basics about what 501(c)(3) nonprofits can and can’t do in an election year, ways nonprofit staff, board members, and volunteers can (legally) engage in campaigns, and common questions (and possibly some answers!) about tricky election-year situations for nonprofits.
- This free webinar will provide nonprofits with information about You Can Vote's resources for nonprofits on nonpartisan voter registration, voter education activities, and on becoming a 2026 Voting Rights Champion.
- Create Good is an annual, no-fluff, big-ideas conference for nonprofit communicators who want to learn, play, experiment, and walk away with tools they can use the very next day.
- The 2026 Emerging Issues Forum will convene policymakers, experts, and other stakeholders to explore solutions to pressing challenges facing NC's water infrastructure.
Last updated: December 19 at 8:41 a.m.
By: David Heinen, Vice President for Public Policy and Advocacy
If you had to provide a one-word description of the year in public policy for nonprofits, what would it be?Unprecedented.
In a variety of Executive Orders, departmental memoranda, and public statements, President Trump and others in his administration have indicated this year that they believe that diversity, equity, and inclusion (DEI) programs and practices constitute “illegal discrimination.” These recent executive actions come in the wake of the 2023 Students for Fair Admission v. Harvard case, in which the U.S.