Advocacy & Civic Engagement

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  • The COVID-19 pandemic launched essential employees into the spotlight. Suddenly, everyone from local nonprofits to massive corporations wanted to uplift these team members. For some, it was a PR tactic; for others, it was the perfect time to highlight the critical work of essential employees, often without the salaries or recognition they deserve.

  • With program demands and financial stresses on nonprofits likely to increase in 2021, how can public and private partnerships work better together to support fragile nonprofit operations and disrupted service delivery systems caused by COVID-19?  How can they complement and leverage each other’s resources to strengthen nonprofits’ capacity to continue to deliver vital services? This workshop will explore the opportunities and challenges of these partnerships to support the nonprofit sector in the new world order.

  • Join the North Carolina Center for Nonprofits for a webinar where you'll discover:

    Highlights of election results and what they mean for nonprofits. Prospects for policy solutions (and potential challenges) for the nonprofit sector policy at the state and federal level in 2021. What to expect on major policy issues in 2021 and beyond.

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  • Last updated: November 23, 2020

    David Heinen, Vice President for Public Policy and Advocacy

    With the results of the 2020 election dominating news coverage and social media, you may be wondering what the election results mean for North Carolina nonprofits. To help answer your questions, here is an initial analysis of the nonprofit implications of the election results.

  • Jeanne C. Tedrow, President & CEO, North Carolina Center for Nonprofits

  • Lisa Hazirjian, Ph.D., Win Together Consulting

    What if elections were decided by voters who believe in your nonprofit’s mission and share your organization’s core values?

  • While acknowledging the constraints nonprofits experience when attempting to collect and communicate data about their programs and services, Expanding Audience and Impact: Nonprofits Communicating Data to External Audiences encourages nonprofits to share data (in a variety of formats such as narrative, chart, graphics) with audiences outside of their organization.

  • Nonprofit leaders from across North Carolina held a press conference yesterday calling on NC’s congressional delegation to move swiftly to pass another robust COVID-19 relief package.
  • 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.

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  • Advocacy should be an important part of the work of every nonprofit, but many organizations fear it because they assume they don’t have the staff capacity, tools, or funding to advocate effectively. Spoiler alert: There is no “right” way for a nonprofit to advocate for its mission! This webinar will begin with a series of questions for nonprofits to assess ways their organizations can most effectively strengthen their programs and services by being stronger advocates.

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