Nonprofit Advocates—All the action is NOT in Washington; there is a lot you can do on the state level, too: http://connectivity.cqrollcall.com/5-reasons-why-state-advocacy-rocks/

Indiana broadens the investment options available to government-sponsored support foundations—my Nonprofit Quarterly newswire today:...

Some great stuff from the National Council of Nonprofits—check out their Advocacy reading list: http://pages.omkt.co/archive/bWVzc2FnZV8yMjAwOTA5XzExNjlfMTAyNl8zNDQ0OA==?type=100&channel=199

This nonprofit has a long history of close ties to local elected officials, so when they went down for corruption, they took it with them: http://www.latimes.com/local/california/la-me-oldtimers-20150824-story.html

Here are three excellent tools from the Alliance for Justice’s Bolder Advocacy program—their final report entitled What Funders Should Know in Order to Help Strengthen Grantees’ Advocacy, their advocacy capacity tool to help nonprofits figure out what resources they need, and A Guide to Recordkeeping for Advocacy Charities: http://bolderadvocacy.org/blog/what-funders-should-know-in-order-to-help-strengthen-grantees-advocacy...

An interesting public-private partnership in Ontario, Canada that links community nonprofits with government services:...

ProPublica, America’s premiere nonprofit news site receives a generous grant from the media-oriented Knight Foundation: http://www.poynter.org/news/mediawire/367315/propublica-receives-2-2-million-from-knight-foundation-to-expand-audience-engagement-efforts/

A sad story of a split in Denver’s nonprofit arts community over tax-generated funding, pitting large mainstream organizations against smaller community-based ones:  http://www.coloradoindependent.com/154877/cultural-leaders-squabble-for-a-bigger-cut-of-scientific-and-cultural-facilities-district-money

Do email campaigns aimed at legislators by nonprofit advocates work?  Yes, they do:  http://www.mrss.com/lab/should-we-even-send-emails-to-congress-anymore/?utm_source=newpost&utm_medium=emaildigest&utm_campaign=Lab

But I couldn’t pass up this excellent example of how a small grass-roots nonprofit got its board to raise money successfully:  http://www.guidestar.org/rxa/news/articles/2015/exercise-that-raises-money-while-you-do-it.aspx?cm_mid=4911308&cm_crmid=28586223-8314-e411-adbd-0050569e1644&cm_medium=email&utm_source=all&utm_medium=email&utm_campaign=2015/3/19%20-%20Newsletter%20-%20Nonprofits

The MacArthur Foundation donates $50 million to environmental advocates to “foster political engagement on climate change and to build new constituencies and coalitions for durable action on climate policy in the US:” http://www.eenews.net/stories/1060023643

Massachusetts uses a law designed to help nonprofits site a correctional facility in Springfield—my Nonprofit Quarterly newswire today: ...