Your non-profit can engage your staff, board, and volunteers in using social media to maximize your advocacy efforts: http://www.bethkanter.org/staff-champions/

Social media is critical to effective non-profit advocacy—so consider these 3 tips & 3 new apps: http://www.classy.org/blog/3-social-media-guidelines-nonprofits/...

A judge says that CA can require non-profits to disclose their donors—which impacts highly political ones the most: http://www.latimes.com/local/lanow/la-me-ln-charity-court-20150501-story.html

Are non-profits kowtowing to big funders and not advocating as hard as they can for systemic change?  http://www.huffingtonpost.com/robert-reich/the-big-chill-how-big-mon_b_7013730.html?utm_hp_ref=tw&utm_source=Social+Velocity&utm_campaign=7dba73cc5f-RSS_EMAIL_CAMPAIGN&utm_medium=email&utm_term=0_bd2775777e-7dba73cc5f-51663725

In case you are not on my email list, thoughts for May:  http://us6.campaign-archive1.com/?u=dbb8dc7853b6db7094e8e4228&id=53168b7084&e=4e2c209db9

Kind of like Ed Sullivan going off the air (if you can remember him)—a non-profit tradition bites the dust:  http://www.usatoday.com/story/life/people/2015/05/01/muscular-dystrophy-association-ends-labor-day-television-telethon/26709717/

Politician-created non-profits, the charitable tax deduction and more: http://pages.omkt.co/archive/bWVzc2FnZV8yMjAwOTA5XzEwNDNfMTAyNl8zNDQ0OA==?type=100&channel=199

Non-profits helping communities pays off for taxpayers in the form of less demand for public services and saving money: http://www.charlotteobserver.com/news/local/article20155044.html

But not if it means the wholesale outsourcing of government functions to private non-profits, with a loss of accountability and transparency—my Nonprofit Quarterly newswire today:...

An example is on behalf of the Nonprofit Energy Efficiency Act: http://blogs.rollcall.com/beltway-insiders/pass-the-nonprofit-energy-efficiency-act-commentary/?dcz=

Philanthropists take a look back at how they helped rescue Detroit from bankruptcy, and what it portends for the future: ...

The trend of outsourcing traditional government functions to non-profits continues, reinforcing their close ties:...