The bottom line—sell your mission and outcomes, above all, to donors, not the tax benefits:  https://www.cbiz.com/insights-resources/details/articleid/5009/ispreview/true/changes-in-the-tax-code-could-affect-not-for-profits-article

The scoop on urban resilience strategies that cities around the world have implemented with support from the Rockefeller Foundation—LA is one: http://philanthropynewsdigest.org/news/report-calls-for-private-sector-support-in-building-urban-resilience?utm_campaign=news%7C2017-01-25&utm_source=pnd&utm_medium=email

Ever wonder who Joan Kroc was when you hear her named as an NPR underwriter?  Interesting philanthropy story: https://www.nytimes.com/2017/01/20/your-money/ray-joan-kroc-mcdonalds-fortune-philanthropy.html?_r=1&WT.mc_id=SmartBriefs-Newsletter&WT.mc_ev=click&ad-keywords=smartbriefsnl

Successful fundraising and advocacy requires professional and volunteer leadership—maximize it:  http://gettingattention.org/2017/01/nonprofit-marketing-messengers/?utm_source=Nancy+Schwartz+%26+Co.&utm_medium=email&utm_campaign=1bbed4a401-BLOG_POST_ALERT&utm_term=0_a940cd650c-1bbed4a401-70376481

Including an interview with Robert Egger of LA Kitchen, who talks about the importance of nonprofit advocacy & changemaking: https://t.e2ma.net/message/l3bbx/1f4p2n

An example of why nonprofits need to step into public issues that government won’t—and an example of a brave nonprofit that has done just that: https://nonprofitquarterly.org/2017/01/24/self-silencing-cdc-climate-change-nonprofits-may-need-take-leadership/?utm_source=Daily+Newswire&utm_campaign=1d070135f4-EMAIL_CAMPAIGN_2017_01_20&utm_medium=email&utm_term=0_94063a1d17-1d070135f4-12442753...

Join a nonprofit, say the speakers at Women’s March this past weekend (Give money, too!): https://www.philanthropy.com/article/Women-s-March-Protesters/238976?cid=pt&utm_source=pt&utm_medium=en&elqTrackId=2bdd9d24f79d4b7dba181c63ff00930c&elq=0f276b87c50041e89b6b5668bdd15fcf&elqaid=12253&elqat=1&elqCampaignId=4967

Navigating the uneven landscape of education foundations and public school funding gaps: https://nonprofitquarterly.org/2017/01/23/uneven-landscape-education-foundations-public-school-funding-gaps/?utm_source=Daily+Newswire&utm_campaign=c34d3c567c-EMAIL_CAMPAIGN_2017_01_20&utm_medium=email&utm_term=0_94063a1d17-c34d3c567c-12442753

If you were part of a nonprofit’s delegation, you could “write off” your expenses: http://lawprofessors.typepad.com/nonprofit/2017/01/is-protest-travel-tax-deductible.html

While big bets don’t always yield big advances, small bets rarely do, which is why more and more philanthropists are making them: https://hbr.org/2017/01/why-major-philanthropists-are-giving-more-money-to-just-one-cause

Arts organizations react to reports that the Trump Administration will zero out the National Endowment for the Arts and the National Endowment for the Humanities:  http://www.chronicle.com/article/A-Shot-Over-the-Bow-/238949?elqTrackId=82165f05a092467cb925d06933e85a36&elq=42132565866240008cf4c8701d3c4f3a&elqaid=12234&elqat=1&elqCampaignId=4958

Blackbaud’s 2016 online fundraising benchmark report says “advocacy organizations . . . showed strong results getting more constituents engaged in advocacy — growing 6 percent year over year — and getting more advocates to contribute financially, growing nearly 4 percent year over year.”  I can help your advocacy nonprofit join the club:...