The Alliance for Justice’s free Advocacy Capacity Tool helps your nonprofit benchmark your advocacy skills, identify specific gaps and opportunities in your advocacy strategies, and efficiently focus resources to get the best results: https://bolderadvocacy.org/tools-for-effective-advocacy/evaluating-advocacy/advocacy-capacity-tool

We’ve all read and talked a lot about it, and many of us have lived through it—but this study challenges some of the conventional wisdom around it: https://ssir.org/articles/entry/making_founder_successions_work#cprmo

Is this good for the independence of the nonprofit sector? A powerful state legislator is named CEO of a charity in Delaware that receives public funding—too cozy of a relationship with government?  https://delawarestatenews.net/government/house-majority-leader-running-state-funded-nonprofit/

Another nonprofit news outlet opens its doors—this time in the heartland as the trend continues:  http://www.argusleader.com/story/news/business-journal/2018/02/13/nonprofit-news-group-aims-investigate-south-dakota-issues/334740002/

When nonprofit and charitable organizations advocate, for whom are they actually speaking? When organizations claim to represent a specific constituency, must there be a process that includes that group in setting their advocacy agenda?...

The charitable giving landscape in the U.S. is likely to see significant changes over the next two years, driven by the combined effects of new tax legislation and macroeconomic conditions:  http://philanthropynewsdigest.org/news/outlook-for-2018-19-charitable-giving-mixed-report-finds?utm_campaign=news%7C2018-02-14&utm_source=pnd&utm_medium=email

Two Public Private Partnerships in two very different cities—Los Angeles and Stockton: https://www.colorlines.com/articles/ava-duvernay-launches-entertainment-diversity-initiative-city-los-angeles Stockton to Test Cutting-Edge Economic Policies through Nonprofit...

For many nonprofit organizations, donor stewardship is the poor stepchild of the fundraising process; it is often ignored or poorly implemented; it is usually an underfunded activity—As a result, donor-retention rates for the nonprofit sector are pathetic:  https://michaelrosensays.wordpress.com/2018/02/14/how-to-get-last-years-donors-to-give-more-this-year/

As the landscape of journalism continues to evolve to incorporate more collaborative and nonprofit activity, the move of the popular PolitiFact to Poynter makes great sense:  https://nonprofitquarterly.org/2018/02/13/politifact-becomes-division-within-nonprofit-poynter-institute/?utm_source=Daily+Newswire&utm_campaign=0b2fd577cd-EMAIL_CAMPAIGN_2018_01_11&utm_medium=email&utm_term=0_94063a1d17-0b2fd577cd-12442753

If your nonprofit or coalition makes the segue from issues advocacy to actual campaigning (most likely regarding a ballot measure), here are the questions you should ask before you hire a political consulting firm: ...

Less than 1/3 of nonprofits have a written social media strategy but almost all say it’s an effective tool (primarily Facebook) for brand awareness—over 70% say it’s effective for online fundraising, while 80% say it’s effective for recruiting volunteers: http://www.thenonprofittimes.com/news-articles/facebook-twitter-lead-npo-social-media-worldwide/

Trump’s budget is a mixed bag, so some nonprofits could see increases for the first time since the early Obama stimulus years, while others will see big cuts to their programs—but Congress has the final word (2 links): Federal Dysfunction Results in Surprise End to Austerity Era...