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How To
Posted On: Jan 12, 2009
The Alliance for Justice has issued this brief factsheet on the balance 501(c)(3) and 501(c)(4) organizations must strike when seeking to impact cabinet-level, federal judicial and other nominees requiring Senate confirmation, while avoiding lobbying activities.
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Report-Paper
Posted On: Jan 08, 2009
The PSI Annual Meeting focused on ways to advance its agenda with the incoming administration. The Report-Back contains:-Resources for engaging with the new administration-A summary of a panel discussion: "Making Progress on U.S. Nuclear Policy," with panelists Mort Halperin (Senior Fellow, Center for American Progress and former Director of Policy Planning at the U.S. State Department) and Janne Nolan (Professor, University of Pittsburgh and former national security official in the U.S. Stat...
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Posted On: Jan 05, 2009
The needs expressed here are all important. It is also important to find a way to pay for meeting them. Every year, Women’s Action for New Directions and NETWORK, A National Catholic Social Justice Lobby lead a letter to Congress calling for redirecting excessive Pentagon spending to other needs. Our 2008 budget letter is included here. This letter is for national and regional groups to sign. If yours is interested, please contact Marie Rietmann/Women’s Action for New Directions...
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Directory
Posted On: Nov 11, 2008
In response to a need identified by members at the June 30 Peace and Security Initiative meeting, PSI has been tracking the presidential transition teams and possible Executive Branch appointments on their issues. They hope this resource will enable grassroots, advocacy and other groups to more easily liaise with appropriate officials in the new administration. They will continue to update this Excel database over the next few months.
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Report-Paper
Posted On: Nov 10, 2008
The Best Practices guide describes the lessons learned from the partners of the ACTION project working to mobilize resources for TB globally. While this book is focused on the TB efforts of a particular project, the hope is that the best practices described here can be applicable to a number of advocacy efforts in various contexts.
As stated in the document's preamble, "This booklet is not a ‘how to’ guide for doing advocacy. It assumes that those reading it are already experienced ...
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How To
Posted On: Sep 30, 2008
In the weeks before the November 4 election, we have been receiving questions about whether 501(c)(3) organizations engaged in nonpartisan election-protection efforts may communicate with political parties and candidates about voting system integrity issues. Although 501(c)(3) organizations need to be careful not to violate the ban on intervention in political campaigns when communicating with parties and candidates, not all such communications are prohibited. Alliance for Justice is plea...
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How To
Posted On: Aug 22, 2008
A Message Builder from the U.S. in the World Initiative, Prepared for the Peace and Security InitiativeThis Message Builder is a resource for advocates of stronger, more coherent U.S. policies to deemphasize the role of nuclear weapons. It is a follow-on to the 2008 Peace and Security Legislative Strategy Retreat (PSLSR) and is based on recent public opinion research and consultations with the planning committee of the PSLSR and senior Capitol Hill staff. It differs from previous USITW guidan...
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How To
Posted On: Aug 01, 2008
Tips on successful lobbying from Milo Public Affairs.
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Posted On: Jun 04, 2008
Messaging guidance from Citizens for Global Solutions conducted in 2005 on how US In The World messaging advice translates on Capitol Hill. This guide offers substantive messaging advice based on a consultative process with NGOs, experts and hill staff and interviews with hill staff. Consists of three parts: the messaging guide (PDF), Reframing Engagement: Talking to Congress about Global Issues, the in-depth report (PDF) on the interviews conducted with congressional s...
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Website
Posted On: Jun 04, 2008
Governmentdocs.org is a community based system in which citizens can access and review government documents in an unprecedented public and open format. Registered users can review and add comments on documents, creating a space for public discussion and information sharing.
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Tool
Posted On: Dec 11, 2007
You may already know about the great print resources that the Alliance for Justice provides to help guide nonprofits on permissible election activity, such as their fact sheets on candidate questionniares and forums. But did you know that they actually have on-call attorneys who can help answer your specific questions by phone or email? They promise a response within 24 hours in most cases; I got a response to a question I asked in less than four.
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