Advocacy and Grantmaking – Part 2

Join Alliance for Justice’s Bolder Advocacy program, the MacArthur Foundation, and Forefront for the second in a two-part series of advocacy trainings for foundations. The coronavirus pandemic and resulting economic crisis has thrown enormous challenges in front of the nonprofit sector. Our communities are facing unprecedented needs with record unemployment, school closures, evictions, and lack of access to medical care. In response, organizations and communities are pushing for additional stimulus funding, changes in the charitable deduction, release of incarcerated people from prisons and immigrant detention facilities, moratoriums on evictions, and so much more. Grantmakers can and should support these efforts.
 
This 90-minute training for grantmakers will address how foundations can best build the advocacy capacity of their grantees and use their own voices as advocates. During this session, we will explore how private and community foundations can advocate themselves and highlight the many roles foundations can play along the advocacy continuum. We will also discuss how foundations—and their staff and trustees—can interact with candidates for public office, support civic engagement activities like election protection and voter registration and GOTV drives, and share issue-specific information.