Nonprofits Must Advocate

Posted by Janet Levinger and Judy Reckelhoff on Aug 11, 2020 11:19:02 AM

This blog is republished from Leading Well, where last week Janet Levinger interviewed BoardSource Chief of Staff Judy Reckelhoff about advocacy and nonprofit boards. 

Advocacy Is Essential to Fulfill Your Mission and Serve Your Communities

Today’s post is the third in a series about board members...

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Topics: Advocacy, Stand for Your Mission

Behind the Scenes of Successful Advocacy: A Q&A with the 2019 Stand for Your Mission Award Winner

Posted by Nick Cafferky on Dec 10, 2019 12:47:15 PM

BoardSource is thrilled to announce the winner of our 2019 Stand for Your Mission Award: Children’s Advocacy Centers of Tennessee. It will receive $5,000 to support its advocacy work. Below is a short Q&A with the organization’s board chair, Joyce Prusak, on some of the thinking that went into the...

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Topics: The Board’s Role in Advocacy, Advocacy, Stand for Your Mission

Advocacy in Action: The 2019 Stand for Your Mission Award Finalists

Posted by Nick Cafferky on Nov 19, 2019 2:48:16 PM

Earlier this year, BoardSource announced that it was accepting submissions for the 2019 Stand for Your Mission Award — a chance for nonprofit boards all over the country to show how they have used advocacy to advance their missions and help their communities. The winner of the award will receive...

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Topics: Advocacy, Stand for Your Mission

How Treehouse Used Advocacy to Advance its Mission and Win Last Year's Stand for Your Mission Awards

Posted by Dawn Rains on Jan 17, 2019 1:07:52 PM

Treehouse was the winner of the 2018 Stand for Your Mission Award for successfully advancing its mission through establishing advocacy as an expectation for engaged and effective board leadership. In this post, we learn how the organization continues to achieve its goals through advocacy. 

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Topics: Advocacy, Stand for Your Mission

Stand for Your Mission Awards: Announcing the Finalists

Posted by BoardSource on Mar 8, 2018 1:30:00 PM

BoardSource created the Stand for Your Mission Awards to recognize nonprofit boards that have established advocacy as an expectation for engaged and effective board leadership, and, by doing so, are helping their organizations realize their missions.

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Topics: The Board’s Role in Advocacy, Advocacy, Stand for Your Mission, board engagement, collaboration

BoardSource in January: Advocacy, Fundraising Effectiveness, and Our New Look

Posted by Erin Berry on Feb 3, 2017 10:43:17 AM

It may appear — due to the fact that we haven’t posted much — that January was a quiet, uneventful month at BoardSource. But nothing could be further from the truth. The first 31 days of 2017 were quite busy, and we are excited about it!

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Topics: BoardSource, Advocacy, Stand for Your Mission, Fundraising, Measuring Fundraising Effectiveness

Nine Lessons from a Nonprofit Advocacy Win

Posted by Danielle M. Henry on Jul 13, 2016 10:56:34 AM

I live in a community where we know each other by name, use Twitter to help each other's locate lost pets, and shovel each other’s sidewalks after storms. I feel blessed to have such a close-knit environment while still living in a large, often impersonal city like DC. I am passionate about my...

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Topics: The Board’s Role in Advocacy, Stand for Your Mission

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