Resources for Advocacy
The following are resources which funders can use to support their own advocacy efforts as well as supporting the advocacy efforts of grantees.
6/27/2017: How to Contact Congressional Appropriations Committees in Support of Arts & Culture Funding
The Rules: How Funders Can Engage in Advocacy
- Rules for Advocacy and Lobbying – Council on Foundations
- Private Foundations May Advocate – Alliance for Justice
- Community Foundations and Advocacy – Alliance for Justice
- Nonprofits and Lobbying – American Bar Association
- Advocacy and Lobbying: How Foundations Can Change Public Policy – Grantmakers in the Arts
- Briefing on the President’s 2018 Proposed Federal Budget – Grantmakers in the Arts
On Funding Advocacy Activities
- Investing in Change: A Funder’s Guide to Supporting Advocacy – Alliance for Justice
- Private and Public Foundations May Fund Charities that Lobby – Alliance for Justice
Advocacy Resource Portals
- Americans for the Arts’ Arts Mobilization Center
- WESTAF Advocacy Toolkit
- National Association of Latino Arts and Cultures
- Getting Equity Advocacy Results (GEAR) – Policy Link