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Volume 1/Number 3

Welcome to Enhance, a quarterly newsletter brought to you by the Alliance for Nonprofit Management as a benefit of your Alliance membership. We hope it will help you "Enhance" your practice!

In This Issue

Featured Story: Building Capacity for Public Policy Advocacy
Article: Building Capacity for Public Policy: The Racial Justice Lens
Article: Bringing Advocacy to Human Services
Alliance Conference Keynote Spotlight: Kim Klein
Alliance Conference Keynote Spotlight: Wendy Puriefoy
Research Roundup
Who's Who and What's New
New Alliance Members
The Membership Advantage

Featured Story

Building Capacity for Public Policy Advocacy

by Liz Baumgarten, Charity Lobbying in the Public Interest

Public policy advocacy for nonprofits can yield far greater returns for nonprofit beneficiary communities than direct service alone, and can lead to increased funding streams for organizations. Read More>>

Article

Building Capacity for Policy Change: The Racial Justice Lens

by Makani Themba-Nixon, The Praxis Project

Some time ago, I was proudly surfing my organization’s website with my grandmother. I was showing her this publication or that project as an update on her granddaughter’s latest antics. When we came across our organizational tagline, “building capacity for policy change,” she stopped me cold. Read More>>

Article

Bringing Advocacy to Human Services

by Mark Rosenman, Exploratory Project on Human Services and Civic Engagement

What can be done when our society’s elected leaders aren’t funding the human services we need? How can human service providers find the time to advocate when they’re strained just to keep up with service demands? Read More>>

Alliance Conference Keynote Spotlight

Kim Klein, Publisher, Grassroots Fundraising Journal

by Brigette Rouson

“Some things just slip into one's consciousness and become integrated into your world outlook without an awareness of a single event, such as the importance of equal rights for women, the value of using hair conditioner, and the wonderfulness of Kim Klein.” -Jan Masaoka Read More>>

Alliance Conference Keynote Spotlight

Wendy Puriefoy, President, Public Education Network (PEN)

by Brigette Rouson

In the 50th anniversary year of the U.S. Supreme Court’s decision in Brown v. Board of Education, one of the premier advocates of equity in education is just as passionate as when she worked with Arthur Garrity to desegregate Boston’s public schools. Read More >>

Research Roundup

Research is one way to distinguish between what we think and what we know about nonprofit capacity building. Enhance makes it easy for you to keep up with research in our field, with six new listings in this issue. Read More>>

Who's Who and What's New

Keep up to date with your Alliance colleagues!

Charity Lobbying in the Public Interest has a new executive director, Innovation Network appoints a new president and executive director, Bayer Center for Nonprofit Management has merged, and more! Celebrate the latest appointments, mergers, and achievements of your Alliance colleagues. Read More>>

New Alliance Members

Welcome New Alliance Members!

The Membership Advantage

The Alliance website receives 800,000 hits and 15,000 visits each month, and we aim to drive that traffic straight to our members! Here are some ways you can take advantage of your membership. Read More>>