Standing Up for Nonprofits: Advocacy on Federal, Sector-wide Issues (Elements in Public and Nonprofit Administration)

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Standing Up for Nonprofits: Advocacy on Federal, Sector-Wide Issues
	Contents
	1 Introduction
	2 Major, Federal, Sector-Wide Advocacy Organizations
		2.1 Independent Sector
		2.2 National Council of Nonprofits
		2.3 Council on Foundations
		2.4 Philanthropy Roundtable
		2.5 United Philanthropy Forum
		2.6 Other Major, Sector-Wide Advocates
	3 Sector-Wide Issues
		3.1 Federal Issues
			3.1.1 Taxes
			3.1.2 Regulation
			3.1.3 Government Institutions and Procedures
			3.1.4 Government Spending
		3.2 State and Local Issues
	4 Sector-Wide Advocacy Resources and Tactics
		4.1 Advocacy Resources
		4.2 Advocacy Tactics
	5 Effective Nonprofit Sector Advocacy: Grasstops Strategy
	6 Two Conceptions of Sector-Wide Advocacy: Special versus Public Interest
	7 Challenges: Cultivating Champions and Navigating Partisanship
	8 The Fracturing of Advocacy Infrastructure and the Growth of Issue-Based Coalitions
	9 Tax Cuts and Jobs Act: A Case Study
		9.1 Challenges to Sector-Wide Advocacy during TCJA
Negotiations
			9.1.1 Republican Legislative Steamroller
			9.1.2 Limits of Data and Research
			9.1.3 Hyper-Partisanship
			9.1.4 Disunity
		9.2 What Sector-Wide Advocates Learned from the TCJA
	10 Post-TCJA Revisions and Reassessments
	11 Sector-Wide Advocacy in Response to the COVID-19 Crisis
	12 Sector-Wide Advocacy and Philanthropic Reform
	13 State- and Local-Level Advocacy on Sector-Wide Issues
	14 Recommendations for Enhancing Sector-Wide Advocacy
		14.1 Increase Resources for Federal-Level, Nonprofit
Sector-Wide Advocacy
		14.2 Mobilize Grasstops
		14.3 Dedicate Funding Support for New,
Sector-Wide Advocates
		14.4 Codify Legislative Relationship Maps
		14.5 Encourage Governmental Research to Increase Congressional
Knowledge of the Value of the Nonprofit Sector
		14.6 Identify the Next Challenge
		14.7 Develop and Vet “PreFabricated” Legislative Asks
		14.8 Ask Tough Questions about How to Accommodate
Hyper-Partisanship
		14.9 Develop a Legislative Vanguard
	15 Conclusion
References
Acknowledgements