Helping to Build Nonprofit Advocacy Capacity: What Matters?
Foundations and nonprofits are learning how to harness the power of advocacy and how to evaluate its success. Overall, the sector has learned more about what effective advocacy looks like and what it means to be an effective advocacy organization.
TCC Group has learned that advocacy organizations, similar to other nonprofits, emphasize the programmatic aspects of their work (ad campaigns, meetings with policy-makers, etc.), but often neglect their own “house.” There has been less focus on understanding what an effective advocacy organization looks like from an organizational perspective. TCC Group has been able to better understand and articulate what those differences are and why they are important in order to maximize the impact of advocacy as a tool.
This webinar will equip capacity builders with the core building blocks of advocacy work, advocacy capacity and a few relevant tools to help in the assessment and diagnostic phases.
Learning Objectives:
- Understand context for advocacy work.
- Understand how advocacy capacity differs and is similar to general nonprofit capacity.
- Have a framework for considering advocacy capacity.
- Know key advocacy capacities and tools for capacity assessment.
Who is it for?
Those working with nonprofits doing or interested in advocacy work.
Requires basic understanding of general nonprofit capacity.
JARED RAYNOR, Director of Evaluation, specializes in evaluation and organizational development both nationally and internationally. His work at TCC has included evaluations of capacity-building initiatives, multi-site cluster evaluations, evaluation system design, assessments of coalitions and advocacy campaigns, and strategic organizational assessment. He is the author of “What Makes an Effective Coalition: Evidence Based Indicators of Success” and “Building an Effective Advocacy Organization: A Framework for Examining Advocacy Organizational Capacity.” He has worked extensively on evaluating policy and advocacy work, including working with The California Endowment to evaluate their general operating support grants to advocacy organizations, evaluating The Atlantic Philanthropies' post-9-11 funding to civil liberties organizations, and assessing the Instituto Federal para el Acceso a la Información (IFAI). Raynor is a graduate of the Milano Graduate School at the New School University where he received an MS in Organizational Change Management, focusing on community development and the organizational structure of development organizations.
SALLY MUNEMITSU, Director of Program/Grants Management and Capacity Building, offers expertise in program design and implementation, capacity building, and grantmaking. Since 2000, Sally’s work at TCC has focused on providing strategic guidance on effective grant programs and capacity building initiatives. Her current and recent relevant work includes: Robert Wood Johnson Foundation’s New Jersey Health Initiatives (capacity building program design and implementation for its Community Agency Capacity Enhancement initiative), Feeding America (capacity building inventory and development of a capacity building framework), and the Chesapeake Bay Trust (capacity building program design, implementation counsel and evaluation assistance). Munemitsu is a graduate from the Wharton School of Business and The Joseph H. Lauder Institute of International Management, a dual degree MBA-MA program offered at the University of Pennsylvania.
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