During these tighter budget times, your nonprofit needs to articulate its case to elected officials to gain support.  As grant professionals, we are positioned to lead the way in developing an advocacy strategy for our organization.  Here we will examine how to take advantage of the skills and techniques of educating and influencing decisions that we use as grant professionals and extend them further to achieve a well-defined social, economic or political goal or reform.

Attendees to this workshop will leave having gained an understanding of:

-What advocacy strategy is 

-Benefits of advocacy

-Tools to utilize when developing an advocacy strategy

-How to develop an advocacy strategy

-Who should be contacted  and how to make headway with elected officials

-The differences between advocacy and lobbying and what nonprofits are permitted to do

Presenter:

Dr. Ericka Harney, CFRE, GPC, CAE, CVA is a trainer, author, and nonprofit expert dedicated to nonprofit leaders' success. At Harney & Associates, she provides grant, fundraising, and governance expertise, with $33million in fundraising and grant awards. Ericka owns Brick City Books, is CEO of the Murphy Family Literacy Foundation, and is Assistant Professor at Future Generations University. She earned her PhD in Organizational Leadership, with a focus on Nonprofit, from Eastern University.

 
Skill Level:
Advanced-Career

Learning Path: 
Proposal Development/Communication Strategies

GPC Competencies:
Strategies for effective program and project design and development Organizational development as it pertains to grant seeking

Organizational development as it pertains to grant seeking

Methods and strategies that cultivate and maintain relationships between fund-seeking and recipient organizations and funders