Bits: Election-Year Dos and Don’ts, and Web Sites for Teaching Civics and for Finding California Grants
By NICOLE WALLACE
Features Editor
September 5, 2002 | Read Time: 1 minute
- Charity Lobbying in the Public Interest’s revamped Web site features a list of election-year dos and don’ts for nonprofit organizations, examples of successful nonprofit lobbying efforts, and a new service that allows visitors to e-mail their advocacy questions to the Washington organization’s founder, Bob Smucker. To get there: Go to http://www.clpi.org.
- National Public Radio and the New York Times Learning Network, a service of NYTimes.com, have created a new civics-education Web site, called Justice Learning, for high-school teachers and their students. The site features articles from The New York Times and debates from NPR’s Justice Talking radio program on eight public-policy issues, including affirmative action, the death penalty, gun control, and Internet censorship. To get there: Go to http://www.justicelearning.org.
- In California, the Governor’s Office for Innovation in Government has developed a Web site, called GetGrants, that nonprofit organizations can use to search for state grant programs. To get there: Go to http://www.iig.ca.gov/projects/grantsbyprogram.shtml.
