June 17, 1999 | Read Time: 1 minute
Non-profit workers can now download a 158-page lobbying manual from the Internet.
Charity Lobbying in the Public Interest, a project of Independent Sector, in Washington, is making The Nonprofit Lobbying Guide available free on its Web site, as well as selling a print version.
Written by the project’s director, Bob Smucker, the book offers advice on how to lobby and explains the federal laws that govern lobbying and voter-education activities by charities. It also features six essays by charity leaders and volunteers on why they think lobbying is an important way for charities to fulfill their missions.
This summer the project plans to add to its Web site a slide presentation on charity lobbying that non-profit officials can download to use in speeches to board members or other non-profit groups. Each slide will include a link to the section of The Nonprofit Lobbying Guide where the topic on the slide is discussed in greater detail.
TO GET THERE: Go to http://www.indepsec.org/clpi.
TO ORDER A PRINT VERSION: Contact Independent Sector, Publications Center, P.O. Box 343, Waldorf, Md. 20604-0343; (888) 860-8118. Copies are $12 each for members, $16 for non-members, plus $4.50 postage and handling.
