Nonprofit Advocacy Is Focus of New Site

By Nicole Wallace

Charities that want to know more about nonprofit advocacy can turn to a new Web site.

NPAction.org features articles, advice, and news about activism and the laws and regulations governing charity lobbying and voter education. The site also provides contact information for the president of the United States, members of Congress, state legislators, and journalists.

Visitors to the site can weigh in with their opinions in the site’s discussion forums, as well as through quizzes and polls. Recent polls asked visitors whether charities should be allowed to endorse political candidates and how often their organizations submit opinion editorials and letters to the editor.

OMB Watch, a Washington advocacy group that monitors government spending, runs the site. Atlantic Philanthropies, in Hamilton, Bermuda; the Ford and Surdna Foundations, in New York; and the David and Lucile Packard Foundation, in Los Altos, Calif., have provided grant money for the site.

To get there: Go to http://www.npaction.org.