Comments on: Pablo, let’s get our priorities straight! http://drummondpike.tides.org/index.php/2008/11/05/pablo-let%e2%80%99s-get-our-priorities-straight/ Drummond Pike's Blog Fri, 10 Feb 2012 16:19:17 +0000 http://wordpress.org/?v=2.3.3 By: Niki Jagpal http://drummondpike.tides.org/index.php/2008/11/05/pablo-let%e2%80%99s-get-our-priorities-straight/#comment-978 Niki Jagpal Tue, 11 Nov 2008 16:11:18 +0000 http://drummondpike.tides.org/index.php/2008/11/05/pablo-let%e2%80%99s-get-our-priorities-straight/#comment-978 This is a great post and I fully agree with the importance of prioritizing advocacy. As you note, nonprofit advocacy is integral to the sector. It yields significant, broad and sustainable benefits that accrue to citizens where advocacy and organizing play a key role in strengthening communities and bolstering civic participation. I work at the National Committee for Responsive Philanthropy (NCRP), which is about to release the first in a series of reports that illustrate and quantify the community-wide benefits of advocacy, organizing and civic engagement, beginning with New Mexico. We hope to also dispel misperceptions about this work that persist as barriers to securing substantive foundation funding necessary for groups to continue and expand their efforts. Look for the report soon; our hope is to contribute to the new nonprofit agenda and engage with others like Tides to reposition nonprofit advocacy as one of the most effective strategies that can benefit of all society. As you note, “NOW is the time to make clear what we hold to be critical, and the ideas we have been working on for how best to address those things.” I couldn’t agree more. Niki Jagpal Research Director, NCRP This is a great post and I fully agree with the importance of prioritizing advocacy. As you note, nonprofit advocacy is integral to the sector. It yields significant, broad and sustainable benefits that accrue to citizens where advocacy and organizing play a key role in strengthening communities and bolstering civic participation.

I work at the National Committee for Responsive Philanthropy (NCRP), which is about to release the first in a series of reports that illustrate and quantify the community-wide benefits of advocacy, organizing and civic engagement, beginning with New Mexico. We hope to also dispel misperceptions about this work that persist as barriers to securing substantive foundation funding necessary for groups to continue and expand their efforts.

Look for the report soon; our hope is to contribute to the new nonprofit agenda and engage with others like Tides to reposition nonprofit advocacy as one of the most effective strategies that can benefit of all society. As you note, “NOW is the time to make clear what we hold to be critical, and the ideas we have been working on for how best to address those things.” I couldn’t agree more.

Niki Jagpal
Research Director, NCRP

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