Using one of the private foundations grants you identified for your case study organization, write a draft grant proposal cover letter. The grant proposal cover letter should be 2-3 paragraphs and your classmates will review and provide feedback and comment. Use the following links as guides to write the letter:
Category: advocacy in human services
Macro policy advocates have to develop a political strategy including a sequence of actions and verbal exchanges that will increase the likelihood of the adoption of an advocacy proposal. For this discussion:
Explain the seven key steps to developing and advocating for an overarching macro policy.
Additionally, identify at least three skills that a macro policy advocate would need to develop and utilize to increase the likelihood that a policy proposal would be enacted.
The Code of Ethical Principles and Standards for professional fundraisers (AFP) outlines expectations for ethical fundraising. After reading this document carefully, describe five 5 standards that are most relevant to your Case Organization and explain why each are particularly relevant to your non-profit. Explain how you will encourage adherent to each standard within your organization. (1-2 pages).
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At times different organizations may want to contribute funding to non-profit organizations. Sometimes, the organizations are seemingly at odds with some non-profit agency’s missions and goals or the organization is fraught with controversy. A recent example of this is the Purdue Pharmaceutical Company, its alleged links to the opioid epidemic, and funding of various non-profit organizations. Read the 2017 article entitled The Family that Built an Empire of Pain, by Patrick Keefe that discusses the Sackler family, owners of Purdue Pharmaceuticals and how they gave money to various philanthropic causes including the Museum of Art in New York City. Then read the 2018 article entitled Protestors Call on Museums to Reject Sackler Philanthropy and the 2017 article entitled Philanthropy on OxyContin: Does Charity Cleanse This Family’s Complicity in the Opioid Crisis?
Discuss the following questions:
Discuss whether large organizations, such as the Metropolitan Museum of Art and Yale, should accept additional funding from these types of organizations and/or change the name of facilities that are named after large donors. Consider the pros and cons to this.
Now put yourself in the shoes of a small non-profit organization. Would you accept money from a controversial organization or one that is seemingly at odds with each other? Why or why not? Would it depend on the funding needs such as if the funding meant the survival of your organization?
After viewing the video entitled Citizen Lobbying: How Your Skills Can Fix Democracy (2016 TEDTalk Video, 13 minutes in length, captioned. Please note: Throughout the video the speaker displays photographs of the individuals he discusses. These images don’t add to the knowledge in the presentation.) discuss the following:
How does lobbying as a macro policy advocacy strategy work?
Who becomes lobbyists?
How does lobbying as a macro policy advocacy technique impact democracy and your daily work as a human service professional?
As you approach the due date of your final project, “The Fact Sheet,” submit three to four additional annotated bibliographies which will be incorporated into your final project. Begin to record the key statistical data that will provide a well-supported and compelling “Fact Sheet” for macro policy advocacy on your sector topic area lobbying for macro-level change and record this information in the context of your written assignment.