1. Charity lobbying: It's the right thing to do.
2. Lobby legally: links and guidelines.
3. Voter education by charities during a political campaign.
4. Permissable activities of charities during a political campaign.
5. Advocate's How-To Resource Guide
6. Lobbying Rules Create Opportunities for Charities
7. Why your organization should elect to go under 501(h)?
8. How to Figure Lobbying Limits Under 501(h)
9. Citizens Guide to the Delaware Legislature
10. How a bill becomes a law in Delaware
11. Budgetary process timeline for Delaware's General Assembly

Delaware

• State Relations Task Force
• Insurance Task Force (Jessie Ball DuPont Collaborative)
• DANA supports passage of S.B. 6 in the General Assembly's current session (2007).  The bill is sponsored by State Senator Patricia Blevins. For a copy of the legislation, click here. 
• For a full description of the legislation and how it will help small nonprofits in Delaware, click here.
• For sample "talking points" when speaking with your state Senator or Representative, click here.
• For sample letter to your legislator, click here.
• Read DANA's Testimony before the Senate on April 5, the day the Senate approved it.  Click here.
• DANA worked with Johns Hopkins University to do a study of Health Insurance Rates for nonprofits in Delaware -- the level of increase and the impact of this on the services we provide.  To download the full report, click here.
• For a one-page summary of the Hopkins report, click here.
• For a list of Delaware State Senators in the 144th General Assembly, click here.
• for a list of Delaware State Representatives in the 144th General Assemply, click here.
• To help with this effort, contact Connie Hughes at DANA.
• DANA also supports reform of Chapter 72, that section of the Delaware Code that regulates the small group insurance market. 
• Read the Delaware Health Care Commission's Small Business Committee Report of August 2006.  Click here.

• Nonprofit Public Policy Agenda

Activism Resources

Charity Web
Devoted to grassroots activism through individual informed action. Focuses on actions, awareness, and vision.

CyberActivist
Empowers citizens to e-mail and fax Capitol Hill and government officials worldwide.

E-The People
Allows users to send an e-mailed or faxed letter or a petition to over thousands of federal, state, and local officials.

Electronic Activist
Email address directory of U.S. Representatives and Senators, state governments, and media entities. Also includes activism how-to.

James and Grace Lee Boggs Center
Aims to help grassroots activists develop themselves into visionary leaders and critical thinkers.

Media Activism Kit
From Fairness and Accuracy in Reporting (FAIR).

NetAction's Virtual Activist Training Course
Using the Internet for grassroots activism.

ProActivist.com
Dedicated to photographically documenting progressive protests and assisting activists with their efforts.

Protest.Net
Worldwide calendar offers locations, dates and information for activism, protests, pickets, strikes, demonstrations, meetings, and direct political action.

Social Action and Leadership School for Activists
Evening learning program providing classes in the Washington, D.C. area on topics in nonprofit management, communications, fundraising, direct action, and career development.

Sunfire
Site for Asian Americans about mastering political skills for empowerment in public policy and private enterprise.

Take Action
Suggestions from the Earth Island Institute.

Public Policy/Research/Resources

Community Development Resource Ctr.
Provides access to applied research and analysis for public, nonprofit, and community based organizations.

Center for Law and Social Policy
Policies affecting the poor.

Center on Budget and Policy Priorities
Research and analysis on a range of government policies and programs, with an emphasis on those affecting low and moderate income people. 

Children's Defense Fund
CDF focuses on programs and policies that affect large numbers of children, rather than on helping families on a case-by-case basis.

Coalition on Human Needs
The Coalition’s members include civil rights, religious, labor and professional organizations and those concerned with the well being of children, women, the elderly and people with disabilities.

Economic Policy Institute
Provides high-quality research and education in order to promote a prosperous, fair, and sustainable economy. 

Food Research and Action Center
Works to improve public policies to eradicate hunger and undernutrition in the United States.

GPO Access
Provides free electronic access to a wealth of important information products produced by the Federal Government. 

LINC Project
Members, leaders, and organizers of low income organizations confronting the threats to our social safety net.

National Low Income Housing Coalition
National Low Income Housing Coalition is dedicated solely to ending America's affordable housing crisis.

National Welfare Monitoring and Advocacy Partnership
Supports the monitoring of welfare at the community level to inform both grassroots and national advocacy efforts, and to build the capacity of local communities to advocate on their own behalf.

The Welfare Law Center
Works with and on behalf of poor people to ensure that adequate income support is available.