Advocacy Tools for CEOs and Their Boards
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Event Details
Join us during this members-only event as we review a new Independent Sector toolkit called: Guiding Advocacy Decisions: A Framework for Nonprofit Boards and Executives in a Dynamic Policy Environment. The tool was created to help boards and executives navigate a fast-changing policy landscape. Our conversation will center on helping CEOs and their board members decide how to engage, set guidelines on who should be making policy decisions, and how to advocate effectively while staying within legal guardrails.
AAN and Independent Sector enjoy partnering on policy education and tools. We're excited to have Vanna Cure, Director of Advocacy and Engagement at Independent Sector, on the webinar with us.
Learning Objectives:
- Take a guided tour of the Guiding Advocacy Decisions toolkit.
- Gain a deeper understanding of general advocacy, lobbying, and prohibited campaign activity for 501(c)(3) organizations.
- Identify a legislative issue and determine the right level of engagement, based on mission fit, risk, and staff capacity.
- Name at least one next step to build advocacy into your own governance, such as adopting an advocacy policy, setting up an annual policy agenda, or using the decision worksheet.
- Share and learn best practices for navigating the current advocacy and policy landscape.
For More Information:
Mandla Moyo is Director of Advocacy and Sector Strategy for the Alabama Association of Nonprofits, where he supports the organization’s state and federal legislative priorities and serves as its chief advocate. In this role, he works to strengthen the nonprofit sector through advocacy, partnership, and strategic engagement. Before joining AAN, Mandla served as Senior Advisor on AARP’s Livable Communities program team and as Director of Community Engagement at AARP Indiana. In these roles, he worked with elected officials, community leaders, volunteers and community partners to advance social change mission at AARP. Mandla earned a bachelor’s degree in political science from Jackson State University in 2004 and a Master of Public Administration from Strayer University in 2008. He lives in Pike Road, Alabama, with his wife, Kristen, and their three children, Myles, Quincy, and Nandi.