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HEALTH OF THE U.S. NONPROFIT SECTOR

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This report provides comprehensive data to help you clearly demonstrate the impact of policies on your community, highlight the essential role nonprofits play in supporting community well-being, and strengthen your case for changes that enhance the charitable sector’s ability to serve the public good.

Every chapter in this digital report outlines practical steps you can take on each issue featured. This webpage offers additional resources to help you strengthen your voice and expand your impact.

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Champion Change

Nonprofits strengthen democracy and advance a healthy and equitable nation. Charitable organization employees, volunteers, and donors have broad insight into how policy proposals can impact the communities they serve.

Visit the Independent Sector Action Center for ways you can help educate policymakers.

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Engage Policymakers

A healthy, trusted, and equitable charitable sector is essential to a vibrant civil society and a just democracy. Nonprofit and philanthropic organizations help communities meet human service, healthcare, and educational needs; enrich our cultural and faith institutions; and protect our environment.

To ensure lawmakers understand the realities nonprofits face, it’s vital to bring them strong, clear data.

Download the Legislative Visits Checklist for Nonprofit Advocates to guide your conversations with legislators.

Download the Checklist
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Strength in Numbers

Engage with Coalitions

Nonprofits that belong to collaborative working groups, such as associations or coalitions, advocate at higher rates than nonprofits that do not, research shows.

Whether you’re seeking to strengthen your advocacy efforts by mobilizing a diverse group of stakeholders around a particular issue or by inviting new perspectives to your coalition, joining collaborative groups is one of the most efficient and effective ways to advance your organization’s cause.

The Nonprofit Coalition Connection is a nonpartisan resource that is designed to support advocacy engagement for charitable nonprofits, foundations, philanthropy-serving organizations, academic institutions, government agencies, and others belonging to collaborative working groups such as associations or coalitions.

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Share the Report

Sharing reliable data is one of the most effective ways to help policymakers and other stakeholders understand the realities nonprofits face. Use insights from this digital report to support your conversations and strengthen your advocacy.

If you prefer an offline version, you can also download the full report as a PDF.

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