An Important New Effort to Spur Nonprofit Political Participation
No fooling: Next week, on April 1, the Nonprofit Voter Engagement Network will launch a national campaign to "provide training, information, legal resources, how-to guides, and materials such as bumper stickers and posters to help nonprofit groups get voters to the polls for the November elections," reported the Chronicle of Philanthropy earlier this week.
“Our belief is that nonprofits are the sleeping giant of the democratic process,” said Bridgette Rongitsch, director of the network, a project of the Minnesota Council on Nonprofits. “These groups have daily contact and super trusting relationships with the people they work for. These are the same communities who are not turning out [to vote] in big numbers.”
Nonprofits have agendas, and it simply makes abundant sense for them to encourage their publics to make their voice heard in the voting booth in order to further those agendas. They cannot, of course, advocate on behalf of a particular candidate or party, and too many nonprofits, I think, let that fact scare them away from any type of political engagement. Quiet wheels don’t get any grease, though — you think the senior citizens’ lobby would have gotten as far as it has had AARP been sitting on its hands all these years? | 501(c)
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