Nonprofits and Advocacy: Engaging Community and Government in an Era of Retrenchment

Contents

contents Preface ix Robert J. Pekkanen and Steven Rathgeb Smith Acknowledgments xiii Introduction: Nonprofit Advocacy: Definitions and Concepts 1 Robert J. Pekkanen and Steven Rathgeb Smith Part One: The Local and National Dimensions of Nonprofit Advocacy 1 The Group Basis of City Politics 21 Jeffrey M. Berry and Kent E. Portney 2 Nonprofit Advocacy in Seattle and Washington, DC 47 Robert J. Pekkanen and Steven Rathgeb Smith 3 Shaping the Government–Nonprofit Partnership: Direct and Indirect Advocacy 66 Elizabeth T. Boris and Matthew Maronick with Milena Nikolova 4 Nonprofit Advocacy in the Nation’s Capital 85 Carol J. DeVita, Milena Nikolova, and Katie L. Roeger 5 From Skid Row to the Statehouse: How Nonprofit Homeless Service Providers Overcome Barriers to Policy Advocacy Involvement 107 Jennifer E. Mosley viii Contents Part Two: Organizational Politics, Strategy, and Tactics 6 Advocacy in Hard Times: Nonprofit Organizations and the Representation of Marginalized Groups in the Wake of Hurricane Katrina and 9/11 137 Dara Z. Strolovitch 7 Gender Identity and the Shifting Basis of Advocacy by US Women’s Groups, 1920–2000 170 Kristin Goss 8 The Political Voice of American Children: Nonprofit Advocacy and a Century of Representation for Child Well-Being 202 Doug Imig 9 Analyzing the Practice of Nonprofit Advocacy: Comparing Two Human Service Networks 222 Jodi Sandfort 10 Effective Advocacy: Lessons for Nonprofit Leaders from Research and Practice 254 Gary D. Bass, Alan J. Abramson, and Emily Dewey List of Contributors 295 Index 297 ...