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| Acknowledgments | |
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| Introduction | |
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| Lobbying and Advocacy: What Does It Mean, and Why Should You Do It? | |
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| What does the literature say about nonprofits and lobbying? | |
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| Why do nonprofit organizations need to get engaged? | |
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| What are some examples of important rights established through citizen advocacy? | |
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| What is the difference between advocacy and lobbying? | |
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| What will this book teach you? | |
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| The Rules of Engagement | |
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| What are the nonprofit lobbying regulations? | |
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| What is the 501(h) election? | |
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| How can you fund your advocacy campaign? | |
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| What are some other tax structures that allow for lobbying? | |
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| Pork: "The Other White Meat" or Quagmires of Government Budgeting | |
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| How do government budgets work? | |
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| How did "pork" become so prevalent in budget discussions? | |
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| Why is the Tea Party a brew? | |
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| Where do taxes and poverty come in? | |
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| Making Law: Confessions of an Erstwhile Legislator | |
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| How is the lawmaking process mapped out? | |
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| How does the legislature really work (as illustrated by a bill that made its way through the process)? | |
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| Ten Common Elements of Successful Advocacy Campaigns: Steps 1 to 3 | |
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| What is the 10-step framework? | |
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| What happens in the first three steps (as illustrated by examples from a student-led advocacy project)? | |
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| Ten Common Elements of Successful Advocacy Campaigns: Steps 4 to 7 | |
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| What happens in Steps 4-7 (as illustrated by examples from the same student-led advocacy project discussed in the previous chapter) ? | |
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| Ten Common Elements of Successful Advocacy Campaigns: Steps 8 to 10 | |
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| What happens in the final three campaign steps and to the students' project? | |
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| The 10 Steps in Action: A Case Study of the Strategy and Process | |
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| How did a group of students attempting to pass a registry of employees who had harmed adults with developmental disabilities conduct their state legislative campaign? | |
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| Reach the Final Steps! | |
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| What resulted from the efforts of the students discussed in the previous chapter? | |
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| The 10 Steps Strike Again! Breaking the Tire Cycle: A Campaign With International Impact | |
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| How did a group of students succeed in passing a bill to prevent tire pollution from Mexico? | |
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| Fighting for Justice in Cyberspace: The Role of Technology in Advocacy | |
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| Where do you start? | |
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| What works best? | |
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| So Now You Have a Law: What Do You Do With It? Monitoring Progress on the Issue | |
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| What do you do to make sure your bill gets implemented after it is passed? Addendum: Understanding the Difference Between Full-Time and Part-Time State Legislatures | |
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| Index | |
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| About the Editor | |
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| About the Contributors | |