Nonprofits can learn to love to lobby

Most nonprofits don't know how to lobby and, worse, think that it entails cutting shady deals with sleazy characters. In this lively and inspiring talk from the Stanford Social Innovation Review's recent Nonprofit Management Institute, Fraser Nelson, nonprofit consultant and former executive director of the Disability Law Center of Utah, debunks the "it's not allowed," "it's too dangerous," and "it's too sleazy" arguments, demonstrating that lobbying is nothing more than educating legislators—a right that our democracy guarantees.

To make the changes they want to see in the world, nonprofits must learn to lobby. "And who knows? They may even learn to love it," Nelson told the Sept. 23-24 Nonprofit Management Institute. Click here to hear that presentation or click here to view an article he wrote, Learn to Love Lobbying, which appeared in the Stanford Social Innovation Review.