The TCC Group has been conducting a field review into the world of legal advocacy in the nonprofit sector, in partnership with the Center for Evaluation Innovation (CEI), via the Atlas Learning Project. These publications and a short video are designed to help inform funders, legal advocates, non-legal advocates and evaluators about the field of legal advocacy. For more information, visit the original source:
How can my foundation support legal advocacy? Funders are sometimes leery of getting involved in the complexities and perceived cost of legal advocacy; however, there are a number of ways for funders to effectively support legal advocacy. These include:
- Building the capacity of legal advocacy organizations or the capacity of other advocacy organizations to partner with legal advocacy organizations
- Funding legal advocates researching an issue
- Facilitating relationships between legal advocates and others, such as non-legal advocates and community organizers
- Supporting communications or media relations, including testing of messages
- Supporting various phases of litigation including initial filing, appeals, and bringing on expert witnesses
- Supporting implementation of a legal change