Toolkits
Our toolkits include a collection of resources – from Alliance for Justice and other organizations – designed to help you amplify your advocacy around critical issues, boost civic engagement, and maximize your impact.
Environmental Justice Toolkit
Earth and Equity: The Advocacy Playbook for Environmental Justice is the inaugural toolkit of our social justice series. Earth and Equity provides a comprehensive overview of the legal guidelines for 501(c)(3) public charities engaging in environmental justice advocacy, ensuring your efforts are compliant and effective.
Read the full advocacy playbook here.
LGBTQ Advocacy Toolkit
Nonprofits have a large role to play in advancing equality for members of the lesbian, gay, bisexual, transgender, and queer community. Examples of advocacy abound, from raising awareness and speaking out on unqualified, anti-LGBTQ judicial nominees, recognizing inclusive employers, lobbying for the elimination of conversion therapy, challenging the President’s ban on transgender members in the military, and working to defeat discriminatory ballot measures.
Reproductive Rights, Health, and Justice Resource Guide
Alliance for Justice works closely with advocates and organizations focused on ensuring reproductive autonomy for all people. In this resource guide, we have collected advocacy success stories from reproductive rights, health, and justice organizations and paired them with resources to support advocacy groups working on policy goals ranging from federal legislation to ballot measures to voter mobilization.
Coalition Checklist
A resource that will guide organizations through the process of forming and working in coalition with easy-to-understand explanations of the most common forms of coalitions, how to fund them, how to work on the most common types of joint activities, and how partners can share resources.
Establishing Your Organization
Includes all of the basic forms and templates you need to get your nonprofit off the ground.
Source Materials
An in depth collection of the laws and statutes that dictate the advocacy rules nonprofits and foundations must adhere to.
California Advocacy Resources
Resources for nonprofit organizations that engage in public policy advocacy in California including information on California Political Reform Act and its implementing regulations.
Texas Advocacy Resources
This Texas Advocacy Toolkit is designed to assist you on your advocacy journey and provide you with the information you need to understand the legislative process in Texas and to comply with both federal and state advocacy laws.
Ballot Measure Toolkit
Provides an overview of how tax-exempt organizations can support or oppose ballot measures.
Focus on Foundations
Whether your foundation has yet to embark on an advocacy journey or has a culture that already embraces advocacy, Bolder Advocacy can help. Bolder Advocacy gives foundations and their grantees the tools and the confidence to advocate effectively.
The Project Grant Rule Hub
Bolder Advocacy’s Project Grant Rule resource hub is designed to help private foundations and their grantees understand the legal requirements to take advantage of the Project Grant Rule through explainer videos, factsheets, and budget templates.
State Law Practical Guidance Series
Created in partnership with the Democracy Capacity Project, this series is designed to help nonprofits determine if lobbying rules in their state might apply to their state or local work, and if they do, how best to navigate them!
Nonprofit Voter Assistance Series
Created in partnership with the Democracy Capacity Project, this series is designed to help you choose the activities that make the most sense for your civic engagement and GOTV programming.