August 7, 2008
Advocacy Efforts Get Small Share of Nonprofit Budgets, Survey Finds
By Suzanne PerryNearly three-fourths of charities do some kind of advocacy or lobbying, but the vast majority of them devote less than 2 percent of their budgets to such activities, according to a survey released last week.
Limited money and staff time "seriously restrict the depth of involvement in policy work," says a report on the survey, which was conducted by the Johns Hopkins University Center for Civil Society Studies, in
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