You'd Think the US' 4th Largest Industry Would Have More Clout

Dalouge Smith, in his July 26, 2010 thoughtful and informative post on his arts advocacy blog Dog Days, reflects on his participation in the Nonprofit Advocacy Policy Roundtable at Johns Hopkins Center for Civil Society Studies and on Hopkins' Listening Post Project's findings on the relative underrepresentation of nonprofit organizations in civic and policy discourse--and the arts community's underparticipation, even as compared with other nonprofit sectors.

Check out Dalouge's thinking here.

"Advocating for more than their organization or program is clearly not what leaders of non-profits are doing. This is entirely by choice. If non-profit leaders begin to recognize that because of the goodwill and trust people have for non-profits, they can positively affect policy and governmental functioning that will in fact advance their own work and success. It just takes making it a priority and slowly building it into the character and culture of an organization."