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Advocacy Action Center
- Register to vote! Go to
the Alliance's voting information page to learn more about voter
registration, voting, and elections.
- Emergency
Preparedness: Become involved in ensuring your community is
ready to assist people with disabilities in case of an emergency
(and make sure you and your business are ready, too!)
- Need
to file a complaint? Read here about various agencies and organizations
that handle grievances and what their procedures are for accepting
complaints.
- Join our advocacy team: Only through individual community members being active in
advocacy efforts can we be effective in making a difference. Join our advocacy team
and the Alliance will send you information on critical disability issues, as they arise.
- General guidelines for government-funded
non-profits:
Do you work for a government-funded non-profit and want to learn
more about how you can engage in advocacy or lobbying? Here are
resources for you!
- Advocacy
from the Inside: An advocacy guide for those working in
the government or a government-funded agency. Explains the
difference between advocacy and lobbying.
- Department
of Justice: More information on lobbying restrictions
for those receiving $100,000 or more in government grants.
- Learn how you can use the 501(h)
election to determine the amount your non-profit can spend
on lobbying. The 501(h)
form may be found on the IRS website.
- Before deciding to engage in lobbying, government-funded
non-profits may want to review OMB
Circular A-122.
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