Public Policy and Advocacy Strategies

Issue Spotlight

BoardSource is now accepting applications for the 2019 Stand Your Mission award. BoardSource launched the award in 2018 to recognize nonprofit boards that have established advocacy as an expectation for engaged and effective board leadership — and, by doing so, are helping their organizations realize their missions. The winner of the award receives $5,000 to support its work. Application deadline: February 1, 2019.

The Mt. Sinai Health Care Foundation of Cleveland recently adopted a position supporting a renewed ban on the possession, sale, and distribution of military-style assault weapons. The Foundation has issued a statement expressing support for federal legislation that would make it illegal to knowingly import, sell, manufacture, transfer, or possess an assault weapon or high-capacity ammunition magazine. Short of a federal ban, the Foundation urges The State of Ohio to join California, Connecticut, Hawaii, Maryland, Massachusetts, New Jersey, New York, and Washington, D.C., in implementing an assault weapons ban at the state level.