Action Alert: Ensure Capacity Building Funds for Local Nonprofits
Call Your Senators and the White House Today!
Last week, Senator Max Baucus (Montana), who chairs the Senate Finance Committee, filed S.609, the Nonprofit Capacity Building Act of 2009 (“NCBA”). The NCBA would allocate $25 million for the federal Corporation for National and Community Service to use as a matching fund pool. Nonprofit capacity building groups could then get a 50% federal match to go with funds raised locally so we can provide technical assistance and training to nonprofits.
For the past five years, a group of nonprofit organizations working closely with the National Council of Nonprofits have been advocating for a federal matching grant program for nonprofit capacity building. It would be great to get NCBA written into a floor amendment to be offered in the Senate this week and we all need your support to make it happen.
The process is easy – simply take ten minutes TODAY and call your representatives.
Contacts:
White House: 202-456-1414
Maryland
Cardin, Benjamin L. - (D - MD) (202) 224-4524
Mikulski, Barbara A. - (D - MD) (202) 224-4654
Virginia
Warner, Mark R. - (D - VA) (202) 224-2023
Webb, Jim - (D - VA) (202) 224-4024
District of Columbia
Strauss, Paul - (202) 727-7890
The message is simple:
For the calls to your Senators:
- The nonprofits in [insert your state name] – that employ thousands of voters and involve thousands of volunteers – need Senator [name] to immediately co-sponsor S.609 to show bipartisan support for the Nonprofit Capacity Building Act to help nonprofits as we struggle to deliver services to our local communities in this brutal economy
- This bill is nonpartisan and needed.
For the call to the White House:
- Leave a message that you are calling to get the Obama Administration to support adding S.609 (Nonprofit Capacity Building Act of 2009) added as an amendment to S.277 (Serve America Act) – Both are needed.
Let’s light up those phone lines!
Please direct any specific questions regarding the Nonprofit Capacity Building Act of 2009 (“NCBA”) to the National Council of Nonprofits by contacting Ann Beltran (Policy Analyst) at (202) 962-0322. Thank you.
