A foundation board member talks about the critical role of advocacy.

Ann Cramer, board member of the Community Foundation for Greater Atlanta, talks about the foundation's advocacy work and the important role advocacy can play in systemic change. 

Have you been paying attention this month? Quiz yourself!

This month, we have provided stories, resources, videos, and tools about advocacy and ambassadorship. We hope they have inspired you to get active outside the boardroom.

BoardSource and its partners, through the Stand for Your Mission campaign launched nearly two years ago, have encouraged more than 275,000 nonprofit leaders to embrace the positive role that advocacy can have on strengthening nonprofits and their mission.

We've developed this six-question quiz to test your advocacy knowledge. Good luck!

Advocacy is one of 6 practices of high-impact nonprofits.

In this excerpt from the book Forces for Good, featured in Fast Company, authors Leslie R. Crutchfield and Heather McLeod Grant share what makes a nonprofit effective.

"Greatness," they say, "has more to do with how nonprofits work outside the boundaries of their organizations than how they manage their own internal operations."

Learn more about what it takes to expand your impact outside the borders of your own organization and become a high-impact nonprofit.

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