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Monday, May 19, 2008

For years, labor union members, large corporations, and retirees have had significant impact on the national dialogue about priorities and important issues in America. Now, nonprofits are joining the conversation and becoming engaged in the democratic process. Bob Egger, the president of DC Central Kitchen (a new member of the America Forward Coalition), has launched the V3 Campaign, a new effort designed to unite and raise the voice of the nonprofit sector in elections at the city, state, and federal level. In a recent Financial Times op-ed, Egger talks about why nonprofits are finally banding together to explore their political options:


“As significant employers in every city, and the conduit for more than 80m volunteers annually, non-profits are no longer willing to be sidelined, limited by their perceived ineligibility to engage in political discourse. Now, in elections taking place throughout the country, they are joining together to ask one strategic question of each candidate for higher office: ‘If elected, how would you partner with the sector, and strengthen it to be a good partner in order to achieve your vision?’….The goal of this new political awakening is not for non-profits to become another special-interest lobby, fighting for a larger slice of a shrinking economic pie. Rather, it is to ensure that the full spectrum of our country’s assets is utilized to maximum potential at this critical juncture in our history.”

Check out an Tactical Philanthropy interview with Bob Eggers here.

Image: DC Central Kitchen

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