Insights & Ideas

It’s already the end of May. In a typical year, I’d be camped out at Legislative Hall, tracking changes made to the budget made during Joint Finance Committee markup and planning advocacy activities with most of you to ensure our nonprofits’ policy and budget needs would be met.  However, the world is changing so quickly […]

You are all doing incredible work, finding ways to continue to provide vital services AND maintain viability even when confronting the reality that the current fiscal year’s budget is gaining greater irrelevance under the extraordinarily ‘abnormal’ operating conditions of the COVID-19 response. The current reality of what predictable expenses and revenue are, is not only […]

I always love the beginning of a new year and the endless possibilities it opens, particularly when we consider opportunities to enact new policies to support the nonprofit sector.  On the afternoon of January 14th, the second half of General Assembly 150 opened and we now pick up where we left off in June 2019, […]

In this edition of DANA’s Mission Minute, Melissa Hopkins discusses the importance of advocacy for nonprofits. DANA provides advocacy training to its member organizations to help you tell your story to policy makers and funders. Need more info on how to connect with policy makers? Email or call Melissa at 302-777-5500.

The Census is when, every ten years, our government counts every person living in the United States, as mandated in the Constitution. This seems simple enough, in theory, but for Delawareans, it is vital to get an accurate count this year and it is much more complex than it sounds. There are a few key […]

Over the course of the last 3 months the Joint Finance Committee has been diligently walking through the Governor’s Recommended Budget for FY 2020, hearing presentations from each agency.  I know many of our members have taken the time out to address the JFC at these hearing regarding the work our state’s nonprofits are doing […]