Wisconsin Nonprofits Association Joins Fellow Nonprofit Leaders in Message to President & Congress:
CHARITIES ARE READY TO HELP
Unprecedented Declaration calls for renewing America’s compact with its “citizen sector.”
In an unprecedented appeal to America’s public and private leadership and to the American people, leaders of organizations representing tens of thousands of American nonprofit organizations today called for a reinvigorated and empowered partnership between government and the nonprofit, or “citizen sector,” to address our country’s social, economic, and environmental problems and improve the quality of community life.
The nonprofit leaders issued a Declaration entitled, “Forward Together: Empowering America’s Citizen Sector for the Change We Need,” that calls on the nation’s governments and businesses to join with its citizen sector for a renewed “partnership in public service.” Click here to read the entire document
To accommodate the numerous other nonprofit leaders and supporters across the country that may want to be associated with this declaration, the Johns Hopkins Listening Post Project has created a Web site where the declaration can be viewed in its entirety and interested persons can sign on and learn about steps they can take to extend the reach and impact of this document, such as encouraging colleagues and board members to sign on, and bringing the document to the attention of local policymakers and the media. The first page of the declaration and the full list of initial signers was published in the Feb. 26, 2009, edition of the Chronicle of Philanthropy.
