How Your Nonprofit Can Influence Policy Through Ballot Measure Campaigns

Mar 3, 2026 • 2:00 pm – 3:00 pm
Communications, Systems Change • Virtual Event

Offered by Alliance for Justice, learn how to use ballot measures as a creative way to move policies and community funding forward and gain an understanding of the laws that govern nonprofit participation in initiatives and referenda as an important strategy to effective advocacy.

Participants will learn:

How a 501(c)(3) organization can support or oppose ballot measures;
How ballot measure expenditures apply to a 501(c)(3)’s lobbying limits;
How a 501(c)(3) organization can work in a coalition with a 501(c)(4) on an initiative;
How state ballot measure laws may affect nonprofit involvement in ballot measure campaigns; and
How ballot measure campaigns can be funded.

Cost associated. Eligible for support through Rotary Charities Learning Fund.