Leveraging Your Resources
No one foundation or donor has the resources (funding, knowledge, or connections) to tackle or solve a deep-seated social problem alone. By supporting public policy advocacy, your foundation can serve larger numbers of people and help create longer-term solutions than you could through other types of grantmaking.

Support of public policy advocacy is critical to effective philanthropy. By supporting advocacy efforts and policy change, foundations can leverage their dollars to create the community and governmental support that is often needed to achieve substantive change.

In addition, public policy grantmaking can have a ripple effect in a community. Impacting and achieving real policy change can often be an empowering experience that will encourage longer-term community engagement in policy advocacy.