Category: Advocacy & Policy

Cynthia Persily, PhD, RN, FAAN   Dr. Persily is the CEO of Highland Hospital in Charleston, WV At the Highland companies in Charleston, we advocate for patients every day. Our advocacy efforts are with families, with payers, with state agencies, and with organizations who can provide continued services to our patients in the community. Regardless of…

Who? Board members, CEOs, staff and volunteers of West Virginia’s Foundations and Nonprofits. What? Join us for the Inaugural Policy Institute for those who are new to experts in the public policy/government relations arena for a five hour program to prepare for the 2015 West Virginia Legislative Session Why? It is critical to your organization’s…

On this page… Call to Action THANK YOU to everyone who advocated for passage of the America Gives More Act (HR 4719) in the U.S. House earlier in July.  Now our work moves on to getting the legislation onto the U.S. Senate Floor and advocating for our U.S. Senators Rockefeller and Manchin to vote for passage…

On this page… The Problem Governments and nonprofit organizations partner to provide needed services in communities across the country. Contracts and grants are the mechanisms governments use to fund these partnerships. These grants and contracts can be direct federal grants or indirectly through grants and contracts with state and local governments as well as other…

Take the Survey, Share the Survey In less than five months, new reforms governing payments to nonprofits for their indirect (overhead) and other costs will go into effect. Learn what the reforms do and why they matter to West Virginia nonprofits. You can help in the development of tools to turn the promise of the new…