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This resource offers guidance on how 501(c)(3) organizations can elect to “take advantage of the clear definitions and generous limits on lobbying” as permitted in the IRS Tax Code.

This fact sheet breaks down the difference between “advocacy” and “lobbying” and outlines ways in which public health organizations can engage in advocacy.

This article addresses some of the legal issues around lobbying and explains the differences between the terms “lobbying” and “advocacy.” It also outlines what activities are and are not permissible, such as partisan political activities, and discusses federal, state, and local rules for 501(c)(3) organizations.

The Expenditure Test is a more specific standard that the IRS uses to measure a nonprofit’s lobbying activities, if a nonprofit has elected to use this standard.

This is the standard that the IRS applies if a nonprofit organization has not elected to use the “Expenditure Test."

This webpage provides a basic overview of the limitations on lobbying for 501(c)(3) organizations under the IRS rules.

NCAVP's annual report examines hate violence against LGBTQ and HIV-affected communities.

This toolkit is intended to help integrate gender analysis into conversations about state violence and the prison industrial complex, uncover the impacts of state violence on women of color and trans people of color, and challenge society’s primary reliance on law enforcement agents for protection from domestic, sexual, homophobic, and transphobic violence.

This study analyzes the findings of the 2008 National Transgender Discrimination Survey to examine whether certain sociodemographic factors and psychosocial risks, such racial identity, income, immigration status, or disability, are significant predictors of unequal treatment of transgender people in domestic violence programs and rape crisis centers.

This report documents 28 cases of transgender women who were held in US immigration detention between 2011 and 2015, more than half of whom were held in men’s facilities at some point.