Key Elements of Effective Advocacy

Date: March 6, 2010

Learn key elements of effective advocacy at the state and federal levels: what you can do as an advocate, and strategies that lead to increased funding—including how to cultivate champions for adult education and literacy. Create a local advocacy plan; leave with resources and ideas that you can use tomorrow.

Thursday, March 18, 9:15 – 10:15 am

Northwest Four (Lower Level)

Presenters:

Jackie Taylor, NCL Public Policy Committee Co-Chair; Advocacy Co-Chair, Tennessee Association of Adult and Community Education (TAACE)
Marsha L. Tait, NCL Public Policy Committee Co-Chair

Handouts:

Slide Presentation on Advocacy Resources (pdf)
Advocacy Self Assessment (doc)
IRS Lobby Law Form 5768, Includes Permitted Lobbying Expenses (doc)
Educating Versus Lobbying Knowledge Check (doc)
Adult Literacy Fact Sheet (pdf)
NCL Overarching Federal Public Policy Principles (pdf)
2009-2010 NCL WIA Reauthorization Priorities (pdf)

Please share your comments on this session or this topic in the Comment Box below; click Comment to submit.

Tags: advocacy, Grassroots Advocacy, WIA

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Marsha Tait

in March 10th, 2010 @ 15:02

What do you want and need to know to become a more effective advocate in your community? What about advocacy and lobbying confuses you? We’ll help you to find the answers and you will leave this session with hands-on tools and strategies to get you started when you get home!

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Jeff Burkhart

in March 18th, 2010 @ 11:04

Great session going on right now. We need to reach out to our community in new ways. Thanks for sharing your experience and expertise!

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Jody Angelone

in March 23rd, 2010 @ 07:41

This was a great session and I am very excited about the event in Ohio this April.

Also attended the Policy Debate and had staff attend other sessions in this strand. We all enjoyed the sessions and appreciated the information and format in which the information was presented.

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Jackie Taylor

in March 23rd, 2010 @ 15:11

Hi All!
Thanks again for your time and sharing your insights. Here are a few resources on using social media for grassroots advocacy that I thought you’d find interesting. Two of them are in the Toolkit:

http://www.ncladvocacy.org/tkstrategies.html#strategies

– See “Social Media for Grassroots Engagement” and “Microtargeting, Netroots Mobilization, and e-Advocacy.”

Also check out:
“User Generated Photos in Campaigns”
http://www.slideshare.net/CommonKnowledge/social-network-strategy-user-generated-photos-in-campaigns?type=powerpoint

This is a big interest of mine. I’d be happy to learn who else would like to explore this topic further.

Jackie

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Jeff Burkhart Reply:
March 23rd, 2010 at 5:58 pm
Hi Jackie,

I’d love to explore both of these topics further as well.

mltait Reply:
March 24th, 2010 at 12:48 pm
Several conferees asked about social networking strategies for advancing public policy goals. If we do this again next year, we will definitely keep that in mind as a workshop topic. Meantime, blog and tweet to reach new audiences!
Jeff Burkhart

in March 23rd, 2010 @ 17:48

To become a more effective advocate in my community, I need:

- better stats about literacy and workforce.

- well established connections on the local, state and national levels to enable us to advocate for community-based organizations in WIA.

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mltait Reply:
March 24th, 2010 at 12:41 pm
Hi Jeff and Others! Thanks for visiting our blog and starting some dialog. You will find some of the statistical resources you need on the NCL Advocacy Toolkit (click on the banner above). Staying connected to other advocates is important and will also give you moral support as you do this work. Be sure to sign up for policy alerts from NCL, COABE, and/or ProLiteracy — and find out who in your state has organized a state-wide network and join it! We wish you success and hope you will keep us all posted on your efforts and outcomes here.
Stephanie Moran

in March 23rd, 2010 @ 22:13

Here I go! From our advocacy meetings, I realize that even though CAEPA does work on advocacy, we can and need to do more. I will share a bit with them on our telephone conference this Thursday. I also mean to advocate more for a more effective and equitable partnership between us and our Workforce system and to that end, I am meeting tomorrow with a workforce employee and former colleague.
Thank you for the inpsiration, energy, commitment, and professionalism you bring to our field, Jackie and Marsha.
Stephanie

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mltait Reply:
March 24th, 2010 at 12:43 pm
Hi Stephanie! Sounds like you are off to a great start! Building those bridges to the Workforce community is really important right now and may lead to opportunities to collaborate. Have you thought about making connections to the Work Keys folks in your state? I just learned that Syracuse University has a Work Keys Center and they are looking for ways to better serve students with lower level skills — an opportunity for a program serving those students!
Michele Erikson

in March 24th, 2010 @ 11:26

I am impressed with Jackie’s tenacity to hold us accountable to do what we say we are going to do in regards to advocacy and with Marsha’s discipline and persistance in advertising the blog and NCL site at EVERY SINGLE Session she attended. I believe your hard work and dedication will pay off.

For my part, I am:
hand-delivering a one-page template to caucus leaders and Joint Finance Committee members that has a tutor student story/picture from an agency in their district focused on job attainment and specific data for their district/counties that lists below basic literacy level, unemplyment and health literacy cost by county. I have a paragraph discribing health literacy issues and a one sentence description of our agency.
I am also meeting with all 11 WDB Directors in our state (Jeff Burkhart is conming with) on april 14 to demonstrate what our CBOs do for learners in the area of work readiness.
Finally – I will keep in touch with this blog and the NCL on a more regular basis to keep abreast of changes in WIA Reauthorization and the federal priorites for the field.

Thanks Marsha and Jackie for a great session!

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mltait Reply:
March 24th, 2010 at 12:45 pm
It was fun to see you again, Michele. I admit I was happy to get to the last public policy workshop in the strand and leave my pile of remaining flyers behind! The one-page template is a great idea. It’s important that we know our data cold when talking to policy makers, but it’s also important that we speak (with passion) from our own experiences and involve students and their sotries whenever possible.
Tosca Bruno-van Vijfeijken

in March 29th, 2010 @ 13:58

Attending this Conference workshop as well as another offered by adult learners and their representatives made me decide that I wish to explore with my fellow board members at Proliteracy what Proliteracy is currently doing about adult learner capacity building and leadership development. Such adult learner leadership will be very important for the legitimacy of advocacy, while it also represents a value in its own right.

Second, it made me want to explore whether Proliteracy and other adult literacy promotion organizations (Powerline etc.) should think of ‘attaching’ their Right to Literacy campaign to existing rights campaigns with a focus on the US in the area of economic, social and cultural human rights fulfillment, through e.g. Right to Education campaigns by NGOs such as Amnesty International, Save the Children, etc.

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Marsha Tait

Jeff Burkhart

Jody Angelone

Jackie Taylor

Jeff Burkhart

Stephanie Moran

Michele Erikson

Tosca Bruno-van Vijfeijken