Comments on: Pathways and Advocacy: Building the Grassroots Base

By: Marsha Taylor

Marsha Taylor — Tue, 23 Mar 2010 17:48:45 +0000

Jackie – below is our web address. We have recently added a portion for students. I hope everyone will check it out. There are some great student testimonials available. – Marsha Taylor
Arkansas Adult Learning Resource Center

http://aalrc.org/home_eng.html

By: Rachel Nicolosi

Rachel Nicolosi — Tue, 16 Mar 2010 18:30:49 +0000

It was great to hear the good stories of success! Georgia really knows how to stretch a small grant! Glad to finally meet the famous Art Ellison, and get a vision of what an infrastructure for advocacy can accomplish. Thanks all!

By: Jeff Carter

Jeff Carter — Mon, 15 Mar 2010 20:45:42 +0000

Despite Dr. Waite’s poor performance, I was favorably impressed by the rest of the group and will be reporting back to Senator Bagsomoney on the many great ideas that came out of this session.

By: Jackie Taylor

Jackie Taylor — Mon, 15 Mar 2010 20:43:22 +0000

Hi Everyone!
Thank you so much for joining us today and sharing your experiences; I really enjoyed hearing what each of you are working on with advocacy. I’m posting the handouts from our session on this blog — so please check back for updates. Also send me advocacy resources you’d like to see added to the advocacy toolit.

More soon,

Jackie

By: mltait

mltait — Mon, 15 Mar 2010 20:31:33 +0000

Participants in this session committed to: produce student success stories; engage the local chamber of Commerce; produce an annual report to the community; network — identify local champions; BLOG, BLOG, BLOG!

By: mltait

mltait — Mon, 15 Mar 2010 18:23:22 +0000

We started this session with a role play in which Peter Waite portrayed an uninformed and ill-prepared advocate in a meeting with Jeff Carter, education legislative aide for Senator “Bagsomoney”. The role play pointed up the importance of doing your homework before meeting with a policy-maker, presenting the information that you have to share coherently and cohesively, and listening to what the LA or policy-maker says in the meeting. Now we are hearing from state level advocates who are sharing how they have organized, what they have done, and how they have overcome obstacles and challenges. The group is very interested in idea sharing and strategies for building advocacy capacity.

By: Jon Engel

Jon Engel — Tue, 09 Mar 2010 20:19:17 +0000

I look forward to participating in this session. I plan to provide information in regard to some advocacy strategies that proved effective in getting the Texas Legislature to increase its investment in adult education. I will also provide an update in regard to the status of that initiative one year after that legislative victory and some thoughts about lessons learned and next steps.