Individuals and organizations engage in advocacy to ensure the recognition of the needs and rights of their constituents. Advocacy is critical to address the systemic processes and structural issues that impact the well-being of our communities. It involves a commitment to influence others, to transform hearts and minds on critical public issues and/or to amplify the voices the marginalized or forgotten so that they are effectively heard.  

 

Several of AdvocatesROC's programs provide infrastructural support to individuals and organizations to empower them to develop advocacy strategies that advance their missions and deepen their service commitments to the communities they serve.  We achieve this in several ways:

 

• Personalized consultation to develop advocacy strategies that embolden boards, volunteers and staff to tell your story with confidence and depth and engage the public and policymakers on issues that have strategic impact.  

• Infrastructural support through webinars, educational trainings on advocacy. These support programs highlight the differences between advocacy, lobbying and electioneering to help design strategies that are fully compliant with federal and state regulations.

• Democracy's Ethical Imperatives: Public Activities and Working Groups that seek to close the gap between democracy's ideals and practice.