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A Legislative Advocacy Manual For Women

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How many times have you looked at the front page of a newspaper and seen a picture of a politician posing with some local folks and taking credit for saving a plot of woodland, or passing a bill that gave handicap access to a public space, or appropriating money in the state or federal budget for services to a group of constituents in need? Chances are that whatever the people in the picture are celebrating came about as the result of a lot of hard work by a well-organized group engaged in legislative advocacy. Chances are also that that group couldn't have accomplished what it did if it hadn't been well organized, and able to mobilize when it needed to.

Organization is a key to all kinds of operations, but it's especially important in advocacy work. An advocacy group has to be a group, with common goals and a common purpose, and it has to have reliable ways of deciding on action, communicating that decision to everyone involved, and then carrying out the action systematically and effectively. Without organization, an advocacy group may be nothing more than several individuals who agree on some large issue and try to react to threats to what they believe in. With organization, that group can be focused, unified, proactive, and effective--a force to be reckoned with.

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KP.III IND l

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Philipina : ., 2001

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78 hlm; 25 cm

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English

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KP.III

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2001

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Advocacy
Legislatif

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