Advocacy Best Practices

Advocacy Campaign Tips to Help You Succeed

May 08, 2023 by Alice McLoughlin (she/her)

Advocacy Campaign Strategies to Accomplish Your Goals

Executing a successful and impactful advocacy campaign requires time, dedication, and organization. In today’s day and age, there is strong competition from various advocacy issues fighting for attention, so to run a successful campaign, you will need to be ready to hit the ground running. We have put together several tips to help ensure you can run an effective and winning advocacy campaign.

Provide your campaign a clear and measurable goal.

Using your Campaign Goals to Craft a Strong Advocacy Message

Feb 27, 2023 by The Campaign Workshop

But First, What is an Advocacy Message?

Advocacy Plan: Where do I begin?

Feb 06, 2023 by Joe Fuld (he/him)

People meeting around a table piled with papers

Having an advocacy plan is critical to success, but where should you begin?

Advocacy Strategy First

7 Questions with Nadia Belkin

Sep 05, 2022 by Elizabeth Rowe (she/her)

Exclusive Interview with Nadia Belkin

Advocacy Strategies: Approach Change Holistically

Dec 27, 2021 by Martín Diego Garcia (he/him)

Building Advocacy Campaigns on Winning Advocacy Strategies

Advocacy campaigns should be built on advocacy strategies. Simple, right? But creating a strong foundation for an advocacy campaign is sometimes easier said than done.

Grasstops - to Step Up Your Advocacy Campaign

May 31, 2021

Grasstops Will Grow Your Advocacy Program

A grasstops campaign seeks to persuade the people who can influence key decision-makers. Legislators are often inundated with calls, emails, petitions, meetings, and other communications about a wide variety of issues. Breaking through that noise is tough, and grassroots campaigns, unless they reach critical mass, may not be enough on their own. When those efforts are paired with the authority of grasstops supporters, their impact will be greater, and your campaign will be more likely to succeed.

Thought Leadership Defined: Move Your Public Affairs Forward

May 24, 2021 by Joe Fuld (he/him)

Thought leadership to Amp Up Your Public Affairs Strategy

Advocacy Engagement Funnel

Mar 08, 2021

Advocacy Engagement Goes Further with A Funnel

Advocacy Website RFP: What Questions Should I Ask?

Jan 18, 2021 by Joe Fuld (he/him)

Two women looking at a laptop on a table advocacy website RFP

An Advocacy Website RFP Can Help You Build A Winning Website

Texting for Advocacy | Opt-in to SMS for Nonprofits

Nov 30, 2020 by Joe Fuld (he/him) and Sophie Thurber (she/her)

Texting for Advocacy: Issue Advocacy & Public Affairs SMS Tactics

Timelines and an Advocacy RFP Template

Aug 17, 2020

Using an advocacy RFP template can help streamline the process of hiring the right partner for your next project. The exercise of filling out the template should help you identify your goals, any constraints on the project, and strengths and weaknesses in your organization.