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Promoting public awareness of local issues and problems is also known as advocacy. You can show your support of a worthy cause by doing some of the following things:
- Wear a button or put a bumper sticker on your car.
- Read the newspaper. Keep up to date on news about your issue.
- Keep on top of media and TV stories. How do they portray your issue in their stories?
- Write to the producers of these programs to express your support or dissatisfaction
with their portrayal of your issue in their media stories.
- Put up a yard sign.
- Register to vote.
- Register others to vote.
- VOTE!
- Plan a fundraiser.
- Sign a petition.
- Include messages about your issue when writing or speaking to friends and
acquaintances.
- Ask the library or local bookstore to display books about your issue.
- Offer to present a talk informing people about your issue.
- Call into a radio show.
- Be a guest speaker on a radio show.
Write an article for a local newspaper or bulletin.
- Write a short informational article for your church or club bulletin.
- Serve on a committee to improve the situation in your area.
- Start of a team of people and organization that will come together to collaborate on
working on this issue together.
- Volunteer!
- Attend public meetings.
- Attend local governmental meetings.
- Testify at State Assembly or Senate hearings.
- Send money to your favorite charity.
- Plan a service project to do with your family.
- Plan a service project to do with a group of families that you are friendly with.
- Find out who your local, state, and federal officials are.
- Write letters to these individuals educating them about your issue. (Written letters
make a stronger impact than do email messages or telephone calls.)
- Thank key leaders and support their efforts when they do something that you like.
- Provide fact sheets to key individuals.
- Host educational fairs about your issue.
- Set up a telephone tree to inform members of current news.
- Lead a discussion group.
- Speak to service clubs and organizations.
- Campaign for a candidate who supports your cause.
- Suggest an idea for a new piece of legislation to your local legislator.
- Call your local nonprofit agency. Ask them how you can volunteer to help them.
- Organize a rally or protest.
- Stuff envelopes or answer telephones.
- Hold a telethon or phone-a-thon.
- Publicize information about success stories.
- Offer to do research for a legislator.
- Create a puppet show or skit about your issue. Take it to local elementary schools or
childcare centers to teach young children about your issue.
- Write a letter to the editor of the local newspaper.
- Put together a coloring book for young children that teaches them about your issue.
- Be a role model to a younger child.
- Take a friend with you during your advocacy activities.
- Make posters.
- Participate in a walk/run.
- Participate in your agency's special events.
- Volunteer to distribute informational brochures.
- Host a trivia contest with questions about your issue.
- Create stuffers to be included in grocery bags.
- Purchase goods made by that organization.
- Contact your charitable organization. Ask them what items are on their "wish list".
Get those things for them.
- Learn about the laws that aid or deter from your issue.
- Call your local Volunteer Center (1-800-VOLUNTEER) to learn about volunteer
opportunities in your area.
- Look at websites that provide information about your issue.
- Learn about what local agencies and key leaders are doing in your area.
Devorah Vineburg
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