Victim Rights Advocacy:
Starting Grassroots Organizations
Grassroots Advocacy, Petitions, Related Documents, Victim Rights Advocacy Documents
Grassroots Advocacy
A Guide for Grassroots Advocacy - How to Write Your Legislators: Letter writing do's and don'ts when communication with legislators.
An Introduction to Advocacy on the Internet: An overview on using a variety of Internet communications mediums to advance an advocacy goal.
An Introduction to the Advocacy Cycle: A short Adobe Acrobat file
CARE Advocacy Tools: CARE provides links to a number of resources, including their very effective Advocacy Tools and Guidelines and their Promoting Policy Change Manual
Grassroots Advocacy Training Exchange: The Grassroots Advocacy Training Exchange (GATE) is an interactive resource designed to help you and your organization define or change the state and federal policies that affect your life and livelihood.
Making Partnerships and Collaborations That Work: Excellent resource for those seeking to make common ground with other advocacy organizations.
NAGC Advocacy and Legislation Toolkit: An excellent breakdown on the steps an advocacy group should take, from forming the organization to achieving it's legislative goals.
Partnering on Copyright Advocacy "Know Your Rights" Toolkit: An overview of advocacy strategy, with suggestions and resources, from this UK organization.
Running an Online Advocacy Campaign: Basic suggestions on presenting your grassroots advocacy campaign on and through the Internet.
Start a Viral Political Campaign on YouTube: Basic suggestions for running short advocacy videos through YouTube.
Petitions
PETITIONS: Whether in paper or electonic format, pettions can be a way of showing public support for a change in laws. Different countries have a wide range of rules over the format, nature and registration of petitions to be legally acceptible.
Australia:
New South Wales:
Canada
Federal:
Alberta:
Ontario:
European Union
Scotland
United Kingdom
Wales
