Why is Advocacy important?
Advocacy for your cause, including lobbying, is an important activity to bring about change in public attitudes and policies that impact your constituencies. Here are 10 reasons that individuals, groups, and organizations should participate in advocacy.
- You can make a difference.
- People working together can make a difference.
- People can change laws.
- Lobbying is a democratic tradition.
- Advocacy and lobbying help find real solutions.
- Advocacy and lobbying is easy once you understand the rules and know what works.
- Policymakers need your expertise.
- Advocacy and lobbying helps people.
- The views of local nonprofits are important.
- Advocacy and lobbying advances your cause and builds public trust.
Charity Lobbying in the Public Interest. http://www.clpi.org
