Policy Advocacy in Everyday Organizationa
After readin" rel="nofollow">ing and considerin" rel="nofollow">ing the article, Policy Advocacy in" rel="nofollow">in Everyday Organizational Practice, review the policy advocacy activities of an organization with which you are familiar. This could be current or previous employment, current or previous field placement, current or previous volunteer experience. Give your classmates a brief synopsis of the mission/service provided by the agency. Then discuss what advocacy activities are currently takin" rel="nofollow">ing place and how these might be consistent with or contradict poin" rel="nofollow">ints made in" rel="nofollow">in the article. Give a few suggestions about how improvements might be made.
HINT: Remember we are discussin" rel="nofollow">ing policy advocacy activities (not advocacy activities in" rel="nofollow">in general). Don't pick an organization that isn't engaged in" rel="nofollow">in any advocacy activities related to creatin" rel="nofollow">ing or changin" rel="nofollow">ing legislation, collaboratin" rel="nofollow">ing with legislators or other policy advocacy activities as defin" rel="nofollow">ined by your text and the assigned readin" rel="nofollow">ing.