08/10/2021

How an Integrated Advocacy Approach Will Benefit Your Association

Merge your focus on local, state and federal advocacy

As advocacy professionals, we live in the post-pandemic world of limited resources like time and money. More than ever, our members need to be making quality contacts with elected officials at city hall, state capitols, and Capitol Hill.

The need to increase capacity with limited resources means integrating and consolidating how we run local, state, and federal advocacy programs. I like to call this integrated advocacy.

So what does integrated advocacy mean? In short, it’s removing the old barriers of “local issues” just requiring a local association response or a federal action alert not being coordinated with local or state staff.

Please select this link to read the complete article from ASAE's Center for Association Leadership.