Making
the Constituency
Connection
Voter Participation and Involvement
PMA Resources
UNDERSTANDING ADVOCACY
In order to be effective in their communications with elected officials, your advocates need basic training and information. The resources on this page will tell advocates all they know to develop and deliver winning messages.
- Checklist for effective advocacy. Start here for a basic overview of how to approach policymakers.
- Interactive
Advocacy Training Power Point.
You have several options for reviewing and saving this information:
- Option One: Click here to view the course.
- Option Two: Right click here and select "save target as" to save a zipped folder on your computer with all resources from the power point. You will need to "unzip" the file after it is saved on your computer (right click and select "unzip").
- Option Three: Also available from PMA on CD-ROM. E-mail at grow@pma.com for copies.
- PMA Advocacy Classroom. Use this link to access an online training course in effective advocacy. This is a FREE resource for PMA members only.
- Articles PMA's Advocacy Action Center has a host of resources on how to be an effective advocate.
- Templates, Samples and Worksheets. Use this link to access a range of fill-in-the-blank style resources and samples to help you in any type of advocacy communication imaginable.