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• Stand For Children Ideas
• Advocacy By Charitable Organizations
• The ABCs Of Movement Building
• Lobbying Legislators
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• Issues For A Children's Agenda
• How to Testify at a Public Hearing
• Child Advocacy Primer
• Rating Legislation
• How-To Resources from the Center for Lobbying in the Public Interest

Advocacy

Rating Legislation

RATING SCALE FOR LEGISLATION / OTHER POSITIONS

1. 
   1. Top Priority: Testify (oral and written), lobby individual legislators, organize others for hearing or other important events, attend work sessions
   
2. 2. Priority: Testify (oral and written), lobby members, attend work sessions
   
3. 3. Testify: (oral or written), watch to see how issue develops
   
4. 4. Watch and report
   
5. 5. Take no action
   

Basis for rating:

1. 1. How does it apply to our advocacy positions?
   
2. 2. What are our resources?
   
3. 3. How important is it to our public agenda?
   
4. 4. How critical is OUR action on the issue? Who else is working on it or
   providing leadership?
   
5. 5. How would this affect our new organization's growth, relationships and
   reputation?
   

Measure everything based on our Advocacy Principles.

Set Policy based on our guidelines (as developed).

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