Legislative Advocacy 101
10,600 children.
Over 500 unaccompanied youth.
9,247 adults.
These are the Minnesotans who are homeless or precariously housed on any given night in Minnesota, and they need YOU to be their voice! This toolkit for social change will make it easy.
Toolkit Contents
- The Basics of Legislative Advocacy »
- Ten Tips for Calling Your Legislator »
- Ten Steps for Writing Your Legislator »
- Seven Steps for Emailing Your Legislator »
- Sixteen Steps for Meeting with Your Legislator »
- Ten Steps for Submitting a Letter to the Editor »
- Your senators and representatives work for you. Advocating what is important to you helps enable them to do the job of representing the wants and needs of their constituents.
- Making a phone call to your legislator is quick, easy, and can be done at a moment’s notice, making it an attractive method for legislative contact.
- One advantage of writing a letter is having more space and time to explain your stance on an issue.
- Email can be an effective tool for maintaining an ongoing relationship with your representative, but use caution because email can have limitations.
- A face-to-face meeting with your legislator can be a powerful opportunity to advance your agenda.
- Letters to the editor are among the best-read parts of the paper and a great way for your legislator to know what his or her community is thinking.