© Ekua Holmes
Building capacity for advocacy
Empowered communities impact policy when community members are equipped to advocate. By rethinking what advocacy looks like to meet our community members where they’re at, we’re able to harness their skills and powers in change-making.
This can look like:
Consider:
Is this an area of priority for you?
How important to your organization is building capacity for advocacy?
How strong is your organization at building capacity for advocacy?
Examples:
An organization on the front lines fighting for justice and focusing on police accountability and criminal justice reform.
A legal resource center that provides legal support to immigrants.
EJI is a private, 501(c)(3) nonprofit organization that provides legal representation to people who have been illegally convicted, unfairly sentenced, or abused in state jails and prisons.