Local Advocacy Training

Are you ready to level up your skills to become the advocate you aspire to be?  Our Local Advocacy Trainings are here for you. This fast-paced, interactive series helps leaders for social change sharpen their advocacy campaign strategies to win on bold policy change at the local level.

Training Topics

• Policy Development: Develop the skills to go from identifying community needs to drafting a policy concept. Develop a policy agenda and prioritize policy options within your organization or coalition.
• Power Mapping: Learn the deep decision-making process in your local council or commission, and the formal and informal rules governing the body. Map how power operates in the building, both on a policy campaign, and individual decision maker, level.
• Anti-Racist Policy Analysis: Engage in race-forward policy analysis models from Heather McGhee (race/class narrative) and Ibram X. Kendi (anti-racist policy analysis). Practice strategies to quantify racial equity outcomes and assess policy amendments from a racial justice framework.
• Advocacy Campaign Planning: Design policy campaigns to influence top decision makers and build winning advocacy strategies. Develop your skills as strategist, and perfect the art of inside/outside the building organizing.

LOCAL Advocacy Training Series (Virtual)