For City/County Advocates: Local Advocacy Training Series

Are you ready to level up your skills to become the advocate you aspire to be?  The Local Advocacy Training Series is 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. Effective advocacy can help you cut through the gate keeping culture of your city council or county commission, and deliver on the results your communities are demanding. Through presentation, small group breakouts, and actual campaign planning for the upcoming year, you will improve your skills around:

 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.

Format

• Weekly three-hour training session over the course of two months.
• 15 person cohort.
• In-person or virtual format, depending on the municipality.

LOCAL Advocacy Training Series (Virtual)