Three Key Steps to Public Policy Advocacy

Creating a supportive policy environment is an essential, and often daunting task for many non-profit organizations. The Canadian CED Network has created a new resources to help simplify the policy advocacy process. Public Policy Advocacy: Best Practices is a best practice guide that takes readers through three critical steps to effective policy advocacy:

Today, the emphasis in social work is on community renewal trough shared reponsibility. In Community Building, you will discover the latest proven programs for working with community members toward goals of positive change that is initiated, developed, and emplemented within the community.

You will learn how you can help community members identify their needs in areas that include the physical environnement, housing, economic opportunity, safety, education, and health care...and begin the initiatives that will enable them to meet these needs.

This book is both important and timely. Written by practitioners who are also academics, the book combines solid research, observation and practical experience that speak forcefully to the need for both local place-based development and greater citizen involvement. The examples they give of successful local efforts to renew neighborhoods demonstrate that change is possible and that resources are available for such purposes. Patricia W. Murphy and James V.

Central governments and their economic policies rarely help economic development at the local level, taking more out of communities than they put into their growth and health.