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Survival Skills for Advocates

  

Tools & Checklists

 Contributed by Eric Wadud, Tom Seekins, and Stephen B. Fawcett Edited by Bill Berkowitz and Jerry Schultz

Checklist

Here, you'll find a checklist summarizing the major points contained in the text.


Try these survival skills for advocacy:

___Accentuate the positive

___Emphasize your organization's accomplishments to the community

___Plan for small wins

___Present the issues in the way you want others to see them

___Develop your own public identity

___Check your facts

___Keep it simple

___Be passionate and persistent

___Be prepared to compromise

___Be opportunistic and creative

___Stay your course

___Look for the good in others

___Keep your eyes on the prize

___Makes issues local and relevant

___Get broad based support from the start

___Work within the experiences of your group members

___Try to work outside the experiences of your opponents

___Make your opponents play by their own rules

___Tie your advocacy group's efforts to related events

___Enjoy yourself!