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Advocacy as a core agency program: planning considerations for voluntary human service agencies
Abstract
The current mood of the country, manifest in a distrust of government, an interest in balancing the budget and reducing the federal deficit, and a pervasive antisocial welfare sentiment, bode poorly for voluntary social welfare organizations. Advocacy, often a peripheral agency function, needs to be institutionalized and strengthened as a program of service. The study discusses the rationale for, and an approach to, organizing and/or strengthening an agency advocacy program. Suggestions are offered for planning and organizing volunteer, staff, and client support to increase agency impact on state and local policy and regulatory processes. Unless and until advocacy is incorporated as an ongoing program and service of the agency, nonprofits will remain vulnerable and reactive to decisions made elsewhere about them and those they serve. (Journal abstract.)
Journal
(1996)
vol20
no4
pages43-59
Categories
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Nonprofit Organizations (Theory)
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Structures and Processes
