Advocate

Resources for Association volunteers: sharing our Advocacy priorities and accomplishments, and inspiring new advocates in your community.

The following resources are available to assist you in your advocacy efforts:

Messaging Tools:

• Advocacy Spot Messages — Supports embedding "information spots" about advocacy resources and activities at Association events.
• Advocacy Key Messages — For use in volunteer training on supporting advocacy message integrity.
• Safe At School Display Ads — PDF files of 2 impactful Safe at School display ads that local market event committees can use in their program books, or for use in other local print materials. 2 files are formated for half-page placement and 2 files are formated for full-page placement. Especially relevant for Father of the Year or Gala event programs.
• Association Tightrope Full Page Ad
• Association Tightrope Half Page Ad
• Association School Desk Full Page Ad
• Association School Desk Half Page Ad

Recruiting and Engaging Advocates:

• Petition Form: Federal Funding — For use at Association events. Focus: Urge congress to expand funding for diabetes research and prevention programs.
• Petition Form: Safe at School — For use at Association events. Focus: Urge elected officials that children with diabetes should be medically safe at school and have equal educational opportunity.

Local Market Planning Tools:

• Advocacy Engagement Ideas — Designed to support local staff and volunteers in including advocacy messages, materials and activities at all association events.
• Elected Officials at Events — American Diabetes Association policy and tips for including elected officials at Association events.
• 2012 Advocates in Action Calendar — The roadmap for guiding local advocacy efforts in 2012. It lists both leadership and grassroots tactics for each month. Tactics denoted as most closely aligned with the goals of the Associaiton's Strategic Plan should be included in the strategic plan of every market.

Presentation Tools and Resources:

• Government Affairs and Advocacy 2012 Update and Priorities: CLB slides and script
• PowerPoint Slide Presentation — Created for use by advocacy chairs in the annual update to their local community leadership board.
• Accompanying Script for Slide Presentation
• 2012 Community Presentation
• PowerPoint Slide Presentation — Created for use by local volunteers and staff in outreach to community clubs and organizations to let them know how the association delivers mission through advocacy.
• Accomypanying Script for Slide Presentation — A PDF file that shows both the slide image and script text for each slide of the above listed PowerPoint presentation.

Training Webinars:

• 2012 Government Affairs and Advocacy Update and Priorities — January, 2012. Covers the Association's GA&A 2012 priorities, highlights of 2011 accomplishments and our roadmap for engaging "Advocates in Action" for the coming year.
• Hometown Advocacy: Sharing our Stories, Inspiring Support — February, 2012. Covers strategies and resources for advocacy messaging and engagement at association events, as well as for outreach to community clubs and organizations.
• April Advocates in Action Webinar:  Spotlight on Legal Advocacy — April 26, 2012. Learn about the American Diabetes Association efforts to fight for fairness for people with diabetes; and about how you can help extend our legal advocacy reach by raising awareness and support in your hometown! Hear ideas from other markets about how they've included legal advocacy messages, personal stories, print resources, and activities in their hometown events.

Advocacy Handouts:

• 2011 Advocacy Accomplishments Highlights — Highlights of advocacy accomplishments for 2011
• 2012 Federal and State Legislative Priorities — Lists all Federal and State Legislative priorities for 2012. Most appropriate for external audiences.