Welcome to the EDUAdvocates Toolbox!

This toolbox provides grassroots professionals with an opportunity to share the best practices in grassroots advocacy. The community of grassroots professionals has developed the content throughout these pages. Please contribute by adding in your own thoughts, experiences and best practices.

Introduction
Until recently, only membership organization like the NRA, AARP, and Common Cause developed grassroots advocacy programs. But over the last five to ten years there has been an increasing number of advocacy organization, non-profits, businesses, and even higher education institutions creating grassroots programs.

This shift has occurred for a number of reasons, but primarily because of the success that online advocacy groups have enjoyed by impacting legislation at the national level and because technology has made it significantly easier to reach large audiences in a cost effective manner. Before the Internet, nationally based membership organizations would create a huge infrastructure to manage, educate and engage activists across the country. Now, much of that organizing can happen online.

With cost no longer being a barrier, many have attempted to develop these programs and some have had tremendous success. Those whose grassroots efforts have not taken ff lack the understanding of the basics of how to organize a successful online grassroots program. This wiki attempts to outline how to develop programs in an education setting, either higher education or K-12.

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