Developing a Progressive Advocacy Program Within a Human Services Agency

Understanding Nonprofit Advocacy in Non-Western Settings: A Framework and Empirical Evidence from Singapore

“…Conversely, the lack of financial and human resources is among the top barriers to the involvement in advocacy (Bass et al 2007;Schmid et al 2008). Human resource can take the form of full-time staff support (Donaldson 2007(Donaldson , 2008 or hiring professional lobbyists (Gibelman and Kraft 1996). Evidence consistently shows a significant positive relationship between staff size and advocacy (e.g., Child and Grønbjerg 2007;Suárez and Hwang 2008), which is logical in the fact that a larger staff size will have more human resources that they can dedicate solely to advocacy activities without compromising their service delivery.…”

Priority setting and policy advocacy by nursing associations: A scoping review and implications using a socio-ecological whole systems lens

“…Half (50.0%, n = 13) of the non-nursing research described advocacy by NGOs and NPOs for targeted health issues or targeted populations [26,[54][55][56][57][58][59][60][61][62][63]. The other half (50.0%, n = 13) of the non-nursing research papers described action on SDOH, equity or public policy in general [22,23,[63][64][65][66][67][68][69][70][71][72][73].…”

“…Governing bodies reported strategic planning and priority setting as their most important role [26]. In some cases, governing bodies led the choice of issues to be addressed; while in other cases, policy advisory committees and executive directors assisted with that function [26,56,79]. Assigning responsibility for advocacy efforts to executive directors and policy staff provided flexibility to address issues.…”

“…Assigning responsibility for advocacy efforts to executive directors and policy staff provided flexibility to address issues. However, the leveraging of contacts and resources by board members was diminished [56,79]. Governing bodies were less often used to gain visibility or political access [26,56].…”

“…Governing bodies were less often used to gain visibility or political access [26,56]. At a minimum, support and buy-in from governing bodies was essential for the development of an advocacy program by an organization [46,56,79,80].…”