Tips for Solutions Based Advocacy

Judging by their actions, many advocates seem to take opposition critics as their role model for advocacy.  Wrong.  Opposition political parties oppose everything that is advanced or proposed by the Government.   Every idea/issue/announcement invites an opportunity for the Opposition to … Read More

Mark Kingwell believes a decline in civility is unhealthy for our Democracy and I agree. Being civil is not about being polite, or being nice or not offending. There is an ethic of substance behind civility. Civility accepts that we … Read More

When I was a young activist eager to take on all the dragons who were resisting the closure of institutions in British Columbia, I got the 'bright' idea to intervene in a provincial by-election.  I had studied tactics of the … Read More

Solution based advocacy keeps one hand in the soil while stretching the other to the sky.  It addresses the specific social and economic justice issue(s) experienced by a particular group of people, while at the same time expanding opportunities to … Read More

Many of you have expressed appreciation for my blog posts sub titled: Tips for Solution Based Advocacy.  In response to your question: What is solution based advocacy? I offer the following working definition.   I acknowledge David Beers who gave me … Read More

President Obama's health care reform bill provides insights to public policy advocates on celebrating partial victories.  The fact is, not all our advocacy efforts are successful; few are transformative; and many are simply incremental, flawed with compromises.  It's clear the … Read More

Recently we have had a large number of Throne Speeches; Budgets; and other Government announcements. Some of these have contained good news for the community sector but you would be hard pressed to read or hear about it. Have you … Read More