Advocacy and Action Groups
Our list started as a site compiled by Nancy Amidei for the Civic Engagement Project. It has grown quite a bit. Email us at outreach@46dems.com if you would like to add an issue or group to this page, or have additional information or corrections. We strive for accuracy, relevance, and completeness.
If you wish to stay informed about the progress of issues you care most about, contact one of these groups. The organizations listed below constitute a spectrum of involvement in these issues. Some work solely as advocates, others solely on direct action such as helping the homeless and the hungry. Most of them are involved to some extent in both activities. A few concentrate primarily on federal legislative issues, and we've noted that when we know it to be the case.
There is an advocacy group for almost every issue. They:
- Monitor their issues closely,
- Distribute weekly (or "as needed") Legislative Alerts,
- Recommend positions on bills and budget items, and
- Suggest sample messages.
To find an advocacy group on your issue that may not appear below, ask people affected by the issue, ask professionals who work in that field, or ask friends.. Please contact them directly to receive their Legislative Alerts, and let us know about the group so we can add it to our list.
We will be posting Olympia Lobby Days we learn about on our Community Calendar. If you have dates to add, please let our Outreach Committee know. To stay informed about political and community events, please join our mailing list.
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Aging/Long-term Care
Child Abuse & Neglect
Child Care and Early Childhood Issues -
Child Nutrition - see Hunger.
Child Welfare/foster care/adoption -
Children's Issues
Criminal Justice
Disability
To be added to their alert list, visit their website and click on link for email alerts. Each person needs to sign up for the service so that they can receive information that points them to their legislators.
Domestic Violence
Economic Equity
Education
Election Reform
Energy
Environment
Faith Communities
NOTE: some of these groups provide information for their members only. Please check directly with them.
Family Leave
Foreign Policy
Farming & Local Food
GLBT issues
Governance
Gun Violence
Health
Head Start/ECEAP
Higher Education/Higher Education/Faculty
HIV/AIDS
Homelessness
Most of the following groups provide services directly to homeless people, as well as advocating on their behalf. Please contact them if you would like to consider volunteering.
Housing
Human Services
See separate listings under Child, Children's, Disability, Health, Homelessness, Housing, Hunger, Mental Health, Poverty, Substance Abuse, WelfareHunger/Food Assistance
Labor Unions - click to go to separate page listing Unions
Justice
Juvenile Justice
Mental Health
Parks and Recreation
Peace
Poverty and Welfare Issues
Rural Health
Sexual Assault and Crime Victims Issues
Social Justice
Social Services - See Human Services
Substance Abuse/Treatment
Tax Policy
Teenagers
Tobacco Prevention
Transportation
Veterans
Welfare
Women's Issues
Youth
Other Community Advocacy Groups
Some advocacy groups deal with many of the issues listed above, and therefore do not easily fit into a single category. Here are a few, with links and resources from each. If you know of others, please contact outreach@46dems.com.
