The participation of community-based Aboriginal women in the Program and their control over Program activities is clearly crucial as is the support and advocacy role of Program Coordinators.
Prominent Republicans in New York, including Gov. George E. Pataki, have often tried to offset the party's traditional disadvantage with women by highlighting their advocacy of breast cancer programs.
Most ominously, it is signaling the problem Democrats might have in the midterm Congressional elections next year with independent voters, upset with Mr. Obama over increasing deficits and his advocacy of big-government programs.
Mr. DiIulio has also done extensive work with black pastors in urban areas, and one of the Bush administration's hopes is that its advocacy of faith-based programs will be a bridge to black ministers and win some support with the Congressional Black Caucus.
Under the pastorate of Andrew Foster Connors, the church's historic leadership continues in social justice issues including national peace efforts, a statewide campaign for marriage equality, local efforts to rebuild blighted neighborhoods, and advocacy of after-school programs to invest in the youth of Baltimore.
Advocacy of income-generating programs as HIV prevention tools must be grounded on evidence of potential effectiveness, sustainability and a connection between economic circumstances and HIV risk.
Oruvwuje, a lawyer, gave up a comfortable government job for the work of advocacy as Program Manager of Environmental Rights Action/Friends of the Earth Nigeria, and as Coordinator, Friends of the Earth Africa's Food Sovereignty Campaign.
This kind of "co-creation" can go further, reaching into the design and delivery of programs, advocacy, and governance.
"I am totally biased, I am about the least objective observer of this law you could find in the world," Gruber quipped about his advocacy of the Massachusetts program.
In May 1961 Kennedy committed the United States to land a man on the Moon by the end of the decade, and, while he would not live to see this achievement either, his advocacy of the space program contributed to the successful launch of the first American manned spaceflights.
