It puts more than 5,000 public school students each year to work in the civic process, working as election judges and on political campaigns and creating advocacy programs of their own.
But Victor Kamber, president of the Kamber Group in Washington, which creates advocacy advertising for labor unions and other causes, said that the A.C.L.U.'s campaign needs to be controversial to provoke its "liberal, progressive and somewhat shrinking" audience to act.
Classes focus on the way economics, business and government policy affect the practice of medicine, with lectures on treating the uninsured, dealing with Medicare, creating advocacy organizations and using scientific findings to lobby.
A couple of years ago, Mr. Forquet, an independent, and Mr. Bogosian, a Republican, each had a plan to promote George W. Bush for president by creating advocacy groups -- of Hispanic executives in Mr. Forquet's case, and of young professionals in Mr. Bogosian's.
Among the new measures, officials said, is one requiring all of the armed services to create victims' advocacy programs.
Recently, for example, Democrats recruited women to create an advocacy group, Mothers Opposing McMahon, whose mission is to spread "the truth about the brutal violence and abusive treatment of women that Linda McMahon marketed to our kids to make herself millions," according to the group's Facebook page. 1 2 Next Page » Noah Rosenberg contributed reporting.
Finally, we will create an advocacy plan that guarantees the fair representation of Latinos at the most important tables and in the spaces where major decisions are made.
For example, in Yemen, where poverty and high population growth rates have contributed to high rates of illiteracy and gender inequality in education, UNGEI partnered with the Ministry of Education and the private sector to create an advocacy campaign aimed at parents.
You can be creative and blend your personal interests with your humanitarian beliefs and combine them to create effective advocacy.
Scale can be created through advocacy as well as programmes.
