Grassroots Advocacy
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Grassroots advocacy: a practical guide and free templates
How to move a legislator or an agency: plan the campaign, send the message an office counts, and use the templates below for email, calls, lobby days, testimony and public comments.
How to run a grassroots advocacy campaign
Eight steps from a cause to a decision
How to email your legislator
A template an office logs and answers
Calling your legislator: a script
What to say, and what staff will ask
How to plan a lobby day
A timeline, a meeting request and the follow-up
How to write and give testimony
A template in the order committees expect
How to comment on a federal rule
Find the docket, meet the deadline, be heard
What makes a message count
- It comes from a constituent. Offices sort messages from people who live in the district from everything else, so say where you live and give your address.
- It is about one thing. Name one bill by its number, or one rule by its docket, and say whether to support or oppose it.
- It is in your own words. A sentence on how the issue affects you, your family or your work carries more than a form letter.
- It arrives while the decision is open. Before a committee vote, a hearing, a floor vote or a comment deadline, not after it.
Running a campaign, not writing one letter?
Book a free grassroots advocacy session. We'll walk through reaching the right offices with your supporters, then run a one-click campaign with our grassroots advocacy software that sends personalized messages from your whole list.
Need 500 people to send this before the vote?
Run it as a campaign. Each supporter's message goes to their own legislators, matched by street address, and message versions rotate so offices see varied mail, not 500 copies of one letter.