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Session Title: Understanding, Building, and Evaluating Advocacy Capacity
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Multipaper Session 112 to be held in BOWIE C on Wednesday, Nov 10, 4:30 PM to 6:00 PM
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Sponsored by the Advocacy and Policy Change TIG
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| Chair(s): |
| Brian Quinn,
Robert Wood Johnson Foundation, bquinn@rwjf.org
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What is Advocacy Capacity?
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| Susan Sherry, Community Catalyst, sherry@communitycatalyst.org
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| Jacquie Anderson, Community Catalyst, anderson@communitycatalyst.org
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| Abstract:
Community Catalyst is a national advocacy organization that works with foundations, policymakers, and state and local consumer groups on strategies to improve access to high-quality, affordable health care in the U.S. It has worked with organizations in over 40 states to help them achieve wide-reaching health policy reforms. In a W.K. Kellogg Foundation-funded study, Community Catalyst noted advocacy organizations in some states had more success advancing a consumer health agenda than those in other states. One key difference across states was different capacities of consumer organizations. In this session’s first presentation, Community Catalyst will describe the six core capacities identified as common to successful advocacy organizations and efforts. The presentation will also examine the relationship between the core capacities, reasons for building capacity across networks or systems of consumer health advocacy, and the types of technical assistance and support that can help build capacity within advocacy organizations and networks.
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