As I have posted before, the definition of advocacy that I use when talking with direct service organizations about how they can ease into it comes from the Latin root word, advocare, which means "to call to aid". It's about how you build a constituency around your cause, even more broadly than around your organization.…
ARTICLE 19: defending freedom of expression and information.
ARTICLE 19 envisages a world where people are free to speak their opinions, to participate in decision-making and to make informed choices about their lives
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Welcome to the NEW Change Management Toolbook! It remains a premium resource for change management related information, methodologies, tools and for interacting and establishing links with other change practitioners. However, the Change Management Toolbook has undergone another transformation - we have retained all the great content, but have decided to open up the site to a far greater extent. The central part of the new Change Management Toolbook site is the new "Change Management Community" - a shared, free space where other change practitioners can set up their own presence, publish their own content, and do lots more - for free! (See more on this further down on this page.) So - one of the most visible internet platforms for change management is now open to you. We can't wait to see what you are going to do with it...