1. Advocating Like a Boss
Presented by Joyce Cade-Hitchye

2. Advocating Like a Boss Why should I advocate?
Is there a problem that you have faced or are facing?
Do you just want to see improvement on issues facing your community?

3. Reasons why you should not advocate:

4. Personal Story:

5. Of Impact Our mission is to provide all Veterans
regardless of their discharge
resources.
We are focused in providing resources toward education, employment, health, and transportation.
We do this for Veterans and their families through
events, programs, public awareness and shared resources.

6. According to the VA website:
22 Veterans a day commit suicide.
Michigan is number 11 in the amount of Veterans in its communities.
Michigan is number 48 in obtaining benefits for these Veterans.
There once was a soldier who came back home.
She felt lonely and all alone.
She felt sad.
She felt blue.
She decided there was something she had to do.
So she co-founded Of Impact to serve her fellow Vets.
She wanted to make sure that their individual needs were being met.

7. Focusing on your Advocating Skills
Where to start in your advocacy goals
Developing your advocacy plan
Nonprofit advocacy vs. lobbying
Targeting Tools
Crafting your advocacy plan to fit your nonprofits vision and mission
Targeting your plans
Presenting yourself to representatives

8. How to present yourself to your representatives:

9. Coaching Affiliative Visionary Democratic Pacesetting Commanding
Leadership styles:
Coaching
Affiliative
Visionary
Democratic
Pacesetting
Commanding

10. Personality Styles:

11. Discernment Inventory
Active
(Decisive, Assertive)
Dominant
Influential
Challenging/Demanding
Environment
Positive/Friendly
Environment
Conscientious
Steady
Responsive
(Cautious, Accommodating)
Tasks Orientation Relationships

12. Resources: https://youtu.be/eddaZORJeOs (leadership skills)
(DISC personality profile)
(Advocating tools)
(Nonprofit Advocacy)
(Personality Styles)
(Community Tool Box)
(2018 Annual Advocacy meeting notes)
Michigan League for Public Policy (Renell B. Weathers)

13. Questions and Answers:

14. A Community is not made up of one person but it only takes one person to make a positive difference in that Community. – Joyce Cade-Hitchye
Joyce Cade-Hitchye Phone: LinkedIn: Alignable: Joyce Cade-Hitchye Instagram: Of Impact Show