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Advocacy


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Evidence-Based WIC Advocacy

Part of the National WIC Association’s Advocacy Toolkit, this resource explains how to effectively use data and statistics in your advocacy messages.


Telling Your WIC Story: Why and How

Part of the National WIC Association’s Advocacy Toolkit, this resource provides guidance for effective WIC storytelling, through verbal and written stories as well as photography and videos.


Engaging the Media to Promote WIC

Part of the National WIC Association’s Advocacy Toolkit, this resource provides tips on how to engage traditional press as well as social media to advocate for WIC.


Contacting Elected Officials

Part of the National WIC Association’s Advocacy Toolkit, this resource provides tips for contacting policymakers, leading effective WIC advocacy meetings, hosting site visits, and other activities involving elected officials.


WIC Funding Basics

Part of the National WIC Association’s Advocacy Toolkit, this resource, provides an explanation of how WIC is funded.


When Does Advocacy Become Lobbying?

Part of the National WIC Association’s Advocacy Toolkit, this resource, describes the differences between advocacy and lobbying and how you can advocate without stepping into the territory of lobbying.


What is Advocacy

Part of the National WIC Association’s Advocacy Toolkit, this resource lists all of the ways you can advocate for WIC.