Advocacy Tools To Help Make Your Case

Our goal is to provide tools and templates to help you advocate effectively to elected officials on Capitol Hill and in your community.

Getting Started With Workforce Advocacy

Now more than ever, we all need to advocate for the public workforce system and the policies and resources we need to serve our communities. Getting started can be challenging. To help you get started, NAWB has developed a concise reference sheet of ways to help you start advocating today. You can do this.

Workforce Advocacy Day "Leave Behind"

We have created this Leave Behind to support your advocacy with members of Congress. It has been designed as a document to Leave Behind with lawmakers. You can read more about our Legislative Agenda, but be sure to leave behind this 4-page summary of what a workforce board is, how boards serve their communities, and a summary of NAWB’s legislative agenda.

Advocate from Anywhere

Who said you need to be in Washington DC to advocate for your workforce board? Download our new toolkit, Advocate from Anywhere, to learn how you can advocate on behalf of workforce development even from afar.

What is a Workforce Board?

The first step in advocating for workforce development starts with the simple question: what is a workforce board? Learn about how to concisely explain what a workforce board is and some useful stats surrounding them!

A Guide to Hosting a Congressional Site Visit

Elected officials make dozens of site visits each year, and they typically welcome the opportunity to learn more about their community. Learn every step of the process, from finding and inviting your elected official to supporting the site visit itself. You are already a workforce development expert. You’ll soon be an expert in hosting site visits, too!