Community Engagement and Organizing
The Tobacco Endgame Center will be producing and making available a wide assortment of resources here. These will include, comprehensive campaign engagement tool kits, the Midwest Academy Strategy Chart, best practices for organizing your community and other tools that advocates will find helpful in organizing their community to fight tobacco.
Tips for Effective Coalition Recruitment
Using these tips will help you recruit the people, skills, and resources to build your community coalition and support your policy priorities.
Tips for Engaging and Retaining Coalition Members tool
Bringing the right organizations and individuals together in a coalition is the first step toward achieving your shared policy goals.
Your Story Can Make a Difference
Stories inspire people. They allow someone to see issues and experiences through the eyes of another. They can teach people about issues and motivate them to take action.
City and County Ordinance Process How a “Bill Becomes Law” at the Local Level
Although there are variations between jurisdictions, the process used by a city council or county board of supervisors to consider and adopt a new policy generally follows a similar process.
Tips for Building Community Supporters
Does your campaign have a base of community supporters ready to activate when needed? A robust and wellconnected list of supporters will broaden the support base and significantly improve the
5-Phases-Tobacco-Policy-Campaign-Timeline
This timeline utilizes the 5 Phases of Effective Policy Campaigns as its framework, showing major activities associated with each phase.