Prevention Over Punishment
Sets overall goals and priorities of agencies through policy, nominating or firing agency heads, and budget decisions.
What are executive powers of the Mayor?
Educate, convince, build legitimacy, and make policy effective.
What are four ways research helps advocacy.
This is a picture of who can make your change happen, and how they connect to you, in order to find ways to apply pressure to your target.
What is a power map
The relative ability to achieve your purpose.
What is power, as defined by Markasa Tucker Harris
This is ideal length of an elevator pitch.
30-60 seconds
One example is Congress telling DC that we cannot spend any money on police reform.
What is Congress’s legislative and budgetary authority over DC.
Asking about: history, institutions, and what has worked or might work,not just what is wrong.
What are tips for qualitative data gathering
You meet with a transition team, Deputy Mayor, or agency leadership, or someone else under the Mayor to seek change.
What is administrative or Mayoral advocacy
These are the four kinds of power that Markasa described.
What are power over, power under, power with, and power within
Follow reporters on social media and comment on and share their content.
What is a tip for building relationships with journalists
We would target this person if we wanted to convince prosecutors to use more diversion programs for adults.
Who is the US Attorney for DC or US Attorney's Office (USAO)?
Lawrence suggested this as a framework for our research beyond "personal experience."
What is community expertise
These are the steps that must occur before the full Council votes on a bill.
Introduction, hearing, and committee vote or mark-up.
These are: intentional process, authentic relationships, nurturing leaders, building & wielding power in service of collective goals.
What are the key elements of organizing?
This is an “attention grabbing sentence that draws the reader in.”
What is the quote, the top part of the message pyramid
This is the expected result of institutional change, according to the Center for Third World Organizing.
What are the changes by an institution to its policies, practices, and procedures, in response to community demands.
Nazgol said, "Triple check, be transparent, and don’t cherry pick."
What are key ways to ensure your credibility in communicating research
These are the two dimensions of a power map.
What are influence on the target and support of our demand
A single action or activity on your campaign that gets you closer to achieving your goal.
What is a tactic
In response to a reporter’s question, I say, “I’m not sure about that, but what I do know is that my proposal will help with this problem because….”
What is an example of a pivot, i.e., staying on message in an interview
A problem, a solution or demand, and a target.
What are things that we must identify in working for institutional change?
This was a research tactic used by SNCC to challenge objectivity and centered Black folks as normal.
What is gathering data during organizing activities
This is when a law is in effect until money is allocated for it in the budget.
What is subject to appropriations
The best tactics do these three things.
What are apply pressure build power, and build leaders
These are the four elements of an effective elevator pitch.
Connection, problem, solution, ask