Organizing Your Parents for Effective Advocacy

Autor/in	Elpus, Kenneth
Titel	Organizing Your Parents for Effective Advocacy
Quelle	In: Music Educators Journal, 95 (2008) 2, S.56-61 (6 Seiten) PDF als Volltext Verfügbarkeit
Sprache	englisch
Dokumenttyp	gedruckt; online; Zeitschriftenaufsatz
ISSN	0027-4321
DOI	10.1177/0027432108325688
Schlagwörter	Stellungnahme; Taxes; Budgets; Educational Finance; Advocacy; Parent Participation; Parent School Relationship; Music Education; Financial Support; Nonprofit Organizations; Program Development; Information Dissemination; Public Opinion + Suchen Sie Ihr Suchwort? Abgabe; Finanzhaushalt; Bildungsfonds; Sozialanwaltschaft; Elternmitwirkung; Parent-school relationship; Parent school relationships; Parent-school relationships; Parent-school relation; Parent school relation; Eltern-Schule-Beziehung; Musikerziehung; Finanzielle Förderung; Nonprofit-Organisation; Programmplanung; Informationsverbreitung; Öffentliche Meinung
Abstract	In today's world of restrictive school budgets and increasing property taxes, it is an unfortunate reality that many school districts will be faced with a budget crunch crisis that unenlightened school boards may try to solve by cutting or eliminating funds for music. At the crisis stage, it is often only the effective advocacy of an organized group of parents that can save music programs from disaster. However, for parent advocacy to be the most successful, it is vitally important that the supporters of threatened programs be organized "before" the specters of budget cuts and program eliminations arise. This article lists the steps involved in formally founding a music parents' booster group to take advantage of nonprofit and federal tax-exempt status while explaining the specific "can dos" and "can't dos" of tax-exempt organization advocacy. In addition, the author discusses a few specific action items to help one's newly-minted booster group craft and perfect a proactive advocacy message that can be easily used as a basis for mobilizing parents in an advocacy crisis. (Contains 2 figures and 4 footnotes.) (ERIC).
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Erfasst von	ERIC (Education Resources Information Center), Washington, DC
Update	2017/4/10