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What is the essence of life?To serve others and to good.Aristotle

ADVOCACYVolunteerismPHILANTHROPY

ADVOCACY

ADVOCACY?It simply means actively supporting a cause, and trying to get others to support it as well.WHAT IS

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ADVOCACY is an activity by an individual or group which aims to influence decisions within political, economic, and social systems and institutions. includes activities suchmedia campaignspublic speakingcommissioning and publishing research or;conducting exit poll or the filing of an amicus brief https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Advocacy

Why do we advocate?What are we advocating for?To whom?

1. The purpose of advocacy as defined by UNFPA is to promote or reinforce a change in policy, programme or legislation.2. Rather than providing support directly to clients or users of services, advocacy aims at winning support from others, i.e. creating a supportive environment.Guidelines on UNFPA Support for Advocacy, July 1997PURPOSE OF ADVOCACY

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Social Justice HealthMediaLegislativeEducation

FORMS OF ADVOCACY

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Advocacy represents the series of actions taken and issues highlighted to change the what is into a what should be, considering that this what should be is a more decent and a more just society (ib., 2001.)SOCIAL JUSTICE ADVOCACY

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supports and promotes patient's health care rights as well as enhance community health and policy initiatives that focus on the availability, safety and quality of care.HEALTH ADVOCACY

Media advocacy: is the strategic use of the mass media as a resource to advance a social or public policy initiative (Jernigan and Wright, 1996.)

MEDIA ADVOCACY

is the reliance on the state or federal legislative process as part of a strategy to create change.

LEGISLATIVE ADVOCACY

Special Education Advocacy : is advocacy with a " specific focus on the educational rights of students with disabilities."EDUCATION ADVOCACY

OF ADVOCACYHave their voice heard on issues that are important to them.Defend and safeguard their rights.Have their views and wishes genuinely considered when decisions are being made about their lives.

OF ADVOCACYAdvocacy is a process of supporting and enabling people to:Express their views and concerns.Access information and services.Defend and promote their rights and responsibilities.Explore choices and options

TECHNIQUES AND TACTICS OF ADVOCACY Campaigning Sensitizing Mobilizing Dialoguing Negotiating Lobbying Petitioning Pressuring Informing

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Never be afraid to raise your voice for honesty and truth and compassion against injustice and lying and greed. If people all over the world...would do this, it would change the earth.

Volunteerism

Volunteerism?WHAT ISIn its conceptual form, includes the individual or collective efforts of willing individuals, known as volunteers, to act in ways which work toward the betterment of oneself, other individuals, communities, society and/or the world.

Adults or teens who contribute time to the promotion, organization, assistance or leadership of an organization without receiving payment for services rendered (USDA, 1990).

Another definition provides four tenets of volunteering as: active involvement; uncoerced or given freely; not primarily for remuneration; and acting on the common good (Safrit & Merrill, 1996)

Volunteering means commitment to pledge yourselves to a noble cause and for good to others.

From Latin root means love of man

Act of donating money, goods, services, time and/or effort to support a socially beneficial cause, with a defined objective and with no financial or material reward to the donor

The Role of PhilanthropyReduce human sufferingEnhance human potentialPromote equity and justiceBuild communityHuman fulfillmentSupport experimentationStimulate changeFoster pluralism