{"id":544,"date":"2024-01-17T15:18:47","date_gmt":"2024-01-17T15:18:47","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/chopwoodcarrywaterllc.com\/?p=544"},"modified":"2024-10-09T17:18:27","modified_gmt":"2024-10-09T17:18:27","slug":"a-bakers-dozen-strategies-organizations-may-use-to-inform-state-level-policymaking-bodies","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/chopwoodcarrywaterllc.com\/index.php\/2024\/01\/17\/a-bakers-dozen-strategies-organizations-may-use-to-inform-state-level-policymaking-bodies\/","title":{"rendered":"A baker\u2019s dozen strategies organizations may use to inform state-level policymaking bodies"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignnone size-full wp-image-543\" src=\"https:\/\/chopwoodcarrywaterllc.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/01\/bakers_dozen.jpg\" alt=\"columns\" width=\"300\" height=\"450\" srcset=\"https:\/\/chopwoodcarrywaterllc.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/01\/bakers_dozen.jpg 300w, https:\/\/chopwoodcarrywaterllc.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/01\/bakers_dozen-200x300.jpg 200w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 300px) 100vw, 300px\" \/><\/p>\n<p>This is the fourth blog installment discussing organizations\u2019 advocacy efforts and state-level policymaking.<\/p>\n<p><strong>Here are the takeaways:<\/strong><\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>Organizations may find themselves contending with policymaker aims contrary to long-held organizational values, which may be intensified by the rise of \u201centrepreneurial\u201d politics and politicians, particularly at the national level.<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<ul>\n<li>Use of consortia (or broad-based inter-organizational alliances) may provide organizations the ability to affect policymaking in a broader, collegial sense, involving organizations having similar and dissimilar aims, although turf may prove prohibitive. (Admittedly, some existing alliances seek to achieve mutual inter-organizational aims or goals.)<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<ul>\n<li>Increasingly, ubiquitous social media venues influence organizational advocacy, meaning the need for consistent procedures and practices.<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<ul>\n<li>Organizations, operating through \u201cmultidimensional\u201d segments, may be able to best address future advocacy stances, although balanced with organizational aims or goals crafted to meet emerging policy developments.<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p><strong>The baker\u2019s dozen:<\/strong><\/p>\n<ol>\n<li>Organizational advocacy exists as a continuum with eyes, fully open in the present, laid wide on the past while looking to what\u2019s known or predictable about the future \u2013 Janus-like approach.<a href=\"#_edn1\" name=\"_ednref1\">[i]<\/a><\/li>\n<li>Anti-fragile<a href=\"#_edn2\" name=\"_ednref2\">[ii]<\/a> isn\u2019t the same as organizational persecution complex.<a href=\"#_edn3\" name=\"_ednref3\">[iii]<\/a> The former may be growth-inducing, prompted when organizational stances, actions or proposals are scrutinized against policymaker aims; the latter, resigned defensiveness, which, at most, may yield \u00a0crocodile tears.<\/li>\n<li>Catastrophizing<a style=\"font-size: revert;\" href=\"#_edn4\" name=\"_ednref4\">[iv]<\/a><span style=\"font-size: revert;\"> may be a formidable advocacy strategy if infrequently used or used to advantage. The sky is falling<\/span><a style=\"font-size: revert;\" href=\"#_edn5\" name=\"_ednref5\">[v]<\/a><span style=\"font-size: revert;\"> approach often proves irritating not only to policymakers but also most everyone else. Catastrophizing may be apt if the organization provides credible evidence its core values would be eroded or destroyed because of policymaker aims if not modified,<\/span><a style=\"font-size: revert;\" href=\"#_edn6\" name=\"_ednref6\">[vi]<\/a><span style=\"font-size: revert;\"> which differs from rehashed, historic cant. \u00a0\u00a0\u00a0Finally, no matter what policymakers do or have done, the sun appears each morning, although little immediate comfort or consolation. Hear Hubert Humphrey out: \u201cOh, my friend, it\u2019s not what they take away from you that counts \u2013 it\u2019s what have left.\u201d<\/span><a style=\"font-size: revert;\" href=\"#_edn7\" name=\"_ednref7\">[vii]<\/a><span style=\"font-size: revert;\"> Yes, advocacy groups will need to dust themselves off occasionally, climbing back into the <\/span><em style=\"font-size: revert;\">arena. <a href=\"#_edn8\" name=\"_ednref8\">[viii]<\/a><\/em><\/li>\n<\/ol>\n<ol start=\"4\">\n<li><em>C<\/em><em>anem adprehendit automobile<\/em> or \u201cthe dog catches the automobile.\u201d What\u2019s next? What contingencies? \u00a0\u2018Catching the car\u2019 is different from keeping the car \u2018<em>caught<\/em>,\u2019 especially as mediated by elections. Policymaker\/organizational scrapes gone badly, based on an organization\u2019s defense of values or non-negotiables, happen. <a href=\"#_edn9\" name=\"_ednref9\">[ix]<\/a> Repurposing an Eastern proverb, \u201cthe frog in the well (will know) nothing of the sea\u201d<a href=\"#_edn10\" name=\"_ednref10\">[x]<\/a> if the organization focuses on limitations, based on scrapes which result in ties or defeat. (Or, for that matter, seeing victory or partial victory as summative, aka resting on laurels.) Accordingly, policymakers may introduce nudges and boosts to widen an organization\u2019s \u201cappreciation\u201d of policymakers goals, especially those perceived as voter mandates. <a href=\"#_edn11\" name=\"_ednref11\">[xi]<\/a><\/li>\n<li>As poet T.S. Eliot says, \u201cAll truths are private truths.\u201d<a href=\"#_edn12\" name=\"_ednref12\">[xii]<\/a> There is truth, the whole truth and nothing but the truth, which organizational\u00a0 advocates swear to affirm when testifying before West Virginia Legislature Committees. \u00a0There are facts, data, information, statistics (<em>data<\/em>). <em>Data<\/em>, however, is wisely and widely subjected to interpretation by policymakers, various constituencies, based on variables such as timeliness, source(s), format, fact-checking or even anecdotal \u201cdata,\u201d which often gains coinage when constituent share <em>their<\/em> truths with policymakers at public gatherings, in grocery store conversations, church, civic or community events. <u>Hint<\/u>: The best organizational approach may include combining quantitative and quality data, i.e., empirical research and focus group input.<a href=\"#_edn13\" name=\"_ednref13\">[xiii]<\/a><\/li>\n<li>Organizations should embrace consortia, which requires long-term, deliberative thought, although not abandoning advantageous coalition involvement. Consortia promote dialogue between and among similar and dissimilar parties, based on breadth and depth of shared, aligned or countervailing policy issues. Coalitions, by design, often end in \u201cthe middle,\u201d providing anointed and invigorated energy and even initiative and cover for often larger, more widely known coalition progenitors, having much to lose if taking a unilateral position.<a href=\"#_edn14\" name=\"_ednref14\">[xiv]<\/a> Consortia, again, comprised of diverse, non-aligned organizations, approach their tasks in \u201cparliament\u201d settings, whereas coalitions are established through invitational appointment of broad constituencies often to achieve singular aims (such as support or opposition to constitutional amendments). Consortia emphasize structured dialogue without an aim for consensus, issues position papers, establishing an array or \u201cwell\u201d of data dashboards available to the policyholders and the public, sponsoring educational seminars, etc.\u00a0Again, coalition membership must not be discounted as a delimited strategy. \u00a0(Of course, existing inter-organizational alliances support mutual policy aims, such as business, labor, or health care alliances.)<\/li>\n<li>Organizations, including advocacy departments, exist at various levels, with their leadership responsible for scanning the environment, seeking to bolster organizational strengths and to ward threats. Finding balance is key, equipping the organization to meet emergent \u2013 or long-term &#8211; demands and challenges. Moving those on the ground (rank-and-file), however, becomes critical. While successful organizations are advised to be nimble,<a href=\"#_edn15\" name=\"_ednref15\">[xv]<\/a> their leaders cannot embrace policy shifts that \u201ccancel\u201d or \u201csacrifice\u201d organizational values or non-negotiables.<a href=\"#_edn16\" name=\"_ednref16\">[xvi]<\/a> If not preparing for emergent policy shifts, organizations may doom their rank-and-file \u2013 those on the ground<a href=\"#_edn17\" name=\"_ednref17\">[xvii]<\/a> &#8211; due to changing policy menus, resulting from elections or overt acts of policymakers whose statutes, policies, rules and regulation may affect those \u201con the ground\u201d directly. While <em>wron<\/em>g menus may \u00a0emerge, disturbing customary \u00a0orderliness,\u00a0 the old adage \u00a0&#8211; \u201cif you\u2019re not at the table, you\u2019re probably on the menu\u201d \u2013 may prove telling.<a href=\"#_edn18\" name=\"_ednref18\">[xviii]<\/a> Moreover, organizations can structure themselves with \u201cforward-looking\u201d sectors \u00a0&#8211; think consortia membership as cited above &#8211; \u00a0as long as messaging is clear, meaning the organization enunciates, through proper parties, official pronouncements regarding its policy concerns,\u00a0 with means to solidify membership support \u00a0through \u201caligned messaging.\u201d <a href=\"#_edn19\" name=\"_ednref19\">[xix]<\/a><\/li>\n<li>In the case you have not noticed, \u2018summer of love politics\u2019 seems on its last legs, although some observers contend 60s political mystique was felled by capitalism in the late 1960s, prefiguring today\u2019s politics through policy actions during the last 40-50 years.<a href=\"#_edn20\" name=\"_ednref20\">[xx]<\/a> Organizations retain stability in polarized times, \u00a0although seeking the baleful middle or rush to bipartisanship appears to be fading as a \u201cgo-to\u201d strategy, certainly nationally. <a href=\"#_edn21\" name=\"_ednref21\">[xxi]<\/a> \u00a0Wise leaders equip organizations to maximize potential for change so organizations will be or remain valued by policymakers, especially over the long-haul. The key is organizational \u00a0\u201cmultidimensionality,\u201d that allows organization shape-shifters to \u201cshift\u201d or pivot, addressing policymakers\u2019 emergent aims while retaining organizational values and non-negotiables to maintain resilience.<a href=\"#_edn22\" name=\"_ednref22\">[xxii]<\/a><\/li>\n<li>While <em>Under the Eye of Power: How Fear of Secret Societies Shapes American Democracy<a href=\"#_edn23\" name=\"_ednref23\"><strong>[xxiii]<\/strong><\/a><\/em>is a commendable read, is the world comprised of conspiracies, often \u201ctyped\u201d as\u00a0 including cabals of malefactors ready to edge the unalert into numerous abysses? This thinking is mainstream. Accordingly, elected policymakers are seen as most capable of dealing with complexity through removing ambiguities \u201cefficiently,\u201d by eliminating what a\u00a0 federal health agency defines as \u201cuncertainty intolerance.\u201d<a href=\"#_edn24\" name=\"_ednref24\">[xxiv]<\/a> Truth in part but liability in a larger sense because, as issues become weighted with greater complexities, policy dilemmas may become intractable, resulting in governance paralysis, i.e. Washington dysfunction, especially if balanced budgets are not mandated, but spending authorized through\u00a0 \u201ccontinuing fiscal resolutions.\u201d Moreover, TV, podcasters \u00a0and social media types seemingly rush history to achieve their enunciated ends with real time efficiency, guaranteeing amped ratings &#8211; even cult status. Yet, does not history unfold generations later?<a href=\"#_edn25\" name=\"_ednref25\">[xxv]<\/a> Wise organizations welcome open, expansive sweeps of narratives in a time when\u00a0 generalists,<a href=\"#_edn26\" name=\"_ednref26\">[xxvi]<\/a> including CEOs as preferred entrepreneurs, are besting siloed organizational staff. <a href=\"#_edn27\" name=\"_ednref27\">[xxvii]<\/a>\u00a0 Effective organizations espy opportunities from disorder while political bases may seek absolutism, especially in a time characterized by what Bret Stephens, quoting <em>Tablet\u2019s<\/em> Alana Newhouse,\u00a0 terms \u201cbrokenness.\u201d<a href=\"#_edn28\" name=\"_ednref28\">[xxviii]<\/a> Relatedly, entrepreneurs (or, at least, entrepreneurial thinking) is prized today as an economic prompt for economic development much as the efforts of 19<sup>th<\/sup> Century capitalist tycoons were lauded.<a href=\"#_edn29\" name=\"_ednref29\">[xxix]<\/a> Moreover, politicians whose campaigns are framed around eliminating ambiguities or nuance appear to be on the rise, although policymaking is both process and passion, the latter often besting the former, because the public, willing to accept fundamental certainties, views institutions and process as increasingly suspect \u2013 a consideration Stephens also makes.<\/li>\n<li>Social Media, including AI, is ubiquitous. As a West Virginia Department of Education official reported to the Legislature\u2019s Joint Standing Committee on Education, policymakers provide parameters of responsible use for AI \u2013 as a matterof policy they must decide. <a style=\"font-size: 1rem;\" href=\"#_edn30\" name=\"_ednref30\">[xxx]. <\/a>Moreover, \u201cX,\u201d formerly Twitter, Facebook, Instagram, email, podcasts, and various forms of electronic media provide a way to influence policymaking in \u201creal time.\u201d Organizations, however, need policies and procedures for use of social media without sole reliance on this communications medium. Carefully crafted social media use can amplify organizational pronouncements.Think policymaker public hearings.Some advocacy groups, during the allotted time at the hearing, will mention supporting information is available on the organization\u2019s website or will provide that detail at the hearing, including hardcopy.<\/li>\n<li>Organizations equip members with sufficient, useful, credible information appropriate to organizational divisions or levels, meaning variances, but, again, \u201caligned messaging\u201d and the medium or media for such, including one-on-one dialogue with policymakers based on organizational positions held. For instance, school system excess levy proponents include both professional educators and school service personnel as well as school administrators and county board members \u2013 as regulated by law. Each grouping bears differing \u00a0messaging emphases, based on organizational positioning,\u00a0 to enhance support for excess levies, e.g., salary and benefits enhancements, facilities enhancements, school safety enhancements.<a href=\"#_edn31\" name=\"_ednref31\">[xxxi]<\/a><\/li>\n<li>Advocacy is only one facet of an organization\u2019s outputs, but critical in its own right. Effective organizations plan to, restating the above, function in the present, while looking to the past for direction and guidance, to embrace the future fully. Organizations whose leaders pull far ahead of members may place the organization and\/or their positions in jeopardy. Moreover, policymakers often want an identified or \u201cgo-to\u201d leader (or leaders) to ensure organizational positional solidity is being espoused, based on delegate assemblies, governing boards or other sanctioned or appropriate intra-organizational units having these responsibilities. Diverse consortia also provide organizations the ability to engage in \u201clook-aheads.\u201d Jared Diamond points out many advocacy groups do not have the capacity to fully realize their goals, although organizations \u2013 corporations in this case \u2013 may conclude goals such as materials recycling, energy conservation or alternative energy sources benefit society at large.<a href=\"#_edn32\" name=\"_ednref32\">[xxxii]<\/a> Governor Jim Justice echoed a related sentiment when referring to fossil fuels and the state\u2019s emphasis on use of alternate energy sources and enterprises in his January 10 State of the State address.<a href=\"#_edn33\" name=\"_ednref33\">[xxxiii]<\/a><\/li>\n<li>The West Virginia Constitution states:The powers of government reside in all the citizens of the state, and can be rightfully exercised only in accordance with their will and appointment.<a style=\"font-size: revert;\" href=\"#_edn34\" name=\"_ednref34\">[xxxiv]<\/a><\/li>\n<\/ol>\n<p>Labor West unions, school employee organizations, business groups, health groups, and other associations and organizations provide West Virginia citizens amplified voices to inform and influence policymaking.<\/p>\n<p>As citizens we must not only hold ourselves accountable but also our elected officials entrusted to represent us.<a href=\"#_edn35\" name=\"_ednref35\">[xxxv]<\/a><\/p>\n<p><a href=\"#_ednref1\" name=\"_edn1\"><\/a><strong>\u00a0<\/strong><\/p>\n<p><strong>Sources: <\/strong><\/p>\n<p>[i] https:\/\/www.andersonlock.com\/blog\/god-doors\/#:~:text=As%20the%20god%20of%20transitions,or%20openings%20between%20spatial%20boundaries.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"#_ednref2\" name=\"_edn2\">[ii]<\/a> https:\/\/fs.blog\/antifragile-a-definition\/<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"#_ednref3\" name=\"_edn3\">[iii]<\/a> <a href=\"https:\/\/www.forbes.com\/sites\/forbescoachescouncil\/2017\/01\/11\/how-to-manage-the-arrogant-victim-mindset\/?sh=1c5237e038d8\">https:\/\/www.forbes.com\/sites\/forbescoachescouncil\/2017\/01\/11\/how-to-manage-the-arrogant-victim-mindset\/?sh=1c5237e038d8<\/a> Admittedly, inexact application, although there are similar elements at play between policymakers and organizational advocates.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"#_ednref4\" name=\"_edn4\">[iv]<\/a> <a href=\"https:\/\/www.psychologytoday.com\/us\/basics\/catastrophizing\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">https:\/\/www.psychologytoday.com\/us\/basics\/catastrophizing<\/a><\/p>\n<p><a href=\"#_ednref5\" name=\"_edn5\">[v]<\/a> Henny Penny,\u201d more commonly known in the United States as &#8220;Chicken Little&#8221; and sometimes as &#8220;Chicken Licken,\u201d is a European folk tale a moral in the form of a cumulative tale about a chicken who believes that the world is coming to an end. The phrase\u00a0&#8220;The sky is falling!&#8221;\u00a0features prominently in the story and has passed into the English language as a common idiom indicating a\u00a0hysterical mistaken belief that disaster is imminent. Similar stories go back more than 25 centuries<a href=\"https:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/Henny_Penny#cite_note-Jataka-1\"><sup>[1]<\/sup><\/a>\u00a0and &#8220;Henny Penny&#8221; continues to be referred to in a variety of media. https:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/Henny_Penny#:~:text=%22Henny%20Penny%22%2C%20more%20commonly,is%20coming%20to%20an%20end.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"#_ednref6\" name=\"_edn6\">[vi]<\/a><a href=\"https:\/\/annecorder.co.uk\/employers-blog\/understanding-your-workplace-non-negotiables\/#:~:text=Your%20workplace%20non%2Dnegotiables%20outline,your%20workplace%2C%20colleagues%20and%20customers\">https:\/\/annecorder.co.uk\/employers-blog\/understanding-your-workplace-non-negotiables\/#:~:text=Your%20workplace%20non%2Dnegotiables%20outline,your%20workplace%2C%20colleagues%20and%20customers<\/a> \u00a0is a representative read. %20end.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"#_ednref7\" name=\"_edn7\">[vii]<\/a>\u00a0 <a href=\"https:\/\/www.brainyquote.com\/authors\/hubert-h-humphrey-quotes\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">https:\/\/www.brainyquote.com\/authors\/hubert-h-humphrey-quotes<\/a><\/p>\n<p><a href=\"#_ednref8\" name=\"_edn8\">[viii]<\/a> https:\/\/www.goodreads.com\/author\/show\/44567.Theodore_Roosevelt<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"#_ednref9\" name=\"_edn9\">[ix]<\/a>\u00a0<a href=\"_wp_link_placeholder\" data-wplink-edit=\"true\">https:\/\/www.mr-sustainability.com\/why-how-what-who\/clear-non-negotiables<\/a><\/p>\n<p><a href=\"#_ednref10\" name=\"_edn10\">[x]<\/a>\u00a0 <a href=\"https:\/\/en.wikibooks.org\/wiki\/Chinese_Stories\/The_frog_of_the_well#:~:text=The%20Chinese%20text%20is%20a,in%20a%20well%2C%20has%20a\">https:\/\/en.wikibooks.org\/wiki\/Chinese_Stories\/The_frog_of_the_well#:~:text=The%20Chinese%20text%20is%20a,in%20a%20well%2C%20has%20a<\/a><\/p>\n<p><a href=\"#_ednref11\" name=\"_edn11\">[xi]<\/a> <a href=\"https:\/\/pure.mpg.de\/rest\/items\/item_2513866_5\/component\/file_2514744\/content\">https:\/\/pure.mpg.de\/rest\/items\/item_2513866_5\/component\/file_2514744\/content<\/a><\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/fingfx.thomsonreuters.com\/gfx\/breakingviews\/gkplgbgoavb\/FINAL2022%20-%20Reuters_Breakingviews_Predictions_2022_v5.pdf\">https:\/\/fingfx.thomsonreuters.com\/gfx\/breakingviews\/gkplgbgoavb\/FINAL2022%20-%20Reuters_Breakingviews_Predictions_2022_v5.pdf<\/a><\/p>\n<p>[xii] <a href=\"https:\/\/www.brainyquote.com\/quotes\/t_s_eliot_\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">https:\/\/www.brainyquote.com\/quotes\/t_s_eliot_<\/a><\/p>\n<p><a href=\"#_ednref12\" name=\"_edn12\"><\/a><\/p>\n<p><a href=\"#_ednref13\" name=\"_edn13\">[xiii]<\/a> <a href=\"https:\/\/en.wikibooks.org\/wiki\/Chinese_Stories\/The_frog_of_the_well#:~:text=The%20Chinese%20text%20is%20a,in%20a%20well%2C%20has%20a\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">https:\/\/betterthesis.dk\/research-methods\/lesson-1different-approaches-to-research\/combining-qualitative-and-quantitative-methods#:~:text=In%20practice%2C%20most%20researchers%20agree,understanding%20of%20a%20research%20area. Or, 402054\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0 https:\/\/www.surveymonkey.com\/mp\/quantitative-vs-qualitative-research\/#:~:text=Simply%20put%2C%20quantitative%20data%20gets,understand%20the%20differences%20between%20them<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"#_ednref14\" name=\"_edn14\">[xiv]<\/a> <a href=\"https:\/\/en.wikibooks.org\/wiki\/Chinese_Stories\/The_frog_of_the_well#:~:text=The%20Chinese%20text%20is%20a,in%20a%20well%2C%20has%20a\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">https:\/\/justassociates.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2007\/08\/new_weave_en_ch17.pdf<\/a><\/p>\n<p><a href=\"#_ednref15\" name=\"_edn15\">[xv]<\/a> <a href=\"https:\/\/fundingforgood.org\/build-a-nimble-organization\/#:~:text=Nimble%20organizations%20are%20purpose%2Ddriven,organization%20also%20requires%20nimble%20leadership\">https:\/\/fundingforgood.org\/build-a-nimble-organization\/#:~:text=Nimble%20organizations%20are%20purpose%2Ddriven,organization%20also%20requires%20nimble%20leadership<\/a>. Excellent read.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"#_ednref16\" name=\"_edn16\">[xvi]<\/a> See Endnote 6.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"#_ednref17\" name=\"_edn17\">[xvii]<\/a> <a href=\"https:\/\/en.wikibooks.org\/wiki\/Chinese_Stories\/The_frog_of_the_well#:~:text=The%20Chinese%20text%20is%20a,in%20a%20well%2C%20has%20a\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">https:\/\/chopwoodcarrywaterllc.com\/index.php\/2023\/11\/27\/state-level-policymaking-bodies-and-organizations-weather-climate-analogies-relating-to-policy-determination\/<\/a><\/p>\n<p><a href=\"#_ednref18\" name=\"_edn18\">[xviii]<\/a>\u00a0 https:\/\/quoteinvestigator.com\/2020\/11\/15\/table-menu\/\u00a0\u00a0 https:\/\/www.haystackteam.com\/blog\/three-key-elements-of-messaging-alignment#:~:text=Aligned%20messaging%20unites%20senior%20leadership,effective%20marketing%20and%20communication%20campaigns.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"#_ednref19\" name=\"_edn19\">[xix]<\/a> <a href=\"https:\/\/www.haystackteam.com\/blog\/three-key-elements-of-messaging-alignment#:~:text=Aligned%20messaging%20unites%20senior%20leadership,effective%20marketing%20and%20communication%20campaigns\">https:\/\/www.haystackteam.com\/blog\/three-key-elements-of-messaging-alignment#:~:text=Aligned%20messaging%20unites%20senior%20leadership,effective%20marketing%20and%20communication%20campaigns<\/a><\/p>\n<p><a href=\"#_ednref20\" name=\"_edn20\">[xx]<\/a> https:\/\/daily.jstor.org\/the-summer-of-love-wasnt-all-peace-and-hippies\/<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"#_ednref21\" name=\"_edn21\">[xxi]<\/a> https:\/\/corg.iu.edu\/programs\/hamilton-views\/comments-on-congress\/Bipartisanship%20Isnt%20Dead,%20But%20Its%20Not%20In%20Good%20Health,%20Either%20.html<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"#_ednref22\" name=\"_edn22\">[xxii]<\/a> <a href=\"https:\/\/dainamiddleton.com\/shape-shifter-importance-building-organizational-resilience\/\">https:\/\/dainamiddleton.com\/shape-shifter-importance-building-organizational-resilience\/<\/a> organizational shape-shifter<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"#_ednref23\" name=\"_edn23\">[xxiii]<\/a> https:\/\/www.nytimes.com\/2023\/07\/11\/books\/review\/under-the-eye-of-power-colin-dickey.html<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"#_ednref24\" name=\"_edn24\">[xxiv]<\/a> <a href=\"https:\/\/www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov\/pmc\/articles\/PMC9747232\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">https:\/\/www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov\/pmc\/articles\/PMC9747232\/<\/a><\/p>\n<p><a href=\"#_ednref25\" name=\"_edn25\">[xxv]<\/a> Interesting read: https:\/\/maineinitiatives.org\/news\/history-is-written-by-the-victors<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"#_ednref26\" name=\"_edn26\">[xxvi]<\/a> <a href=\"https:\/\/davidepstein.com\/the-range\/\">https:\/\/davidepstein.com\/the-range\/<\/a><\/p>\n<p><a href=\"#_ednref27\" name=\"_edn27\">[xxvii]<\/a> https:\/\/www.shopify.com\/blog\/entrepreneur-examples<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"#_ednref28\" name=\"_edn28\">[xxviii]<\/a> <a href=\"https:\/\/www.nytimes.com\/2024\/01\/11\/opinion\/columnists\/donald-trump-election.html\">https:\/\/www.nytimes.com\/2024\/01\/11\/opinion\/columnists\/donald-trump-election.html<\/a><\/p>\n<p><a href=\"#_ednref29\" name=\"_edn29\">[xxix]<\/a> <a href=\"https:\/\/online.maryville.edu\/business-degrees\/americas-gilded-age\/\">https:\/\/online.maryville.edu\/business-degrees\/americas-gilded-age\/<\/a> \u201c&#8230;With technology booming and immigrants flocking to the United States seeking better opportunities for themselves and their families, they left their mark on the United States \u2014 and on history.\u201d<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"#_ednref30\" name=\"_edn30\">[xxx]<\/a> Joint Standing Committee on Education<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"#_ednref31\" name=\"_edn31\">[xxxi]<\/a> <a href=\"https:\/\/joinit.com\/membership-organizations-guide\">https:\/\/joinit.com\/membership-organizations-guide<\/a> (Refer to\u201d non-profits and advocacy groups.\u201d)<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"#_ednref32\" name=\"_edn32\">[xxxii]<\/a> https:\/\/www.nytimes.com\/2009\/12\/06\/opinion\/06diamond.html<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"#_ednref33\" name=\"_edn33\">[xxxiii]<\/a> \u201c\u2026We need to diversify our economies. We need to never, never, never forget our coal miners, our gas workers and our fossil fuels\u2026I said diversify the economy. We could not just depend on one industry all the time\u2026But we couldn&#8217;t depend on the one industry all the time. But we don&#8217;t forget, do we? And you know what happened? Because us putting another stake in the sand and saying we&#8217;re not going to forget our fossil fuels\u2026\u201d &#8211; <a href=\"https:\/\/governor.wv.gov\/News\/press-releases\/2024\/Pages\/Gov.-Justice-to-deliver-final-State-of-the-State-Address-Wednesday-night.aspx\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">https:\/\/governor.wv.gov\/News\/press-releases\/2024\/Pages\/Gov.-Justice-to-deliver-final-State-of-the-State-Address-Wednesday-night.aspx<\/a><\/p>\n<p><a href=\"#_ednref34\" name=\"_edn34\">[xxxiv]<\/a> https:\/\/www.wvlegislature.gov\/WVCODE\/WV_CON.cfm#articleII<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"#_ednref35\" name=\"_edn35\">[xxxv]<\/a> <a href=\"https:\/\/wvmetronews.com\/2024\/01\/10\/heres-whats-good-about-the-west-virginia-legislature\/\">https:\/\/wvmetronews.com\/2024\/01\/10\/heres-whats-good-about-the-west-virginia-legislature\/<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>This is the fourth blog installment discussing organizations&rsquo; advocacy efforts and state-level policymaking. Here are the takeaways: Organizations may find themselves contending with policymaker aims contrary to long-held organizational values, which may be intensified by the rise of &ldquo;entrepreneurial&rdquo; politics and politicians, particularly at the national level. Use of consortia (or broad-based inter-organizational alliances) may &hellip; <\/p>\n<p class=\"link-more\"><a href=\"https:\/\/chopwoodcarrywaterllc.com\/index.php\/2024\/01\/17\/a-bakers-dozen-strategies-organizations-may-use-to-inform-state-level-policymaking-bodies\/\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading<span class=\"screen-reader-text\"> &#8220;A baker\u2019s dozen strategies organizations may use to inform state-level policymaking bodies&#8221;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-544","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/chopwoodcarrywaterllc.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/544","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/chopwoodcarrywaterllc.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/chopwoodcarrywaterllc.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/chopwoodcarrywaterllc.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/chopwoodcarrywaterllc.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=544"}],"version-history":[{"count":14,"href":"https:\/\/chopwoodcarrywaterllc.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/544\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":568,"href":"https:\/\/chopwoodcarrywaterllc.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/544\/revisions\/568"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/chopwoodcarrywaterllc.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=544"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/chopwoodcarrywaterllc.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=544"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/chopwoodcarrywaterllc.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=544"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}