Florida Alliance for Assistive Services and Technology

Within the cycle of advocacy, nonprofits work on specific policy issues by defining the situation and then using available strategies to work toward their goals. To set goals, FAAST addresses four basic questions:
1.What is the specific problem or opportunity that we need to address?
2.What do we want to have happen?
3.Who decides?
4.How do we influence them?

In answering these questions, a nonprofit sets policy goals and creates core messages for talking about the issue. What is the policy change that we want? How do we make the case for our position?

With goals and core messages in place, advocates have three basic strategies available: direct advocating, grassroots action for building and sustaining a base of support, and media advocacy.