Advocacy

The Alliance understands how critical it is to actively advocate for changes that will result in policies that will better your organization. By advocating, organizations are able to garner the attention of elected officials and others to support these organizations as essential components to the community. The Alliance has a number of resources available to organizations to assist with advocating at the local, state, and federal levels.

General Advocacy Resources:

• Alliance Advocacy Committee
  • Tips on Effective Local History Advocacy (from the 2022 OLHA Annual Meeting)
• American Alliance of Museums:
  • Advocacy Alerts
  • Tools to Advocate
  • Museum Advocacy Day
• American Association for State and Local History
• Association of Midwest Museums
• National Humanities Alliance
• Ohio History Connection:
  • Legislative Advocacy
  • Ohio Statehood Day
• Ohio Travel Resources for Advocacy
• Small Museum Association

General Advocacy Forms:

• Economic Impact Statement
• Educational Impact Statement
• Economic and Educational Impact Statement Samples

Contact Your Elected Officials:

• National Legislator Search
• Ohio Legislature Search
• Meeting with Elected Officials
• Advocating Year Round
• Guide to Election Year Advocacy