Advocacy Tool Kit

Check out our very own Education blog.
By moving the Education bars of the Common Good Forecaster, you can predict changes in Health, Financial Stability, Kids Achievement, and Civic Participation through this cool, interactive learning tool.
Here is another interactive tool - play a Texas Hold 'em style card game as a way to understand the options school officials face when deciding the budget when faced with severe cutbacks.
Action for Children provides news, reports, and resources on issues affecting the well-being of North Carolina's children. This organization’s goals are to work to ensure that every child is healthy, safe, well-educated and financially secure.
Check out how well schools throughout the state are doing.

Be your own advocate. Gain knowledge on how to manage financial resources and build stability. And be sure to forward this to a friend…
In 2005, Buncombe County prepared a 10 year plan to end homelessness. See the progress being made.
The North Carolina Housing Coalition is a leading advocate for safe and affordable housing.

This website looks at a variety of statistics that reveal the health of the county. By entering the State and County, you can access that information. This website highlights their approach, ranking methods, action steps you can take, and stories from counties throughout the United States that are taking action to improve their health results.
Check out Buncombe County’s latest Community Health Assessment, produced in 2010.

Read a report that gives a Snapshot of the Economy in every NC county (released in 2012 re: 2010/11).
United Way Worldwide has identified a host of current issues impacting our focus areas of Education, Income, and Health. Take a look, and if you see something you feel strongly about (for or against), make your voice heard!

Confused by who represents you? The Board of Elections has this cool site that allows you to type in your street address and it will tell you all you need to know - your district, who represents you and where you should go to vote!
Register to vote or help someone else to do the same. Buncombe County Board of Elections
Help kids learn about voting. Connect to Kids Voting

Use this link to see your elected representatives to the State and Federal government; North Carolina officials and agencies; local officials, issues, and legislative alerts; issues and legislation for Education, Income and Health on a national level; members of NC’s delegation to Congress; and a media guide. You can navigate each of these links to get more information as well as directly contact representatives and officials.

The link above really does a great job connecting you to Federal, State and Local officials but just in case you just wanted the direct links, here they are:

Become more engaged with what is going on in Raleigh - who is there, what the issues are and what is being voted on. Carolina Public Press has assembled a great collection of links that can help you do just that.

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