{"id":771215,"date":"2012-04-13T18:45:20","date_gmt":"2012-04-13T18:45:20","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.goodwill.org\/blog\/general\/join-the-goodwill-on-the-hill-virtual-advocacy-day\/"},"modified":"2026-02-13T15:52:00","modified_gmt":"2026-02-13T15:52:00","slug":"join-the-goodwill-on-the-hill-virtual-advocacy-day","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.goodwill.org\/blog\/advocate\/join-the-goodwill-on-the-hill-virtual-advocacy-day\/","title":{"rendered":"Join the Goodwill on the Hill \u2013 Virtual Advocacy Day!"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p><a rel=\"attachment wp-att-17346\" href=\"\/get-involved\/advocate\/join-the-goodwill%c2%ae-on-the-hill-%e2%80%93-virtual-advocacy-day\/attachment\/78459577\/\"><img fetchpriority=\"high\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignleft size-full wp-image-17346\" title=\"78459577\" src=\"https:\/\/www.goodwill.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/04\/78459577.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"300\" height=\"201\" \/><\/a>Goodwill Industries International \u00a0(GII) is looking forward to conducting its sixth annual advocacy day on Tuesday, April 17, as part of the GII Spring Conference.\u00a0<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Nearly 200 Goodwill advocates from around the country will visit Capitol Hill to advocate for federal funding for programs that leverage Goodwill and benefit the people we serve, and for the reauthorization of the Workforce Investment Act (WIA).<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Advance the impact of these in-person meetings by showing your Goodwill support even if you can&#8217;t attend!\u00a0 As Congress considers what can be accomplished before the elections, Goodwill is working to ensure that our elected leaders recognize the resources, (including YOU, our supporters), that Goodwill brings to the table as we advocate for people in need in communities across the United States.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Take part in the Goodwill on the Hill Virtual Advocacy Day to make your voice heard!\u00a0 Join the event on Facebook and we\u2019ll send you quick and easy action items you can take to demonstrate your support for Goodwill. The <a href=\"\/get-involved\/advocate\/action-center\/\">GoodwilI Legislative Action Center<\/a> allows you to have a voice, and with one click of a button you can contact your member of Congress.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Goodwill Industries International \u00a0(GII) is looking forward to conducting its sixth annual advocacy day on Tuesday, April 17, as part of the GII Spring Conference.\u00a0 Nearly 200 Goodwill advocates from around the country will visit Capitol Hill to advocate for federal funding for programs that leverage Goodwill and benefit the people we serve, and for [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":4,"featured_media":767395,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[14],"tags":[93,92],"class_list":["post-771215","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-advocate","tag-action-alert","tag-wia"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.goodwill.org\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/771215","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.goodwill.org\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.goodwill.org\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.goodwill.org\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/4"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.goodwill.org\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=771215"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/www.goodwill.org\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/771215\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":771216,"href":"https:\/\/www.goodwill.org\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/771215\/revisions\/771216"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.goodwill.org\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/767395"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.goodwill.org\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=771215"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.goodwill.org\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=771215"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.goodwill.org\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=771215"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}