{"id":772442,"date":"2022-03-31T18:51:04","date_gmt":"2022-03-31T18:51:04","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.goodwill.org\/blog\/general\/be-an-advocate-and-participate-in-goodwills-virtual-advocacy-day-2\/"},"modified":"2026-02-17T13:09:00","modified_gmt":"2026-02-17T13:09:00","slug":"be-an-advocate-and-participate-in-goodwills-virtual-advocacy-day-2","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.goodwill.org\/blog\/advocate\/be-an-advocate-and-participate-in-goodwills-virtual-advocacy-day-2\/","title":{"rendered":"Be an Advocate and Participate in Goodwill\u2019s Virtual Advocacy Day"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<em>By Laura Walling, Senior Director of Government Relations, Goodwill Industries International<\/em>\n\nToday, nearly 100 Goodwill advocates including organization presidents and CEOs, mission leaders, communication professionals, volunteer board members, and more will meet virtually with hundreds of lawmakers and staff to discuss investments in America\u2019s workers; changes to the workforce development system; and the impact of tax policies on nonprofits. They will be educating Congress about the role that Goodwill plays in their community.\n\n<strong>You can help support these efforts virtually by sending a message to your lawmakers as part of Goodwill\u2019s Virtual Advocacy Day!<\/strong> Your voice matters and the thoughts you share with your lawmakers make a difference. Here are three things that you can do to participate in Goodwill\u2019s virtual advocacy:\n<ul>\n \t<li><strong>Send a Letter<\/strong>: Start off your virtual advocacy efforts by visiting Goodwill Industries International\u2019s <a href=\"https:\/\/advocate.www.goodwill.org\/goodwill\/app\/write-a-letter?3&amp;engagementId=514135\">Legislative Action Center<\/a>. You can send your lawmakers a letter asking them to support Goodwill\u2019s policy priorities.<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<ul>\n \t<li><strong>Tweet Your Lawmaker\/Share a Facebook Post<\/strong>: Use the power of social media (Twitter and Facebook) to\u00a0message your lawmaker and ask them to support Goodwill. Follow the hashtag #GoodwillOnHill for messages you can re-share and re-tweet to your lawmaker.<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<ul>\n \t<li><strong>Post a Selfie<\/strong>: You are the face of a Goodwill Advocate! Share a picture online of you and tell the world why you advocate for Goodwill. Use our\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/pbs.twimg.com\/media\/DbJs4SjXUAE2Sx5.jpg\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Goodwill Advocate selfie template<\/a>\u00a0along with your selfie to personalize your advocacy efforts.<\/li>\n<\/ul>\nThese are three simple ways you can participate in Goodwill\u2019s\u00a0virtual advocacy. We invite you to take at least <u>one<\/u> action today.\n\nEvery voice matters and virtual advocacy is one of the ways that you can make your voice heard. Thank you for your efforts today for being a Goodwill advocate!\n\nDon\u2019t forget to follow us <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/GoodwillCapHill\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">@GoodwillCapHill<\/a> and follow along with #GoodwillOnHill!\n\n&nbsp;\n\n<a href=\"http:\/\/give.www.goodwill.org\/site\/PageServer?pagename=GII_Landing_Page\"><img decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignnone size-full wp-image-568968\" src=\"https:\/\/www.goodwill.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/02\/support.png\" alt=\"\" width=\"93\" height=\"94\" \/><\/a><a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/GoodwillCapHill\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\"><img decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignnone size-full wp-image-568969\" src=\"https:\/\/www.goodwill.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/02\/twitter.png\" alt=\"\" width=\"94\" height=\"94\" \/><\/a>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Today, nearly 100 Goodwill advocates including organization presidents and CEOs, mission leaders, communication professionals, volunteer board members, and more will meet virtually with hundreds of lawmakers and staff to discuss investments in America\u2019s workers; changes to the workforce development system; and the impact of tax policies on nonprofits. They will be educating Congress about the role that Goodwill plays in their community.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":10,"featured_media":768200,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[14],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-772442","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-advocate"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.goodwill.org\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/772442","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\/10"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.goodwill.org\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=772442"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/www.goodwill.org\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/772442\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":772443,"href":"https:\/\/www.goodwill.org\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/772442\/revisions\/772443"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.goodwill.org\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/768200"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.goodwill.org\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=772442"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.goodwill.org\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=772442"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.goodwill.org\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=772442"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}