Know Your Stuff: Know Your Issue

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Written By Elizabeth Randol

LEVEL: 201

RESOURCE: Guide

UPDATED: 1/2025

Resource Summary

This guide covers:

  • Tips for researching your issue

  • Identifying stakeholders

  • Mapping the policy environment

  • Developing policy goals/objectives, targets, and ask

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