Alliance for Early Success: Allies Trade Strategies for Building the Local-Level Advocacy That Can Shift State-Level Priorities

Many early childhood state policy advocacy organizations in the Alliance for Early Success network report that cultivating champions at the local level has helped them achieve statewide change. Working from the local level up, they say, is powerful because the people closest to the problem are most effective in making the case, and most likely to offer viable solutions. And as the saying goes, all politics is local.