Advocacy Toolkits

Here you will find various tools to help you reach out to Members of Congress about the importance of the U.S. International Affairs Budget.

USGLC Member Organizations can use these tools to send letters and e-mail to House and Senate offices in support of the International Affairs Budget. For more information, please contact Stuart Baimel at sbaimel[at]usglc.org

Current Campaigns

Tell Your Senators: Fully Fund the International Affairs Budget T May 2010

Update: Thanks to your hard work, on May 26 a record-setting 37 Senators – nearly 40% of the Senate – joined together in sending a critically important bipartisan letter to Senate Appropriators urging full funding of the President’s FY 11 International Affairs Budget request. Thank those Senators who signed on using the contact list below.

Senate Signatories Contact Information – call and thank the letter’s signatories for their support

Senate Contact Information: Priority Offices Who Have Not Signed Letter – easy-to-use spreadsheet to mail-merge letters

Sample Action Alert – send an action alert to mobilize your membership

Sample Fax – send your letters via fax

Key message and talking points – for calling your Senators

Thank you Letters to House Caucus/Committee Members TApril 2010

House Caucus/Committee Contact Information – easy to use spreadsheet to mail-merge letters

Sample Letter to House

Past Campaigns

Outreach to Budget Committee MembersT February 2010

Budget Committee Contact Information – easy to use spreadsheet to mail-merge letters to key Members of Congress

Sample Letter to House

Sample Letter to Senate

Sample Action Alert

Key Message and Talking Points – for calls to Members of Congress

FY11 International Affairs Budget RequestT November/December 2009

Fact Sheet highlighting the FY 11 request and supporting statements

Budget Analysis on the FY11 International Affairs Budget request

Sample Press Statement – send your own release on your letterhead

Sample Letter to Capitol Hill – send your own letter of support for the FY11 request to Capitol Hill

Sample Talking Points – use these for meetings with members of Congress and the media

Sample Action Alert – send an action alert to mobilize your membership