The issues we champion as a National Advocacy Network are carefully selected to allow us the maximum potential for meaningful impact. We seek to identify policies that are currently doing harm to grandmothers and AIDS orphans in Africa or at least not doing the good they might. To do this, we must step into the arena where policy-makers are found and that is often, although not always, the political realm.

To champion change is always at least small-“p” political. It is good to remember; however, that such action, even when it does involve engaging in some fashion with elected officials, is a legitimate part of citizen participation in the democratic process.

The difference between ourselves and big-“P” political agents is that we will always remain non-partisan. We are not affiliated with any political party and believe our humanitarian cause transcends party politics altogether. Our task is to inform and persuade people of influence across the political spectrum, as well as the voting public in our communities.