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Learn about Grasshopr!
Dear Members,
The Brain Injury
Association of American and the Brain Injury Association of Arkansas
have embarked on a new way of managing our grassroots advocacy.
As many of you know, social media has defined the new era of
communication. The BIAA and BIA-AR are taking our grassroots
advocacy online with a new program called
Grasshopr.
Because Federal and State grassroots memberships overlap, we
encourage you to join our community on
Grasshopr.
Grasshopr is a
web site that empowers organizations and individuals with the tools
to engage with their elected officials and have an impact on public
policy at all levels of government.
With Grasshopr, BIAA and BIA-AR can
facilitate that process for our members and supporters in the area
Federal and State level advocacy.
Grasshopr is
free for all Brain Injury Association Members, and we encourage you
to sign up and become active on both the federal and state level.
Some key Grasshopr
features include:
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District matching for every member at the federal,
state and local level
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Group-wide and targeted advocacy action alerts that
reach members and give them a simple way to
communicate to their elected officials on important
issues
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Group-wide and targeted messages, polls, and event
advisories
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Forums to enable advocates to become more engaged,
communicate, and collaborate with staff and other
advocates
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The ability for the organization and its members to
spread advocacy campaigns to their networks on other
social sites like Facebook and Twitter, therefore
expanding our reach.
Grasshopr is
enabling BIAA and BIA-AR to take grassroots advocacy beyond blast
emails to building engaged advocacy communities online. We are
very excited to begin using this new tool that we believe will unify
us further and increase our effectiveness on Capitol Hill and State
legislatures.
As always, please feel free
to contact me with any questions!
Yousef Fahoum, MAP, CBIST,
DrPH candidate
BIA-AR-President
2007 Session Highlight
A TBI Task Force was established
consisting of
4 Legislative Members and 21 Non-Legislative Members.
TBI Task Force Final Report
presented to Arkansas Legislative Council on November 21, 2008
Presentation made by Rep Sandra Prater
to
the TBI Conference on November 7, 2008
About the final report.
Governmental
Links Arkansas
Senate:
http://www.arkansas.gov/senate/
Arkansas House of Representatives:
http://www.arkansas.gov/house/
Arkansas General Assembly:
http://www.arkleg.state.ar.us/
AR GIS DistrictFinder:
http://argis.ualr.edu/website/districtfinder/help.htm
U.S.
Senators: (
http://www.senate.gov/ )
Lincoln, Blanche L.-
(D - AR) Term expires in 2011I
355 DIRKSEN SENATE OFFICE BUILDING
WASHINGTON DC 20510
(202) 224-4843
Web Form:
lincoln.senate.gov/webform.html
Pryor, Mark L.- (D
- AR) Term expires
in 2009
255 DIRKSEN SENATE OFFICE BUILDING
WASHINGTON DC 20510
(202) 224-2353
Web Form:
pryor.senate.gov/contact/
U.S.
Representatives:
(
http://www.house.gov/ )
District 1
The Honorable Marion Berry (D)
2305 Rayburn HOB
Washington, DC 20515
(202) 225-4076
(202) 225-5602 FAX
http://www.house.gov/berry/
District 2
The Honorable Vic Snyder (D)
1330 Longworth HOB
Washington, D.C. 20515
(202) 225-2506
(202) 225-5903
Fax
http://www.house.gov/snyder/
District 3
The Honorable John
Boozman (R)
1519 Longworth
HOB
Washington, DC 20515
Phone: (202) 225-4301
Fax: (202) 225-5713
http://www.boozman.house.gov/
District 4
The Honorable Mike Ross (D)
314 Cannon HOB
Washington, DC 20515
(202) 225-3772
1-800-223-2220
(202) 225-1314 Fax
http://ross.house.gov/
Important
Legislation
Act 125 0f
2007 (pdf)
SB 579 of
1993 (pdf)
Act 491 of
1989 (pdf)
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