Scope of Engagement Chooser.

Choose how far your advocacy engagement will go, for now, honestly against your capacity and your legal room, so you enter at a level you can actually sustain rather than overreaching into work you cannot hold or underreaching into gestures that change nothing.

In Decide Whether and How to Advocate, after the board has decided to advocate.

There is a wide range between never speaking and running a full campaign. These are rough levels, not legal categories; where each sits against your legal room is your attorney's call, not this tool's.

Consider your levels, from lighter to heavier

Educating your community and sharing information about the issues that affect the people you serve. Within our capacity and legal room?

Taking public positions on issues, on the record. Within our capacity and legal room?

Active engagement: mobilizing your constituency, direct engagement with decision-makers, organizing for a specific change. Within our capacity and legal room?

Choose your level, honestly

The level we will engage at now, matched to our capacity and legal room

Why this level and not a heavier one

The honest read on our capacity: can we sustain this, or are we choosing it because it sounds ambitious?

Set what you will not do yet

What is out of scope for now, and why (capacity, legal limits, or readiness)

The condition under which we would revisit and expand

A good scope is one you can sustain and that stays inside your legal room, bounded clearly enough that you are not tempted into everything at once. Better to do one level well and hold it than to launch broadly and collapse. Hand this bounded scope to whichever guide your plan names next.

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