Action alerts are considered a cost-effective and efficient grassroots organizing tool and are employed widely by many advocacy organizations.45 A well-designed action alert can be a "powerful way to invite people to participate in the processes of a democracy."6
Action alerts may, for instance, ask supporters to:
Action alerts commonly begin by explaining the public policy issue to the recipients, and then tell the reader how they can impact the decision. Action alerts go by many other names. Amnesty International, for instance, refers to them as "Urgent actions".7
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The one-hour activist: the 15 most powerful actions you can take to fight for the issues and candidates you care about Christopher Kush, John Wiley and Sons, 2004; ISBN 0-7879-7300-9, ISBN 978-0-7879-7300-1. https://books.google.com/books?id=nN3RMP-BcnkC ↩
Cybercitizen: How to Use Your Computer to Fight for All the Issues You Care about Christopher Kush, Macmillan, 2000; ISBN 0-312-26305-8, ISBN 978-0-312-26305-8. https://books.google.com/books?id=mhRh1LH8tOMC ↩
The Nonprofit Manager's Resource Directory, Ronald A. Landskroner, John Wiley and Sons, 2001; ISBN 0-471-39242-1, ISBN 978-0-471-39242-2. https://books.google.com/books?id=v5H1-i6LHu0C ↩
"Urgent Action saves lives: Sign up today - Amnesty International". Archived from the original on 2005-04-03. Retrieved 2005-04-08. https://web.archive.org/web/20050403121614/http://web.amnesty.org/pages/ua-index-eng ↩