Utilizing the Resources Needed to win: Grassroots Strength NRLC's Grassroots Emphasis Is Winning the Day Organizational Development, Outreach Departments Offer Key Resources to Strengthening Movement at Local Level.

Although we don't think about it often, all public policy organizations, including NRLC, blend efforts to communicate to larger numbers of people with more focused, one-on-one initiatives. The particular recipe adopted depends on an organization's resources - - financial and otherwise - - and what experience has proven gives it the most return for its "investment."

However, among public policy organizations, our Movement is, if not unique, very close to it. For three decades, the overwhelming majority of our endeavors have minimized our weakness - - unlike the pro-abortionists, we don't have money by the buckets full - - and played to our strength: a grassroots army of hundreds of thousands of people who care passionately about defending the defenseless and who are willing to put their convictions on the line, year in and year out.

The lesson to be learned from what amounts to a modern day David versus Goliath? Pro-abortionists have scads of money and the support of most of the major institutions in our culture. But we have people just like you.

Given this "people power," the Movement's emphasis on local, grassroots efforts, which steadily win new champions through good times and bad, continues to best advance the cause of unborn babies. That was true in 1973. It remains true today.

But before we talk about the pivotal work that takes place in local communities, there is the critically important work that must be done in our nation's capital. As the largest, most representative pro-life organization in the world, NRLC operates at both levels.

At the national level, NRLC is recognized by friend and foe alike as the preeminent pro-life force. NRLC lobbies, helping to pass pro-life legislation such as the Partial-Birth Abortion Ban Act, while NRL PAC carefully marshals contributions to maximize the electoral ...