As an advocate, one of your main goals is to get to the money and policy decision makers that have the power to make decisions that are going to affect your organization and the people you serve. And one of the things I hear a lot from nonprofit leaders is that especially with contracting and some agencies, it's not that easy to find who's really in charge and what's going on in there. It’s not always clear who has the power to make that decision. 

And what I notice is that a lot of folks spend way more time than they need, trying to get to the bottom of that. So in this episode I’m sharing three keys that will help you get to those answers about who's really in charge, much faster, much more efficiently. So that you can get to the real work of engaging those decision-makers, and building a partnership and getting to the decisions you want. 

In this episode, we share:

• The missing information that makes decisionmaking systems feel opaque and confusing
• The three organizing principles that decisionmaking systems are built on
• How to find or build a roadmap to any decisionmaking system
• How to find a local guide who can fill in the details of your roadmap that aren’t written down anywhere
• How to identify patterns across different organizations so you can decode their decisionmaking process
• How to get to the point where you know exactly which questions to ask to quickly identify the key players in any system

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