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Policy and Advocacy Community of Practice (CoP)

A Forum for Sharing Information About Policy and Advocacy on Coastal and Estuarine Science and Management

What is a Community of Practice?

Communities of Practice (CoP) are groups of people with a shared interest that interact regularly to learn from each other, share ideas, and advance the state of knowledge about a particular topic. A CoP offers a forum for individual, professional, and agenda development around the topic of interest.

Why the Policy and Advocacy CoP?

The Policy and Advocacy CoP is a forum to share information about and discuss policies that are or may impact the coastal and estuarine science, management, and education community. 

Joining the Policy and Advocacy CoP

You must be an active CERF member to join the Policy and Advocacy CoP.

You can apply to join the Community using this link. The application page will prompt you to sign in or sign up for a new account.

Once you’ve completed your application and verified your email, the system will prompt you to complete your profile by uploading a profile picture. 

The community moderators will review your application to the community, confirm your CERF membership status, and then approve your application.

Once your application is approved, you can access the community, update your profile, and set your notification frequency by clicking the photo icon in the upper right-hand corner. 

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Rules, Etiquette, and Moderation Guidelines

To ensure the best possible experience for all Community of Practice (CoP) members, we have established some basic guidelines for participation. By joining a CoP, you agree that you have read and will follow the rules and etiquette.

In addition, given the nature of policy discussions, this CoP will be moderated to ensure there are no posts or discussions that violate CERF’s Code of Conduct,Code of Ethics, or policies, as well as 501(c)3 rules around lobbying and political activities. This may include:

  • Discussions of political campaigns or candidates, which includes making general statements of support or opposition to a candidate for any public office or party and distributing statements from a candidate for any public office. For example, you may not encourage people to vote for a particular Congressperson who is running for office. However, you may encourage people to support or oppose legislation an elected official has introduced in Congress. 

  • Comments that could be considered bullying, intimidation, or harassment, including personal attacks.

  • Comments that could be considered discriminatory, including comments that could be considered strongly partisan or attacks based on party or political affiliation

  • Dissemination of false, erroneous, biased, unwarranted, or exaggerated statements.

Contact

If you have questions about the Policy and Advocacy CoP, please contact CERF Executive Director Susan Park at [email protected].