Help us build the place you can go when the system gives you the runaround.
Bills go up. Rules change. Councils make decisions buried in reports. Agencies send people in circles. Public consultations open and close before most people even know they exist.
Lobby for Good is building a member-funded portal that helps everyday people understand what is happening, ask better questions, track decisions, log issues, and work out what they can do next.
What can you do in the portal?
Bring the email, decision, promise, complaint, consultation, local issue, or "surely someone should be watching this" moment. We'll help you sort it into a next step.
Understand something confusing
Paste an email, ask the Civic Advisor, or decode a public decision.
Help me understand somethingGet organised
Save notes, replies, documents, timelines, and deadlines in your Vault.
Build my paper trailJoin or fund a lobby
Support campaigns turning public concern into evidence, solutions, and pressure for change.
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Erika Harvey
Founder of Lobby for Good
Problem solver. Pattern spotter.
Reader of fine print no one hoped she'd notice.
Allergic to "nothing to see here."
Different systems.
Same pattern.
Erika Harvey has spent years working across public systems — health, housing, local government, welfare, and justice. Different agencies. Different rules. Different language. But the same pattern underneath.
The people with time, money, lawyers, advisors, and existing relationships knew how to work the system. The people most affected by the decisions were often too busy working, parenting, caring, surviving, or trying not to scream into a pillow to participate properly.
That is not a level playing field. And most of the time, it is not some grand conspiracy. It is access. Some people get it. Most people do not.
Lobby for Good exists to help change that.
"I built Lobby for Good because I kept seeing the same pattern: the people most affected by decisions were often the least resourced to challenge them."
— Erika Harvey, Founder of Lobby for GoodPublic systems often reward endurance, not fairness.
- Who can keep asking questions?
- Who can read the reports?
- Who can spot what is missing?
- Who can follow the paper trail?
- Who knows which law applies?
- Who can sit through the meetings and keep going after being told someone will "circle back"?
Most people cannot. Not because they do not care. Because they have lives.
That is why we are building a portal that helps people understand what is happening, who is responsible, what questions to ask, and what they can do next.
Help us spot the patterns.
Some public problems look like one-off experiences. Until enough people say: "Hang on. This happened to me too."
Medical harm and health system failures
People reporting harm, unsafe treatment, or complaint pathways that go nowhere. Your experience may be part of a larger pattern.
Council decisions and public agency failures
Decisions buried in reports, consultations no one knew about, broken promises. Logged issues help us track what is actually happening.
Unsafe systems and repeated community issues
When the same problem keeps coming up in different places, that is not a coincidence. That is a system failing to fix itself.
Finding others. Building collective pressure.
Individual reports become collective evidence. Evidence is harder to ignore than a single complaint. We help connect people dealing with the same thing.
Current lobbies gaining traction.
Some issues need more than one angry email and a group chat full of screenshots. These lobbies are gathering reports, signatures, solutions, funding, or public support so we can turn scattered concern into evidence-backed pressure for change.
Safer medical exams, procedures and surgery
Women are reporting sexual misconduct, assault, serious boundary breaches, or unsafe treatment during medical care. Your report helps build the evidence base.
Essure medical device harm
Women are reporting harm they believe is linked to Essure medical devices. If this happened to you, your report matters.
Something else we should be tracking?
Council decision? Public agency failure? Unsafe service? Broken promise? Consultation no one knew about?
Is membership right for you?
Lobby for Good is free to start. Membership gives you more tool access, saves your paper trail, and helps fund independent civic infrastructure — so the platform stays free from corporate, party, or lobbyist influence.
Your membership does two things: it gives you civic backup when you need it, and it helps Lobby for Good keep building tools without external influence.
Some members use the tools every week. Some mainly support the mission. Both matter.
Free to start. No credit card required to create an account.
Got something you're dealing with right now?
You do not need to have it figured out. Just bring the thing that is not making sense.
Because lobbying already shapes decisions.
Businesses do it. Industry groups do it. Consultants do it. Developers do it. Professional lobbyists do it. Behind closed doors. Strategically. Often very effectively.
The issue is not that advocacy exists. The issue is that everyday people are often the only ones expected to show up with nothing but a personal story, three minutes at a public meeting, and a microphone that may or may not be working.
Communities deserve advocacy too. Not spin. Not outrage farming. Not yelling into the void and calling it strategy. Actual, evidence-based, well-researched advocacy that helps people understand what is happening and what they can do about it.
Because if decisions are being influenced, the public good deserves representation as well.
What membership makes possible
2,500 members unlocks full civic intelligence coverage across all 78 councils across the country. More transparency. More tools. More pressure in the right places.
Independent. Always.
No corporate sponsors. No government grants. No vested interests. LFG is funded entirely by members — which means it answers to members, not funders.
Ready to go. Waiting for the runway.
Behind Lobby for Good is a team of people ready to build the tools, research, campaigns, and civic infrastructure this needs. Membership growth helps turn that work from volunteer effort into sustainable public-good infrastructure.
Every one of them is helping for free. They are ready. The only thing standing between this team and full-time work is membership growth.
They have lobbyists.
Now you do too.
No one should need wealth, insider knowledge, unlimited time, a law degree, or a wealthy uncle to ask fair questions. Start with the thing you're dealing with. We'll help you work out what it is, what it means, and what you can do next.
