Netroots Nation 2022

Posted by | June 2, 2022
Saving Public Education: Electing Good People to School Boards

Public education has been under attack for the past decade by the tea party. It started with a push for charter schools, transitioned to slashing funding for education, and in...

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Posted by | June 2, 2022
There Is a Plan C: Increasing Abortion Access Online and By Mail

While we all prepare for a post-Roe future, the reality is that too many are already living it. With traditional routes of abortion access restricted and criminalization threatened, amplifying an...

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Posted by | June 2, 2022
Starting and Running Your Own Grassroots PAC

What if you had a massive email list that you could activate to raise thousands of dollars for your favorite candidates or write thousands of letters to Congress or your...

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Posted by | June 2, 2022
Text Out the Vote: How to Use In-Bound Texting to Drive Voter Turnout

In the final month of the 2020 election, VoteAmerica launched a first-of-its-kind inbound Voter Helpline built with an SMS/Slack integration to connect voters in need with trained volunteers around the...

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Posted by | June 2, 2022
How to De-escalate Red Voters with Cooling Conversations

Deep canvassing and relational organizing are increasingly recognized as powerful tools for mobilizing supporters and persuading the undecided. Less well-recognized is their usefulness for demobilizing and moderating opponents. This workshop...

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Posted by | June 2, 2022
Improving Your Influence: Strategizing Relationships with Elected Officials

Every campaign needs a thorough strategy—but how often do we intentionally strategize our relationships with elected officials? Correspondence with decision-makers must be calculated in order to achieve desired policy goals....

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Posted by | June 2, 2022
Relate Like a Human: Power Up Your Relational Organizing with GIFs and Memes

Digital organizing techniques grounded in relational organizing have been key to every recent progressive success. Join us as we show you how GIFs and memes–the shareable, social language of the...

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Posted by | June 2, 2022
Illusions of Ubiquity: Creative Digital Advertising for Campaigns and Advocacy

This training will explore a range of creative ways political and advocacy campaigns use digital advertising in the real world today. We'll examine how ads can help with testing, fundraising,...

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Instagram for Organizing

Engagement rates for nonprofit Instagram posts are over 18 times higher than their posts on Facebook. In this workshop, we’ll learn how to go from engagement to movement-building. We’ll cover...

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Posted by | June 2, 2022
Using SMS to Build Black Power

Movement Labs has sent over 50 million texts across thousands of campaigns to support the power building work of Black-led organizations, identifying hundreds of thousands of new supporters. Join us...

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