DPI Convening

2021 Convening Recordings

During this two-day virtual conference, we strategized together to discuss the challenges and opportunities in our work to support powerful and impactful organizing, narrative, and policy reform programs with partners across the country.
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2021
DPI Convening

DPI Convening Summary and Recording Links

2021 DPI Convening session summaries and recordings.
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2021
DPI Convening

Measuring What Matters in the Fight for Our Democracy

In this session we will share innovations from the DPI community in the last year around researching and measuring organizing inputs, collective capacities and power in practice. In a case study, Color of Change will share their progress and challenges as they work to put the civic leadership of their members at the...
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2021
DPI Convening

Missing Voters: Busting the Myth "If it isn't in the van, it doesn't exist"

Staff from the Ohio Organizing Collaborative, ISAIAH, and the AAPI Force will share their effective methods for reaching their communities and propose sustainable wide-reaching solutions for member-based organizations.
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2021
DPI Convening

The Power of Political Homes

Over the next year, the DPI community will embark on a multi-state, multi-researcher project that examines how participants in organizing groups define a “political home” and what they seek when joining one. The research will also explore the meaning and value associated with the idea of a “political home” among...
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2021
DPI Convening

Disrupting Assumption About Black Political Engagement

Through thoughtful research informed by organizers, we’re disrupting political assumptions about Black voters as cynical and uninformed and learning about how to support and sustain Black political engagement for the long term.
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DPI Convening

How Art and Culture Move Political Narratives

This breakout session from the 2021 DPI Annual Convening helped participants understand how culture creates and moves civic engagement narratives. Past findings were included, and new research on these organizing strategies was discussed.
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2021
DPI Convening

"She Said What?" Organizing in the Age of Disinformation

This breakout session will share and analyze the innovative digital work done by grassroots partners and the DPI learning cohort groups from spring 2020 through summer 2021.
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2021
DPI Convening

Volatility, Despair, and Hope: A Path to Multiracial Power in the Midwest

This panel will examine successful strategies to build multiracial progressive power in the Midwest, including how to build lasting progressive infrastructure that grows the base.
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2021
DPI Convening

Organizing to Change the Rules: How to Move Local Election Officials

Local election officials are important power brokers in our fight for a progressive multiracial democracy. They can expand voting access and increase equity in our democratic process or erect barriers that unequally increase the costs of participation for voters and the barriers for voters of color.
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2021
DPI Convening

Engaging Returning Citizens Beyond the Election Cycle

This break-out session will cover recent work and case studies to identify practices and develop narratives to meaningfully engage those who have had their rights restored. This project also presents an important model for collaboration between academics and organizers.
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2021
DPI Convening

From Protest to Participation: On the Frontlines of Youth Civic Engagement

In this session we discuss new research that examines what is driving young people to activism, how young people see connections between organized protest activity and other forms of civic participation, and how youth organizations think about keeping the momentum going in concert with national conversations about...
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2021
DPI Convening

Building the Political Culture Shift We Need to Win Real Change

Over the past decade the white-dominated political ecosystem has begun to recognize the importance of Black, Latinx, AAPI, and other communities of color in key political outcomes.