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2022 Convening Recordings

We all know how important it is to find and engage high opportunity voters that are missing from the voter file; use a values-informed frame in voter contact programs in Black, Latinx, and AAPI communities; effectively engage local elections officials to push for fair access to voting; and use data to inform strategic organizing program decisions. On these two afternoons in July, we will share with you what we know from research about HOW to do all of those things. And more!
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Welcome to Day 1 of the 2022 Pre-Election Power Up DPI Fund 2022 Convening

The election is right around the corner. What are we doing here?!
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Welcome to Day 2 of the 2022 Pre-Election Power Up! DPI Fund 2022 Convening

Who do I need to say hi to? What do we need to tackle today?
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What is Winning?

Recent Supreme Court decisions, coupled with the January 6th hearings, have made it clearer than ever that we are operating in a politically charged, high stakes, power arena. How should organizers think about “winning” in this context? What is our role in this power arena?
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Using the Election Season to Build Power

What you get: Examples of how to track leadership development and membership engagement using simple event participation forms and various visualization tools to help you better understand who your members are, where they are, and what they are doing.
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Brains Over Brawn: Building Strategic Capacity to Strengthen Your Organization

Insight on how to build a strategic framework for your electoral program that creates space for teams to own parts of the strategy and examples of how to use data and other inputs from across your organization to improve strategy.
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How to Use Organizing to Achieve Election Reform

Proven methods for working with election officials to make it easier for your community to vote.
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Understanding & Influencing Political Power Infrastructure to Protect Elections

A detailed discussion of how to power-map the meta-political environment in your state, including how you can diagnose what the big picture political narrative fights will be, understand the stakes of those fights, and anticipate the moves of different actors on the chess board.
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Less is Not More: Expanding the Electorate to Win Change

A diagnosis of how the political industry’s failure to focus on growing the electorate has failed the progressive movement and a discussion of transformative voter research and messaging strategies that can help us understand and engage more voters this year and beyond!
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Effective Influencers: Identifying & Growing Members as Social Network Leaders

Concrete skills for identifying member leaders, training them to lead, and organizing their social networks for high impact voter outreach this fall.
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Building Political Agency: The Latest from Our Narrative Research

Insight into the ways different constituencies think of their own power and political identities; short and practical summaries of the research to date with HIT Strategies, Equis Labs, and the AAPI Civic Engagement Fund to guide your communications and voter contact programs
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Bringing returning citizens & their families into political engagement

Research findings on how to increase civic participation by returning citizens and their families including a discussion of effective messaging frames.
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How to Apply Empowering Narrative Frames in Your Voter Mobilization Program

Before and after script examples, role plays, research-informed outreach modeling, and examples of impact.
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Racism in Algorithms? How to bring a skeptical eye to your voter file data and

Specific data and organizing tactics for finding and engaging people not on the voter file.