Reach Out and Touch Someone (by Phone)
Our phone contact rate is up nearly 50% from the average for all of last year. The high contact rate tells us something about this moment: volunteers want to connect.
Tips and Tricks for Making Your Virtual Parties More Fun
From tiny desk concerts to remote yoga classes, some fun ideas to bring a little pizazz to your virtual events while we adapt to social distancing.
Creative Organizing During a Pandemic
Our top 7 recommendations for staying healthy, sane, and still getting Democrats elected during the coronavirus outbreak.
No app can replace good old-fashioned organizing
This week, the much-anticipated Iowa caucuses marked the formal start of the 2020 presidential cycle. But the night was marred by the failure of a mobile app that was intended to facilitate gathering and announcing caucus results. In the end, the caucus leaders had to revert to the tried-and-true method of calling in their results […]
Analyzing the 2019 Sister District Impact Report
We recently released our 2019 Impact Report. The report includes details about our fundraising and field achievements, program growth, campaign success and satisfaction, and volunteer/team success and growth. Read on for some of the takeaways from the report.
Winter is Coming: On “Off” Cycle Organizing
One of the key items in our Winter Action Guide is around establishing/solidifying leadership roles and structures for 2020. It’s early yet, but many of you have hosted or are about to host debrief and planning meetings! By way of surfacing examples and ideas between teams, we thought we’d share illustrations from Sister District Sacramento and Sister District Fairfield County.
Small but Mighty: Fundraising from Vermont
Geoff and Di Show: Two members of the small but mighty Southern Vermont Sister District talking about why they got involved with some innovative fundraising projects.
Phonebank. It’s worth it.
The bottom line: phonebanking is worth the energy, and we’ve got to do it. It’s not always the most fun, but as Obama said recently, “We shouldn’t expect (politics) to be entertaining all the time… Sometimes you are just in a church basement making phone calls and eating cold pizza.”
Supporting Cheryl Turpin, Virginia House of Delegates with Sister District Project
As we look forward to new Sister Races in 2018, here is a look back at the experiences of two volunteers in 2017.
