PTP Seeking Proposals for Integrating Voter Engagement 0

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Written by Arif on 20th Mar -08

Are you trying to get your membership database to talk to your voter canvass data? Are you interested in attending PTP’s Voter Tech Training but don’t have the funds? Do you need some help from political or technology consultants to move your electoral engagement planning forward?

If you answered “YES” to one or more of these questions, you might be interested in a new grant program that PTP just opened:

The Progressive Technology Project is announcing the VOTER Project, a new initiative that builds on its new Voter TechKit. In the Voter Organizing Technology Education and Resources Project (VOTER Project) PTP will work with community-led organizations to greatly increase their long-term capacity to conduct effective integrated voter engagement activities.

PTP will work with a select group of 501 C3 community organizing groups that are engaged in voter education and get-out-the-vote projects in 2008. This program is designed to develop, support and document efforts to integrate the organization’s voter engagement work with its on-going programmatic work.

Details and application information are here.

Voter TechKit 0

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Written by Mark on 6th Jun -07

We’re excited to announce that we’ve brought up the initial version of our new online training environment for community organizers. We’re calling it a Voter TechKit because it offers a comprehensive orientation to voter projects for 501C3 community organizing groups, with a particular emphasis on technology. I find the best part to be the video snippets from experienced community organizers. Thanks to Henry Serrano from Community Voices Heard in Harlem, Bineshi Albert from Sage Council in Albuquerque, Anthony Thigpenn with SCOPE in Los Angeles and Robby Rodriguez from SWOP in Albuquerque for their willingness to be beautifully videotaped for this project. Learn more about them here. We also had great authoring help from election maven Jan Adams, formerly of Californians for Justice and Applied Research Center.

Check it out and make sure to give us feedback on what works and what doesn’t. We’re intending to keep adding to it as we go along.