This interactive virtual workshop will focus on developing the specific skills of building and facilitating safe and diverse environments and community organizing to advance racial justice.

Through this interactive virtual workshop, you will learn best practices when recruiting, engaging, and managing volunteers for a project, campaign, or organization. You will also learn basic steps for developing communication campaigns to promote your social impact program.

Learn helpful tips on how and what to do when contacting your elected representatives, with a focus on holding your state legislators accountable for how legislative district maps are drawn based on 2020 Census data. We will identify your representatives, practice different approaches and discuss follow-up actions.

Historically, voter turn-out in midterm elections is low, but many municipal government offices (e.g. mayors, school boards, local city/county councils) that have a great deal of impact on our everyday lives are often decided by a very small margin in these elections. Make sure you know the ways you can vote this November and have a plan to meet the requirements and deadlines so your vote counts.

Decisions about your taxes, public works, and school districts happen not in Washington, DC, but in our own backyards. Historically, voter turn-out in midterm elections is low, but many municipal government offices (e.g. mayors, school boards, local city/county councils) that have a great deal of impact on our everyday lives are often decided by a very small margin in these elections. Learn how you can support members of your community in their efforts to Vote Local in municipal elections this fall.