Building Your Virtual Community
Campaign Planning
- Run for Something | Armchair Series: Organizing and the Power of Movement with Jessica Byrd (Founder of Three Point Strategies and Stacey Abrams for Governor Campaign Manager)
- Democracy for America | Campaign Planning Manual
Digital Organizing – General
- Democratic National Committee | Advice, best practices, and general digital organizing ideas for volunteers, organizers, and candidates here.
- PCCC | Guide for organizing Virtual Town Halls
- Sister District | Virtual Organizing
- Center for Popular Democracy | Organizing in the Time of Physical Distancing
Volunteer Engagement
- Swing Left | Advice to share with campaign volunteers
- Mobilize | guide for organizing remotely, particularly for campaigns using their platform for volunteer management
- Sister District | resources on virtual organizing
Texting Voters
- Run for Something and Red2Blue | Textbanking guide provided by RFS and Red2Blue volunteer Jen Cardenas
- Shadow is offering a special reduced price on P2P texting for candidates through May 15 ($.004 per text). Submit this form to learn more and get started.
- Emily’s List webinar on Texting for Campaigns
Virtual Phone Banks
- Progressive Change Campaign Committee | Call Out the Vote – an easy, cheap, and effective phone-banking program that connects campaigns to thousands of voters within seconds. And for the first time ever, campaigns can now call individual cell phones.
How to organize virtual events
- Arena’s guide to hosting virtual events with 50+ people
- Emily’s List webinar on hosting virtual events
- Zoom tips on holding video meetings/digital events
- Facebook Live instructions
- Instagram Live instructions
- YouTube instructions (to upload a recorded video)
- YouTube Live instructions (to host a live Q&A session)
Volunteers
- Swing Left’s advice to share with campaign volunteers
Support Networks
- Looking for online campaign tools to organize your remote team? Check out this list from Run for Something.
- Run for Something Slack group (for 1st/2nd time local and state legislative candidates ages 40 or under): GoRunforSomething Slack