This document outlines strategies for getting busy parents and others to take action through grassroots organizing. It discusses the policy priorities of MomsRising.org and barriers to engagement like lack of time. Five key principles for engagement are outlined: be nimble, test ideas, maintain dialogue, open engagement avenues, and have fun. The document then details a "layer cake" approach to organizing that incorporates online and grassroots tactics like technology-enabled advocacy, sharing personal stories, proxy representation at events, on-the-ground actions supported by online engagement, traditional and new media outreach, and rapid response. It emphasizes testing new approaches, collaboration, and keeping engagement creative, respectful of people's time, metrics-driven,
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Breaking Through: Get Parents and Other Busy People To Take Action!
1. Breaking Through:
Get Parents & Other Busy People to Take Action
Anita Sarah Jackson, JD
Director of Social Media Strategy, MomsRising.org
@Anita_Sarah
MomsRising.org MamásConPoder.org
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5. Policy Priorities
• Early Learning / Child Care
• Paid Family Leave
• Paid Sick Days
• Equal Pay
• Health Care
• MomsVote
• Food Justice
8. Five Key Principles:
1. Stay nimble and responsive
2. Constantly test
3. Maintain the dialogue
4. Open as many engagement avenues
as possible
5. Don’t forget joy and fun!
16. Create an item that is a proxy for those who can’t be there in person
that on-the-ground leaders can deliver to leaders. These can include
member messages, stories, and more that were collected online to
represent those who can’t be there in-person with leaders. This
amplifies member voices. This often gets more media attention than
people.
4. “Citizen Presence/Member Voice” Proxy
Apple-O-Grams with
member messages for
leaders
18. 6. Amplifying On-The-Ground Actions with
Online Engagement
Members also provide same-day, online, e-mail,
phone, Twitter, and Facebook back up for on-the-
ground deliveries and activities.
19. 7. Traditional Media Outreach
Educate and broaden the audience and
amplify pressure on leadership.
20. 8. New Media
Blogs, Twitter, Facebook, and more. Using modern communication
technologies to break through and be heard.
21. 9. Growing a Movement, Testing New
Technologies & Rapid Response
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24. Key Lessons Learned
• Provide multiple ways to engage
• Collaborate
• Be creative and experiment
• Honor busy lives and intelligence
• Utilize metrics to keep the organization on track with goals
• Be ready to act fast and to learn from experience
• Quickly cut programs that aren’t proving highly effective
• Keep it fun!