3. Our Time Together
• 10 Questions for Strategic Campaigners
• Discussion
• Group workshop
• Regroup and Debrief
• Wrap Up
4. 1. Why this campaign, why now?
Policy
Communications
Capacity
5. 2. What is a WIN?
Policy
Communications
Capacity
6. 3. What needs to change for us
to WIN?
Policymaker attention
Policymaker position
Behavior change
7. 4. Who is responsible for the
change?
(Who are our targets?)
Specific Legislators
Specific Regulators
Specific individuals
(or sets of individuals)
8. 5. How is our target influenced?
Friends and Family
Neighbors Donors
Constituents
Community leaders
Information and Data
Swing Voters Personal Stories
9. 6. What is our map to influence?
Media
Publics/
Constituencies Donors/
Friends/
Advisors
Donors/
Friends/
Advisors
Staff/
Family
Target
10.
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12.
13. 7. What specific, unique
resources do we bring to bear?
Network
Constituency
Leadership
Message
Authentic Stories
14.
15. 8. What internal challenges will
need to be addressed?
Message consistency
Role in Coalition
Mobilizing Congregation Leaders
Information about targets
What is a win for IPL? For my IPL? For my community/congregations?
We run campaigns to change things. What, specifically, needs to change for us to WIN? Perspective of the legislator? Tack of his/her opponent? More information?
Very high level of specificity. Not Congress, but Congressperson XYZ
Know something about the legislator or regular. - Webb, talk about research
LinkedIN – use technology to illuminate pathways, avoid cold-calling (rarely effective)Senator Webb and Campaign for Tobacco Free Kids
Faith community, diversity, special role within the climate change movement, access to people not often heard from. Read from WaPo on stories.
Role in the coalition, understaffed, under-engaged congregations,
No matter how it turns out – we need to build to fight another day.