Introduction
Volunteer-led phone banking uses campaign volunteers to reach out to voters and supporters through phone calls and is now most often supported by software that helps dispatch calls among volunteers and log progress. Phone banking is effective for supporter identification, voter persuasion, event invites, fundraising, volunteer recruitment, and Get Out The Vote (GOTV) efforts.
Blueprints for Change how-to guides are put together by campaign innovators in order to help progressive organizers and groups up their game more quickly. The “blueprints” capture, communicate and inform innovative campaigning strategies and tactics.
Contents
- Disclaimer / request for your help 2
- Summary 2
- Who’s doing it? 2
- Impact/ Why do this? 3
- When this might not work for you 5
- What this requires (people, resources, etc.) 6
- Setup steps / stages 8
- Troubleshooting 11
- Further resources 13
- Attribution 13
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