Volunteer-led phone banking guide

By Blueprints for Change

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. You can download BfC’s guides as pdfs from the Commons (see the box at the bottom of the page) or view the evolving Google docs.

Summary

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 provide their guides in Google Doc format to be able to update their blueprints with the latest information. See the latest version.

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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Topics:

• Organising
• Tactics

Collection:

• Blueprints for Change

Tags:

• Organising
• Phone banking_Calling
• Volunteers

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