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Building a Team to Make Political Action Happen for $0
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Description
As a former community organizer with the non-partisan Student
PIRGs organization, Timothy Ross Thompson had a $0 budget (and a meager hourly rate)
to recruit a team of college students that went on to register 900
students to vote at the University of Florida in 2020. Through
strategic emailing, organizing virtual events, offering personal
mentoring/support, creating competition, teaching himself graphic
design, and leveraging small scale social media "influencers," they
met and exceeded expectations for success in the first year of the
COVID-19 pandemic. The speaker be discussing each of those aspects in
detail, and teaching viewers how to make an impact with
whatever time they have available.
Learning Objectives
After completing this activity, participants will be able to:
Determine an advocacy issue, audience, and goal
Build a foundation, succinct message, and team
Identify free web-based tools to maximize efforts
Determine how to incorporate phonebanking, social media, community partnerships, days of action, and competition into advocacy
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Speaker
Timothy Ross Thompson, OMS II
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Timothy Ross Thompson is a second-year osteopathic medical student at
the Alabama College of Osteopathic Medicine. He has an
undergraduate degree in political science and experience as a
community organizer registering college students to vote. His
research interests focus on public health and education and the
places where they collide to improve patient care and
relationships between patients and their physicians.
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