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Campaign Media

Tuesday, May 21, 9:00 PM Eastern

This teleconference/webinar is designed especially for Greens who are running for office or considering a run in the near future. This call will cover various aspects of media relations from traditional media to social media. This will be an interactive dialogue with participants about how to garner media attention for your campaign and use the media to get your message out.

Topics to be covered include:

  1. Building a Green media presence in your city or state
  2. Press releases and advisories
  3. Press conferences
  4. Social media and related online media outreach

Scott McLarty serves as media coordinator and co-chair, along with Starlene Rankin, of the Green Party's Media Committee. He also handles media work for the DC Statehood Green Party. Originally from Long Island, New York, he now lives in Washington, DC.

To RSVP, fill out this form.

Petition Drives, Volunteer Recruitment, And Voter Databases

Tuesday, April 16, 9:00 PM Eastern This teleconference/webinar is designed especially for Greens who are running for office or considering a run in the near future. This call will cover three distinct but related topics -- petition drives, volunteer recruitment, and voter databases. This will be an interactive dialogue with participants about how to successfully mobilize volunteers for early campaign work such as petition drives, effective petitioning strategies, and how to capture information gathered by volunteers into an effective database. Participants should plan to access this internet while participating on the call. Topics covered will include:

  • Effective volunteer recruitment
  • Petition drive basics
  • Effective petitioning techniques
  • Voter Database Overview
  • Using a voter database to prepare for a signature challenge
  • Using a voter database to track voter engagement

Samantha Rocknowski will cover Petition Drives and Volunteer Recruitment. Samantha was the 2012 Petitioning Coordinator for the Illinois Green Party. Greens and volunteers from around the country were able to get Jill Stein on the ballot by turning in over 29,000 signatures. Samantha also assisted in efforts for ballot access in 7 other states during this past Presidential campaign. She was also the Campaign Manager for Illinois' Green candidate for Congress, Paula Bradshaw, in the 12th Congressional district in southern Illinois. Paula received 5.6% of the vote and reestablished the district for the Illinois Greens. Sam is also one of the founders of the GPUS Youth Caucus and is only 25 years old!

Hillary Kane will cover the Voter Database portion through a live demonstration of the Green Party of Pennsylvania's voter database, which was developed in 2006 to help fight the challenge to Carl Romanelli's petitions during his Senate race. The database has been adapted over the years to include other capabilities. Hillary Kane is a member of the Green Party of Pennsylvania Steering Committee as well as the Treasurer of its FEC Committee. In 2011, she served as Treasurer for Cheri Honkala's Sheriff Campaign in Philadelphia, and has volunteered and served in other capacities with six other prior Green Party campaigns. She is also currently an alternate delegate to the Green Party's National Committee, the co-chair of the GPUS Annual National Meeting Committee, and a member of the GPUS Coordinated Campaign Committee. She has also served as Chair of the Green Parties of both Philadelphia and Pennsylvania.

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Campaign Platforms & Website
Tuesday, March 19, 2013 at 9:00 PM Eastern

This teleconference/ webinar is designed especially for Greens who are running for office or considering a run in the near future. This call will cover two distinct topics in succession -- developing a campaign platform and a campaign website. This will be an interactive dialogue with participants on experiences with platforms -- how they are developed, used, and how they can help or hinder the campaign. The Platform is a tool and provides guidance in responding to questionnaires, live forum/debate questions, or potential voted on the spot. The call will cover:

  • What is the platform: do they matter-how much and how little?
  • building a platform including defining terms for constituents, stakeholder input, building consensus from the team
  • framing the platform: sound bites, key phrases, key words
  • sticking to your platform and message no matter what
  • setting up your first campaign website even if you don't have technical skills

Darryl! Moch will cover the platform portion and Matt Cleveland will discuss websites.

Darryl! L.C. Moch, currently residing in Washington, DC, is a Co-Chair of the US Green Party and a community activist and advocate rooted in social justice, equality, and quality of life issues for African-American/People of Color and minority communities, children, youth, families, LGBTQ constituencies, people living with mental and physical challenges, the homeless, as well as people living with, and/or affected by, HIV/AIDS and other health disparities. Darryl!, was a recent steering committee member of the DC Statehood Green Party (and is a delegate to the USGP National Committee), USGP Black Caucus, USGP Plat Com, and USGP Media Committee. He ran for DC City Council in the 2010 DCSGP primary.

Matt Cleveland has been a Green for over a decade assisting many candidates and local parties with their web sites including the Green Party of PA and three local groups. Matt has assisted the Green Party of the United States with its election database. He also runs New Menu , a web site for Green Party candidates, and Local Green Party, a web site for local groups. Matt is a founding member and secretary of his local, the Lancaster Green Party.

Darryl! Moch's presentation can be downloaded as a PDF.

 

So You Want To Run For Office...

Tuesday, January 29, 9-10 PM Eastern

This teleconference/ webinar is designed especially for Greens who are thinking about running for office, this year or even next year. During this conference, we will discuss the things you need to think about, including:

  • Choosing the right election for you (office and year)
  • Answering the Question "Why are you running for office?"
  • Analyzing prior year election returns
  • Building up a pre-electoral resume

This webinar will be facilitated by CCC member Jason Nabewaneic. Jason is a former Co-Chair of GPUS, former Co-Chair of the GPUS Campaign Committee, former Co-Chair of GPNYS Campaign Committee, former Chair of the Green Party of Monroe County and former Chair of the Genesee County Green Party. He has worked on several campaigns in different roles.

Run The Party Like You Ran The Campaign:
Keeping The Momentum Going

Tuesday, December 18, 9-10 PM Eastern

A PDF version of the presentation can be downloaded here.

This teleconference/webinar is designed especially Greens who have recently completed a run for office (and their key staff/volunteers), and for state and local party leaders more generally.

This session will include discussion of:

  • transitioning from "campaign mode" to "normal party business"
  • maintaining contacts and networks post election
  • using a run for office to build basic party structures

This webinar will be facilitated by Co-Chair of the Massachusetts Green-Rainbow Party John Andrews. John was also a key member of the Stein for President campaign team.

DON'T FORGET: the next planned workshop, So You Want To Run For Office,
Tuesday, January 15, 2013 at 9 PM Eastern.

Debriefing Your Run

Tuesday, November 27, 9:00 -10:00 PM Eastern

This teleconference/ webinar is designed especially for Greens who have just completed a run for office by the date of the call, and those for candidates considering a run in the near future.

Debriefing and analyzing a recently completed run for office is often a great generator of campaign strategies that can be passed on within a party, like that classic campaign mantra for campaign 2.0s: "One E-mail, One Action." During this conference, we will discuss analyzing your run, including

  • Media and communications efforts
  • Targeting and voter turn-out strategies
  • Fundraising and expenses
  • Campaign planning through all phases

This webinar will be facilitated by CCC member Matt Lavery – who worked with the Green Party of England and Wales in its campaign for European Parliament in 2009 – with additional support by Gloria Mattera, who ran for Lieutenant Governor with the 2010 Campaign that re-won ballot access for the Green Party in New York, and who will have just completed campaigns at the local, state, and national levels.

Hillary Kane
GPUS Coordinated Campaign Committee

Our Mission

The Coordinated Campaign Committee (CCC) is a standing committee of the USGP that cooperates with state and local chapters in the support of federal, state, and local Green Party electoral campaigns.

The CCC is here to

  • provide material support to campaigns when possible;
  • help train chapters in running successful campaigns (from finding the right candidate to getting people to the polls on election day);
  • keep various campaigns in communication with each other, so that resources and wisdom can be shared;
  • help determine which races are most important in a state or region; to help states attain and maintain ballot access;
  • learn from previous campaigns and build for future ones; and
  • advise candidates and campaign support people to the best of our ability, or to link them up with experts when needed.

What do we do?

The CCC is pursuing many different programs and paths to increase the number of Green officeholders nationwide, including…

  • targeting specific campaigns (based on written applications) that are winnable, strategically important, or otherwise noteworthy, and providing those campaigns with matching funds or other support;
  • maintaining a campaign hotline which candidates and campaign managers can call with specific questions;
  • linking up aspiring interns with interested campaigns;
  • maintaining a campaign manual (available for downloading from this website), with information specifically geared to running grassroots Green campaigns;
  • helping states to recruit candidates, or to develop strategies for recruitment;
  • assisting financially and otherwise in running regional campaign training schools (and helping with statewide trainings without committing financial resources);
  • forming a network of state associates, to keep information about states' campaign efforts as current as possible and readily available to other states;
  • conducting a ballot access campaign for interested states, through our Ballot Access Working Group
  • maintaining a database of candidates and officeholders on our website, to increase public awareness of Green campaigns and victories; and
  • assembling and analyzing data from past and current campaigns, to assess our strengths and weaknesses and to aid the Green Party in becoming an electoral force, from the local to the national level.

Who are we?

The Coordinated Campaign Committee is composed of 10 voting members drawn from affiliated state parties. CCC members are selected annually by the members of the Coordinating Committee, and may be members of that committee or of an affiliated state party; no state shall have in excess of one member on the CCC. Vacancies on the CCC are filled by the Steering Committee. The members of the CCC annually elect up to three co-chairs from among its members.

The Coordinated Campaign Committee works with a pool of CCC Associates; these include one liaison from each affiliated state party not already represented on the CCC as well as staff or other persons necessary to the productivity of the CCC who shall be chosen as deemed appropriate by the CCC. Associates may participate in CCC discussions and meetings as needed but are not regular voting members of the CCC.

Past Webinars

Debriefing Your Campaign Webinar: November 13th

Getting Out The Vote: October 2nd
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PLANNING FOR ELECTION DAY WEBINAR
Tuesday, September 4th, 9-10 PM Eastern

This webinar is designed for candidates, and those active in Green campaigns, to learn more about campaign strategy.  This particular session will focus on:

  • preparing to have an effective presence at the polls
  • best material distribution strategies
  • how to talk to potential voters
  • targeting constituencies
  • and use of volunteers for things such as door knocking and phone banking
This call is also ideal for those coordinating local efforts on the Stein/Honkala campaign.

This webinar will be led by CCC member and Green Officeholder Jesse Townley.  Read more about Jesse below.

Jesse Townley is an elected member of the Berkeley Rent Board, which administers the city's rent control ordinance. He was first elected to the Rent Board in 2008, and re-elected to a 4-year post as the highest vote-getter in 2010. He ran for Berkeley City Council unsuccessfully in 2004 in a 3-way race, and was the Volunteer Coordinator for Aimee Allison's 2005 campaign for Oakland City Council.  He's also volunteered on umpteen campaigns doing everything from knocking on doors, making phone calls, and setting up fundraisers.

And save the date for the October call -- GETTING OUT THE VOTE -- Tuesday, October 2nd, 9 PM Eastern.

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