Free home education apps and resources to teach their children how to cope with pandemic induced anxiety. Resources created by non-profits for developing countries now meet a critical need in America. They’re free, easy to use, available in different languages and most work on basic phones with or without internet access. Roots of Empathy Mary …
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Voting by mail has worked well for years, but will be especially important in this pandemic. But how do voters without a computer or internet access request a Vote By Mail (VBM) ballot? Vote at home empowers voters, letting them decide when, how and where they vote. – Disenfranchised voters experiencing barriers at the polls …
Make your videos more persuasive with personal testimonials. Video testimonials work but collecting them has been difficult for groups with limited time, money and staff. The free Flipgrid app enables small grassroots group to collect videos remotely with just a laptop. The National Vote At Home Institute (VAH) is a non-profit, non-partisan group that empowers voters, letting them decide when, how and where they vote using mail ballots. …
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People lose their vote when it’s hard for them to get to the polls. The elderly, disabled and low income voters in rural areas suffer the most. How can more voters be provided rides to the polls? How can organizers with little funding or staff coordinate rides to the polls? How can voters without computers or internet access request a ride with …
Grassroots activists struggle to get heard against billionaires and corporations with their armies of lobbyists and PR experts. A free app offers them a megaphone. PROTEST FACEBOOK is a grassroots group demanding that Facebook prevent its platform from being used to spread disinformation and divisiveness that could disrupt our elections. They have held rallies at Facebook …
People in remote areas are often overlooked by the census and find it hard to vote. Many Americans in remote areas suffer because poor roads and a lack of internet access deny them their political voice. Technology is helping overcome this barrier. Organizers can now collect information in remote areas with KoBoToolbox, a free app …
Doctors triage patients. They divide patients into those who don’t need treatment, those beyond hope, and those they should focus on. Campaigns should triage voters and focus limited resources on persuadable voters. Geri Ventura, an organizer with several local Indivisible groups and Josephine County Democrats, uses this approach to encourage Non-Affiliated Voters (NAV) to register their party affiliation in order to vote …
Trying to find the right campaign app when you’re tight on money and not tech savvy? Checkout the DemLabs site with over 110 solutions and Solution Guides like the one below for free and inexpensive apps. DemLabs is a non-profit that provides democratic groups with advice and training on affordable, innovative apps. DemLabs doesn’t develop nor sell software to make sure that its recommendations are unbiased by …
Issues can be complicated. Relationship maps strip away the BS to show what’s really going on. The National Labor Relations Board (NLRB) overturned a prior ruling making it harder for McDonalds workers to earn a living wage and put an end to sexual harassment at work. McDonalds recently fired its CEO for having a relationship with another employee and then …
If you’re not at the table, you’re on the menu. Get to the table by engaging others to your side with story-telling. Young activists excel at crafting stories to influence their communities. This blog showcases six online stories from students at Hunter College, NYC after a short training session. Their stories speaks for themselves! BackgroundHannah …
