AAUW Ohio - Communications

Branch Activism: How to Plan and Execute
Issue Advocacy Projects

Organizing|Becoming Informed|Planning Projects|Lobbying|Recognizing Accomplishments

Branch activism ranges from simple actions such as sending Two-Minute Activist alerts to your members to sponsoring more complex projects such as voter forums, Pay Equity Days and public forums on key issues.

The Association Public Policy and Government Relations Department has published a Woman-to-Woman Voter Turnout manual to help branches plan and execute get-out-the-vote projects, build coalitions, register voters, publish voter guides and sponsor issue and candidate forums.

There are also many issue-related guides, such as the Pay Equity Resource Kit,that will help you develop projects. Explore the AAUW Issues page on the Association website for many other action ideas.

Your Ohio public policy co-chairs are currently encouraging you to meet their “Ohio Public Policy Challenge”.

A number of tools to assist you are available on the AAUW Web site including:

Elected Officials - Resource for identifying elected and appointed federal government officials.

Meet Your Member of Congress - How to set up an in-district meeting.

Phone Trees - How to get the word out quickly.

Planning a Community Forum on Tax Fairness - a how to guide (PDF)

Fact sheet on tax fairness (PDF)

Media Guide - Resource for finding and contacting national and local media.

Schedule an in-district meeting with your member of Congress.

Two-Minute Activist - Interactive resource for speaking out about today's hot issue.

Voter Education and Get-Out-the-Vote Workshop

Voter Education Campaign - Election year campaigns to educate women voters on critical issues.

Washington Update - A weekly bulletin for AAUW public policy chairs offering an insiders view on the public policy process.

For more information, contact AAUW/Ohio Public Policy Co-Chairs:

Ruth McGaha
mcgahajeagle@aol.com

Jackie Evangelista
jevangelista@adelphia.net