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Vote-Yes Committees

Identify and nurture "Yes" voters and conduct "Get Out the Vote" campaigns.

Strategies:

  • Money (fundraising)
  • Yard signs/ads/soft ads
  • Letters to editors/Newspaper commentaries
  • Phone banks
  • Targeted mailings
  • Community spokespersons/Opinion leaders
  • Site coordinators
  • Develop and maintain database
  • Strike force

Steering committees:

  • Subcommittee chairs act as steering committee
  • Get poll results
  • Coordinate efforts
  • Find spokespersons
  • Find opinion leasers to support the levy
  • Find volunteers

Sample supporting roles:

  • Lettwriting/speech writing coordinator
  • Board meeting attendance coordinator
  • Board meeting speaker coordinaotr
  • Research coordinator
  • Event coordinator
  • Phoning coordinator
  • Print distribution/mailing coordinator
  • Button distribution coordinator
  • Sign distribution coordinator
  • PR coordinator
  • Volunteer coordinator
  • School Rep coordinator

School board members and district staff can serve on vote-yes (or vote-no) committees during their personal time.



In This Section
  • Know the Opposition
  • Promotion
  • Fundraising
  • Site Coordinators
  • More Levy Resources

  • Additional Resources from Parents United
    2007 School Levies: A crazy way to fund schools - Nearly 100 school districts went out for local levies in 2007.  At the end of October [2007], Parents United invited school levy volunteers to write to state leaders about how difficult it is to fund schools through local levies and the inequities local levies create. 

    General information on Organizing at the Local Level.