Let's Get Organized!!

Find tool kits, resources and webinars on effective organizing and mobilization.

Tool kits & Resources Available for Download & Print

Check out how PWN-USA organizes our communities around election cycles. The latest information and resources can be found every election season on our #PWNVotes page.

#PWNVotes

In this guide, you will find tips on how to meet with your legislators.

Meeting with Your Legislators

Webinar Recordings

For a full backlog of PWN webinars, trainings, and events, check out our YouTube page! Don’t forget to hit subscribe.

PWN-USA YouTube Channel

Community Mobilization

In the 4th installment of our state legislative advocacy series, former PWN National Field Organizer, Evany Turk and former PWN Policy Director, Breanna Diaz, spoke to our members who are interested in mobilizing and organizing their communities.

During the webinar, we discussed:

  1. Many ways you can organize on issues important to you!
  2. How to contact and engage with your legislators and community via social media, letter campaigns, phone zaps, and more.
  3. The importance of coalitions: how to find them and how to get involved.

##PWNVotes Engaging Candidates on Issues that Matter

This webinar will:
1. increase understanding of the importance of candidate engagement;
2. increase understanding of general candidate engagement techniques from questionnaires  to town hall forums;
3. show participants what candidate engagement can look like on the federal level as well as the at the local level and how we become skilled at both 
4. provide concrete examples and case studies of how candidate engagement can influence policy, laws and legislation.

Presenters: Jaron Benjamin, Housing Works; Paul Davis, Housing Works

PWNVotes 2 Building Your Voter Universe

Did you know? It’s totally legal for 501c3 nonprofits to register voters. Learn to build your voter universe! Join this webinar to learn strategies to register, identify and recruit voters.

Presenters: Carly Calhoun, Sisterlove Inc., Chunnika Hodges, PWN Michigan State Lead, and Naina Khanna, Executive Director of PWN

Web Session 5: In-District Organizing-Meeting with Legislators

Learn who the key players are in developing legislation.
Learn how to activate your local networks for in-district organizing.
Learn strategies for in-district organizing, including hosting advocacy events.

Political Education 101: Deconstructing Political Systems to Build Community Power, March 2017

This webinar was a detailed (and timely) refresher on political systems, structures, designed to provide advocates with tools to effectively engage in existing systems and to consider which systems may need to be dismantled to benefit our communities.

Presenters: Waheedah Shabazz-El, PWN-USA Regional Organizing Director; Kamaria Laffrey, Coordinator, Florida HIV Justice Coalition; Venita Ray, PWN-USA Board Member