Where has your group had the most success moving forward with local actions?
Brett Cease
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What's have you been trying and what's been working in your community?  Share your best practices, ideas, and suggestions here!

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Todd's training were helpful to the Austin, TX metro area in coming up with our action plan. After watching the video, here's what we did:
  • We got group leaders and liaisons from all 6 Austin area chapters together for a planning meeting so that rather than have 6 chapter action plans, we'd have one coordinated action plan for the metro area.
  • We broke our plan into the different action areas inspired by Todd's training:
    1. Communication to local CCL Members
    2. Communication with local media
    3. Communication with Members of Congress
    4. Grassroots outreach
    5. Grasstops outreach
    6. Chapter development
  • For each of the action areas, we brainstormed tasks that would advance our goal of building political will for carbon fee and dividend.
  • We compiled all the action areas and tasks into a Google Doc shared across the metro area and assigned volunteers responsibility for the action areas
I am happy to share our action plan with anyone interested. My recommendation is to make the tasks as specific as possible so that everybody can spring to action as soon as the bill is introduced. We still have work to do to make ours as specific as possible and to assign all tasks, but we're in a pretty good place.

Ben

 
Brett Cease
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Thanks for sharing Ben all the phenomenal work that you've been helping lead the charge with in Austin! And these forums are a perfect place to share resources/approaches that specific chapters/metro areas are putting their creative/organizational energy into so that everyone need not re-invent the wheel.

Thanks for also offering to share - feel free to share a link here if you have an organizing doc that's more general in origin and has specific volunteer contact information taken out. 

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