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Fundraising Update

Learn how to report your meetings with Congress, build relationships, and drive change. Discover effective tactics and tips for successful face-to-face meetings. Join us to end poverty and promote equity!

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Fundraising Update

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  1. Fundraising Update • https://results.salsalabs.org/ic2019/p/internationalconference/index.html

  2. I’m Meeting my with Congress! I hope they don’t eat me!

  3. Tomorrow is the Day! • Report your scheduled meetings here: • http://tinyurl.com/UpcomingMeetings • No meeting? Call today, tomorrow, or just drop in. • Lobby report form: • https://tinyurl.com/RMoCReport

  4. Most Powerful Tactic!

  5. Remember: It’s All About Relationships • RESULTS proves that deep relationships with elected officials & staff drives change. • Our goal: move them up the Champion Scale by being in relationship, educating them, making specific requests, mobilizing media and community, and never going away. • Creating the public & political will to end poverty is the only thing that will end poverty and lead to equity. 5

  6. Prepare the Heart and Mind • All poverty solutions already exist • Be in touch with your outrage about poverty and inequity • Be in touch with your fear, but do it anyway • You are a constituent “supervisor”—you have a right • Members of Congress and staff are people • Your influence > influence of lobbyists • You are not alone! • This issues are non-partisan—put partisanship aside

  7. Basic Meeting with Congress • Introductions, thank yous, meeting overview • Issue(s) overview • Storyteller tells story to illustrate an issue • Share media and letters supporting the issue. • Make a requests requiring a yes or no answer • Dialogue: listen, get specific, offer info • Summarize next steps • Leave materials, ask for photo • After: who will report meeting? Who will follow up?

  8. Basic Roles

  9. Tips for Getting Face-to-Face • Ask for a photo with the MoC • Ask if you can come back later • Invite MoC to the reception • Speak to the scheduler to set up an August recess meeting

  10. Tips for Working with Each Other • Don’t make assumptions about each other. • Give new people the opportunity to lead • Listen to each other • No partisanship • Don’t assume people have stories or want to share them • Being perfect is not the goal—showing up powerfully is

  11. Let’s Practice • Your member of Congress can see you in 10 minutes! How convenient! • Get together with 4 other people around you. • Prepare a meeting agenda and roles using the Lobby Planning Form. • Hold your arm up when you are ready so your member of Congress can find you.

  12. How did it go? • What worked well? • What would you change?

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