Step-by-Step Organizer Toolkit for the People's Campaign for the Constitution

• Initial Outreach
• Community Education
• Coalition Building
• Public Campaign
• Accountability

Forming Committees

Specific tasks are often best accomplished by small subgroups or committees. You may want to consider this list of committees as a way to think about how to organize people to accomplish some of the key tasks involved in this campaign.

• Research Committee identifies groups that can influence the candidates running for office in your district. To build your coalition strategically, you may want to identify potential allies among the supporters of candidates in your district. (See: Initial Outreach Phase; Analyze the Power Bases of your Coalition and your Representative.)

• Outreach Committee identifies potential allies to make presentations on the campaign; identifies people willing to host house parties or other events involving dialog. Also identifies supporters who are willing and able to make public presentations on behalf of the group. (See: Initial Outreach Phase; Reach out to local groups and individuals about the PCC strategy and Reach out to potential allies who may not be obvious.)

• Publicity/Media Committee produces posters for events, coordinates mailings, writes and sends out press releases, public service announcements, and spots to promote the public forum. (See: Community Education Phase; Connect Public Campaign with local stories of abuse.)

Other Possible Committees

• Program Committee contacts speakers and shapes the program for public events and coordinates the set-up and clean-up.

• Sponsorship Committee invites businesses, individuals, civic organizations, and nonprofit organizations to endorse the local campaign, and to contribute financially to various expenses of projects the group takes on (e.g., organizing a public forum,  running a sign-on add in the local paper, printing campaign literature, etc.) (See: model invitation letter)

• Coordinating Committee helps set local group meeting agendas when the work of multiple committees gets complicated and better coordination is needed to make meetings run more smoothly.