This worksheet, prepared by the Vermont Workers’ Center, is intended to assist Organizing Committee coordinators in both assessing their committee’s contacts and members and coming up with next steps to advance these contacts and members in their leadership development.
Purpose: Base-Building
After Meeting Debrief Questions for Leadership Development
This list of debrief questions, prepared by the Vermont Workers’ Center, is intended to assist organizers and committee and team coordinators in thinking about the organization’s members and creating concrete next steps and plans for their ongoing leadership development.
Facilitator’s Guide to Meeting and Organizational Agreements
This guide, prepared by the Vermont Workers Center, is intended for introducing new members to the organization’s standing agreements which when observed help maintain a healthy organizational culture.
Process Tools Handout
This table, produced by the Vermont Workers’ Center, offers a great collection of team building and meeting facilitation tools for making sure that all voices and perspectives are heard, collecting feedback, building relationships, arriving at consensus, and lots more.
Sample Outreach Materials
These Put People First! PA pamphlets and flyers are great tools to start discussions with friends, family and neighbors about issues really affecting their lives, introduce them to the organization and ask them if they’d like to join.
Point of Entry Canvassing Workshop
This powerpoint workshop presentation, produced by the United Workers, offers considerations in choosing a point of entry or outreach to potential new members and the basics of canvassing and organizing conversations.
Door Knocking Training
This training, prepared by Put People First! PA, is intended to prepare members for participating in a door knocking drive. It reviews the purpose of door knocking, the goals of a particular drive, a rap or plan for an organizing conversation, the materials included in a door knocking kit, and a role play which clarifies […]
Anatomy of an Organizing Conversation
This document, produced by the Vermont Workers’ Center, describes the five parts of an effective and structured organizing conversation when talking to new people about the organization and its campaign.
Organizing Conversations
This document breaks down how to have an effective and structured organizing conversation.
The Path Walked by a Leader
This flow chart tracks the progress of a member from initial contact with the organization through active membership and eventually leadership in the organization.
New Member Handbook
This handbook orients new members of the Vermont Workers’ Center to the organization’s mission, analysis and strategic orientation, history, structure, human rights organizing approach, campaigns, fundraising, budget, by laws and organizational agreements. It also provides new members with lessons from the organization’s Healthcare Is a Human Right campaign, a list of organizational partners and movement […]
Checklist and Tip Sheet for Collecting Testimonies
This one-page handout gives people guidance for collecting testimonies (personal healthcare stories) from people.
Guide to Canvassing
This PowerPoint from explains what canvassing is and walks people through how to canvas.
Guide to One-on-One Conversations
This PowerPoint explains how to have a one-on-one organizing conversation with someone.
Put People First! Pennsylvania Pamphlets and Flyers
Put People First’s pamphlets and flyers describing the organization and its mission. Note: Please visit the resource link below to access various formats available in English and in Spanish.
Put People First! Pennsylvania Teams
This document describes Put People First’s coordinating teams.
Maine Healthcare Is a Human Right Survey
Maine’s Healthcare Is a Human Right Survey, developed with NESRI’s support, is an example of a survey that’s useful for both collecting data and stories of human rights violations to be included in reports as well as doing outreach to recruit new members and build an organization’s base. HCHR-Maryland used a similar survey for its […]
A People’s Struggle for Universal Healthcare
A universal health care system that’s accountable to the people is now within Vermonters’ reach. The Healthcare Is a Human Right Campaign (run by the Vermont Workers’ Center) has released this short video of Vermonters demanding an accountable health care system. The video is part of a series, all featuring Vermonters calling for a new […]
People’s Recipe Ingredients – Key Points for Facilitators
The People’s Recipe was developed by the Vermont Workers’ Center through their Healthcare Is a Human Right campaign and the Put People First campaign, and by learning from other people’s organizations and movements. The People’s Recipe highlights the key ingredients of the Vermont Workers’ Center’s organizing model. This resource provides a brief definition and key […]
Facilitator’s Guide to Using the Agreements
This document details the ground rules developed by the Vermont Workers’ Center for creating and maintaining a positive and inclusive environment in organizing meetings.
Vermont Workers’ Center Healthcare Survey
This seven-question survey is designed to collect information about access to healthcare and give participants the chance to get involved further in the Healthcare is a Human Right Campaign.
Organizing Quotes
This document pulls together inspirational quotes on the power of organizing.
Facilitator’s Guide to Using the Agreements
This document details the ground rules developed by the Vermont Workers’ Center for creating and maintaining a positive and inclusive environment in organizing meetings.
Vermont Workers’ Center Healthcare Survey
This seven-question survey is designed to collect information about access to healthcare and give participants the chance to get involved further in the Healthcare is a Human Right Campaign.