9:00am 

Doors Open

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9:30am - 9:55am (25m max)

Welcome and Orientation 

 

10:00am - 10:30am

Breakout 1: Meet The Groups Like Yours (30m)
 

• Political and Party Clubs

• Issue Advocacy and Community Groups

• Electoral Groups

• Education/Skills Development/Support Groups

 

* Introductions: 5 seconds each (everyone already has your org name and priorities and you'll have name tags)

 

*Discussion: What are the top challenges/blockers facing your type of group.

 

10:35am - 11:35am

Breakout 2: What We need (30m) (Choose 

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• Political Backbone: Political Parties and Grassroots Electoral Power
   

• Community Backbone: Community/Constituent Engagement and Power

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11:40am - 12:00pm

Report Back (20m)

Hopefully there will have been a lot of productive sharing around what we need, and what we can can improve, to make our organizations more powerful. Let's find out if the insights from one side of things can help the other.

 

12:05pm - 12:45pm

Breakout 3: Power Lunch & Announcements

We've got lunch (see below). We'll be breaking up the space into two sections to facilitate topical but relaxed discussion.

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• Issue Advocacy

• Electoral Work

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During the lunch we will also allow groups the opportunity to make 1 -minute announcements/pitches about their work. Groups selected to make announcements will be drawn by lottery from those who requested to say something during registration.

 

1pm - 5pm

The Civic Fair