Presented in February 2017
Trainings
Please find below a list of many of the trainings that the Progressive Technology Project has conducted over the years. Each training contains links to materials used in the trainings.
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Hosted by Progressive Technology Project and May First / People Link, December 12, 2016
In the 1960s, the government sponsored a massive surveillance, infiltration and disruption program called COINTELPRO (Counter Intelligence Program). It destroyed movements, relationships, and activists' lives. It destroyed the trust and hopefulness needed to build and sustain a movement. It destroyed the movement for justice in this country.
We haven't seen anything like it since then.
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Presented at GIFT's Money for Our Movements, August 13, 2016
This workshop will help groups explore what it takes to integrate their grassroots fundraising with on-going organizing and communications activities with a multichannel approach.
We will emphasize how successful fundraising campaigns are fundamentally dependent on four core components:
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File attachments: 
GIFT Conference 2016 Participant Agenda Session 2.pdf, 01 GIFT Conference 2016 presentation.pdf, 02 introducing-sprint-fundraising-campaigns GIFT 2016.pdf, 03 Importance of Data.pdf, 04 Tool Box and Iowa CCI Case Study.pdf, 05 Zen and the Art of Workflows August 2016 FINAL.pdf, PTP CRMs & Fundraising Campaigns GIFT Journal Sept Oct 2014.pdf, Your Organizational Data Worksheet.pdf, Mimi Ho GrassrootsFundraisingStrategyChart.pdf, PTP-fr-fundraising-dashboard.pdf, 
PTP-fr-planning-worksheets.xlsx, Rebecca FR Worksheets.xlsx, Editorial-Calendar-Template.xlsx, LCSC Case Study.pdf, See "10 years, 10 days, $10k" by Kiara Boone, Autumn Hubbard & Trish Tchume of YNPN, pp. 2-5
GIFT Conference 2016 Participant Agenda Session 2.pdf, 01 GIFT Conference 2016 presentation.pdf, 02 introducing-sprint-fundraising-campaigns GIFT 2016.pdf, 03 Importance of Data.pdf, 04 Tool Box and Iowa CCI Case Study.pdf, 05 Zen and the Art of Workflows August 2016 FINAL.pdf, PTP CRMs & Fundraising Campaigns GIFT Journal Sept Oct 2014.pdf, Your Organizational Data Worksheet.pdf, Mimi Ho GrassrootsFundraisingStrategyChart.pdf, PTP-fr-fundraising-dashboard.pdf, PTP-fr-planning-worksheets.xlsx, Rebecca FR Worksheets.xlsx, Editorial-Calendar-Template.xlsx, LCSC Case Study.pdf, See "10 years, 10 days, $10k" by Kiara Boone, Autumn Hubbard & Trish Tchume of YNPN, pp. 2-5Materials
Materials will not be printed for you at the training. If you want a paper copy, please download and print before you come.
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This REVERB Online webinar, originally recorded on March 5, 2015, features a discussion with Alicia Garza, co-founder of #BlackLivesMatter, with lessons learned from her experience using messaging, technology and social media to organize a 21st century movement that confronts racism and the murders of unarmed black men and children. This discussion highlights how the #BlackLivesMatter movement has been effective in using technology to build a movement.
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This REVERB training will help participants learn how to:
- Use and design your emails to get your constituents to pay attention to your messages
- Use and design your website to better engage your audience
- Use Twitter in appropriate ways for your organizing and communication campaigns
- Use Facebook in ways to enhance your outreach efforts for your organizing and communications
- Write an “elevator pitch” for use on your website and other communications
- Use imagery to tell your story
- Use video to tell your story to a targeted audience
- How to integrate communications technology for your overall campaign strategies
- Be agile in planning your communications using workflows and other planning tools
- Improve your collection of meaningful data and learn how data can inform your communications strategies and your technology choices to effectively engage your constituents
- Implement your communication strategies using PowerBase / CiviCRM (Day 3 only)
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The 2-day Grassroots Fundraising & Technology Training will help groups understand how to integrate their grassroots fundraising with their on-going organizing and communications activities. We emphasize multi-channel approaches to grassroots fundraising so that online and on-the-ground activities are highly coordinated and inter-connected.
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File attachments: GFT 2015 Participant Agenda.pdf, 
presentation-fr-sprint-fundraising-campaigns v2015 FINAL GRFT.pptx, FundraisingbyQuartersWorksheet.pdf, Mimi Ho GrassrootsFundraisingStrategyChart.pdf, Putting it All Together.pdf, Team Planning.pdf, Activities Comparison Matrix v2015 Day 1 No pb version.pdf, Dashboard Worksheet v2015 Day 1 No pb version.pdf, Donor Activity Matrix v2015 Day 1 No pb version.pdf, Event Planning Worksheet v2015 Day 1 No pb version.pdf, Personal Ask Worksheet v2015 Day 1 No pb version.pdf, Drip Marketing.pptx
GFT 2015 Participant Agenda.pdf, presentation-fr-sprint-fundraising-campaigns v2015 FINAL GRFT.pptx, FundraisingbyQuartersWorksheet.pdf, Mimi Ho GrassrootsFundraisingStrategyChart.pdf, Putting it All Together.pdf, Team Planning.pdf, Activities Comparison Matrix v2015 Day 1 No pb version.pdf, Dashboard Worksheet v2015 Day 1 No pb version.pdf, Donor Activity Matrix v2015 Day 1 No pb version.pdf, Event Planning Worksheet v2015 Day 1 No pb version.pdf, Personal Ask Worksheet v2015 Day 1 No pb version.pdf, Drip Marketing.pptxPlace:
9:00 AM through 5:00 PM
Location
10 East 34th Street 10th Floor
New York, NY 10016
Day 1: PowerBase Fundamentals
A foundational track designed for participants that need a stronger foundation in the key features of PowerBase. This track will go at a pace designed to optimize a better understanding of PowerBase. After attending this session, participants will know how to
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Track 1: PowerBase Fundamentals
A foundational track designed for participants that need a stronger foundation in the key features of PowerBase. This track will go at a pace designed to optimize a better understanding of PowerBase. After attending this session, participants will know how to
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This workshop was conducted by Alice Aguilar, Executive Director, of PTP and Scott Douglas, Executive Director of Greater Birmingham Ministries and Board Member of PTP during the Marguerite Casey Foundation 2014 National Convening on September 22nd, 2014 in Atlanta Georgia.
Workshop Description: PTP and GBM share their technology tools and demonstrate how they have helped grassroots organizations to expand their membership bases.
Objectives:
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