Overview
Measuring engagement challenges participants to think about organizing strategy and how to move people along an engagement ladder. It also provides training on useful tools for measuring this engagement in powerbase.
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.
Overview
The group will be presented with 3 organizing scenarios. They will be split into smaller groups and asked to develop and organizing strategy for their scenario.
Objectives
Our objective is to provide a base level lesson on organizing strategy. In addition, this lesson provides a context for all later exercises. Rather than learning how accomplish tasks in a vacuum, the scenarios provide a real organizing context to consider the pro’s and con’s of each PowerBase feature.
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Description
Political Education
In 2017, May First Movement Technology along with the Progressive Technology Project and many other organizations organized a series of gatherings called "Technology and Revolution."
We asked the question: what relationship does technology have with revolution?
The answers were scattered and diverse, but slowly started to take shape.
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Location: Ginn Parlour, 1233 Preservation Park Way, Oakland, CA 94612
Date: Tuesday, March 10, 9:00 - 5:00 pm
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Overview
Provide an overview of PowerBase reports and how you can use them to understand your base.
Objectives
Understand the different between a report and a report template; know when to use a report and when to do a search.
Requirements
Basic familiarity with CiviCRM.
Description
Time: 60 minutes
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Overview
Introduction to send mass mailings and printing mailing labels.
Objectives
Ensure participants are familiar with the basic steps of sending an email using CiviMail and printing labels using the Print Label Action menu from the search results page.
Requirements
Participants must be familiar with running searches and creating groups.
Description
60 Minutes total
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Back to Fundraising with Powerbase
Description
Ask who can explain what a Monsanto seed is?
Explain that most database software (Nation Builder, Salsa, Salesforce) is not only corporate software but is also proprietary software and proprietary software is similar to a Monsanto seed.
Explain that Powerbase is based on a international piece of free and open source software called CiviCRM used around the world.
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Overview
Introduction to creating contribution pages.
Objectives
Demonstrate basics of how to enable users to make donations to your campaigns.
Requirements
Basic knowledge of how to navigate in Powerbase.
Description
30 minutes
Theme: But wait a minute...
A volunteer hears about the membership meeting. They can't come but want to write a check to support the meeting. Wait a minute! How can we record this check??
Demonstrate offline contribution.
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Overview
Introduction to creating Events.
Objectives
Understand when to track a meeting using activities and when to use CiviEvent, understand the meaning of the most common CiviEvent options.
Requirements
Basic familiarity with searching.
Description
30 minutes
Explain
Activity vs Event (5 minutes)
There is a super easy way to track that someone went to a meeting: create an activity of the type Meeting with the date of that meeting. Super!!
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Overview
This lesson will teach participants the various ways you use searches to further categorize your base through the use of static and smart groups.
Objectives
- Understand the difference between static and smart groups
- Understand how to remove people from groups and impact on smart group
Requirements
Participants must have a basic familiarity with searching.
Description
This lesson should take approximately 30 minutes.
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