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

• Initial Outreach
• Community Education
• Coalition Building (see below)
• Public Campaign
• Accountability

Coalition Building

Goals: Build a coalition that represents a broad cross-section of your community.  Agree on specific demands the coalition will make on the representative to challenge unconstitutional laws and policies that inspire passionate agreement among coalition members. Meeting these goals organizes your community to achieve the further goal of gaining greater influence on your representative.

1. Agree to demands to put to candidates for office

• Guide: Tools for arriving at your demands
• Sample: Suggested demands for PCC

2. Reach out beyond the core group

Hold a large meeting to organize broad ranging community support for your demands. The core group should bring a concrete action plan (see next section for suggestions) to the meeting and invite the people assembled to endorse the coalition even if they can’t commit to joining the core steering committee. Request that participants help with specific tasks, and record what new members commit to do.

• Guide: Building Coalitions from the Bottom Up
• Also see PCC Pledge for Organizations

Public Campaign