School's out, phone banking is in: Learn how Sunrise teens and twenty-somethings created fun and welcoming phone banks

Sunrise Movement ran one of the largest youth-led voter contact programs in the 2020 elections.

Sunrisers organized hundreds of phone banks with thousands of volunteer callers. Those volunteers made more than six million dials to turn people out to vote for Green New Deal champions.

Watch the video below to learn the five principles that guided the national phone bank program and get tips and tricks for creating a phone bank program that is welcoming, fun, and effective.

 

About the Sunrise Movement

Sunrise is a movement of young people working to fight the climate crisis and create millions of good jobs and justice in the process. The Sunrise Movement launched in 2017 with a four-year plan to build people power and political power, working to elect endorsed climate champions like Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez, Jamaal Bowman, and Cori Bush to Congress and pushing Democrats to implement a Green New Deal.

The Green New Deal is a plan to mobilize every aspect of American society to 100% clean and renewable energy, guarantee living-wage jobs for anyone who needs one, and a just transition for both workers and frontline communities—all in the next ten years.

Presenters

Sophia Zaia, Yashvi Gosalia, Sophia Fenimore of Sunrise Movement and Randall Smith of PowerLabs

This webinar is based on the work of the Force To Be Reckoned With learnings consolidation squad - Erica Brown, Yara Changyit-Levin, Grace Cuddihy, Sourish Dey, Sophie Fenimore, Maya Quetzali Gonzalez, Yashvi Gosalia, Anagha Khandelwal, Zachary Lee, Zahra Lohoue, Violet Massie-Vereker, Andrew Overy, Evan Schwartz, Indigo Sharp, and Terra Workman.

Thank you to all the members of the Force To Be Reckoned With during the 2020-2021 election season.

Karl Adrianza, Lucien Aible, Aanika Akkaraju, Matt Almeida, Wassim Alsafi, Sophie Aroesty, Nell Badgley, Atreyi Basu, Jody Bleyle, Shreya Bommareddy, Jessie Bonafilia, Sunshine Bouthiller, Claire Bradley, Fiona Carter, George Davidson, Sourish Dey, Alisa Dzhassim, Elisa Figueras, Austin Graham, Phoebe Holz,  Devin Jacaruso, Jade Jang, Lia Kahan, Sarah Karver, Scout Khelian, Judah Klingsburg, Zachary Lee, Izzy Leo, Rachel Lo, Zahra Lohoue, Cormac Madden, Violet Massie-Vereker, Morgan Mastrovich, Abby Matsuyasu, Melissa Mauldin, Claudia Maurino, Eric Meyer, Vivian Nguyen, Hannah Pait, Manav Patel, Robby Phillips, Angelina Pouhe, Jamie Ptacek, Garima Raheja, Anna Reich, Yoheved Retig, Julieth Sanchez, Mariana Sanchez, Marcus Sandy, Laís Santoro, Alex Shames, Aaryaman (Sunny) Singhal, Jared Sloan, Aidan Somaini, Josh Stark, Thomas Vagnini, Peter Walsh, Rey Watson, Magda Werkmeister, Sofia Wu, Niamh Zanghi, and Amanda Zettler

And to the thousands of people who made calls to elect Green New Deal champions.

Learn more

Behind the scenes of Sunrise’s volunteer-led phone bank program - Learn how Sunrise structured and supported the volunteer teams to make them more likely to produce excellent results, get stronger over time, and contribute to the growth and learning of the team members.

 

How can we help you?

If you are interested in collaborating, get in touch soon. It’s never too early. We typically book engagements six months or more in advance.

Some of the projects we worked on recently include:

  • Supported the Sunrise Movement to design, launch, and support hundreds of volunteer teams

  • Worked with United for Respect to develop and test new tactics to recruit retail workers

  • Advised and coached senior leaders of several organizations on how to scale their organization through volunteer power