Maytree Get Out the Vote Conference

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Maytree Get Out the Vote Conference

By Maytree

Date and time

Tue, Apr 1, 2014 9:00 AM - 5:00 PM EDT

Location

YMCA

20 Grosvenor St Auditorium Toronto, ON M4Y 2V5 Canada

Description

get out the vote

Are you interested in supporting community efforts to increase voter turnout in diverse, low-income communities?

Join other community-based leaders and activists who are committed to participating in get-out-the-vote efforts for a day of learning and sharing ideas.

The workshops will focus on:

  • Understanding the challenges and the system
  • Learning from good ideas about what works
  • Learning new practical, hands-on skills and tools for canvassing and pulling voters to the polls

Agenda

8:30 a.m. Registration 9:00 a.m. Why is it that people don’t vote? Findings from Samara's Democracy Talks
Alison Loat, Samara
10:00 a.m. Who doesn’t vote? Findings from the 2010 municipal election
Myer Siemiatycki, Ryerson University
11:00 a.m. What systems can we change? Municipal electoral reform
Desmond Cole, CityVote and Dave Meslin, RABIT
12:00 p.m. Light lunch 1:00 p.m.

Mobilize to Vote 2014 - National Council of La Raza mobilizing Latino voters
Janet Hernandez, National Council of La Raza

2:00 p.m. Mobilizing Mount Dennis tenants to vote for landlord licensing
Judy Duncan, ACORN
3:00 p.m.

Voter contact workshop
Graham Mitchell, Broadbent Institute, Michal Hay, Broadbent Institute

and Jesse Boateng, 270 Strategies

4:00 p.m. Election day planning and pulling the vote workshop
Graham Mitchell, Broadbent Institute,
Michal Hay, Broadbent Institute

and Jesse Boateng, 270 Strategies

5:00 p.m. Conference closing


  • If you have any special needs, please let us know what we can do to accommodate them.
  • For additional information, please contact Katarina: kvukobratovic@maytree.com

Organized by

Maytree is committed to advancing systemic solutions to poverty and strengthening civic communities.

We take a human rights approach to addressing the systems that create poverty with the ultimate goal of having social and economic rights safeguarded for all people living in Canada.

Our work supports leaders, organizations and civic communities by developing and sharing knowledge; strengthening learning and leading; and mobilizing action to further social and economic rights.

Maytree

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