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Maytree Get Out the Vote Conference
Date and time
Location
YMCA
20 Grosvenor St Auditorium Toronto, ON M4Y 2V5 CanadaDescription
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 TalksAlison 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
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 workshopGraham 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
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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.
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