Grassroots - Organizational Techniques

Organizational Techniques

Grassroots movement procedures to organize and lobby include:

  • Hosting house meetings or parties
  • Having larger meetings—AGMs
  • Putting up posters
  • Talking with pedestrians on the street or walking door-to-door (often involving informational clipboards)
  • Gathering signatures for petitions
  • Mobilizing letter-writing, phone-calling, and emailing campaigns
  • Setting up information tables
  • Raising money from many small donors for political advertising or campaigns
  • Organizing large demonstrations
  • Asking individuals to submit opinions to media outlets and government officials
  • Holding get out the vote activities, which include the practices of reminding people to vote and transporting them to polling places.
  • Using online social networks to organize virtual communities

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