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Guidelines for Making an Action Proposal Printable Version
This page outlines the Jobs with Justice Organizing Committee (OC) Guidelines for Making an Action Proposal. Your task is only to answer the 6 questions below and choose a mobilization level, then get in touch with the Co-Chairs of the Organizing Committee.
Our deadline to submit these action requests and reports to the Co-Chairs is by Friday, 5pm before the next meeting.
We ask that you do two important things when requesting Jobs with Justice help:
- Involve us in your advance planning so that we can involve our widest volunteer base and prioritize our work.
- Prepare a focused request that shows how the event and you and/or your organization addresses our mission and core principle of "we'll be there at least five times for someone else's fight in the coming year."
Our goal is to organize a fast-paced Organizing Committee meeting, where volunteer activists sign up to mobilize and we address the most important right-to-organize proposals. The meeting should end in one and a half hours out of respect for activists with families and more than full-time jobs.
Questions for Developing a JwJ Action Proposal
- How does this action further the Jobs with Justice Mission Statement and Annual Priorities?
- How does this action support the proposing organization's strategy for winning its struggle?
- How does this action engage Jobs with Justice with issues of and organizations in Communities of Color?
- What is the organization's plan for turn-out? What is the organization asking Jobs with Justice to do (e.g. turnout, logistics, media, etc. see Mobilization Levels below) that is unique about that role?
- How will the proposing organization's membership be involved in planning and carrying out this action? How can the action help develop new JwJ leaders and activists?
- How will this action help to build unity among various labor, community and religious organizations?
- Is this a one time event or part of a larger campaign? If this is part of a larger campaign can you please tell us about the campaign (in one or two sentences) and what stage you are in with your campaign (beginning, middle, or end)? Does this campaign involve JwJ in lobbying legislators or supporting a ballot initiative? (JwJ is limited by tax status)
Mobilization Levels: Choose One
Level 1: Full Mobilization With a minimum of two weeks notice, mailing to complete or targeted mailing list (depending on subsidy by organization or individual), email, fax to organizational members, phone bank, or phone tree. This level implies that Jobs with Justice is involved in planning action and campaign decisions and Jobs with Justice has a guaranteed presence at the event (speaker, banner, signs, pledge-cards). Jobs with Justice should not do more than 1 Full Mobilization per month.
Level 2: Hot List With sufficient notice, and depending on subsidy by organization or individual, mailing to 200 most active members, email, phonebank and/or phone tree. This level implies that Jobs with Justice is involved in planning action and campaign decisions and Justice with Justice has a guaranteed presence at the event (banner, signs, pledge-cards, speaker if Jobs with Justice wants to).
Level 3: Publicity JwJ approves the action as part of an ongoing campaign that Jobs with Justice is involved in, encourages members to participate via email, may allow use of labels by organization, may send speaker and bring pledge-cards. If the proposer has already conducted at least a level 2 mobe for this campaign, JwJ can also design a Get Active email and/or link to a YouTube-type video of a previous JwJ OC supported and JwJ visible action.
Prioritizing Factors for Organizing Committee Meeting Agendas
If the Organizing Committee (OC) receives more action proposals for one month's meeting agenda than the committee can effectively handle, the Co-Chairs will use the following factors to prioritize which actions go on that month's agenda for the OC (not necessarily in this order):
- Has requestor followed above Jobs with Justice OC guidelines to make a proposal?
- Is requestor willing to meet with both co-chairs in person or on conference call?
- Is requestor a representative of a member organization of Jobs with Justice?
- Is there time to realistically meet the request?
- Is the request a follow-up report or action to which we have previously committed?
- Has Jobs with Justice been involved in strategy development?
- Does the request help build Jobs with Justice, i.e. bring leadership experience to our activists, bring new activists to Jobs with Justice, and/or help financially?
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