EDUCATION
Mission: Citizen Action of New York is a grassroots membership organization taking on big issues that are at the center of transforming society: quality education and after-school programs for all our kids; guaranteed quality, affordable health care; public financing of election campaigns; dismantling racism and promoting racial justice; a more progressive tax system. We look for opportunities to accomplish big changes – not small, incremental reforms. We work to elect progressive candidates to office who are committed to these issues. Our power comes from the grassroots: people coming together to push the edge of the possible. Every new member helps bring New York and America closer to a society that works for all of us!
Website: http://citizenactionny.org
Phone: 212-523-0180
Email: canyc@citizenactionny.org
What volunteers do:
- represent Citizen Action at coalition meetings
- assign tasks and keep track of tasks for follow-up
- captain buses to events, rallies, marches
- coordinate calendar of meetings and events
- write and distribute chants
- cook for events
- debrief participant volunteers
- maintain office inventory and order
- facilitate meetings
- design flyers, newsletters, literature
- keep membership list
- press liaison
- media research
- take meeting minutes
- office manager
- captain phone banks
- photograph events
- watchdog/track politicians’ social media feeds
- receptionist
- issue research
- meeting peacekeeper
- social-media engagement
- book speakers
- spokesperson
- coordinate visibility (banners, signs, pins, t-shirts)
- coordinate volunteers
- write op-eds, letters to the editor, chapter’s monthly report to Albany