Sentences with phrase «campaign volunteers and staff»

«This is truly a testament to the hard work of the hundreds of campaign volunteers and staff and the overall support for my candidacy for Mayor.»

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He helped launch 270 Strategies after serving most recently as the National Field Director for the 2012 re-election campaign of President Barack Obama, where he had primary responsibility for building a nationwide army of staff and volunteer organizers.

She also stressed the need to appreciate and use volunteers» specific talents, something that can be tough if campaign staff are too overworked to be able to pay attention to what people are good at.

Finally, some campaigns in 2012 employed «protected» Twitter feeds — ones that can only be followed by people «approved» by the feed owner — to organize field staff and volunteers on the fly.

Once the campaign is up and running in a given area, the professional staff will begin to direct more of the local volunteer activity, but even then MyBO usage does not appear to drop off significantly.

The Obama reelection campaign is providing headquarters staff, field organizers and volunteers the ability to take campaign donations with their mobile phones.

Of course we're talking about campaigns of a certain size — someone running for mayor in a small town likely won't have staff at all, just family and volunteers.

Regardless, it's important for campaigns and organizations to think carefully about their geo - social strategies and to work to educate volunteer and staff about the dos and don'ts of Foursquare.

If campaign HQ's a-rockin»... Often, in election campaigns, the candidate or local party will hire out a house to put up some of the volunteers and the staff who've come up from London to pitch in over the campaigns.

Two elements jump out: first, the platform's integrated ten - person video chat feature («Hangouts»), which should be extremely useful for volunteer - organizing, for media / blogger calls and for campaigns whose staff is scattered across the country or the world.

Rather than meet up at a volunteer office, Sanders volunteers from across the country organized themselves on a Reddit community and collaborated with one another and the campaign's senior staff, said Kenneth Pennington, who was the campaign's digital director.

Many of the volunteers were burned out, for sure, but the campaign apparatus was also allowed to decay — Organizing For America may have become a «permanent field campaign» in theory, but it was a shadow of Obama For America until recently in terms of staff, funding and emphasis.

Some pieces were intended for a broad audience, effectively serving as online campaign commercials, but others were aimed at volunteers and campaign staff — their goal was educational and motivational, and at times their relatively primitive production standards added to their perceived authenticity.

Depending on the details of the Constituent Relations Management system the campaign uses and the extent of its integration with the fundraising system (see Chapter Two), donation details may automatically populate the same database used to track supporters and volunteers (otherwise, staff may have to download the data and integrate it into the CRM as a separate step).

I expect some great things on the horizon, like volunteer management centers for district coordinators built into sites and additional tools that bring constituents closer to the staff level within campaigns.

Online volunteer organizing essentially built the campaign a structure in places where it didn't exist, letting paid staff parachute in and immediately take command of a working political army.

Of course, it didn't always work smoothly, as when the professional staff took over a volunteer's MySpace page early in the campaign and encountered a sharp backlash.

Both are labor intensive, since it takes a sizable staff to crank out messages and organize canvassers, meaning that grassroots - powered campaigns by their nature generate trained staff and volunteers in droves.

Patrick cites «Trippi's axiom about 600,000 online supporters being smarter than 200 people in Burlington,» but most non-presidential campaigns in the real world aren't ever going to HAVE 600,000 online supporters — they'll be lucky to have a few dozen really committed staff and volunteers.

It's an election year for all 212 members of the legislature, and unions often provide support for field campaigns in the form of volunteers to staff phone banks and to drop off campaign literature door to door.

Both campaign teams are stocked full of bright, hard - working staff and volunteers.

Understandably, Obama's campaign staff became uncomfortable with such a valuable asset being controlled by a volunteer and decided to take it over.

Just as in 2008, when the campaign saw over a billion minutes of video viewing, Obama's staff also posted a slew of individual video clips, often several per day, and often designed to deliver a targeted message to a specific audience of voters... or campaign volunteers.

Politico had a short piece yesterday (via PoliticalWire) about Obama 2012's new foray into mobile fundraising: The Obama reelection campaign is providing headquarters staff, field organizers and volunteers the ability to take campaign donations with their mobile phones.

Unions have thousands of members who often volunteer to staff phone banks, go door to door with campaign literature and help encourage voters to go to the polls.

Until something changes, their relative lack of experienced staff will naturally put their campaigns at a disadvantage in a political world in which digital tools and online channels are increasingly key to finding donors, spreading messages, and organizing volunteers.

First, the Obama campaign trained a huge number of staff and volunteers in the dark arts of digital organizing in 2008, and many have gone on to sharpen their skills on other electoral and advocacy campaigns.

He said, «I am not willing to put the State Republican Primary Board, the Secretary of State's Office and Division of Elections, the County Election Commissions, the campaign staff, my volunteers, my family and the public through additional weeks of litigation, with uncertainty as to who the nominee will be... A contest would not be the right thing for the Republican Party and the conservative cause in Tennessee.»

«I want to offer heartfelt thanks to Chairman Mike Long and the New York State Conservative Party, to my staff, volunteers and supporters who all worked tirelessly on my campaign.

MyBO was particularly important in areas in which the campaign did not have professional staff, since it gave volunteers the means to create their own local campaign structure — professional field staff could «parachute in» as elections approached and immediately take over a functioning organization.

Two other Advance Group honchos — vice president Joanthan Yedin and chief of staff Katie Franger — then «volunteered their efforts to further my speaker campaign,» she said in the settlement.

«I'm incredibly thankful for our grassroots support — and to our staff, unpaid interns and volunteers for working so hard to get our campaign on the ballot, gathering more than 7,250 signatures and ensuring that after 18 years, voters will finally have a choice in this election,» Saujani said in a press release.

Vermont Sen. Bernie Sanders» campaign is hoping for an upset victory over Hillary Clinton in the upcoming Iowa caucuses, and to that end has quietly assembled an extensive ground game with 100 paid staff members and trained volunteer leaders for each of the state's 1,681 caucus precincts.

The Jenkins» campaign has been picking up steam with added staff, and in influx of hundreds of volunteers in a show of grassroots support.

Candidates» staff frequently volunteer but their bosses can not pressure them to participate and it's illegal to use taxpayer - backed government resources for campaigns.

Let me assure each and every one of my supporters, including my volunteers, donors and campaign staff, that your hard work, friendship and generosity will never be forgotten.

The PCCC, which backed Ms. Teachout in 2014, promised it would be «organizing local volunteers, fundraising, Facebook ads, an email to the group's one million members, and a mobilization of staff resources all factor into a blitz campaign to draft Zephyr.»

«I attended some Vote Leave Ltd events during the campaign as a volunteer activist and socialised with some members of staff.

A review of the Julio Pabon disclosure filing showed it spent $ 4,000 (and owes another $ 6K) on top gun election lawyer Martin Connor; $ 318 on MTA MetroCards; and $ 670 on food for his campaign staff and volunteers at local eateries (Court Deli, Giovanni's Grand Concourse, Little Caesar's Pizza, McDonald's, Mexicozina Taqueria, Parilla Latina Steakhouse, South of France, and Walton Food Service).

I want to thank the volunteers on my campaign, on Owen Smith's campaign, and to Owen himself and to all the Party staff who worked so hard over the summer.

The Quinn campaign had volunteers and campaign staff outside the auditorium more than an hour before the debate holding signs and offering Quinn stickers to attendees.

Unions have thousands of members that often volunteer to staff phone banks, go door to door with campaign literature and help encourage voters to go to the polls.

Aside from raising the millions of dollars needed for campaign advertising in one of the nation's most expensive television markets, Bharara, as an independent, would need to pull together a statewide organization of paid staff and volunteers that could compete with get - out - the - vote efforts run by the Democratic and Republican Parties, particularly in a year when they'll be running gubernatorial campaigns.

The volunteers, people who have adopted dogs, people who have graduated from Paws in Prison, and other people who support the work of the program to change lives have a huge campaign going to persuade the new company to continue Paws in Prison with staff.

He joined the Operation Rainfall Campaign at the beginning, and became one of the staff as the first wave of new volunteers were needed back in mid June.

«We deeply appreciate the efforts of our staff and hundreds of volunteers who collected over 360,000 signatures to get I - 732 on the ballot last December, and who continued the momentum until polls closed tonight,» said Kyle Murphy, co-director of the Yes on 732 campaign.

Carbonzero's Advisory Services Team calculated the average greenhouse gas emissions of a candidate's campaign, by calculating the reasonable use of fossil fuels for electrical, heating and air conditioning for the campaign headquarters, and vehicle use for the candidates, volunteers and staff.

The many staff members and volunteers have developed a wide variety of resources, organized an annual Christmas Campaign, held the Best and Worst Christmas Gift Contest, led numerous workshops, and reached countless people with the message of simpler, more responsible living.

If there isn't an electronic group for the volunteers and campaign staff, offer to set one up.

AWARDS / ASSOCIATIONS / AFFILIATIONS → 2nd Place for small and mid-size business project in Bangkok Bank Internship — 2006 → Awarded second prize for small and medium - sized business project in Bangkok Bank internship — 2006 → Organized and led a business simulation with the faculty at the Chulalongkorn Academic Exhibition — 2006 → Created business plan for Chulalongkorn University to export the white frog to United States -2005 → Organized marketing survey and created the campaign for Siam Winery Co. -2005 → Selected for marketing and leadership camp in Central Retail Co., Thailand — 2005 → Vice President of Mind Club; organized volunteer staff for activities — 2004 → Gold Medal for outstanding sales for Chulalongkorn student enterprise, and led team to sell educational supplements such as academic books, English courses -2003