Resource Type: Guide

How to Start a Food Drive

This guide is part of the Democracy in Action toolkit. The best way to support your community during this time is to start a food drive. Here are some simple steps to get you started:  Do your research. Take a look at local mutual aid groups and food banks in your area to see if there is […]

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Frequently Asked Questions: Our New Petition Platform

Why should I start a petition? You shouldn’t need a Super PAC or multimillion-dollar nonprofit to make change in your community. Petitions are a crucial tool for raising awareness and can be a powerful building block for organizing winning campaigns.  We want you to speak in your authentic voice about the issues that matter to […]

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6 Ideas for Promoting Your Petition on Twitter

1. Become an active Twitter user If you aren’t familiar with the basics of Twitter, you’re unlikely to be able to get very many petition signers from it. There are lots of sites that can give you a basic primer on using Twitter. One of our favorites is this page from Mashable, the social media […]

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8 Tips for Finding People to Sign Your Petition

The best way to grow your petition is to simply ask as many people to sign as possible. You might be surprised who is interested and wants to support your effort! Here are some different ways to ask lots of people to sign your petition quickly: 1. Send emails to your friends and family asking […]

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How to Deliver Your Petition

Once you’ve finished collecting petition signatures, the next step is to actually deliver them in person to the person your petition is addressed to. Here are tips on delivering your petition: Downloading Your Petition To download a PDF of your petition to print and deliver, log into MoveOn’s petition website using your email and password. […]

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6 Tips for Communicating with Decision-Makers

You will typically need to meet with or at least speak to the person your petition is addressed to in order to persuade them to do what you want. Here are general tips on communicating with decision-makers: 1. Be friendly, but persistent Often, if you don’t have a personal relationship with the person you’re calling, […]

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The Top 7 Ways to Engage Your Petition Signers

It often takes more to win a campaign than a petition alone. Below are some additional tactics to take your campaign to the next level. Some of these tactics take a lot more work than a petition, so you’ll need to ask some of your petition signers to help out by taking on specific campaign […]

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Campaign Guide

This guide is part of the Democracy in Action toolkit. There are many actions you can take to build a powerful campaign to make positive change in your community and beyond. For six years, MoveOn members have been using these tools to make an impact on important local issues. And, since the 2016 election, thousands of petitions […]

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Town Hall Petitions

This guide is part of the Democracy in Action toolkit. We’ve called. We’ve emailed. We’ve shown up at local offices. But for many of us, it has been nearly impossible to get in touch with our members of Congress. That’s why public, town halls are so important—they’re a rare opportunity to speak directly with our elected officials […]

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