Join us at our next canvass on Saturday, Feb. 27!
Happy February!
It’s officially the month of Valentine’s Day, and a great time to work towards all love being treated equally in the eyes of the law, and in the hearts of our neighbors.
In January, one year after Vote for Equality kicked off its door-to-door canvassing operation in L.A. County — in areas where over 50% of residents voted Yes on Prop. 8 — we hit the streets again. We’re continuing to listen to and identify voters’ core concerns, and learning how to open a conversation and move them to reconsider their opposition to marriage equality.
In just the past two weekends, 112 volunteer canvassers talked to over 500 more voters! That makes for more than 5,900 in-person conversations that VFE has had with voters since the passage of Proposition 8 in November 2008.
We are starting to get more into the roots of homophobia in these conversations, and what can start to get people to open up and talk about the gay and lesbian people in their neighborhoods, as well as in their own lives. Alongside relating our own personal stories about why marriage matters to us, and how the passage of Prop. 8 directly affected our lives, many conversations also see voters relating their stories about why marriage is important to them, and how it is equally important to the gay and lesbian people in their lives who they interact with every day.
We will be out talking to more voters in February, and as always — we really need more of you out there with us doing this work. It is helping us gain insight into the minds of voters, which will be crucial in helping us to run better, more effective campaigns in the future. We just need to be talking to voters on a much larger scale — and that’s where you come in.
VFE canvass training
Our next canvass is on Saturday, Feb. 27 in East Los Angeles. No experience is necessary; VFE has developed a full training, where we’ll help you develop a personal story, and roleplay conversations with voters before you head out to knock on doors with an experienced partner. VFE volunteers will have already created packets with everything you’ll need, from lists of registered voters, to maps to get to their houses, to scripts that have key messaging to help you navigate and track your conversations.
CLICK HERE TO SIGN-UP
East L.A. Canvass
Saturday, Feb. 27
10:00 a.m. – 3:00 p.m.
Training location:
3583 Beswick St.
Los Angeles, CA 90023
Come to our fundraising training!
Also, on Valentine’s Day weekend, we are making a commitment to help keep this work ongoing. In the name of love, we will be coming together as a group to call people we know to ask them to invest in this work. The only way that VFE can keep doing this critical work on marriage is by raising enough money to keep our program going. And the best people to raise it are people like you who really, deeply care about seeing a day when all love is treated equally. We’ll provide you with a training that will make you an expert fundraiser, before you even get on the phones!
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Grassroots Fundraising Training & Phone Bank
Saturday, Feb. 13
11:00 a.m. – 3:00 p.m.
The Village @ L.A. Gay & Lesbian Center
1125 N McCadden Pl.
Los Angeles, CA 90038
