California

Canvasing

How it Works

1. Sign up: Complete our volunteer form below to join our canvasing team. Once you are registered, we’ll provide you with all the necessary training and materials.
2. Get Trained: No prior experience is needed! Come to your local voting center and we will guide you through the process from using our app to answering questions voters may have.
3. Get out there: After training we will provide you with a list of addresses, a script, and materials to hand out. Your role will be to share important voting information, answer any questions, and encourage them to register and vote in the upcoming elections.

What You’ll Need

1. A Phone: our canvasing app will guide you including an address list and script.
2. A passion for Civic Engagement and the Jewish Community: If you believe it is important for everyone in your community to cast their vote, this opportunity is for you. Your enthusiasm is our most valuable asset

Ready to Get Started?

Fill out the form below to join our Canvasing team. Once you have signed up, we will reach out with more details and next steps. Together we can ensure that every Jewish vote counts!

Register Family & Friends

A personal invitation from a friend can go along way. People who as asked to register to vote by a friend or family member are more likely to do so. Registering family and friends is one of the lowest commitment/highest impact ways to get involved

How it Works

1. Sign up: Complete our volunteer form below. Our staff will reach out about setting up an account for you on our Up Vote app.
2. Download the Up Vote app
3. Use your phone contacts to locate voter profiles for your friends and family.
4. Use the app to text, email or call any contacts who have not yet registered to vote.
5. You can check back in the app to see if they have taken action, if not, you can send a reminder.

What You’ll Need

A phone. That’s it! Once your account is created, just download the app and you are ready to go.

Ready to Get Started?

Fill out the form below to join and a staff member we will reach out to help you set up an account on the Up Vote app. Together we can ensure that every Jewish vote counts!

Become a Community Captain

Are you the person who knows everyone? Jewish Voters Unite is looking for individuals who are well connected in their Jewish Institutions who are willing to take the lead. Community Captains recruit a team of volunteers who are involved in the same Jewish institution and reach out to each member. In previous campaigns, institutions with active Community Captains had 70%-90% voter turn out rates.

How it Works

1. Sign up: Fill out the form below to let us know you are interested in serving as a Community Captain.
2. Get Trained: We will provide you with the tools and resources you need to be effective and support you all along the way.
3. Recruit: You don’t have to do it alone. Bring together 8-10 other volunteers to help you reach the whole institution.
4. Build a list: Secure or build a membership list for your institution and divide it up among your team.
5. Reach out: Start messaging and talking to people. Explain why it is so important for them to register and vote and make a personal ask that they do so.
6. Report in Weekly: Using the Up Vote app you will be able to track who you have reached out to and what actions they have taken. Share this information with the Jewish Voters Unite staff so they can support you and ensure you are successful.

For more information on becoming a community captain click here or contact your voting center

Postering in The Community

Part of the Jewish Voters Unites voter activation strategy is surround sound messaging. This means that you are seeing and hearing about the campaign all across the community. Hanging posters in the community is a great way to ensure the message is seen.

How it Works

1. Sign up: Complete our volunteer form below to let us know you are interested Once you are registered, we’ll provide you with all the necessary materials.
2. Pick Up Materials: No prior experience is needed! Come to your local voting center and we will give you posters as well as a script you can use when asking merchants to display the posters. Start with places where you have relationships or are a regular customer.  It’s best to check with campaign staff if that business has already been approached so you won’t bother someone who has already declined.
3. Get out there: Where you go is up to you

Host an Event

If you have friends and family who you believe would be interested in donating or getting involved at a leadership level consider hosting an event.

How it Works

1. Let us know you are interested – fill out the form below to let us know that you are interested.
2. Learn more – A staff member will contact you to discuss what you are thinking, the responsibilities of a host, and answer any questions.
3. Set a date and invite your friends: You will work with a staff member to set a date and they will provide you information and sample invitation emails to share with your guests.

Ready to Get Started?

Fill out the form below to join and a staff member we will reach out to begin a conversation about hosting an event. Together we can ensure that every Jewish vote counts!

Table

It is important to meet people where they are. That might be at the kosher grocery store, a Jewish communal event or even at the school carpool line. Tabling allows JVU to meet community members where they are during their active days and reduce the barriers to voter registration and distribute voting information.

How it Works

1. Let us know you are interested – fill out the form below to let us know that you are interested. You can volunteer to be on-call for tabling opportunities or you can volunteer to set up an opportunity by contacting local businesses or event organizers.
2. Get Trained: No prior experience is needed!
   1. If you are volunteering to staff existing events we will contact you when an opportunity is available. Staff provide materials, training and scripts for you to use. Don’t want to do it alone? Let us know and we will make sure you have a team.
   2. If you are volunteering to set up tabling opportunities staff will provide you with talking points to use when approaching a business or event coordinator as well as materials you can share about the initiative.

Ready to Get Started?

Fill out the form below to join and a staff member we will reach out. Together we can ensure that every Jewish vote counts!