BEGIN:VCALENDAR VERSION:2.0 PRODID:-//ChamberMaster//Event Calendar 2.0//EN METHOD:PUBLISH X-PUBLISHED-TTL:P3D REFRESH-INTERVAL:P3D CALSCALE:GREGORIAN BEGIN:VEVENT DTSTART:20260730T190000Z DTEND:20260730T200000Z X-MICROSOFT-CDO-ALLDAYEVENT:FALSE SUMMARY:Mission meets Democracy: Making a Plan for Nonprofit Voter Engagement DESCRIPTION:This session is for nonprofit leadership\, staff\, or volunteers who have committed to doing voter engagement in the next year or two. The training will walk through the steps an organization needs to take to start or grow a nonpartisan voter engagement initiative. No matter whether you plan to start small and simple or you have big ideas and capacity\, this training will help attendees put those ideas into an action plan. The plan will include talking points and strategies to answer questions and gain investment from leadership and board\, resources for learning the election laws in your state\, and a template timeline for integrating voter engagement activities into the work you are already doing. Participants will leave the training with a draft plan for voter engagement at their organization.\n\n \nGwen Stembridge (she/her)\, Director of Education and Partnerships\, comes to this work with experience as a community organizer\, policy analyst\, volunteer program manager\, and nonprofit professional. She has worked with and been trained by organizations such as AmeriCorps VISTA\, the Episcopal Service Corps\, the Industrial Areas Foundation\, United Way\, Points of Light Foundation/HandsOn\, Leadership Lorain County\, SURJ (Showing Up for Racial Justice)\, The Catalyst Project's Anne Braden Program\, The inaugural Equality Federation Game Change Cohort\, and The Management Center.\n\nHer most recent professional experience has focused on LGBTQ+ education and advocacy at the local\, state\, and national level at both Equality Ohio and The Trevor Project. She is excited to bring her community organizing and training background to strengthen the existing training and partnership opportunities at Nonprofit VOTE and make our democracy more accessible to all.\n\nRaised in the Atlanta area\, she lived the past 13 years in Ohio\, primarily Cleveland\, and has just settled back in the Southeast with her wife and family. X-ALT-DESC;FMTTYPE=text/html:

This session is for nonprofit leadership\, staff\, or volunteers who have committed to doing voter engagement in the next year or two. The training will walk through the steps an organization needs to take to start or grow a nonpartisan voter engagement initiative. No matter whether you plan to start small and simple or you have big ideas and capacity\, this training will help attendees put those ideas into an action plan. The plan will include talking points and strategies to answer questions and gain investment from leadership and board\, resources for learning the election laws in your state\, and a template timeline for integrating voter engagement activities into the work you are already doing. Participants will leave the training with a draft plan for voter engagement at their organization.
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\nGwen Stembridge (she/her)\, Director of Education and Partnerships\, comes to this work with experience as a community organizer\, policy analyst\, volunteer program manager\, and nonprofit professional. She has worked with and been trained by organizations such as AmeriCorps VISTA\, the Episcopal Service Corps\, the Industrial Areas Foundation\, United Way\, Points of Light Foundation/HandsOn\, Leadership Lorain County\, SURJ (Showing Up for Racial Justice)\, The Catalyst Project&rsquo\;s Anne Braden Program\, The inaugural Equality Federation Game Change Cohort\, and The Management Center.\n\n

Her most recent professional experience has focused on LGBTQ+ education and advocacy at the local\, state\, and national level at both Equality Ohio and The Trevor Project. She is excited to bring her community organizing and training background to strengthen the existing training and partnership opportunities at Nonprofit VOTE and make our democracy more accessible to all.

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Raised in the Atlanta area\, she lived the past 13 years in Ohio\, primarily Cleveland\, and has just settled back in the Southeast with her wife and family.

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\n LOCATION:Zoom UID:e.9142.11014 SEQUENCE:3 DTSTAMP:20260624T162018Z URL:https://info.npconnect.org/events/details/mission-meets-democracy-making-a-plan-for-nonprofit-voter-engagement-11014 END:VEVENT END:VCALENDAR