E-Women Win Volunteer Organizer Description

As an E-Women Win Organizer you will have the opportunity to work within a state-wide grass-roots movement. A majority of your work will be organizing friends, family, neighbors, co-workers and other contacts within your own personal network. You can organize from your home on your own personal computer. Your goal is to spread the word about E-Women Win and build our Internet community by asking women to subscribe to the E-Women Win e-mail network. We will provide you with marketing materials such as brochures, handouts, information and support to aid you in this process. We then ask that after you gather as many e-mail addresses as possible, that you return your list to us.

Responsibilities:

• Collect emails of friends, family, neighbors, co-workers, and other women in your community that are interested in subscribing to E-Women Win and then we will add their address and contact information to our E-Women Win database.
• E-mail your personal address book and ask your contacts to subscribe by replying to your message. Collect their names and e-mail addresses and we will add them to our subscriber database.
• To publicize E-Women Win, use the marketing materials we send you to talk about the project. Take a few minutes to speak about it at your next community event or in the coffee room at your workplace, ask to have a few minutes on the agenda at your next volunteer board meeting or simply take a walk around your neighborhood and ask your neighbors.
• Look for potential opportunities at a gathering within your personal social circle or activities within your local community. Ask to set the information on a table or exhibit booth or simply take the sign-up sheets and pass them around on clipboards.
• Contact your community newspaper about running a story on your efforts to inform the community about E-Women Win
• Contact local community leaders about possible partnerships.
• Communicate weekly via email or phone to update us on your progress.
• Periodically attend E-Women Win Committee Meetings when possible.

E-Women Win Talking Points

Here are some helpful talking points to use when talking to friends about E-Women Win:

• E-Women Win is an initiative of the multi-partisan Minnesota Women's Political Caucus Education Council.
• The mission of E-Women Win is to educate, energize and empower women to engage in the political process and vote for leaders that will advance the economic, social and political equality of all women.
• The goal is to reach out to women, especially young women, who may be typically too busy or don't feel empowered to share their voice.
• By building an innovative internet community of subscribers, the initiative has a critical mass already in the thousands and there is power in numbers.
• Subscribers receive brief e-lert emails about leaders, issues, legislative activities, opportunities and events that impact Minnesota women. (Knowledge is power)
• Through the new E-Women Win website, www.ewomenwin.org, E-Women Win hopes to grow the base of subscribers and give women across the state the opportunity to come together, get informed and learn the power of their vote in the fall elections.
• When women feel educated and engaged on issues important to them, they are more likely to vote. Capitalizing on technology and linking women to one another and resources uniquely positions E-Women Win to do just that!
• Joining E-Women Win is free and an easy 5-minute way for busy women who are moms, college students or career professionals to make a difference.
• Go to www.ewomenwin.org to sign up for the “e-lert” emails and register in the open house guest book to be entered in a prize drawing.
• Call 651-228-0995 or email women@mnwpc.org to get more involved. Internships and local community organizing positions are available.
• Through education and outreach, this network will mobilize women to participate, get informed and to vote so that Minnesota government better represents the issues and lives of women.