An integral aspect to the success of Democrats Abroad is its members. Democrats Abroad Germany is looking for a volunteer to become its Membership Development Coordinator to help DAG maintain and grow its membership.

The Membership Development Coordinator should focus on helping DAG learn more about its members. This includes learning about both active members and silent members, i.e., members that are interested in DA, but not actively participating. DAG wants to learn about how to handle ideological differences within the organization, and create local events that bring people together to discuss issues (ex. Socrates cafe). Many individuals join DA to find a community to discuss politics with and sometimes opportunities to do so are not readily available. Therefore, DAG would like to establish more chances for these discussions in the hopes of creating a more cohesive group (e.g. kitchen table talks).

As part of this role, the coordinator will be responsible for:

• Making contact with new members
• Following up with new members who indicate that they want to volunteer
• Finding ways and areas in which members can volunteer
• Developing new leaders
• Providing training for chapters to engage and develop members and volunteers
• Creating a membership survey that asks members about what types of events and volunteer opportunities they are interested in, how they feel they can best contribute to DAG’s efforts, what motivates them to be actively involved, and why they have not gotten involved sooner
• Attend monthly meetings of the DAG Executive Committee

Time Commitment: 5-10 hours/week

Interested or have questions? Contact Kenton Barnes, DAG Chair, [email protected]

As we continue to grow, help us track Democrats Abroad Germany’s finances better as bookkeeping volunteer! Previous experience with QuickBooks and accounting highly desirable.

Time commitment: 5 hours per month

Interested or have questions?

Contact Person: Powen Shiah, [email protected]

Phonebanking is one of our most effective tools for getting out the vote, and you can do it from anywhere! Democrats Abroad uses a free-for-you online system called CallHub that lets you call from a computer—all you need is internet access, a Chrome browser* and a speaker with a microphone. Log in and you will see a script and the voter information so you know who you're talking to. Simply follow the script and then fill in the survey answers: no other record-keeping needed.

*Follow this link to Download & install Google Chrome (on Windows, Mac or Linux).

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Get Started: How to sign up -- See the Training Materials (below) for step-by-step instructions:

1. Join or log in to your DA account (or choose Join/Sign In from the right of the top navigation menu).
   
   
2. Sign up to be a phonebanking volunteer at Phonebank (or select Take Action > Phonebank from the top menu).
   
   
3. After you sign up, you will get an email from [email protected] to activate your CallHub account and set a password. It may take up to 10 minutes to receive the email. You need a CallHub account to work on campaigns, but if you forget your password you will be able to reset it.
   
   
4. Come back to this page to review the Training Materials and the current campaigns (below).

Contact us at [email protected] if you have any problems signing up.
Please do not contact the phonebanking system's website support. They will not be able to sign you up as a DA phonebanking volunteer.

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Training Materials

• Phonebanking Training Slides
  
  
  1. More information, including a recorded training session and links to online training sessions.

• Phonebanking Do's and Don'ts (Google Docs)

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Returning Phonebankers

• Already have a phonebanking account set up? Start calling voters abroad by logging in to CallHub at https://callhub.io.
  
  
• Can't remember how to get into your phonebanking account? If you've done phonebanking with DA before, but can't access your phonbanking account, send an email to [email protected] to contact the DA help desk.
  
  
• Need a Refresher? Review the Training Materials (above).
  
  

Time Commitment: As much or as little as you want

Contact Person: Teresa Ritterhof, [email protected]