WHAT WORKS: A Post Elections Report-back
On January 26 & 27, 2009, the Mitchell Kapor Foundation gathered our VoICE grantees together for WHAT WORKS: A Post-Elections Report Back.
WHAT WORKS provided a much-needed opportunity to share the strategies that nonprofit organizations used to inspire voter participation and protect voter access to the polls during the 2008 election cycle.
It is our hope that organizations continue to learn, network, and mobilize in order to ensure everyone's fair and fundamental participation in our democracy and civic processes.
Please listen to the audio files below to hear the participants' presentations on WHAT WORKED in 2008.
Day One
Welcome and Introductions
Panel One: Creating Movements
Speakers
- Introduction by Cedric Brown, Director, Mitchell Kapor Foundation
- Rudy Gonsalves, California Alliance
- Joseph Smooke, Community Leadership Organizing & Uniting Together
- Evan Bacalao, National Association of Latino Elected Officials
- Bridgette Rongitsch, Nonprofit Voter Engagement Network
- Esperanza Tervalon-Daumont, Oakland Rising
- Alice Aguilar, Progressive Technology Project
Question and Answer
- Question and Answer Section 1
- Question and Answer Section 2
- Question and Answer Section 3
- Question and Answer Section 4
Visualization of Notes by Jake Mix
Panel Two: Strengthening Emergent Voters
Speakers
- Introduction by Archana Sahgal, Director, Civic Engagement Fund for Arab, Middle Eastern, Muslim, and South Asian (AMEMSA) Communities
- Naomi Tacuyan, Asian Pacific Islander Vote
- Margaret Fung, Asian American Legal Defense & Education Fund
- Irma Palacios, Center for Community Change
- Wendy Wendlant, Center for Public Interest Research
- Mari Ryono, Mobilize the Immigrant Vote
- Melanie Campbell, National Coalition on Black Civic Participation
Question and Answer
- Question and Answer Section 1
- Question and Answer Section 2
- Question and Answer Section 3
- Question and Answer Section 4
- Question and Answer Section 5
- Question and Answer Section 6
- Question and Answer Section 7
- Question and Answer Section 8
- Question and Answer Section 9
- Question and Answer Section 10
Visualization of Notes by Jake Mix
Panel Three: Engaging Young Voters
Speakers
- Moderated by Carmen Rojas, Grants Officer, Mitchell Kapor Foundation
- Matt Singer, Bus Project/Bus Federation
- Jessamyn Sabbag, Generational Alliance
- Darryl Perkins, Hip Hop Caucus Institute
- Robert Baker, League of Young Voters
- Maria Teresa Petersen, Voto Latino
- Carmen Berkley, United States Student Association
Question and Answer
Visualization of Notes by Jake Mix
Day Two
Panel Four: Establishing Rights
Speakers
- Introduction by Leticia Alcántar, Executive Director, Akonadi Foundation
- Eddie Hailes, Jr., Advancement Project
- Diana Tate, American Civil Liberties Union – Northern California
- Brenda Wright, Dēmos
- Jonah Goldman, Lawyers Committee for Civil Rights Under Law
- Manuel La Fontaine II, Legal Services for Families with Children/All of Us or None
Question and Answer
- Question and Answer Section 1
- Question and Answer Section 2
- Question and Answer Section 3
- Question and Answer Section 4
- Question and Answer Section 5
- Question and Answer Section 6
- Question and Answer Section 7
Visualization of Notes by Jake Mix
Panel Five: Revitalizing Democracy
Speakers
- Moderated by Andrea Shorter, President, Commission on the Status of Women, City and County of San Francisco
- John Bonifaz, Voter Action
- Marc Caplan, Proteus Fund
- Solange Hansen, Public Campaign
- Lorena Garcia, 9 to 5, National Association of Working Women
- Tanya Clay House, People for the American Way
- Michael Slater, Project Vote
Question and Answer
- Question and Answer Section 1
- Question and Answer Section 2
- Question and Answer Section 3
- Question and Answer Section 4
Visualization of Notes by Jake Mix
Panel Six: Making Media Matter
Speakers
- Introduction by Timothy Silard, President, Rosenberg Foundation
- Daniel Souweine, Citizen Engagement Laboratory/Video the Vote
- Samuel Orozco, Radio Bilingüe
- Emily Goulding, Self Reliance Foundation
- Jacqueline Patterson, Women of Color United
- Dori Maynard, Maynard Institute
- Carol Jenkins, Women’s Media Center
Question and Answer
- Question and Answer Section 1
- Question and Answer Section 2
- Question and Answer Section 3
- Question and Answer Section 4
Visualization of Notes by Jake Mix
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