Campaign Goals

Building Power & Safety Through Solidarity is a phone-based base-building campaign that seeks to:

1. Build working class power

  • Develop leadership as DRUM members as Power & Safety Campaign Workers
  • Expand DRUM’s base (Through calls and engaging the community we identify potential members)
  • Deepen connections to each other, with a focal point at DRUM
  • Increase political awareness, agitation, and action

2. Maximize safety and health

3. Get counted in 2020 Census

Call Scripts

Call Scripts are just a guide for your calls and should be more conversational. You should be able to ask questions to get as the issues to determine what part of the script would be relevant for the person.

*Conditions are changing every day and you will need to be up to date with these changes because they will not be reflected on the script.

English
Bangla
Urdu
Nepali

Campaign Videos

Tracking Calls

Use the below template to track your calls:

 

 

Use the below template to track contacts you get from your calls or to track the people that said they want to give contacts but can't give you in that moment. Please note that you could and should also ask for contacts of other people the person is living with - parents, partners, children, friends, family,  room mates, etc. so you can get additional contacts to call)

 

Once you are done with calls, input the call information in the following online form Below:

  • You can also just enter call info in the form below instead of the templates above but using the templates allows you to follow-up with the contact and input the most complete information in the online form.
    • Ex. If you called someone and forgot to ask about the Census or if they said they will do it you can followup and see if they did it so that when you enter the information on the online form its logged as completed instead of blank or will do.

 

(Click Image or link)

https://docs.google.com/forms/d/e/1FAIpQLSdOLVDCTqy9IN18_e_tgQF0tj7_Hh98M7oOh1o-03y-lrpxMA/viewform

Take Action

Donate

Ways to donate to the Campaign & Leadership Development Fund (tax deductible):

 

Ways to donate to the Emergency Direct Aid Fund (not tax deductible):

Campaign Navigators

*If anyone needs support with any of the below resources send a text message to the relevant Navigator with (Your Name, The name of the person needing support and their phone # and any other info that is relevant)

 

PASS Navigators: (Unemployment Insurance, Census application, Healthcare resources, etc.)

  • English/Bangla =
  • Urdu =
  • Nepali =
  • Punjabi =

Food Navigators: (Mutual Aid, food pantries, School meal locations)

  • West Queens =
  • South Queens  =
  • Brooklyn =
  • Bronx =

Data Navigators (inputing data on online form)  & PPE Navigators (Packaging PPE for distribution)

Track your Navigation Hours using the below template (Examples are listed):

Resources

Unemployment: https://applications.labor.ny.gov/Individual/ 

Free COVID-19 Testing: https://www1.nyc.gov/site/coronavirus/resources/covid-testing.page

Food/Meals: http://schools.nyc.gov/freemeals

Mutual Aid Networks:

Text Message Script

Thank you for taking time to talk with me about our work at DRUM. Here are some ways in which you can take action so that our communities can be safer, connected and more powerful:

1. Sign the petition to cancel Rent: https://actionnetwork.org/petitions/reclaim-our-homes-rent-suspension-now/

2. Sign the Petition to create a Fund for Workers who were excluded from federal stimulus funds: https://tinyurl.com/EWFpetition

3. Complete your 2020 census so our neighborhoods get more funding for hospitals, schools, transportation and parks: http://my2020census.gov

4. Donate to DRUMs Emergency Aid Fund that will provide direct aid to community members in need of food and other resources:

Website: https://drum.ourpowerbase.net/civicrm/contribute/transact?reset=1&id=22

Paypal: https://tinyurl.com/yazzwq3z

Zelle: donate@drumnyc.org

 

Want to Make Calls? Use the following call script

English script: https://www.drumnyc.org/wp-content/uploads/2020/05/Call-Script-English.pdf

Bangla Script: https://www.drumnyc.org/wp-content/uploads/2020/05/Call-Script-Bangla.pdf

Urdu Script: https://www.drumnyc.org/wp-content/uploads/2020/05/Call-Script-Urdu.pdf

When you are done with your call please enter the information on the online form here or share with your DRUM contact person: https://tinyurl.com/ycu8m5vk

Doing Follow-up Calls

1)  Campaign workers and Organizers do followup of the calls based on their written call logs that they keep.
  • Weekly followup data lists can be provided for cross checking.
2) Followup calls are more than just checking up on how people are doing and can be entered into the online forms again if they meet all of the following:
  • They are more than 10 min.
  • They are continuing to build the political understanding of community member with a grounding at DRUM
  • It's moving people to take action on campaign work: They are providing contacts, You are training them how to make calls, Rent strike training, providing census/unemployment support, etc.
3) Tracking Followup:
  • Click on or indicate that  "This is a followup call" on the online form (New question added)
  • If you had already indicated that this person completed the census on your first call entry,  leave this blank on your followup entry.
  • If they said they will do the census  in their first call and they have now completed, select completed.
  • Do not select any of the campaign fields. Write what you were able to do on the "other" text field. (Ex. Received 10 contacts, trained how to do Camapign call and identified some community members in need of food)
4) Suggestions for followup calls:
  • Consider doing followup calls no more than 1 time a week after initial call so you can focus on reaching new people. Ideally when you are out of new contacts that's when you do followup to solicit more form previous calls.
  • If your contact is making a few calls you can get those information from them and include in your online entry. (Just enter who it was from in the "other Section")
  • If there are community members that want to do more than a few calls (20+) they should be paid for that work and they should enter their calls for themselves or provide you with the list which data navigators can enter.

Recruit New Members

As you are making calls you can determine whether the person would be eligible/ interested in joining DRUM as a member based on the following factors:

  1. They are interested in the political discussions and engaging in the rent strike, Excluded Workers Fund, making calls, census, and or providing other contacts. (Not only interested in the services but want to organize)
  2. You have talked to and engaged with them multiple times (Not just during the initial conversation)
  3. They are working class and do jobs that are in the field of domestic, taxi, restaurant, retail, and construction work etc.

Once you have determined the above:

  1. Ask if they would be interested in becoming a member of DRUM and you can give a brief overview of what it means to be a member.
  2. Share the link to our Orientation Video and have them view: https://youtu.be/Qki5cd-DySM
  3. Let them know that an organizer will contact them to answer any other questions about membership
  4. Enter their contact info on our online membership intake form (Ask an organizer how to access)