What can I do for an

Election Candidate

Have more money than time? Consider a campaign contribution, paying for a meals subscription, or paying for household or lawn services.

Offer your time

• Volunteer to be staff

• Volunteer to help out with daily tasks (childcare, meals for candidate and/or family, housecleaning, lawn mowing, laundry)

• Provide food for volunteers/door knocking parties

• Make phone calls

• Go door knocking/literature drops

• Help design and/or printing fliers or various media

• Offer editing services for anything being mailed/written

• Help candidate practice speeches or question answering

• Share social media pages and websites

• Take videos or photos of the candidate at events or forums for their use on social media (they can’t take photos of themselves!)

• Walk in a parade

Provide transportation

• To forums or events

• To voting location

• Taxi volunteers

• Door knocking

Shopping

• Campaign literature (printing, etc)

• Swag items

Financial Support (directly assist or help raise money)

• Donate to campaign

• Encourage friends to donate to campaign

• Host fundraising party at your home

• Consider paying for a meal subscription, grocery delivery, or house care

Organize

• Keeping on top of filing/campaign deadlines and paperwork

• Help with campaign scheduling

• Host a meet and greet for them

• Become treasurer: help keep track of the money

• Donation tracking

Help build a team

• Friends, neighbors, community members

• Door knocking, phone banking,

• Encourage people to write editorials

Help filing out forms

• Filing paperwork

• Signature gathering

Research/Locate resources (offer to look for information/online research/phone calls)

• Yard signs, printing costs

• Researching more about issues or events

Assist related organizations & nonprofits who support

• Donations

• Volunteer

• Serve as a board member

• Encourage people who share your values to run for office

• Share social media pages and websites