EDUCATION
Mission: Citizen Action of New York is a grassroots membership organization taking on big issues that are at the center of transforming society: quality education and after-school programs for all our kids; guaranteed quality, affordable health care; public financing of election campaigns; dismantling racism and promoting racial justice; a more progressive tax system. We look for opportunities to accomplish big changes – not small, incremental reforms. We work to elect progressive candidates to office who are committed to these issues. Our power comes from the grassroots: people coming together to push the edge of the possible. Every new member helps bring New York and America closer to a society that works for all of us!
Website: https://citizenactionny.org/
Phone: 212-523-0180
Email: canyc@citizenactionny.org
What volunteers do:
represent Citizen Action at coalition meetings
assign tasks and keep track of tasks for follow-up
captain buses to events, rallies, marches
coordinate calendar of meetings and events
write and distribute chants
cook for events
debrief participant volunteers
maintain office inventory and order
facilitate meetings
design flyers, newsletters, literature
keep membership list
press liaison
media research
take meeting minutes
office manager
captain phone banks
photograph events
watchdog/track politicians’ social media feeds
receptionist
issue research
meeting peacekeeper
social-media engagement
book speakers
spokesperson
coordinate visibility (banners, signs, pins, t-shirts)
coordinate volunteers
write op-eds, letters to the editor, chapter’s monthly report to Albany