
2025 GOALS
ENGAGEMENT:
● Host more social activities beyond postcard parties, including space where we can connect with each other and build community.
● Clarify/reprise informed progressives.
● Educate the community on social justice topics, how to be an effective activist, intersectionality/solidarity, and other types of political education.
● Make training series an annual thing, look at adding topics.
● Seek more input from members/participants to guide engagement.
● Secure a consistent meeting space.
EMPHASIZING LOCAL / PARTNERING WITH LOCAL ORGANIZATIONS
● Focus on local issues (examples: new sewer service, 287g, housing issues, and being a watchdog on County commissioners).
● Have a committed volunteer track openings in appropriate County and City boards where progressive influence can make a difference. Commit to putting the openings in a section of the monthly newsletter instead of ad-hoc.
● Strengthen existing partnerships and continue partnering with new groups. Prioritize partnerships with Caja Solidaria, immigrant led groups, voter rights orgs, local education organizations, and veterans issues.
● Explore coalition-building approaches.
● Provide safety team/de-escalators to ally events like Pride.
● Find opportunities to genuinely collaborate with partners vs just inviting them to our pre-established things (postcard parties). Ask partners if they have ideas for things we can do together.
● Have partnerships established with at least 4 months lead time.
AUDIENCES:
● Reach younger folks (youth and middle aged), people of color, retirees who are not active, and the local latinx/immigrant community.
● Expand the base & diversity of people actively involved in PAHC (leadership & in general).
● HOW:
○ Include some education/activities this year on how politics impacts daily lives.
○ Attend Building Bridges educational events.
○ Expand promotion: Post flyers on BRCC campus, Post bilingual flyers in latinx community areas, etc.
○ Invite activists to informal “getting to know you” events. No agenda/more of a low-pressure opportunity to bring people into the work of PAHC.
○ Informally reach out to local nonprofit staff/folks that can’t be “visibly” progressive.
○ Secure an agreement for a scheduled periodic column in a specific medium for progressive commentary.
○ Create new materials to publicize PAHC (examples: business cards, tshirts, etc).
ONLINE:
● Experiment with other social media beyond FB to reach younger audiences.
RALLIES:
● Increase the safety team (to at least 6 people). Bring new members in both from PAHC and other allied groups.
● Host more de-escalation trainings. Need more basic training, and “102” where we practice skills.
● Reexamine our press work processes and plans, in order to make a bigger impact at rallies through pre-publicity and event communications with press.
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OTHER:
● Build connections with larger venues.
● Rapid response to timely issues (On calendar in 24 hours). Establish a new process for consensus leadership to prevent delays.
● Implement or find a volunteer within PAHC or allied group to create a Trump/Vance scorecard to track the measurable results of their policies and practice.