Acronyms
FAB
What is Friend Activist Banker?
The number of Working America members
What is 5 Million?
The Executive Director of Working America.
What is Matt Morrison?
The five core issues.
What is good jobs, healthcare, education, secure retirement, and corporate accountability?
The term used to describe the branching paths we take when negotiating a contribution from a member.
What is the money tree?
How frequently, at a minimum, you should be doing stats analysis
What is hourly?
LARRY
What is Listen Acknowledge Repoliticize Retarget Yes?
The year Working America was founded.
What is 2003?
The National Training Director of Working America.
Who is Michael Conway?
What is the membership model?
The amount of "no's" we shoot for in a money tree.
What is 3?
The Funnel for Devo Canvassing stats
What is Knocks > Contacts > IA/Pass > Members > DPMs?
RTD
What is Recruit, Train, Develop?
The city of Working America's headquarters.
What is Washington, D.C.?
The Field Administrative Manager for Working America.
Who is Terry Bowman?
Getting an opinion or identification from a door without any influence of the canvasser, often used in voter contact?
What is a clean ID?
The two skills used to help determine exact amounts of money we attain from each dues paying member.
What are spec and targeting?
Your hourly analysis looks like this:
6-7 PM
24 Knocks, 8 Contacts, 7 Pass, 6 Members, 2 DPMs, $150
______ is a reasonable delta for this hour.
What is my contact rate? (knocking, door presence, etc.)
TDPE
What is Train Demonstrate Practice Evaluate?
The founding director of Working America.
Who is Karen Nussbaum?
The National Field Director
Type of Working America model where we focus on contacting a specific number of people, to include those in a control group, to gather data that will shape future models and campaigns
What is the Experiment Informed Program?
This term describes an ask for money after a member signs the petition.
What is a backdoor ask?
You are having a trunk talk with Canvasser, whose backsheet looks like this at the end of the night:
Knocks: 73, Contacts: 34, Pass: 26, Members: 12, DPMs: 5, $: 120
They tell you their plus is pace, delta is pass, and plus is spec. You gently tell them this would be a more accurate delta:
What is KISS in mid-rap? (Accept SL or LOA in mid rap if supported)
AFL-CIO
What is American Federation of Labor and Congress of Industrial Organizations?
The president of the AFL-CIO.
Who is Liz Shuler?
Four supervisors have overseen various AZ offices from 2023-2025 (not including temporary coverage). Name three out of four for 300 points, or five out of four for 500.
Who are Amanda Guynes, Rebecca Dominguez, Michael McCammond, and Michael Conway?
The specific program discussed and addressed in the Utility Price Gouging campaigns conducted in AZ in 2023 and 2024
LIHEAP
The minimum ratio of members to DPMs we should shoot for in a night.
What is 1/3?
The amounts needed 3/5 days to progress beyond each training week in Devo
What are $135, $155, $175?
EPIFU
What is Evaluate Plan Implement Follow Up?
The last three elected officials in Arizona that Working America field staff campaigned for
Who are Hobbs, Kelly, and Gallego?
The Field Director that hired Michael and Dennis
Who is Kevin Lambert
This union, the largest that represents public sector employees in the United States, has worked multiple campaigns with Working America
What is AFSCME?
The recurring amount you'd need to raise to have a total of $1,432
What is $179?
You are a Field Director running the first Working Hawaii office in a voter contact model. Your team's stats look like this:
Kn: 81 Contacts: 40 Pass: 15 Ref: 22 FID: 14 @: 14 #: 14
Name a plus, delta, and plus for the office and a training you would use to push these stats closer to the ideal.
What are: pluses: spec, pace
Delta: pass/intro
Trainings: answers will vary, practicing passing, intro, basic structure, eye contact and door presence all acceptable