Campaign Overview: Making the Most of the Conference

1. Campaign Overview:Making the Most of the Conference RESULTS 2019 International Conference

2. Purposes of This Session • Prepare you to get the most out of the conference and Advocacy Day • Prepare you to work with each other • Set you up to find answers you need over the next several days

3. Let’s Get Started ✋🏽 Who did not get a folder? ✋🏽 Who has not met people from your state? ✋🏽 Who is with a state that doesn’t have meetings set up for Tuesday? ✋🏽 Have you let us know about your meetings? http://tinyurl/lobbymeetings

4. I want to change the world! 4

5. But what do I do?? 5

6. Congratulations on Finding Your Voice and Your People!!

7. A bit about your community • We have new and experienced people, but everyone wants to make a difference. • Being new to RESULTS doesn’t mean someone is new to advocacy. • We have different ages, countries of origin, races, abilities—this is a strength! • Republicans and Democrats care about ending poverty—we are all here!

8. This does not create space! “Let me explain to you what this ice cream tastes like…”

9. This creates space “This ice cream is awesome—would you like to try it?”

10. This creates more space “You love ice cream. Would you like to learn how to make it?”

11. Agreements for building a strong RESULTS community We have diverse experiences… Can we agree to allow everyone to contribute and learn by listening to each other and creating space for transformative experiences?

12. Agreements for building a strong RESULTS community We have different ages, genders & orientations, countries of origin, races, abilities… Can we agree to not make assumptions about people because of their age, race, how they look or other differences?

13. Agreements for building a strong RESULTS community We have Republicans, Democrats, and Independents who care about ending poverty... Can we agree to being non-partisan during the conference?

14. Advocacy: What are We Trying to Do? Assess where they are, then move them up the Champion Scale 4 Champion 3 Leader 2 Advocate 1 Supporter 0 Uninformed or Neutral -1 Opponent

15. Good News About Influence Source: Congressional Management Foundation

16. It’s All About Relationships • RESULTS believes that deep relationships with elected officials & staff will drive change. • Our goal: move them up the Champion Scale by being in relationship, educating them, making specific requests, mobilizing media and community, and never going away. • We believe that creating the public will and political will to end poverty is the only thing that will end poverty and lead to equity. 16

17. Basic Meeting with Congress • Introductions, thank yous, meeting overview • Issue(s) overview • Storyteller tells story to illustrate an issue. • Share media and letters supporting the issue. • Make a requests requiring a yes or no answer. • Dialogue: listen, get specific, offer info • Summarize next steps • Leave materials, ask for photo with • After: Decide who will make report on meeting

19. Basic Roles

20. Good News About Influence Source: Congressional Management Foundation

21. Good News About Influence Source: Congressional Management Foundation

22. Good News About Influence Source: Congressional Management Foundation

23. Getting Face-to-Face • Confirm meetings on Monday: • (202) 224-3121 • Ask for a photo opportunity with the MoC • Ask to come back later if they’ll be there • Invite MoC to the reception • Speak personally to the scheduler set up an August meeting

24. Prepare the Heart and Mind

25. Tips for Working with Each Other • Give new people the opportunity to take leadership roles so they learn • Listen to each other • No partisanship • Don’t assume people have stories or want to share them • Being perfect is not the goal of our meetings—showing up powerfully is

26. 26 Affordable Housing Crisis Meredith Dodson mdodson@results.org Since 1960, renter's incomes have gone up by 5% while rental cost has gone up by 61%.  72.5% of extremely low-income renters are severely cost burdened, meaning they spend more than half their income on housing 

27. Why is Housing Important?  • Housing is a major source of wealth for many middle-class Americans and remains a common path to wealth building • Where you live has implications for health, education, job access and security outcomes that all affect overall economic well being • The history of housing policy in the U.S. has been one where federal policies provided white Americans opportunities to build wealth while excluding Americans of color, particularly Blacks, from doing the same - Opportunity Starts at Home Campaign

28. Affordable Housing Crisis

29. 29 Disproportionate Impact of High Rents

30. 30 Renters’ Credits Will Reduce Poverty We must address this housing crisis -- and we can begin to do so by shifting tax resources to support a “Renters Tax Credit” for low- and moderate-income renters. Several policymakers, including Senators Booker (D-NJ) and Harris (D-CA) and former Senator Heller (R-NV), have introduced legislation that does this (H.R. 2169 and S. 1106; S. 3590, H.R. 7050 and S. 3342 in the last Congress) ONLINE ACTION: https://tinyurl.com/RESULTShousing

31. The Racial Wealth Divide In 2016, the median wealth for white families was 10 times greater than black families’ wealth and 8 times greater than Hispanic families’ wealth.  -Urban Institute, "Nine Charts About Wealth Inequality in America."

32. Housing Stability According to a Prosperity Now report, the liquid asset poverty rate in the United States is 40 percent (right) – with startling disparities by race. Over two million households are at risk of eviction each year In 2016 one million evictions occurred, forcing households to move neighborhoods, change schools, and barring many from accessing safe and affordable housing again, due to a record of eviction. Pending bipartisan bills to pilot emergency stabilization funds and services for families facing evictions can help families stay stably housed.

33. Targeted Ask: EITC and CTC

34. The Earned Income Tax Credit (EITC)

35. The Child Tax Credit (CTC)

36. The Working Families Tax Relief Act

37. Impact: Working Families Tax Relief Act And… cuts child poverty nationally by 28 percent!

38. Chance to Expand EITC/CTC This Year? Last month, the House Ways and Means Committee passed temporary expansions of both the EITC and CTC in a broader “Extenders” tax package (the Economic Mobility Act, H.R. 3300), including: • Expansion of the EITC would raise the after-tax incomes of 16 million childless adults • CTC changes would benefit more than 42 million children under age 17. ASK (targeted): 1. cosponsor S. 1138/H.R. 3157 2. As a down payment on bigger EITC/CTC expansions, urge Congressional leaders to include an expansion of the CTC and EITC in any tax legislation that moves this year

39. The Global Fund to Fight AIDS, Tuberculosis and Malaria

40. The Global Fund to Fight AIDS, Tuberculosis and Malaria is the world’s largest global health funder, investing nearly $4 billion a year in programs run by local experts and governments to accelerate the end of the world’s deadliest infectious diseases.

45. Members of Congress should demonstrate U.S. commitment to the Global Fund by: • Co-sponsoring a bipartisan resolution in support of the replenishment, and  • Ensuring $1.56 billion for the Global Fund in the FY 2020 spending bill.

46. Global Nutrition

48. It is hard to think of a more complete, if grisly, composite indicator of deprivationthan the height of a child for its age. Every insult in the area of food, care, infection and neglect is captured and accumulated in a kind of negative rate of return, observed as height, which is a mere marker for the things we really care about: mortality and neurological and cognitive development. - Lawrence Haddad

49. Members of Congress should demonstrate U.S. support for global nutrition: • Co-sponsoring a bipartisan resolution in support of the global nutrition, and  • Increase funding for global nutrition within the Global Health account in the FY20 spending bill.