2025-06-11 Volunteer Teams Infrastructure – Discussion & Decision Thread

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PURPOSE OF THE CALL

Hosted by Maggie B. (Volunteer Director) and Kara E. (TYT Community Director), the June 11 call launched our 3 core volunteer teams:

  1. Editing
  2. Social Media
  3. Outreach

Each group began shaping its purpose, first steps, and support needs to move from idea-stage to action-stage organizing.

GROUP SUMMARIES

1. Video Editing Team

Purpose:
Craft powerful, values-first videos to promote the Populist Plank, Operation Hope, and Rebellion PAC.

Next Steps

  • Source TYT clips and build a searchable log (timestamps, topics).
  • Use DaVinci Resolve (free editing tool).
  • Begin work on a short “highlight reel” video (exact prompt TBD).

Needs

  • Direction on first video’s message + tone
  • Easier access to TYT content
  • Explore TYT Press Page
  • Possible endorser reel project

Lead: Charlotte K.

2. Social Media Team

Purpose:
Boost visibility, engagement, and candidate support online.

Next Steps:

  • Everyone share Cenk’s Populist Plank video this week.
  • Comment on posts from endorsed candidates.
  • Coordinate around campaign content and community orgs.

Needs

  • Unified posting push
  • List of endorsers + sample captions
  • Strategy for coordinated future posts

Leads: Carlos C., Jason T.

3. Outreach Team

Purpose:
Mobilize community-level engagement for the Populist Plank.

Next Steps:

  • Use No Kings Day (Sat) as outreach launch.
  • Posters with QR codes for sign-ups and info.
  • Start local, build relational trust and visibility.

Needs

  • Materials for testing outreach
  • Shared folder to organize assets
  • Consider recording supporter video endorsements

Lead: Jaden B.

CROSS-TEAM NEEDS

  • Project Tracker: Vote on tool (Trello, Notion, Airtable, ClickUp)
  • Shared Drive: Kara will set this up for graphics, docs, logs
  • Discussion Board: Maggie will post summaries + start team threads
  • Messaging Assets Needed:
    • Printable outreach 1-pager
    • Script for video/selfie endorsements (idea by Aaron B.)

DATES + FOLLOW-UP

  • Next Full Group Meeting: June 25
    (June 17 meeting cancelled due to national holiday)

  • Between Now and Then: Teams are encouraged to self-organize, meet, and take action.

  • Use discuss.tyt.com as our primary communication hub.

WHY THIS MATTERS

This is our transition from scattered energy to strategic action. Volunteers are ready. What we build now—tools, coordination, shared vision—becomes the engine for populist transformation.

Let’s make it real.

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Hey Outreach folks. We discussed last night about discussing things on here (for now) in-between Operation Hope meetings, so we should figure out the best way to do that. And thanks Maggie for posting this!

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EDIT: Disregard. I saw the note above that Maggie will set up the group chats.

I recall discussion during the last meeting about creating groups here on the discussion board. I’m not sure if that takes the form of tags, categories, simple topic threads or something different? I see two new topics for the outreach group in different categories, so I’m a little confused as to how exactly the working groups are supposed to be represented on the forum…so I hesitated to set one up for the video group and set the wrong example.

Could someone in the know please set up the 3 groups as intended?

The video team has some questions for the social team so we’d like to have efficient communication set up first, before discussions start happening in an unorganized way.

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I need the names of who is in which group. Someone can email me at maggieonpurpose@gmail.com.

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OK, folks. This is the discussion and decision thread. Let’s do some of that.

It was mentioned that some form of project managment / tracking would be necessary. I strongly agree, for both volunteers and leadership to understand what’s happening. Let’s start that discussion.

Trello, Notion, Airtable and ClickUp were suggested as options. I am not familiar with any of them besides Airtable.

As I understand it, Airtable is a user friendly database platform, not specific to project management, but anything can be customized to suit. There may be templates to create a project management database. I just logged in to find they have an AI tool that can generate a template for you, which of course can be edited. I simply entered “project tracker” and it did a fairly good job of creating exactly that. I’m gonna say that’s a viable option.

Airtable (free version) Limitations:

  • Users must register at Airtable.com
  • 1000 record limit
  • Date ranges not supported
  • 5 editors, 50 commenters allowed

Others with knowledge of the other platforms (Trello, Notion, ClickUp, possibly others) please contribute to the discussion so we can come to a decision and move forward.