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Grassroots Campaigns is running a state-of-the
art voter mobilization effort in 2008 to take back the White House,
expand majorities in the Senate and Congress, and work to erase
the Bush legacy. Building on our experience with ground-breaking
get-out-the-vote efforts in 2004 and 2006, we will be teaming up
with some of the leading progressive groups to continue the electoral
success of 2006.
This election we will be working on two fronts to build a progressive
activist base. First, we will work with the Democratic Party to
sign up hundreds of thousands of new small donors for the Democratic
Party and raise money for the fall campaign. Second, we will be
working in conjunction with MoveOn.org Political Action to run a
volunteer voter mobilization effort.
We're interviewing candidates nationwide for canvass
directors, assistant directors, field organizers and field manager
positions. To apply, fill out our online
application.
Check
out the 2008 campaign job description.
Check
out the ongoing canvass director job description.
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Staff
Profile : Alex Beauchamp
Carleton College '06
Started: Election Field Staff, DNC and MoveOn.org (June '06 - Nov.
'06)
Current Position: Lead Organizer, Progressive Voter Network (Nov.
'06 - present)
During
my last couple of terms at Carleton College, I began to think seriously
about campaigning as a career. I’d been interning for Amy
Klobuchar’s campaign for US Senate in Minnesota for around
nine months, working closely with a couple of her field organizers
to plan campaign events and recruit and train volunteers. The more
field work I did, the more I realized how effective on the ground
organizing is, and I began to look for ways to continue this type
of work after graduation.
Following graduation in June of 2006, I accepted a two-part position
with Grassroots Campaigns as an Election Field Organizer. I started
as an assistant director in a fundraising campaign office for the
Democratic National Committee. I was part of a national effort that
raised millions of dollars to give the Democrats the strength they
needed to take back Congress.
When fall rolled around, I became an organizer
on the Call for Change campaign with MoveOn.org Political Action’s
ground-breaking get out the vote campaign. A week into that campaign
I had the opportunity to move to Boulder, Colorado and become the
Lead Organizer in that office. I managed two organizers, and with
them, recruited and trained hundreds of volunteers to get out the
vote and make sure that Democrats took back both houses of Congress.
Since the 2006 elections, I have been working
as a Lead Organizer with the Progressive Voter Network, creating
a network of active citizens who will hold their legislators accountable
in between elections and work to take back the White House this
fall..
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