Portfolio Goals

League of Women Voters of Nashville

Board of Directors’ Portfolio Goals for 2021-2022

Membership

• Establish a committee to recruit new members
• Increase membership through outreach and education
• Invite non-members who attend Hot Topics
• Develop a mentorship program to engage young adult members

Voter Services:

• Continue to recruit and train volunteers with a focus on volunteers capable of reaching populations with historically low voter turnout
• Develop a working knowledge of social media (Twitter etc.)
• Utilize social media to promote future voter registration events, establish connections with people and complimentary organizations
• Explore new venues for voter registration events such as the Nashville Flea Market, local festivals, and public events involving high school and college students
• Attend Davidson County Election Committee meetings and provide summary of each meeting to the LWVNashville board
• Participate in the Restore Voters Rights group by attending meetings and supporting its goals
• Periodically contribute to the LWVNashville newsletter, The Voter

Communication:

• Promote LWVNashville messaging via the Voter and social media
• Identify messaging opportunities from other groups’ goals
• Create online repository of shareable social media content from members
• Use social media to increase membership/engagement
• “Spotlight” new members/why they joined in the Voter and on social media, and possibly highlight legislative goals

Education:

• Establish an Education Committee
• Build a framework for long-term relationship building in the areas of Student Voter Registration, Legislative Communication, and Student and Teacher Engagement

      Three Areas of Focus:
1) Voter Registration in High Schools (coordinate with Voter Registration Committee)

2) Legislative Communication (coordinate with Communications Committee)

• • Identify legislative priorities for the year and delegate committee responsibilities in this area
  • General—action alerts to League members
  • Specific (and potentially membership-building) Action Alerts to Teachers and Parents through email lists, parent newsletters via schools and more
• 3) Engaging Kids in Civic Life
  • Learn about the democratic process in fun ways in school – identify partners and resources to offer to teachers
  • Develop ways for students to engage with community leaders in school, showcasing a diverse group of people so students can see leaders who look like them engaging in the democratic process

Hot Topics:

• Ensure quality and variety in speakers each month.
• Evaluate returning to in-person speaking events in 2022
• Document process and numbers of attendees for monthly meetings, both online and in person.
• Write up a brief synopsis of the program for newsletter, before and after the presentation
• Periodically, through the newsletter, ask members to let us know topics that they would like to have presented
• Inquire from the LWVNashville committees about people or topics they would like to hear

Metro Government:

• Follow Nashville Metro Council Meetings and report to LWVNashville Board on legislation related to the following portfolio domains:
  • Healthcare, including public health, pandemic health policy and mitigation, prevention and education, and long-term care.
  • Environment
  • Education
  • Elections and voting
  • Redistricting process that impacts neighborhoods, council districts, school board, school system