Get Organized

Starting a Chapter  

• Watch our step-by-step guide to using these resources:  Orientation 
• Our Mission
• Chapter Contract
• Sample Constitution and a second example
• Expense reimbursement form
• Chapter budget template
• Website Guide Basics (Updating Chapter Pages)
• Blogging for Us (How to blog on the Roosevelt Campus Network site)
• Chapter Coordination Memo (Important for new chapters)
• Chapter Newsletters - Tips and Suggestions

Requests

• Materials (Need swag for your chapter?)
• Trainings (Want to request a training?)
• Grant (Need a chapter grant? Submit the following information)
• Contact Guide (national staff names and emails)
• Impact Plan (putting your idea into practice)

Design Materials

• Roosevelt Logo
• Letterhead
• Standard Powerpoint Template

 Recruiting New Members

• Making the Pitch
• Sign up Sheet
• Launch Event Model (see below)
• New Members Meetings (Getting started - Thanks to Mt. Holyoke!)
• Promotional Materials (past press clippings)
• Flyer, One-Pager, and Slogan (3 different files for you to personalize)
• Policy Film Festival

Fundraising

• School Appropriations
• Grassroots Fundraising
• Community Sponsorship
• Alumni Outreach
• Active Outreach Fundamentals
• House Party Suggested Timeline
• Customizable House Party Invitation
• House Party Example (Oregon Bus Project)
• Annual Appeal
• Roosevelt Grant Application
• Funding of the conservative youth movement - useful for non-campus fundraising

Event planning and chapter activities

• Fireside Chat Model
• Launch Event Manual
• Regional Policy Expo Model
• Kai's Hyde Park 2007 Powerpoint -- to modify/adapt for launch events
• Policy Class (Middlebury Model)
• Policy Class (Stanford Model)
• Think Impact Projects (Yale)

Promotion

• Photo Bank
• Sample Flyer
• Graphic Design Guidelines

Media

• Guidelines for working with the media
• Press release template (see finished examples)
• Major Newspapers Op-Ed Pages and Editors
• How to Write an Op-Ed
• Journalists on Twitter

Policy Writing

• Find everything you need here: Get Published

Partner organizations

Ask us for contact info if you'd like to work with any of these organizations.

• The Progressive States Network
• The Center for American Progress
• The Center for Policy Alternatives
• The Center for Progressive Leadership
• The Progressive Policy Institute
• The PFAW Young Elected Officials Network
• The Drum Major Institute
• The Center for Social Inclusion
• The National Academy of Public Administrators
• The National Academy of Social Insurance
• The American Democracy Institute
• The American Constitution Society
• The United States Student Association
• The National Association of Counties