This Council Coordinator homepage gives you easy reference to all the materials you need to be a great Council Coordinator.

What's a MoveOn Council?

MoveOn Councils are local teams of committed members who go beyond email to organize hard-hitting events in their community. In the months ahead, MoveOn Councils will work together to push for sweeping legislative action on health care, green jobs, the economic crisis, the Iraq war, and more. We will be a strong, outside voice to keep Congress and the President honest when lobbyists and corporations threaten to stand in the way of progress. This year, MoveOn Councils will:

* Shape the political playing field on the big issues by getting our message out into the local and national media.
* Put direct pressure on Congress to win important legislative victories. We will lobby our elected officials in their hometowns, pressing them to vote for a progressive legislative agenda.
* Organize broader, deeper, and smarter than ever to achieve real progressive change. This will require more MoveOn member-leaders than ever before.

Click here for our "What's a MoveOn Council?" handout. (coming soon)

What's a Council Coordinator?

The Council Coordinator is the local organizer for your MoveOn Council. The CC works to make sure that the Council is growing, developing, and successfully running MoveOn campaigns in its community. The CCs are the backbone of the MoveOn Council network.

(Click here for the Council Coordinator Job Description)

Here's all the key tools that you need to build your Council core and develop your members into leaders:

• Trainings: Click here to access our online Trainings Toolbox, or click on the red 'Training' button in the upper right-hand corner of the Council page.

• Council Roles: Click here to find all of the job descriptions for all roles on our Councils.

  • Click here for the Core group member Job Description.

• Asking members to take on leadership roles:

  • Click here for the Core Group Member Ask

  • Click here for the Recruitment Coordinator Ask

  • Click here for the Media Coordinator Ask

• Orienting your leaders:

  • Click here for the Council Coordinator orientation

  • Click here for the Core group member orientation

  • Click here for the Recruitment Coordinator orientation

  • Click here for the Media Coordinator orientation

  • Ongoing leadership development: Click here for the CC and Core group member Leadership Development Worksheet