1. Can I mobilize advocates in multiple ways?
First and foremost, you need to get your advocates taking action to push for the legislation, funding, and support your organization and industry needs. That means emailing, sending tweets, texting, and push notifications to lawmakers and influencers, whatever best suits your organization’s demographic and action plan. At the barest minimum you’ll need a platform that lets you automatically match your advocates and potential advocates’ (members, donors, clients, supporters) addresses to the correct legislator.
2. How hard is it for my advocates to take action?
You need to make things as easy as possible for people to take action – or they won’t. So make sure your platform has a pre-fill form so members can register their support with one click.
It can’t just be easy for your advocates. It also needs to be easy for you to use.
Now isn’t the time to be trying to figure out complicated technology. You need to move fast and get your campaigns created and out the door.
VoterVoice, FiscalNote’s flagship advocacy platform is not only fully-comprehensive, it’s super-easy to use. Don’t just take our word for it. Here’s a quote from one of our clients:
“[VoterVoice] has given us a super-easy way to manage campaigns on our website. Before, we didn't have an efficient way to post legislative initiatives on our site. We would have to work with our web developer, and now we do it ourselves.” Ohio Manufacturers Association.
3. Can I combine advocacy and tracking?
If you don’t know what’s happening - you can’t take action. Keeping on top of the legislation happening at state and local levels, in relation to COVID-19 and beyond has never been more important.
Government relations doesn't happen in a vacuum and your digital advocacy provider can’t just be a one-trick pony.
It should also be able to combine tracking tools at federal, state and local level and let you embed that map on your action center, as well as having the ability to launch and create best-in-class advocacy campaigns.
That’s particularly important at state and local level, where you may have a short window of time to discover what legislation or local ordinances are proposed, launch a grassroots advocacy campaign, and get it pushed through or quashed.
Here’s how one FiscalNote healthcare client did that by managing to send 3,000 letters and change an important vote in 72 hours.