The Our Homes, Our Votes: 2024 webinar series provides resources, guidance, and inspiration for organizations and individuals seeking to launch or strengthen their own nonpartisan voter and candidate engagement initiatives. The next webinar in the series, “Tenant Organizing and Elections: Getting Out the Renter Vote,” will take place today (June 17) at 2:30 pm ET. Register for the webinar here.
Tenant leaders are trusted messengers who can effectively register and mobilize their neighbors to vote. Today’s webinar will feature a roundtable of resident leaders from the Minneapolis Highrise Representative Council (MHRC), a citywide tenant organization representing more than 5,000 residents in 42 public housing high rises in Minneapolis. The panel will feature resident leaders Mary McGovern, Shirley Brown, Gloria Coles, Mattie Henderson, and Tamir Mohamud.
Panelists will discuss how to develop messaging that builds trust and generates enthusiasm about participating in the democratic process, successful tactics for reaching first-time voters, ways to ensure that low-income renters have the resources and information they need to vote, how to organize residents to become leaders in their own communities’ election engagement efforts, and how to hold candidates accountable to their campaign promises.
The webinar dates and topics are listed below. All webinars will be held from 2:30 to 3:30 pm ET. For full descriptions of each session and archives of past webinars, visit: www.ourhomes-ourvotes.org/webinars-2024
- Tenant Organizing and Elections: Getting Out the Renter Vote (Monday, June 17)
- Voting While Experiencing Homelessness (Monday, July 1)
- Transportation to the Polls (Monday, July 15)
- Housing Providers and Voter Engagement (Monday, July 29)
- Getting Candidates on the Record about Housing and Homelessness (Monday, August 19)
- Celebrating the Civic Holidays (Tuesday, September 3)
- Voter Education: The Who, What, Where, When, Why, and How (Monday, September 16)
- Voter Education: Combating Misinformation and Disinformation (Monday, September 30)
- Overcoming Voter Suppression (Monday, October 7)
- Countdown to Election Day: Getting Out the Vote! (Monday, October 21)
- Knowing Your Rights: Voter Protection on Election Day (Monday, November 4)
- A Look Ahead: Next Steps for Civic Engagement and Housing Justice (Monday, November 18)
For more information about the Our Homes, Our Votes campaign, visit: https://www.ourhomes-ourvotes.org/