ACTIVITY | POINTS |
Category #1: Impact Your Lawmaker (Goal: 350 points) |
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Office meeting with a lawmaker (or lawmaker's staff) or Cancer Votes target candidate | 50 |
Office drop-by |
30 |
Personal letter |
15 |
Seasonal card | 10 |
Personal phone call | 20 |
Personal email | 10 |
Tag lawmaker on social media (up to twice per month unless pre-approved by staff partner) | 1 |
Attend town hall or other meeting where lawmaker is present or Cancer Votes target candidate is present | 30 |
Collect 50 petitions in a current campaign | 15 |
Forward online petitions or alerts to 10 contacts | 5 |
Participate in canvassing, phone banking, or collecting signatures for a state campaign | 50 |
Testify at city council, state house, or federal hearing | 50 |
Host a lawmaker at an ACS / ACS CAN event | 40 |
Secure a new co-sponsor on a state or federal bill | 50 |
Conduct a power analysis of a state or federal lawmaker | 40 |
Category #2: Build or Connect with Your Team (Goal: 250 points) | |
Recruit a new Legislative Ambassador | 30 |
Recruit 3-5 people to attend a state lobby day, ACS CAN rally, or represent ACS CAN at Relay or Strides | 20 |
Attend volunteer meeting for your congressional district, your state, or at the national level | 10 |
Attend one online or state volunteer training | 25 |
Attend SLA Summit or LS&LD | 40 |
Host or participate in the planning committee for one ACS CAN event (house party, policy forum, Cancer Action Day, speaker series, etc.) | 20 |
Build our volunteer capacity by tabling at an event, helping with data entry or other office work, or setting up at an event | 15 |
Category #3: Get Media Coverage (Goal: 50 points) | |
Be quoted in a media story or speak during a press conference | 30 |
Send a letter-to-the-editor to support an ACS CAN campaign or event | 20 |
Post your published letter to the editor tagging only your lawmaker or target (one-time only) | 5 |
Send a hard copy of your published letter to the editor to target lawmaker | 10 |
Share your cancer story with state story bank and/or ACS CAN's national story bank | 15 |
Join ACS CAN's social media channels (Facebook, Twitter, Instagram) | 1 |
Share ACS CAN content (repost/retweet) on your personal social media account | 1 |
Lawmaker or Cancer Votes target candidate reposts/retweets your message or replies to message publicly | 5 |
Contact media to promote an ACS CAN event or fundraiser | 10 |
Category #4: Connect with Partners (Goal: 100 points) | |
Attend Relay For Life meetings such as team captain, kick-off event, etc. to promote ACS CAN membership recruitment or attend the event to help implement ACS CAN's Power of the Purse campaign effort |
20 |
Attend a Making Strides Against Breast Cancer kick-off to promote ACS CAN membership recruitment or attend the event to help implement ACS CAN's Power of the Purse campaign effort | 20 |
Represent ACS CAN at other ACS events including board meetings, volunteer leadership committee meetings, golf outings, etc. | 20 |
Represent ACS CAN at cancer-related or community events to promote ACS CAN membership or current legislative campaigns | 20 |
Represent ACS CAN at non cancer related or community events to promote ACS CAN membership or current legislative campaigns | 20 |
Make an ACS CAN sponsorship ask | 10 |
Category #5: CAN Raising (Goal: 250 points) | |
Each $50 Milestone in CANRaiser | 50 |