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National Field

Meeting

20 November 2023

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Big Steps

UP

for Growth

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Desired Outcomes

Common understanding of Membership Growth Project

Excitement about new Military Veterans Group and “Dinner and a Fight”

Continued excitement in building a movement

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“Service Above Self”

Red and Blue SOCKS

Braver Angels at ROTARY

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Who is invited to this call?

Field Leaders

Expectation: attend or watch every month
16Oct = 95 online + 72 video views

Active Volunteers -

Moderator Community
Organizer Community
Event Community (ZEMS, etc)
Ambassadors
Music Dudes
Project Volunteers
Expectation: attend/watch when topic of interest

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Expect an Event Summary Soon

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N.B. Action Network will send a PICTURE - click on that picture to get to the SUMMARY!!

Suggest Future NFC topics HERE

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New Teammates

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New Teammates

New Alliances:

New York City Alliance

New Alliance Co-Chairs:

Gabriella Timmis (B) New York City Alliance

Brent Morden (R) New York City Alliance

Robert McDuff (B) Southern California Super Alliance

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“Thumbs UP”

Top (L-R): Robert McDuff (B), Jennifer Hall-Witt (OFO-B), Gabbi Timmis (B), Sam Noah (OFO-R)

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Agenda

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16 October 2023 NATIONAL FIELD CALL	Who/Why	Time (mins)	Cumulative
Welcome, Good News, and Shoutouts	Theme = STEP UP FOR GROWTH	10	10
A heartwarming RESULT from a person you should know	Jade Morgan - my story as shared on A BRAVER WAY podcast	6	16
Did you know? NEWS YOU CAN USE for both Newcomers and Old-Timers	Membership Growth Project Casey Jorgensen	12	28
Service Beyond the Uniform: Veterans Advocating for Braver Angels	Military Veterans Group Kimberly Kolb Eakin Al Smith	12	40
New tools that MAKE A DIFFERENCE	“Dinner and A Fight” Laura Gilliom Rosemary Ford	12	52
Announcements	Call for VOLUNTEERS - staff a “why I left” analysis and action team Courtenay Budd Caramico	5	57
Survey - CTA	Rose	3	60
POST NFC ‘Q+A’	HOST and willing speakers	30	90
DEEP DIVE (27Nov23)	Ian to announce soon

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“A heartwarming RESULT from a person you know…”

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My story

on the BRAVER WAY Podcast

Jade Morgan

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Got a Heartwarming Story?

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FIELD LEADERS’ PORTAL

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Membership Growth Project

Casey Jorgensen

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Membership Project Proposal

Support Team

16 October 2023

Ciaran O’Connor

Steve Saltwick

Andrew Stillman

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Desired Outcomes

Today

General awareness of proposed Charter and context

Consensus on cadence of Support Team Reviews

Consensus on next steps

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Proposed Charter and Context

There are beautiful flowers in our garden

Our garden is not growing

Addressing this challenge is a top priority

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Essential Elements of Proposed Charter

Clarion Goal “2X in 3Y”

Doing New Things

Accountability

Field Communication

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Investment Proposals Goals

Clarity of timeline, prerequisite actions, funder, and expected ROI

Clarity on results and next steps

Simplicity in linking supporting material

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Investment Projects

Operational Project

#1 = “Digital Ads”

Expected ST results = mid December 2023

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Desired Balance

Culture change

BA Way

Dispersed Innovation

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Red Caucus Champions

Identify and Analyze ‘red seductive’ publications
Prepare investment proposals (template in chat)
MGP steering team to review and assist in funding

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Military Veterans Group

Kimberly Kolb Eakin

Al Smith

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Military Veterans

Group

“Sworn to Defend”

Who we are?��Why a focus on Veterans?�

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Why veterans are a unique fit with Braver Angels?��Why a tailored outreach approach is important?

“Sworn to Defend”

Military & Veterans

Group

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How does MVG �complement BA?

How can MVG be helpful �to Alliances?

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Opportunities

Speaker Series�Dec 7 at 7 pm EST – “The Race to Control Reality” with Rear Admiral David Manero

Veteran-focused topics�patriotism, brotherhood, selfless service, duty

Monthly meetings�Every 1^st Tuesday of month, 7 pm EST

Veteran-to-veteran approach

https://braverangels.org/military-and-veterans-group/

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Or use SEARCH

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Tedman Getschman�tedgetschman@gmail.com��William McKone�vtfenian@gmail.com

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“Sworn to Defend”

Military & Veterans

Group

Points of Contact

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“Dinner and a Fight”

Laura Gilliom

Rosemary Ford

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Why did we do it?

Red recruitment / engagement
Rosemary Ford
Ted Wetzel

tedwetzel@wetzelenterprisesllc.com

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Field Operations

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What’s special about Dinner and a Fight?

It’s different. Not a workshop or a debate.

It involves dinner (or lunch or brunch).

Focus on the importance of disagreement.

It has a sense of humor.

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Disagreement, with humor

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Civil Dialogue method developed at Arizona State

Spectrum of viewpoints
End chairs face each other
Facilitator asks for opening statements
Interaction among the 5 and with the audience

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Venue

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Publicity

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Eventbrite

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Attendance

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Evaluations

Mostly 8,9,10

Things people liked most:

opportunity to talk about important matters
hearing all the points of view
open dialogue without judgment
it was civil!
good format

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CALL FOR VOLUNTEERS

“Why I Left” outreach and analysis

Courtenay

Budd Caramico

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CALL FOR VOLUNTEERS

“Why I Left” outreach and analysis

Courtenay

Budd Caramico

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We are looking for a small team of volunteers to follow up with folks who have left Braver Angels and to collect their feedback. Work will be light and ongoing.

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Field Operations

Calls To Action (3 Max)

Communicate to your members about the Membership Growth Project

Engage and RECRUIT veterans (you’ll be glad you did)

Evaluate Dinner and Fight for your Alliance

BE PROUD OF YOUR WORK

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Do us a favor - fill out the NFC Survey

�NOW

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Field Operations

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Thanks for all you do

to advance the mission!

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