Dear YDA Membership,

We’re gearing up for a big elections season this midterm cycle and we need our chartered units ready to take on this fight on every level. Join the YDA Chapter Building Committee on Zoom on July 9th at 1:00 PM CST in our inaugural Chapter Building Training to get equipped with new tools, resources, and skills to organize your own chartered unit!

This training is recommended for new and experienced chartered unit members, leaders, and prospective members alike to get a run down (or a refresher!) on a whole slate of skills from fundraising, budgeting, and recruitment to getting a chapter chartered in your community! The Chapter Building Committee is excited to welcome members of all experience levels to let us know how YDA can better support local chartered units AND to share resources and build connections between chartered units across the country!

See the full list of topics we plan to cover:

• Steps on Getting Chartered
• Missions and goals of your perspective Chapter
• Feeling the pulse of your campus/community
• Express Initial Interest
• Electing your officers
• Planning your first event
• Creating your event on Mobilize
• Promoting your event (Sample Social Media and email content)
• Structure of your new chapter
• Building a Legacy
• Keeping Organized
• Coalition Building
• Fundraising
• Budgeting
• Electronic Methods: Meeting by teleconference, videoconference or online conference
• Working and growing as a team
• Recruitment
• Organizational Development

To register, please follow this link and mark your calendars for Saturday, July 9!

For those unable to join us or who would like a copy of the presentation, we will be following up with the slides and/or meeting recording!

Looking forward to see you there!

Best,

YDA Chapter Building Committee Executive Team

James Parker, Dan Asonye, Vidya Muthupillai