Volunteer with Georgia 55
Please note that all volunteers are required to complete a brief digital training and waiver in order to participate. You will get access to the training materials after signing up. The entire training from start to finish should only take 15-20 minutes and will give you all the details that you need to be an informed beacon of democracy! Thank you for your efforts!
Drop flyers to likely voters in your neighborhood on 1/3-1/4!
We have printed 2,000 flyers CHOCK FULL of good info and have identified target areas of people who voted in November but have not yet voted. It's SO EASY, takes no interacting with voters, and can be completed within 1 hour of participation. Here’s how to help:
1) Fill out the form and tell us your voting precinct.
2) Pick up a stack of 30 flyers and your precinct map in Grant Park.
3) Mask up and go!
Rides to the Runoff
Georgia 55 is partnering with Rides to the Runoff to provide free support to voters who need to get to a drop-box or to a polling place! Rides to the Runoff is in search of volunteers to 1) drive, 2) answer the rider hotline and 3) canvas to increase awareness about rides. If you are interested in learning more and signing up to volunteer, click on the button below.
Join our Snack Brigade!
During the early voting period (12/14-12/31) and election day (1/5)
The Snack Brigade returns for the runoffs! The brigade is a group of volunteers responding to long lines by bringing snacks, water, chairs and hand-warmers to voters during early voting. By crowd-sourcing line reports from public Google forms, Twitter, and from volunteers who live near polling locations, we are able to rapidly mobilize voter support. We have volunteers covering Cobb, Fulton, DeKalb, Clayton, and Gwinnett counties! Learn more about how the brigade works and join us by clicking on the button below!
Additional opportunities for those in Georgia:
Become a poll worker (paid) in your county here.
If you’re a Georgia resident, you can sign up to be a poll watcher (volunteer) here.
Help Georgia Democrats cure ballots remotely! Shifts are available NOW and you can sign-up here.
Join the Ballot Rescue team to cure ballots in-person! Training is virtual and shifts are NOW through January 8th (voters have 3 days after election day to cure their ballots). Sign-up here.
Out of state?
Here’s are some ways to help Georgia in the runoff elections.
Donate to organizers on the ground
Donate to organizations who are working on the ground here, like us! Georgia 55 has little-to-no overhead, which allows each dollar to go further and even $20 can be redeployed immediately into the community in a targeted, strategic way.
Along with the big-name orgs like Fair Fight, New Georgia Project and Black Voters Matter, check out this Google sheet of BIPOC-led groups that you can donate to, if you are in a financial place to do so.
Stay engaged!
Georgia 55 believes that there should be engagement and participation around every election, whether it’s a presidential race, a special election for a state congressional district, or a state-wide runoff. Getting people excited to vote for every opportunity that they get will take time but it’s something that those who are engaged can help start building right now.
Dig through your contacts
Hey, Atlanta is a cool fucking city and with skyrocketing growth over the last few years, there’s a good chance that you know folks who live and vote here. Contact them and ask them if they are registered to vote, encourage them to vote, and ask them to contact three of their friends and ask the same information. SHARE THAT DEMOCRACY LOVE!
Follow/share/retweet/regram
Social media has a direct correlation to fundraising. We see our donation accounts get a bounce when a post gets traction or someone with a big following shares info about us! So, don’t downplay that share; spreading the word is how we make our money to support voters.
Check us out on Instagram, Twitter and subscribe to our newsletter.
Got a personal connection? We want to hear about it.
People tend to downplay their personal connections. One woman here in Atlanta had a friend in Portland, Oregon who was part of a food truck coalition. She reached out to that one friend and the Portland food truck vendors contacted us to support food truck vendors here in Georgia provide food to voters. We all know someone. So fundraise with your yoga class. Spread the word to your book club. Go through your network and get creative!
Don’t move here or travel to ATL to canvas
An influx of outside manpower can bog down an organization. The desire to come here to help certainly comes from a good place but Georgia is the birthplace of the Civil Rights Movement. We have a legacy of grassroots organizing; are incredibly good at it; and have been pounding the pavement for years. For organizations to have to layer in new people now is a bigger lift for them. A far better resource is to provide financial support to those who are already doing the good work and encouraging those you know in Georgia to engage in the election process.