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We are in election season, and on Tuesday the Lab convened a Peer Learning Exchange to share the latest tips and best practices to optimize Get Out the Vote (GOTV) programs. Watch the recording* and read the highlights below (or go retro with our 2016 GOTV webinar* and alert*).
Two key takeaways: 1) Most GOTV programs leave votes on the table by not fully implementing established best practices; 2) the single best GOTV return on investment in most cases comes from a simple ‘social pressure’ mailer (see below).

Members of the Climate Advocacy Lab, along with experts from the Analyst Institute, held a (strictly C3!) conversation on GOTV best practices and GOTV learnings from members of the Lab community. 
Key takeaways:
1) Most GOTV programs leave votes on the table by not fully implementing established best practices
2) the single best GOTV return on investment in most cases comes from a simple ‘social pressure’ mailer (see below).

Presenter slide decks:
• Karuna Koppula, Analyst Institute (slide deck here)
• Brandyn Keating, United Citizen Power (slide deck here)
• Emily Kreiger & Lennon Bronsema, Washington Environmental Council (slide deck here)
• Marcus Starr, Conservation MN (PDFs found here)

Films about climate change and clean energy provide a powerful platform to deepen our understanding and emotional connection to the issue, and also bring people together in community and conversation. (Check out recent Lab alerts on the importance of visuals* and narrative* for additional context!)
Last week, Lab members came together for a Peer Learning Exchange on using film to engage new audiences on climate change* to share what they are learning about how to tell the story of climate change in a way that motivates viewers to take meaningful action.

For climate advocates to produce the wins we need in the long run and take advantage of the surge of enthusiasm we have at the moment, we need to move beyond single-click, transactional models of building power. While distributed and relational organizing that fosters sustained engagement from supporters may well be the oldest and most effective form of activism, new technologies and techniques never hurt. Today’s alert is the second part of the Lab’s readout from last month’s Campaign and Advocacy Tech conferences (see our overview of new tools and tech* from the events).