EmpowerLA's Leadership Academy is coming to your neighborhood in January with workshops that focus on NationBuilder and Nextdoor NationBuilder is a community building platform, a powerful digital tool that allows Neighborhood Councils to engage their communities by: Accessing and Managing Voter Registration Data Managing Neighborhood Council Contact Data Creating email blasts with Surveys and RSVPs [...]
Online Voting is about ease and convenience. The 35 Neighborhood Councils who are participating in Online Voting will provide their stakeholders added benefits with this new form of voting. Ease Stakeholders who qualify to vote in the 35 Online Voting Neighborhood Councils, will only need to do two things: 1. Register to vote during the [...]
EmpowerLA has created a unique Election webpage for each Neighborhood Council. These webpages offer important information and links such as; Voter Registration, Candidate Registration, Poll Worker Application, Candidate Guidelines, IEA contact, Election FAQs, Regional Timeline, Election Manual, Acceptable Documentation Manual, Elections Report, and Challenges Filing. In order to find your Neighborood Council Election webpage and [...]
One of the simplest ways to get your Boardmembers in sync with the Election message is to generate Email Signature files that are loaded with specific instructions and links that lead all email recipients to your Neighborhood Council election pages. Attached is a sample sig file for Region 1 that has links leading to the [...]
Election Season is underway and it is imperative that Neighborhood Councils have a place on every agenda for EmpowerLA staff plus Election officials. In addition, the Election Chairs and Outreach Chairs should have a place on each agenda so that they can report on their progress and make sure that all Board Members stay informed [...]
One of the simplest ways to get connected is to make sure that your website has links to the EmpowerLA website, to the Elections page, and to the Voter Registration Portal (if you're one of the 35 councils offering Online Voting). There are three clickable buttons that can be placed on your website (complete with code [...]
Now is the time for the Election Chairs to connect with their Independent Election Administrators and to get in sync on the details of the upcoming Neighborhood Council election. Election Chairs should confirm the bylaws, the map(s), the stip sheet, and be able to verify the number of seats up for election, documentation or self-affirmation, [...]
Community Members in the 35 Neighborhood Councils that are participating in the Online Voting pilot project can register online to vote. Online Voter Registration opened on December 1, 2015 and voters can visit the online voter registration page to find their council. Every Neighborhood Council has their own elections page with a link to the [...]
It’s elections season and there are 12 new Independent Election Administrators (IEAs) coming to your Neighborhood to partner with you in making the 2016 Neighborhood Council Elections a tremendous success. The 12 IEAs work together as a team but each one is focused on one of the 12 Neighborhood Council Service Regions, and they will [...]
On September 17, 2015, Mayor Eric Garcetti launched a citizenship initiative as part of his “Step Forward LA” campaign, with new tools designed to help members of L.A.’s immigrant population navigate the process of becoming a U.S. citizen. Marking the celebration of national Citizenship Day, and as part of Hispanic Heritage Month, the campaign launch [...]
