Healthcare-NOW

National M4A Volunteer Teams

Welcome to Healthcare-NOW!

This 30-min presentation goes over:

Healthcare-NOW's history and founding
the state of the Medicare for All movement today
our theory of change and strategy to win
trainings you can take to further your organizing and knowledge of M4A
8 Medicare for All volunteer teams and how you can get involved

Below you can sign up for one of these teams!

Volunteers carry out our most effective programs - from educating activists and developing educational materials to carrying out campaigns and lobbying Congress. These volunteer teams will help the Medicare for All movement grow to the size and impact we'll need to take on the health insurance industry and win.

There are many roles to fill; some are smaller commitments and some are fairly significant. Some are time-constrained to just a few weeks or months, while others are ongoing. Email info@healthcare-now.org if you have questions about any of the roles below.

Sign Up for a Volunteer Role

Share Your Healthcare Story Project Management Social Media/Comms Priority District Organizing Fundraising

Share Your Healthcare Story

Every successful social movement has been led by the people and communities most impacted by a system of oppression - from women's right to vote, to civil rights, and equal marriage. Our most powerful tool for social change is the voices of those who have been impacted by the healthcare system.

If you have a healthcare story to tell - either your own or that of a loved one, or a patient - Healthcare-NOW is willing to train you and support you in telling your story publicly (to the press, legislators, or to your fellow residents at public events).

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Project Management

Virtually all of our volunteer teams will need someone to supervise and manage the projects being carried out - whether they're developing education videos or welcoming and onboarding new people who sign up for Healthcare-NOW emails.

The role of Project Supervisor for a particular volunteer team is to make sure that all tasks are assigned to the appropriate volunteers, organize team meetings when needed, and do individual follow-up with responsible volunteers to ensure that all tasks are being completed on time.

If you have professional experience as a project manager, these volunteer roles are right up your alley. However, even if you don't have experience with project management, this could be a great role for you if you are generally well-organized, good at supervision, and able to coordinate teams of people working towards a common purpose! If you have these skills, we can train you up on the details of your particular role at Healthcare-NOW.

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Social Media/Comms

A major element of Healthcare-NOW's work as a national organization is our communications. We use a wide range of platforms from social media to email, SMS, podcasts, and direct mail, to make sure that our activists know what is happening in the broader M4A movement, and can quickly be engaged in new organizing campaigns.

Press work and earned media are not a large focus of Healthcare-NOW presently, but it is an area for possible expansion as we get our volunteer teams up and running. We're excited to welcome a broad range of volunteers with Comms/Media experience into the organization.

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Priority District Organizing

If your Rep in Congress is not yet a co-sponsor of the Medicare for All bill, but they are a Democrat (or you live in a swing district that is sometimes represented by a Democrat), your help is particularly needed to win Medicare for All!

If you live in one of these "priority districts," Healthcare-NOW would like to work with you and others in the district to carry out a long-term strategy to get your Representative to support M4A - no matter how difficult that may seem at the moment!
If you do not live in one of these "priority districts", but would still like to support the work of these districts administratively or otherwise, you can still sign up!

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Fundraising

Although not always the most appreciated role, we must do better and broader fundraising to grow our organizing and education work. There are fewer than 20 full-time staff in the whole country dedicated to winning Medicare for All!

While this movement will always be volunteer-led, we'll need far more resources and dedicated infrastructure supporting the work of volunteers and activists to win.If you have experience with non-profit fundraising, your skills are desperately needed!

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National M4A Volunteer Teams

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This page supported by the Healthcare-NOW Education Fund