Engage Your Volunteers
Clone a Call to Action
This article will walk you through cloning a Call to Action. Cloning a Call to Action Log into the Empower Web App. Click on the Calls to Action button on the left hand side of the screen. Find the Call to Action you wish to clone and select Actions ...
Organizer Follow Up Calls to Action
The Empower App is an incredibly helpful tool when it comes to Volunteer management. As an Organizer, you can use Empower to follow-up with your Volunteers. There are two ways your organization can manage organizer follow up: Organizer Calls to ...
Paid Relational Organizing
If you would like to compensate Volunteers for their work, Empower lets you set up the ability for users to earn payments when they complete certain actions, such as reaching out to a certain number of people in a relational call to action, referring ...
Refresh Your Turf
There might be times that you want to refresh your turf to reflect new information in VAN (e.g. newly registered voters or new contact information). First, you will delete duplicate contacts. Then you will either delete the old call to action and ...
Organizer Tasks
The Empower App is an incredibly helpful tool when it comes to Volunteer management. As an Organizer, you can use Empower to follow-up with your Volunteers. There are two ways your organization can manage organizer follow up: tasks, which is ...
Mass Messages
This article will show you how to send mass messages through the Empower App. As a Director, you can send one-way text messages and emails to Volunteers, Organizers, and Directors in your organization. Mass messaging is a great way to inform your ...
Advanced Calls to Action
This article will walk you through creating an Advanced Call to Action. What is an Advanced Call to Action? Unlike Standard CTA’s, Advanced Calls to Action have a start and an end date, and they can be targeted at different users using filters. ...
Door-to-Door Canvassing Calls to Action
This article will walk you through creating a Door-to-Door Canvassing Call to Action. What is a Door-to-Door Canvassing Call to Action? A list-based Door-to-Door Canvassing Call to Action is when a Director or Organizer asks volunteers to go ...
Text Bank Calls to Action
This article will walk you through creating a Text Bank Call to Action. What is a Text Bank Call to Action? A Text Bank Call to Action is when volunteers text a specific list of contacts to start a conversation. In these text conversations, the ...
Phone Bank Calls to Action
This article will walk you through creating a Phone Bank Call to Action. What is a Phone Bank Call to Action? A Phone Bank Call to Action is when volunteers call specific groups of contacts to build relationships, ask them questions, and share more ...
Open Canvassing Calls to Action
This article will walk you through creating and managing an Open Canvassing Call to Action. Open Canvassing Calls to Action ask volunteers to create more contacts to grow your relational network. Open Canvassing Call to Actions can be great ways to ...
Personal Calls to Action
This article will walk you through creating Personal Calls to Action. Personal Calls to Action allow volunteers to read the call to action and then take action themselves. Personal Calls to Action are an excellent way to position volunteers to take ...
Relational Calls to Action
This article will walk you through creating and managing Relational Calls to Action. Relational Calls to Action are the bread and butter of your relational organizing program - they allow people to reach out to people they know, and to follow up with ...
Cutting Turf for Door-to-Door Canvassing in Empower
If your organization doesn’t have an easy way to divide up turf to assign it to canvassers and upload into Empower as a CSV file, then this article will walk you through using our Rapid Turf Cutter Tool. This tool will turn a VAN exported list into ...