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Party Building:
Volunteer and Paid Positions

We Need Your Help

On this page you will find postings for volunteer and occassional paid positions that are available to be filled. If a position or need of ours doesn't match with what you've got to offer, just write and make your offer. We could probably use whatever skill, energy or time you have.

We have an immediate need to identify Greens who can help us in the following capacities. If you're ready to get involved and help us build this party, please write us at ggp@greens.org or call 770-635-3496 or toll free from outside Atlanta, 800-447-6694.

Thanks,
Hugh Esco
Clerk, Georgia Green Party

Paid Positions

We have no paid positions open at this time. Please check back with us.


Volunteer Positions


Local Organizing:

For more details, please read our Local Affiliation Policy. It explains the role of our Affiliation Committee in preparing applications for the consideration of the state party council. This process governs how the Georgia Green Party delegates its powers over state party affairs to County and campus party organizations. The links here are to the application forms for these positions. Essestially, we ask that people serve as a Local Contact to serve as a public contact for the party and to help us build a database of Party supporters in a county or on a campus. We also urge folks who are ready to take on the responsibilities of organizing annual meetings, to consider serving as a Local Convenors. Once the local starts meeting, it can elect its own officers.

Forms Relevant to Local Organizing:
Petition to Serve as a Local Contact  *  Petition to Convene a Local
Local_Affiliation_Application   *  Roster_of_Servants_Elected by Our Local

Roles Serving Local Organizing:

Local Convenor  *  Local Clerk  *  Local Treasurer
Local Liaison on State Party Affairs  *  Convention Delegate (or alternate)

Membership Development

Now that we are building a membership base, we will also need to develop a membership services program.  We already know that it will include a subscription to a quarterly membership newsletter and our outreach newspaper, plus access to the member-only areas of our website.  We're seeking volunteers to help staff a Membership Development Committee to help us plan, develop and implement membership enrollment, services and renewal efforts.  If you are interested, please write our Membership Development Coordinator.


Party Publications: Editorial Council

An Editorial Council is now forming to support the Party in its work of producing a bi-annual public outreach newspaper and a quarterly membership newsletter, which we have committed to publishing when we have enrolled our first hundred members.  We just recently defined a "member" and started our membership drive a couple of months ago.  And we're half way there, already.  We have an immediate need for: editors, writers, graphic artists, layout crew, proof readers, cartoonists, and an ad sales force.  If you are interested in joining this team, please contact our clerk.


The Web Team

A related function is developing and maintaining our presence on the internet.  If you have experience with web site development, or would like to learn more about the process, please join the Party's web team.  Just write our Web Clerk.


Green Leaflet Brigade

A political party's primary activity is doing educational work in support of its activities, positions, candidates and other campaigns.  This website will include a growing number of pdf files linked from appropriate places in the text.  These files may be read by any computer with the free multi-platform Acrobat Reader.  Download Acrobat Reader here

As a campaign or event of the Party appeals to you, please also download, then print, duplicate and distribute the literature we make available here and help us build this Party in your community. For more ideas on how to become an effective member of our Green Leaflet Brigade, read: Leafletting is a Tactic.  As we build our publications, especially the as yet unnamed outreach newspaper, you will be able to also obtain and distribute those, too.  Let us know you've joined the team by dropping our Canvass Director a  line.


Green Fax Brigade

A related function is using the email, phone and fax networks to spread the word.  Any Party press release posted here or on our news and action email listserves are copy-lefted, meaning you are encouraged to duplicate and distribute them in a way that respects the origional intention of the material.

We also are building a statewide network of Party volunteers with fax machines and/or fax-modems who will help us deliver our Party's press releases to the local and regional media across the state.  The long term goal is to cover the entire state without paying any long-distance.  If you have a fax-modem you can let work all night while you sleep, or all day while you are at work, you would make a great candidate for the Green Fax Brigade.  Let us know you want to join the team by dropping our Canvass Director a  line.

In the long term, as this network of Party supporters grows, we will ask some fax team members to also distribute relevant Party literature directly to members, contributors, volunteers and other supporters.


Association of State Green Parties

These Committees of the Association of State Green Parties currently have vacancies and are seeking additional Greens to help accomplish their charges.  Most of the ASGP committees are structured to permit as many as three members to be appointed by each state.  Our state Council has authorized our Party's delegates to the Coordinating Committee of the ASGP to appoint members to these committees.  Occassionally, elections are held to seat certain Committees.  If you are interested in serving on one of these committees, please write our ASGP Delegates about your interest.

 

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Georgia Green Party
P.O. Box 5332; Atlanta, GA 31107 
404-584-6242 < 4/1/01 * 706-896-7464 after  (vm & fax) 
ggp@greens.orghttp://www.greens.org/georgia/