Scale recruitment to increase number of Brigade interviews

[MasSamH]

Overview

We need to scale recruitment via a second communication effort to Brigade Leads.

Action Items

• [x] Refine communication to send out to Region Slack channels
• [x] Send communications out
• [x] Attend Regional calls
  • [x] Western Region Sunday 25th Oct.
  • [x] South Region Brigade Call Sunday 25th (Noon) (Thad joining)
• [x] Slack outreach 1-1 basis
• [x] Capture any resistance feedback in Resistance Doc

Resources/Instructions

• Resistance Document

• Contact spreadsheet

• Text use to DM brigade leads

[MasSamH]

@ExperimentsInHonesty @MarianneAnthonette Marianne has worked on the message to go out via the Slacks.

Can you review and reply with your preference. https://github.com/codeforamerica/brigade-playbook/issues/47# Option A has a shorter intro, that then goes into more detail in the thread. (note the zoom interview invite CTA appears below the dashed line. Option B has a longer intro, including the zoom interview view CTA, that then goes into more detail in the thread. Review the messaging Message for Brigades

[ExperimentsInHonesty]

@MarianneAnthonette @MasSamH I updated option B, to say "Sign-up for your zoom interview 🔺🔺🔺 or read more about this project in this thread. ⬇️⬇️⬇️ " since the link to signup was above. I also vote for option B obviously.

[MasSamH]

@ExperimentsInHonesty Question from the group, should we extend the interview period to end of Nov? 6 days left. Target would be 50 brigades. Currently we have 27 #47 Brigade Contact Directory

@MarianneAnthonette @raquelnish @thadk

[MasSamH]

Schedule extended to Dec. 4th.

[MarianneAnthonette]

• Sent e-mail to UXRs to fill more slots up until 12/04.
• Updated Google calendar and extended Calendly dates to 12/04.
• Sent e-mail to brigade leads who have cancelled their interview to reschedule and continuing to reach out to people suggested during the interviews (tracking this in the interview responses sheet).

[MasSamH]

Further round of outreach to Brigades starting 19.11.

[MasSamH]

Bonnie reached out to South Conversation with Janet and Tyrek - they will be channel partners to reach out in their region. Bonnie is sharing package so that they can do the outreach. Bonnie went back to 'no responders' from the first time. Thad trying again with Noel and Kate - direct text. Bonnie will flag again on the Brigade 2.0 meeting

[MasSamH]

We have one more interview that is scheduled. Stretch target would be 40 brigades. So far 35 brigades have participated. @ExperimentsInHonesty What are the further outreach plans? Are we going to extend the Calendly interview availability? @MarianneAnthonette @raquelnish @thadk

[MarianneAnthonette]

Interview availability will be extended to 12/19 (2 weeks from Saturday). Calendly will be extended after UXR availability begins to fill in the UXR schedule. UXR schedule extension email will be sent out today.

[MasSamH]

Bonnie is writing to Janet and Thad. 5 interviews scheduled since 07.12.20

[MasSamH]

• Thad has outreached this week (South focus) awaiting replies
• @ExperimentsInHonesty to update on approach to Janet and Tyrek

[Baleja]

Progress: None Blockers: Not enough time on Saturday Availability: limited/none ETA: Unknown

[celeste-hub]

We reached out to @osnickersnee to find out if we could open up the calendly.

[thadk]

Here's a prioritization view for the remaining few based on brigade meetup subscriptions: https://cfa.slack.com/archives/C019RCM15FE/p1608275122021900

• Interviews with

  • [ ] Atlanta,
  • [x] Pittsburgh,
  • [x] St. Louis,
  • [ ] and Fort Lauderdale are plausibly within reach based on communications I've made.

• [ ] I will initiate contact with Newark / @justzay

• [ ] Maybe @ExperimentsInHonesty can contact Cary, NC? / Robert Campbell and follow up again with Tampa Bay?

• [ ] Bonnie to contact Code for Bloomington?

[MasSamH]

Update shared

• @ExperimentsInHonesty Bonnie to reach out to Sketch City + others that haven't responded and reach out via email.
• Question to NAC will be on whether coverage is complete enough.

[MasSamH]

Outreach to continue from Bonnie.

[Baleja]

Bonnie is going to do the comparison : New Brigade Contact spreadsheet with 2021 MOU (presumably) https://docs.google.com/spreadsheets/d/1zglhAKDUNnvKindAhb6K_DJaLQ_myRYGKvE2DTYolAQ/edit#gid=0 (edited)

[Baleja]

Thad updated this list of current MOUs of active brigades and there is another round of outreach scheduled.

[Baleja]

@ExperimentsInHonesty Bonnie to contact MOUs

[ExperimentsInHonesty]

Contact spreadsheet

Text use to DM brigade leads

writing to people today

[Baleja]

@MarianneAnthonette To add the people who were reached out to but didn't schedule an interview.

[MarianneAnthonette]

@thadk @ExperimentsInHonesty: I updated the BOP Participation tab to include Additional Brigade Interview Reachouts (Columns G-I)

These are people mentioned by our current interviewees' to possibly do an interview with (but haven't scheduled an interview/haven't been contacted yet).

[raquelnish]

@MarianneAnthonette is going to create 1 new column 'D' primary/ names of the person who referred them on the directory sheet

[MarianneAnthonette]

@thadk I've added column D (Primary or Referred by) on the directory sheet. Please review it and play around with what conditional formatting would work best for you and Bonnie.

[ExperimentsInHonesty]

@cfsjsharedadmin has been tasked with contacting Open Eugene and Code for Sonoma County

[ExperimentsInHonesty]

@mrao2 is going to add the new brigades to the spreadsheet

[ExperimentsInHonesty]

Overview

We need to contact the Brigades that remain uninterviewed and we need to help of the NAC and Staff to reach the remaining brigades

Resources

• Spreadsheet of brigade contacts
• Messaging that we use to slack/email to brigade leads

Action Items

• [ ] Ask the following people to make the following contacts:
• [ ] Remind everyone that the bridges that are no longer active are still wanted for interviews

SE

Reps: Tyrek (1yr) & Frolian (2yr)

• [x] Code for Atlanta
• [ ] Code for Cary (not currently active)
• [ ] Code for Chapel Hill
• [ ] Code for Fort Lauderdale and Code for Miami are now considered Code for South and he has declined (Bonnie intends to ask him again when we are done with all the other interviews - for political reasons).
• [ ] Code for Hampton Roads
• [x] Code for Little Rock (not yet contacted)
• [ ] Code for New Orleans
• [ ] Code for Tallahassee
• [ ] Code for Tampa Bay
• [ ] Open Raleigh Brigade

NE

Reps: Thad (1yr) & Micah (2yr)

• [ ] Code for Buffalo
• [x] Code for Connecticut (not yet contacted)
• [ ] Code for Detroit
• [x] Code for Upper Valley

Central

Reps: Janet (1yr) & (2yr) Mohith

• [ ] Code for Bloomington IN (no longer active)
• [ ] Code for Indianapolis
• [ ] Hack Michiana
• [ ] Open Boise (not currently active)
• [ ] Open Richmond (not yet contacted)
• [ ] OpenSGF
• [ ] KC Digital Drive (he did the interview but it was very brief and he said he would be willing to do it again, we are waiting until the end for that).

Mountain Plains

Reps: Eric (2yr) & Patrick (2yr)

• [ ] Code for BCS (not currently active)
• [ ] Las Vegas (not currently active)
• [ ] Code for Muskogee

Pacific

Reps: Bonnie (1yr) & Annie (2yr)

• [x] Code for Chico
• [x] Code for Santa Barbara
• [x] Code for Sonoma County
• [x] Hack for LA (waiting until the end)

[ExperimentsInHonesty]

@ExperimentsInHonesty will reach out to

• [x] Tryrek and Frolian about the southeast.
• [x] Janet and Mohith about the Midwest

[doub1ejack]

Your Contact spreadsheet is very awesome.. and also a bit intimidating. I didn't want to mess up the system, so here's an update:

• Code for UV - spoke with Craig and he should be making an appt soon. Monique Priestley also suggested she would interview if Craig fell through.
• Code for CT - I emailed Jon Payne directly. No response yet. I'm pretty sure it's inactive though. Jon was a close Code for BTV collaborator until he left VT, but in past years he's said he's had trouble getting a brigade off the ground.