Shift Checklist

Table of Contents

What to Bring to Your Shift

Running Your Shift

What to Bring to Your Shift

If you need materials, reach out to Brent to coordinate!

• A-frame sign

• Kits for new canvassers – be sure to have some extras on hand, just in case someone brings friends along!

  • Two clipboards (one for each petition packet)

  • Each of the two petition packets (fur and slaughterhouse) for every new petitioner

• Extra petition packets in case anyone has filled theirs

• Extra clipboards

• Canvassing Quick Guides for new volunteers

• Many extra pens (we will provide you a box of pens when you start hosting shifts)

• Supplies for volunteers – Pro-Animal Future will provide these for you

  • Sunscreen

  • Snacks

  • Water

• Volunteer Contacts – be sure to add these to your phone! This will allow you to easily update volunteers in the event of any changes, as not all volunteers are active on Slack. Use Action Builder to find the volunteers on your shift and save their phone numbers.

• Scrap paper for notes and tallying signature counts

Running Your Shift

Start of Shift

• Arrive first at the designated meeting location to welcome shift participants

• Make sure canvasser petitions are folded to the signature page and clipped there to protect the pages and staples

• Provide campaign updates – these can be found in the #campaign-general channel in Slack!

  • Share the number of total signatures achieved

  • Share the percent to our total goal

• Briefing

  • Discuss plan for the shift: distribution across the event, meeting location and time for post-shift debriefing, share where you’ll be standing if anyone has questions

  • Reminders:

    • QR code on the signs links to the PAF website for anyone looking for more information

    • Ask for contact information for anyone who has been inside Superior Farms

    • Talk to anyone who is super supportive of the campaign about volunteering with us, and try to get them to fill out the volunteer form

  • Ask if there are any questions before getting started

  • (Optional but encouraged) Have canvassers set a group goal around the number of signatures they’d like to reach during the shift

• Pass out resources

  • New Volunteer Kits: Clipboards, both petition packets

  • PAF-provided volunteer resources: Sunscreen, water bottles, snacks

  • Check in to see if anyone needs new petition packets

• Provide orientation to new volunteers

  • Provide some basic talking points and the Canvassing Quick Guide

  • Consider some brief role-playing to allow them to practice asking for signatures

  • Offer to let them shadow you or another seasoned volunteer

  • Stay close by for their first shift in case they have questions or need help

  • Remind them not to worry about how many signatures they get their first time, and to just focus on getting comfortable!

During Shift

• Check in with newer volunteers

  • How are you doing? Do you need any help?

  • Have you gotten any questions you don’t know how to answer?

• Step in to help as needed

  • If you hear anyone struggling or unable to answer a question

  • If someone provides wrong information, let them know after their interaction for next time

• Be available to answer volunteer questions

• Provide additional resources as needed

• Take photos of the campaign in action!

  • Visible A-frame sign or clipboards

  • Visible faces

  • Action shots of people signing petitions

End of Shift

• Meet at designated location

• Debriefing Questions

  • How did it go? What did you notice?

  • What was your favorite interaction today?

    • What did you learn from it?

  • What was your least favorite interaction today?

    • What did you learn from it?

  • What are some other things you learned today? Any insights to share with the group?

• Take time to provide feedback to volunteers to help them improve and become more confident

• Reminder to complete the post-petitioning report form – found using QR code on clipboards underneath packets

• Consider getting a group signature tally from the shift

• Take a group photo and post to Slack and Dropbox