Organizing for Austin-Central Texas held our healthcare kickoff meeting tonight and it went very well. Our 15 attendees began the planning process for a health care day of service on the weekend of June 27/28. We decided that the main problem here in Texas is that we have the highest number of uninsured children. We decided to use this as an umbrella over all our service projects in Central Texas. This way, we can volunteer at Children's Hospital (rock the babies), do something with free immunizations, do a baby food/forumula/diaper drive, etc. Our group members are setting up an event to create a resource list for uninsured children to distribute at several locations around town. Anyone will be able to print this document and take part where ever they'd like to help. They will be putting information up at barackobama.com if you'd like to help with this event. I encourage all clubs and Austinites to create your own child centered service project for the weekend of June 27/28 to highlight this national day of service. Of course, if you'd rather do something not child-centered, please do! The point is for us to do a healthcare day of service for whatever needs you are moved by.To schedule your service event on mybo, go here:http://my.barackobama.com/page/content/service There is still time to get a group together to plan your own service event, please do this with your friends, neighbors, colleages and family by next Wednesday.To schedule to host your own healthcare kickoff to start planning, go here:http://my.barackobama.com/hcok-mybo Thank you for all you do!--Lainey Melnick
OFA Austin Regional Leader
lainey.melnick@gmail.com
www.LinkToAustin.com
Facebook Group: Organizing for Austin - Central Texas
Twitter: @lmelnick
It was a perfect day in Austin to have our kick off event for Organizing for America - Central TX Region. Not only was the weather perfect, but we also had some incredible events going on in Austin that made for great, captive crowds. This was the last weekend for the South by Southwest festival so our downtown area was packed with festival goers from all over the country.
We were hoping for about 30 volunteers to show up to our rally, we had 35 yes rsvps and another 25 maybes, but we only ended up with 13. It was a great 13 though, very fired up and ready to go and gather support for the President.
Our rally location was a restaurant patio, Scholz Garten, and unfortunately it was a little loud to hear the video training, but they gathered around to listen to every word.
We sent people out in pairs to several high traffic locations and met back at Scholz's after 3 hours of canvassing. We got a total of 408 pledges from this location and another 30 from two other locations in our area. All in all, a very positive day in Austin!
If you are in the Central TX area, join our facebook group: Organizing for Austin - Central Texas
