Every LCV event runs on three to five members with actual titles. Here are the titles.
Books the room, opens the door, closes it at the end. The single most useful person in the organization.
Sends the identical written invitations, logs every RSVP, greets candidates on arrival, makes sure every one of them gets the same treatment. This role is the nonpartisanship guarantee in human form.
Runs the room. Introductions by name and office only. Keeps the timing fair. Handles the one person who won’t stop talking.
Stands up at every event and delivers the filing-week segment. Short script, and we’ll rehearse it with you. We expect this role to recruit more future candidates than anything else we do.
Meets people at the door, learns names, makes the room feel like somewhere you’d come back to. Underrated. Decisive.
Every disbursement above $500 requires two signers, so every chapter needs a second set of eyes on money.
Works with the county elections office to build the Empty Ballot List. Public-records research, mostly by email and spreadsheet, from wherever you are. Excellent for students.
Sends the questionnaires, chases the deadlines, formats the answers, prints exactly what candidates wrote. Requires a steady hand and no editorial impulse.
During filing week, sits with people while they fill out the paperwork. Answers process questions. Never touches message or money. The highest-leverage volunteer week of the year.
Keeps in touch with workshop graduates between quarters so they don’t disappear.
Before you run your first event, we’ll spend twenty minutes with you on the bright line: what nonpartisan treatment actually looks like in a room, and the four or five things well-meaning volunteers get wrong. It’s a conversation, not a memo, and it’s the most important training we do.