Tunnel Builder Ends with Success!
Pgh TBI: Building the next generation of local organizers
After eight weeks of trainings, field experiences and getting thrown into the mix on Election Day, the participants of the Pittsburgh Tunnel Building Institute are now certified League of Young Voters Education Fund (LYVEF) organizers. By attending a weekly hour-long training led by an all-star team of electoral and grassroots organizers, the TBI members gained skills in coalition-building, constituency targeting, media communications, and non-traditional organizing. Each week, the participants built on the information they gained in the workshops by also working with the PaLYVEF staff to do non-partisan voter registration, survey gathering and Get Out the Vote activites in the field. The program culminated with many of the TBI participants working in our Election Day Election Protection program, which ensured that youth, low-income and minority individuals were not disenfranchised at the polls. Congratulations to the fifteen individuals who completed the program and thanks to the nearly thirty people who came through to one or more sessions.