Introducing RePurpose: Politics Will Never Be the Same

Grassroots activists will be able to direct how the field program operates with Workers' Voice's new, innovative online tool called RePurpose.

RePurpose is a way for campaign volunteers to gain points based on activities through Workers' Voice, whether it is phone banking, knocking on doors or taking action online.

How does RePurpose work? There are two ways to sign up for RePurpose. If you volunteer with Workers' Voice in the field, you will provide an e-mail address to your local organizer when you sign up, OR you can sign up online at http://repurpose.workersvoice.org. Workers' Voice will then generate a RePurpose account for you. The volunteer coordinator will make sure all of the actions you take while you’re in the office, whether it’s knocking on doors, making calls or registering voters, are credited to you, using bar codes that match your activity (on canvass packets and call sheet, for example) to your sign-in card. When your organizer enters the data from the day, your RePurpose account will get credited based on your activity for the day, and you’ll receive an e-mail from RePurpose letting you know that it’s time to log on and decide how you want to spend your points.

If you sign up for RePurpose online, you can gain points by making calls using the Friends and Neighbors (FAN) tool or RSVPing for events in RePurpose.

Workers' Voice will try to enter and load the data within 24 hours. It can sometimes take a while to make sure it has all the information in the system correctly. Sometimes this might mean that your account takes a few days to get credited. If you’ve waited a few days and don’t see your points, please send an e-mail to help@workersvoice.org and let them know what’s missing.

Once you start accumulating points, you can spend or "repurpose" them to direct campaign activity—whether it’s making calls in support of a particular candidate, buying an online ad or sending direct mail. When you RePurpose an item, your account will be debited the number of points that that item costs.

Learn more about RePurpose by watching the video above.