Our Mission:
To cooperatively increase the capacity of low-income families to advocate on their own behalf
for policy and community change.
Our Vision:
We envision a unified base of broad coalitions that work together and share power to create an
Alabama that works for all and ensures that all have an equal voice.
How AEVN Measures Success:
Responsibility: Who will serve to enforce the metrics and collect the data? Do we need a
metrics working group?
● Building Strength Within the Network (LEAD: Network Weaver)
○ OBJECTIVE:
■ To learn from each organization within the network
■ Share resources
■ Widen and deepen our relationships with our community
■ Increased connectivity among network leadership and staff
○ STRATEGY:
■ Engaging in network activities together
■ Monthly network meetings that
● Allows network staff and leadership to check in on a personal level
● Include high level updates on the work being accomplished by
each organization (ex. Doing a deep dive with one org per
meeting)
● Open the opportunity to share needs and resources
■ Finding the ways to incorporate relationship building across our
strategies.
■ Accessibility across network activity
● Language
● ADA Accessibility
○ METRICS:
■ Meeting attendance and engagement tracked by Weaver
■ Attendance and support at network events
■ Cross-promotion in social media/newsletters
■ Translators/Printed materials
● Civic Engagement (LEAD: Organizers and Program Staff)
○ OBJECTIVE:
■ Encouraging people to engage people with our network through our
events, calls to action and social media
■ How well do people see the network’s purpose
■ Amplify voices of low-income families
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○ STRATEGY:
■ Conference
■ Census Work
● Cross-promotion/cross-work
■ Virtual town hall
● Pushout to participants
○ METRICS:
■ Conference attendance
● Segment by who attends (ZIP Code, Demographic Info, Affiliation)
○ Widen data we’re collecting
● Repeat attendance
● Number attending with children
● Transportation needs
■ Conference survey data
● Satisfaction
■ Number reached through Census Training
● Community volunteers
● Census takers
■ Number reached through virtual town hall
■ Social media engagement at all
● Policy Wins (LEAD: Executive Directors)
○ OBJECTIVE:
■ To successfully pass legislation that the network is collaborating on
together.
■ To keep policies that are harmful to our constituents from being passed.
■ To sway public opinion on the issues the network collaborates on.
■ Signing onto and creating calls to action together.
○ STRATEGY:
■ Sharing and aligning policy agendas.
■ Coordinating around funding (ex. Governor Ivy’s federal dollars).
■ Communicating important policy objectives and formally requesting
network support.
○ METRICS:
○ # policies passed
○ # decision makers talking about our issues (for or against)
○ Comms and social media around our issues
○ # issues signed on together
○ # people mobilized to take action
