Meeting & Event Facilitation

See Meeting & Event Facilitation page.

Chapter Policies & Procedures

Approved Milwaukee DSA policies and procedures are posted here. 

• Accessibility Standards: Meetings
• Accessibility Standards: Online Platforms and Applications
• Financial Policy: request via mke@dsawi.org
• Printing and Promotional Materials Policy
• Procedure: Working Group Chapter Data Request
• Internal Communications Policy
• Harassment Policy

National DSA Membership Links

National DSA resources for maintaining and updating your membership information follow. Please reach out to the Secretary at mke@dsawi.org if you need further assistance. 

• Join or Renew Your Membership
• DSA Dues Waiver Request Form
• Mailing Address Change
• DSA Digital Membership Card
• Org Tools Admin-DSA Membership Email Update Form
  • Look up your primary DSA membership email address
  • Change your primary DSA membership email address
  • Change your Org Tools admin-level account email address

Endorsements

See Endorsements page.

Spoke Campaigns

Starting a Spoke Campaign

Coming soon

Spoke Best Practices

There are several best practices related to avoiding your messages appearing to be spam; too many spam messages can lead to the FCC shutting down your number. Best practices are:

• Initial text messages for each round of outreach should include “Reply stop to opt out” in the message body.
• Do not use the same initial text for multiple rounds of outreach. 
• Use only known or likely cell phones (if pulling from a VAN, this is a criteria you can select). Try not to message land lines.
• Exclude phone numbers that have previously indicated to not text them to avoid a high rate of opt-outs from your initial message.
• If you get any carrier violations, stop sending. Carrier violations are a specific error type; other error types are generally not an issue, although if you have a lot of landline errors you should clean up your list so that you don’t get subsequent carrier violations. 

Other best practices include:

• For political campaigns, consider VAN integration to import your Spoke results into the VAN. Alternately, you can manually create this data based on Spoke exports.

50% off Haymarket Books

Milwaukee DSA members receive 50% off of books at Haymarket Books when ordering 10+ books at a time (book titles can vary). For assistance placing an order, contact the Secretary at mke@dsawi.org.

Submit Agenda Items

Any item on a petition signed by any five (5) Members submitted to one of the Co-Chairs shall be included on the agenda of a General Meeting or Executive Committee Meeting, as long as that petition is received at least two (2) days before the agenda is finalized for that meeting. Submit to mke@dsawi.org.

Committee Agendas & Minutes

Members may view agendas and minutes for any committee or subcommittee, as well as for general membership meetings. Request the Google Drive link from mke@dsawi.org. 

Committees and subcommittees include:

• Education Committee
• Executive Committee
  • Buildings Subcommittee
  • Bylaws Subcommittee (2023; concluded)
  • Finance Subcommitte
• Outreach Committee
  • Creative Communications (Sub)Committee
  • Social Media Subcommittee

Working Group Annual Reports

Annual reports are currently submitted each September. Request a link to prior annual reports from  mke@dsawi.org.

Chapter Bylaws

See Chapter Bylaws page.

Submit Bylaw Amendments

Any group of at least ten (10) Chapter Members may propose Amendments to be considered at a General Meeting by petition submitted to a Co-Chair. Submit to mke@dsawi.org.

Grievances

See Grievances page.