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Just wanted to share that I love my position as Canvass Director! My office is beginning to thrive, and I get to do all of the innovative political work to affect policy that I've dreamt of for years! I get to engage others in that work too (And on behalf of the ACLU, what more could a poli girl ask for? I'll tell you)! I'm also getting paid and recognized for my worth!

This is best for entry level work, and it is non-profit so you cannot have super high expectations. However, for what they have, if your work hard, then they recognize you for your work! My manager is not technically employed by GVO, but she is amazing! The staff that I know at GVO, on their administrative and legal teams, are extremely supportive when it comes to trouble shooting. They communicate well, answer questions respectfully, and make themselves available whenever you need them. It's also incredibly impressive to work on a team of young people doing such great and positive and impactful and vital work.

Additionally, I have built my own office (the only of its kind in Milwaukee), and because I have scultped it to have a positive, professionally supportive, intentionally political, and fun culture, my staff and I have a great time learning and growing together while we do this great work!

I'm so much more than proud to be working with Grassroots Voter Outreach on tackling immigrants' rights and reproductive healthcare as just a few social justice, civil liberties protected by our constitution, and I'm looking forward to my Regional Director's visit to Milwaukee next week, where she'll see my staff (the best performing in the region) and I work all of our magic! 😊😊😊😊😊

THE GOOD: 
The hours are flexible and coworkers being nice is a plus. The pay ($15) is pretty good too. I also worked from home. However I'd only apply if it was your last choice.

EVERYTHING ELSE: 
I worked here for a month. When I applied, I was told that I would be calling people who would already be interested in the causes I'd call them for (people like past donators, those who have signed up, etc). This wasn't the case at all.

I applied to the canvasser job with the hope to expand my experience and to make changes in the issues I was passionate about. It's just a glorified cold-calling, call center job. The job is pure brain rot. You read the same script and make unsolicited calls to about a hundred or more people a day. 80-90% of people I call are uninterested and annoyed to the point where they belittle me personally. 

Coworkers are nice on the online group chat, but when it came to me asking for my (very LATE very OVERDUE) pay, no one wanted to answer. Payday was 4 days ago and I have yet to receive my money.

Mission Driven. Those two words are bandied about in company brochures like candy. At Grassroots that is the whole reason for the company's existence. Grassroots works with a wide variety of non-profit organizations  to enroll new members, fundraises to support a non-profit's operations, and runs campaigns for everything from getting out the vote to mobilizing people to contact elected officials about pressing and urgent issues.

People at Grassroots are easy-going and a diverse group of people. We're also passionate. Each of us is passionate about something, although that passion varies by person. Some of us are concerned about gun safety, others about the environment, others about human rights, equality, or racism. While we each have our own, personal issue that matters most, we are all united in the belief that the world should, can, and will be a better place. And we strive every day to make our own small contribution to achieving that goal.

First let me say that I strongly believe in the work being done and I did enjoy the nature of the work. That being said the company certainly does not care about the wellbeing of it's directors. 60+ hour weeks were not only encouraged, but often times mandatory. This was especially frustrating as most of this time was spent canvassing rather than actually recruiting or doing field planning. Although I believe I had a mostly fair salary of roughly $60k The company also had very real issues with low wages until recently with certain regional directors making below $40k. Don't be expected to receive adequate communication from upper levels either. Recruits are often told the day before or even the day of when major changes are made like being sent to a new office in different a state, and following campaign season there was entirely too much ambiguity of whether or not I had a job at all. 
The big message here is just that GVO and GCI know they have a deep pool of activists who want to do this work and use that fact to exploit and drain their employees.

I worked remote voter outreach for 2 years and while the job is relatively easy people yelling at you and hanging up on you takes its toll. There are no paid days off and there's no holiday pay either, and you can only get benefits if you work 30 hours a week on average over a 1 year waiting period, only that's impossible because work can stop for months at a time with absolutely no warning. I wanted to move up in the company and I was allowed, but I was given more responsibilities for NO extra pay, so I stepped down. I was told that the "way things were done" was giving me more and more responsibility (again with no extra pay) and gauging how well I handle it, but this was not told to me until after I had stepped down. Management at the end was, at best, useless and at worst downright hostile. This job is great for a secondary job if you can stomach a minimum of 20 hours a week getting yelled at with no support from management, otherwise steer clear. All you need to do is look the company up on Wikipedia and see just how unfriendly to their employees they can really be.

They do not care about you, they care about numbers, they make the directors buy the pizzas and snacks, the office was never furnished leaving the director to have to buy chairs and foldable tables but thats all the office ware we got. They barely pay for toilet paper even though we are one of the best performing branch. Theres no elevator because it broke and has not been fixed for over a year so you have to go up 4 flights of stairs to get to the office. Do not  plan on being here for long , this is a turn and burn , i worked here for a year and almost the whole office came and went before i quit. Now that im gone theres only one person there who was there longer than me. The people there are wonderful and sweet. Also pay attention to your checks gvo will skim money from the top every so often . Happened to me 4 times and all my friends there too. Pay attention to your hours. 

This place needs directors who use more than one approach fits all method, I get what this place stands for but they have hardly no patience when it comes to getting the rip down and yes I like to use my own spin on things because if you want me to get a certain rip down word for word without using my own spin on it I won't get it and only given me three days to have it down entirely puts no thought into a persons learning Style or learning speed the directors need to come up with different approaches and different methods because some people learning by video and will get the rip down and some by doing and being out in person which is the exact way I learn, some people learning by listening if you want to make this a better place to work please include different approaches because everyone learns differently and not recognizing that you are going to setup people up for failure



A typical day is full of information that benefits any caller or staff member as they get prepared to talk to multiple people in a shift. You will be in the know of a variety of different organizations and movements that are super important and will feel worth while to work to with. The staff working at Grassroots are kind and understanding to various situations and try to keep their staff informed ,motivated , and efficient. One of the hardest parts of the jobs just might be making sure you stay up to date about the information and laws that you may be calling about. The most satisfying part of the job is probably being part of a company that strives to make a difference actively in our world 

Overall, this is a good job if you Excell at sales and have a thick skin. The people who work here are great and the management is pretty good all things considered. However, you will always be two bad weeks from being out of a job. It does not matter if you made $5000 for the campeign the week before, and it does not matter if you know you can do it again. The second you stop being immediately profitable, they will fire you.
This does not mean a lot for people hired on in the summer when the job is at its easiest, but if you stay on for the winter season you will spend every week chasing your quota under threat of unemployment. 

I worked on a political canvassing team, working 11 till 7.  I felt that I was appreciated and valued as part of the team, management are respectful, expected numbers were achievable. gave me some solid training and emotional support in what can be an emotionally difficult job (door to door canvassing). My team were great, met some smart, interesting and diverse people. Staff retention was high as pay was decent and company culture positive. Canvassing is hard and not for everyone, helps if you are outgoing and you care for the cause otherwise it may take an emotional toll. Most of the public are great  but Some of the public are……not.

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Canvasser 10 salaries reported	$27.05 per hour
Organizer 4 salaries reported	$22.00 per hour
Assistant director 3 salaries reported	$45,417 per year

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