Celebrating the League’s Birthday
In February, the League will be celebrating its 102nd birthday with action, advocacy, and storytelling. Women have powered democracy for over 100 years, and for our birthday we are coming together across the country to build power for elections in 2022. We will honor the 102-year legacy of our organization with a day of unified, pro-voter action as one League, together. Celebrate the League’s legacy by joining Leagues across the country for LWV Birthday Action on Feb. 14, 2022. Sign your League up to take action. More resources are to come.
2022 Legislative Trends
The LWVUS strives to provide guidance and policy outlooks to state and local Leagues around the country, whether it be tracking legislation, interpreting bills, or responding to advocacy inquiries. The League is revamping its legislative guidance this year to provide a better outlook on the trends that Leagues may expect in state legislatures. This comes in direct response to feedback from League leaders, and we hope it will be helpful as Leagues consider their legislative priorities for 2022.
LWUVS Advocacy Legislative Office Hours
To provide more direct support to Leagues this coming year, the LWVUS Advocacy team will be officially launching Legislative Office Hours—register and see dates. This is a regular space to open our virtual offices and listen to and support your legislative work. To start, office hours will be the second and last Thursdays of every month, from 3–4 p.m. ET/noon-1 p.m. PT. To accommodate those interested, please plan on having the meetings last up to 15 minutes. If you plan on calling about specific positions or bills, please contact us at advocacy@lwv.org with an email subject “Leg Office Hours,” a brief description of what you wish to discuss, and any documents/attachments. This will ensure our team can come to our meeting as prepared as possible.
LWVUS Small-Dollar Funding Flyer
Prior to the holiday break, the LWVUS sent boxes of small half-page flyers to state Leagues outlining the merits of small-dollar campaign funding. It is our hope that Leagues will use these flyers over the course of the next year as we work to engage voters in the 2022 election. Provisions in the Freedom to Vote Act provide the opportunity for states to create small-dollar funding systems, which give voters more of a voice in elections. Whether the bill passes or not, we will need to build support for small-dollar funding across the country. If you have any questions or concerns, or you are a state League that has not received flyers, please reach out to jjones@lwv.org.
Updated LWV Website and Resources
For the past year, the LWVUS team has been hard at work on a website redesign that showcases the LWVUS even more powerfully. We're pleased to announce that the updated site design will launch the week of January 24! This relaunch is the first major part of ongoing work to make our site stronger and includes:
- New homepage design that better highlights our focus areas, major legal cases, recent news, and VOTE411.
- An update to the main directory of resources and points of contact. The Guide to LWV Services for Leagues is the best starting place for League leaders to receive answers to their questions and get in touch with the right staff person at the LWVUS.
- Modernized design across the site.
- Custom "Take Action" to-do lists on our primary issue pages to empower users to get involved.
- Enhanced search abilities, including the ability to search by content type and topic.
- On-page donation options to ease the donor experience.
- Accessibility upgrades on the back end to improve the user experience.
This is ongoing work—changes currently in progress or coming later in the year include:
- A legal center with detailed information about all our legal cases.
- A new design for our League Management Site.
- Thorough accessibility upgrades to all of our content.
- Updates to all of our web content.
We're very excited to introduce the new site design to you and to continue our digital enhancements throughout 2022.
2022 Program Planning Leader’s Guide & Survey
The Program Planning Leader's Guide and survey response form are now available for Leagues to use at their program planning meetings in early 2022. The input of League boards will help shape the proposed program of study and actions that will be voted on by convention delegates in June. Program planning report forms must be returned online by Tuesday, March 1, 2022. Each League is entitled to one response, and individual member responses are not accepted. Access the Leader’s Guide and the 2022 Program Survey. For questions about program planning, email progplan@lwv.org.
LWVUS 2022 Convention
The 2022 Convention will take place June 23–26 in Denver, CO, and online. Current information is available now on the LWVUS website, including FAQs as well as the following resources:
- Proposed Bylaws Amendments
- Program Planning Survey Forms
- Hardship Designations
- Caucus Applications
- Wares Market Table Applications
- Event registration and hotel reservations are scheduled to open at the end of January.
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