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The Program Planning Process
The League of Women Voters is a grassroots organization. That means that all League program emanates from the members, not from the Board of Directors. The League depends on the members to suggest areas of interest for studies, which may eventually become positions and so the foundation for our advocacy. We are engaged in this process of study this year at both the state level (Mandated Educational Testing) and at the national level (Immigration).
Many of our positions date back to the early years of the League. To keep them fresh and up-to-date, we engage in a process called Program Planning every two years before our Convention. We want every member to review our program positions, and decide if they should be kept, dropped (if achieved or no longer relevant), amended, updated, or restudied. This is also the opportunity of suggest new studies.
The documents for this year’s review, A Guide to State Program Planning and State Program Planning Report Form can be accessed on the links below. Members should review We Support, a short list of our current program positions. The positions are elaborated more completely in the publication, Program Perspectives 2006-08. Both of these can be found under the “Publications” link.
The Texas Voter is a quarterly publication printed by the LWV-TX containing a variety of information on League activity at state and local levels, as well as voting issues affecting the state.
The National League site contains a huge amount of information on national issues and advocacy campaigns taking place across the US as well as many other resources.
