Alan Kaplan

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Alan spent the last 15 years fighting for progressive causes, with his main focus on building the immigrant rights movement.

Working in NY, Colorado, and Nationwide he built some of the most effective civic engagement and communications programs in the United States: helping to register over 500,000 new voters; increasing immigrant voter turnout by double digits in target locations; generating hundreds of press hits; and managing dozens of large events.

Alan ran highly effective public awareness campaigns, helping to stop the advance of ‘Secure Communities’, registering thousands for DACA, working to end the school-to-jail track in Colorado, recruiting a coalition of community groups and developing the communications strategy to pass the ID-NYC law in New York City, and defeating 23 anti-immigrant bills in 2 years at the Colorado legislature.

Alan is a respected strategist, coalition builder, writer, speaker, trainer, organizer, and web designer/developer who started sub)divide media in 2007. He loves issue campaign strategy and building outreach programs for causes he supports.

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Advocacy, Communications, and Political Engagement Strategist

Thoughtful Team Builder

Effective Writer and web Developer

• Innovative leader, with extensive experience building powerful organizations, running incisive civic engagement campaigns, and gaining support for issues, candidates, and initiatives

• Resourceful coalition builder, skilled at bringing groups together for effective political, media, and legislative efforts or advocacy campaigns

• Creative strategist, with a knack for planning, clear messaging, and tactical use of targeted field contacts, online outreach, and integrated communications

• Tenacious fundraiser: raising over $1,000,000 in the last 15 years

• Seasoned campaign, program, project, and event manager – building strong teams to deliver results on time and under budget

• Respected expert in consistent and effective engagement of the Rising American Electorate – with a special focus on women, youth, and Latino, Asian, Caribbean, and Middle-Eastern communities

• Engaging writer, speaker, graphic designer, web developer, and researcher

• Bilingual in English and Russian

Skills:

Training:

Rockwood Leadership Institute
• Leadership Development
• Management and Team Building

Wellstone Action Center
• Campaign Management, Data Analysis, and Targeting
• Volunteer Recruitment & Hiring

Center for Community Change
• Strategic Communications
• Organizing & Coalition Building

Opportunity Agenda
• Framing, Messaging, Storytelling
• External Communications: Radio and TV

New Organizing Institute
• VAN, Online Outreach, and Analytics
• A/B Testing & Email Campaigns

SPIN Media Project
• Media Campaign Coordination
• Crisis Communications and Social Media

Selected Press Clips

Activist incensed by citizenship questions

Fort Collins Coloradoan

October 27, 2012

Alan Kaplan, a former refugee who gained citizenship in 2001, is among the local voters questioned in Secretary of State Scott Gessler’s verification push.

Immigration advocate, legal citizen gets Scott Gessler’s non-citizen letter

Denver Westword

October 26, 2012

But the timing of the letters being sent so close to the election is what particularly bothers Kaplan.

“That’s the worst thing about it. Do you really need to be doing a purge…literally a month before the election?” he says. “I’m just really worried about people who have gotten the letter and people who have heard about it. People in the immigrant community talk to each other.”

Front Page Article in the May 24th, 2012 Print Edition of the Denver Post

Denver Post

May 24, 2012

My longest media turnabout project took 2 years to change the framing of the story completely around, from being supportive of Secure Communities on Page A14 in June of 2010, to openly questioning it on the front page in May of 2012.

Selected press clips 2010 to 2012

Selected press clips 2005 to 2010