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\"Alan_Picture_\"<\/a>Alan Kaplan<\/strong><\/span><\/h1>\n

Principal<\/strong><\/h2>\n

Alan spent the last 15 years fighting for progressive causes, with his main focus on building the immigrant rights movement.<\/p>\n

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.<\/p>\n

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.<\/p>\n

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

email here<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n

LinkedIn Profile<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n

Resume<\/a><\/strong><\/p>\n

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Advocacy, Communications, and Political Engagement Strategist<\/strong><\/p>\n

Thoughtful Team Builder\u00a0\u00a0<\/strong><\/p>\n

Effective Writer and web Developer<\/strong><\/p>\n

\u2022 Innovative leader, with extensive experience building powerful organizations, running incisive civic engagement campaigns, and gaining support for issues, candidates, and initiatives<\/p>\n

\u2022 Resourceful coalition builder, skilled at bringing groups together for effective political, media, and legislative efforts or advocacy campaigns<\/p>\n

\u2022 Creative strategist, with a knack for planning, clear messaging, and tactical use of targeted field contacts, online outreach, and integrated communications<\/p>\n

\u2022 Tenacious fundraiser: raising over $1,000,000 in the last 15 years<\/p>\n

\u2022 Seasoned campaign, program, project, and event manager \u2013 building strong teams to deliver results on time and under budget<\/p>\n

\u2022 Respected expert in consistent and effective engagement of the Rising American Electorate \u2013 with a special focus on women, youth, and Latino, Asian, Caribbean, and Middle-Eastern communities<\/p>\n

\u2022 Engaging writer, speaker, graphic designer, web developer, and researcher<\/p>\n

\u2022 Bilingual in English and Russian<\/p>\n

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Skills:<\/strong><\/p>\n

Nationbuilder | Mobilizing | Op-eds | Communications Strategies Polling | Online Organizing | NGP-VAN | Fundraising Efforts | Talking Points | Legislation | Supervision | Planning | Grassroots | Team Building | Writing | Media | Research | Program Development | Technology | Testing and Analytics | Project Management | Graphic Design | Web: HTML, CSS, WordPress, mySQL, Drupal, Databank, SALSA, MailChimp<\/p>\n

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Training:<\/strong><\/p>\n

Rockwood Leadership Institute
\n\u2022 Leadership Development
\n\u2022 Management and Team Building<\/p>\n

Wellstone Action Center
\n\u2022 Campaign Management, Data Analysis, and Targeting
\n\u2022 Volunteer Recruitment & Hiring<\/p>\n

Center for Community Change
\n\u2022 Strategic Communications
\n\u2022 Organizing & Coalition Building<\/p>\n

Opportunity Agenda
\n\u2022 Framing, Messaging, Storytelling
\n\u2022 External Communications: Radio and TV<\/p>\n

New Organizing Institute
\n\u2022 VAN, Online Outreach, and Analytics
\n\u2022 A\/B Testing & Email Campaigns<\/p>\n

SPIN Media Project
\n\u2022 Media Campaign Coordination
\n\u2022 Crisis Communications and Social Media<\/p>\n

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Selected Press Clips<\/strong><\/h4>\n
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Activist incensed by citizenship questions<\/a><\/h4>\n
Fort Collins Coloradoan<\/h5>\n<\/hgroup>\n

October 27, 2012<\/p>\n

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.<\/em><\/p>\n

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Immigration advocate, legal citizen gets Scott Gessler’s non-citizen letter<\/a><\/h4>\n
Denver Westword<\/h5>\n<\/hgroup>\n

October 26, 2012<\/p>\n

But the timing of the letters being sent so close to the election is what particularly bothers Kaplan.<\/em><\/p>\n

“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.”<\/em><\/p>\n

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Front Page Article in the May 24th, 2012 Print Edition of the Denver Post<\/a><\/h4>\n
Denver Post<\/h5>\n

May 24, 2012<\/p>\n

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.<\/em><\/p>\n

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Selected press clips 2010 to 2012<\/p>\n