Congressional Fly-Ins

Almost all (97%) Congressional staff said that in-person visits from constituents definitely have influence on the decisions of undecided legislators. Organizations usually facilitate constituent in-person visits by flying in their champion advocates to Capitol Hill or to district offices. However, setting up a fly-in and managing logistics is a cumbersome process, hence discouraging some organizations to perform this highly influential communication. Congressional fly-ins module makes this easy for you.

Using this module, you can set up a fly-in, generate a list of your champion advocates and invite them to the fly-in. You can also track advocate appointments with legislators, generate handouts for advocate visits and record feedback and comments from advocate visits into the system. Finally, you can generate and analyze reports, identify legislator support/opposition levels to your issues and also plan for improvements in future communications.

Leverage Fly-ins for Highly Influential Communications

Fly-ins has been rated by congressional staff as the most effective communication of all. Increase legislator support for your issues by setting up in-person constituent meetings with legislators using this module.

Manage Fly-ins with Ease

Managing fly-ins is no longer a complicated process. Using this module, you can easily track all activities of a fly-in from end-to-end including identifying your champion advocates based on their previous participation, tracking advocate appointments with legislators, creating and delivering necessary handouts, and recording appointment feedback and comments into the system.

Reduce Costs with In-person Visits at District Offices

Flying in advocates to Capitol Hill offices from all over the country can be expensive. The solution is to set up appointments with legislators at their district offices, which helps reduce your costs while still achieving the effectiveness of in-person visits. Fly-ins module lets you track activities associated with District Office visits such as District Office appointments and electronic handout delivery.

Record Appointment Information and Analyze

You can record all the information (surveys, comments, etc.) captured by advocates during their visits into the system. Identify your support levels and improve future communications by running reports and analyzing this recorded information.

Empower Your Advocates and Let Them Perform the Bulk of the Work for You

Let your advocates set up their appointments with legislators and record them in the system using easy-to-use pages on your advocacy website. You can also let them record information from their legislator meetings directly into the database from your website. This not only empowers your advocates, but also allows them to do the bulk of the work for you.