Public affairs staff in minnesota, north dakota and south dakota engaged volunteers in over 4700 hours of outreach, advocacy and engagement activities. Through online and offline organizing, we grew our email list by over 14,000 people and our text messaging list by over 4,500 people.In minnesota, public affairs staff and volunteers executed an outreach program to educate patients and the public about the health insurance exchange created by the affordable care act. Volunteers called more than 500 people during the open enrollment period, referring people to our navigators for assistance in enrolling in health insurance.(Continued in schedule o)with the goal of addressing disparities in access to the covid 19 vaccine, minnesota public affairs staff hired 4 fellows to conduct an outreach program to educate the public about the vaccine and assist them in finding vaccinations for themselves and their families. Throughout the summer and fall of 2020, public affairs staff ran a voter engagement campaign. We held four voter registration drives with community partners in rochester, minnesota and the twin cities and hosted multiple community outreach events to collect pledges to vote. Public affairs staff in minnesota recruited, interviewed, and trained volunteer storytellers to tell their stories about reproductive health care and rights through our storytelling program and speakers bureau. Our twelve minnesota campus and youth planned parenthood generation action chapters conducted various community initiatives, ranging from ensuring students on their campuses have access to menstrual products and emergency contraception. Public affairs staff in minnesota took part in many community events with organizational partners including pride and juneteenth celebrations, trans day of visibility events, and more.To educate and engage volunteers and activists further, public affairs staff held educational sessions and discussions on a variety of issues, including reproductive health, racism, reproductive justice, lgbtq health and justice, and more.In minnesota, public affairs staff brought on over 100 new volunteers into our public affairs work and engaged over 6,500 supporters in online actions.In north dakota, public affairs staff added nearly 2,000 supporters to our email list, cultivated 1,235 donations, and engaged 14 members of the north dakota advisory committee. In north dakota, public affairs was a silver level sponsor of the fargo moorhead pride event, hosting two booths: public affairs and education. Staff also hosted the 16th annual progress on the prairie event with keynote speaker alexis mcgill-johnson, ceo of planned parenthood federation of America.In north dakota, public affairs staff partnered with community organizations to organize a women's March in fargo. Due to covid-19, the event was moved online and over 150 participants from across the state joined to hear from various speakers including state representative ruth buffalo. In north dakota, public affairs staff created care packages to provide supplies to the community during the pandemic. Care packages included health supplies, safer sex supplies, masks, hand sanitizer, and information about our clinics.In north dakota, public affairs staff continued to cultivate and activate our planned parenthood generation action campus groups. Highlights included campus interns tabling and co-hosting educational and action oriented events on campus.In south dakota, public affairs staff partnered with community organizations throughout the summer and fall of 2020 to conduct get out the vote events in sioux falls and rapid city. Throughout fy21 the south dakota public affairs staff continued organizing at both south dakota state university and university of south dakota to provide incoming and current students with information about planned parenthood's mission and sexual and reproductive health issues broadly. The campus organizer has developed deep organizing relationships on these campuses despite the hurdles of the covid-19 pandemic.South dakota public affairs staff organized volunteers to begin escorting patients at the sioux falls health center. South dakota public affairs staff participated in the pride celebration in sioux falls, signing up over 100 potential new volunteers and registering new voters. In south dakota, public affairs staff continued to engage a 15 member advisory committee from across the state, representing diverse ages and backgrounds, added 3,000 supporters to our email list and cultivated 1,249 donations.

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