[Q1]. What do you look forward to the most for the coming year?

[Q2]. What is an area you see that GPUS makes a great impact?

[Q3]. What's a committee collaboration that you would like to see?

[Q4]. What's an area that you would like GPUS to make a greater impact? What tools or resources would you like to see GPUS to use in order to do so?

[Q5]. What do you think is a good fundraiser?

[Q6]. What are your thoughts on building sustaining relationships?

I believe to address these questions we must first examine how to uplift our grassroots efforts at the local and state levels. Only when volunteers are provided trainings and materials can they succeed in building the national party from the ground up as well as achieve more wins. Such mobilization successes also attract sustainable donors [Q6] . Some donate based on hope but most donate after big wins. The whole winning team mentality.

Many of us see the Green Party as the electoral arm of our grassroots movements but we have only achieved 1,300+ wins since 1985 (including 9 state legislature wins) and that's counting multiple reelections. If we revamped our strategic plan with 6 month/2yr/4yr goals, we could potentially reenergize Greens to run for office, build the party, and donate but we absolutely must make sure to highlight small achievements to keep volunteers motivated and address brewing toxicity immediately.

It would also be beneficial if we rethought our liaison system. Ten hours of administrative meetings every month is not the best use of National Co-Chairs' time. In the UK, Young Greens have set up their executive board with specific roles to collaborate on multiple goals. For one, they have the Secretary collect monthly reports *from* standing committees in lieu of Co-Chairs attending three committee meetings a month (6 hrs) to report back to SC. The seven Co-Chairs could potentially take on roles such as Co-Chair of Electoral Reform Policies, Co-Chair of Campaigns, Co-Chair of Events/Mobilizations, Co-Chair of *Peace*, Co-Chair of *Social Justice*, Co-Chair of *Ecology*, and Co-Chair of Diversity. This would shift their time to active Spokespersons for system change and would create a greater impact [Q4] towards realizing a Green future

With the SC leading national efforts, the most important committee collaboration [Q3] of all would be the Steering Committee and National Committee working hand in hand. Trust has been broken and must be rebuilt. Regular communication and exchanges where both entities are treated as equals are a must.

We have a ton of resources available at the national level but despite our great support for co-ops and mutual aid, we rarely share our resources. We have 250 Delegates and Alternate Delegates on the NC who all have strengths that can be shared and skills that can be matched with our needs but we must list our resources and needs to do mutual exchanges.

Additionally, we have 250,000 *registered *Greens PLUS independents in states where the Green Party is not a recognized party. Each Green has the ability to bring something to the table. We must make sure our databases are updated in order for news of our efforts to reach them either through snail mail, email, social media, text banking, or phonebanking.

Fundraising [Q5] is key to achieving success but without a complete and accurate database, we remain limited to a fraction of our supporters. We must also expand our merchandise and have more reasonable prices and/or sales to ensure all Greens have a Green Party shirt to attend events in. #BeSeenBeingGreen Recent efforts for fundraising have focused on phonebanking but this should be limited to only once a quarter due to the majority of the population ignoring unknown phone numbers and lack of volunteer enthusiasm. Our fundraising efforts should shift towards effort driven fundraising such as ballot access lawsuits and electoral reform to help more candidates make it on the ballot. We can also make fundraising fun by coming up with raffles (ex: $1 a ticket - win a GP banner) or contests (T-shirt or sticker design). We should also revisit the Fundraising and Merchandise threads I started last year where several NC delegates shared fantastic ideas but went unimplemented in the party.

Lastly, the greatest impact [Q2] was highlighting our Green New Deal at the national level. Now more than ever, temperatures are ridiculously high in the coldest places, migration for survival is out of control around the world, and the natural course of what happens in one area impacts all areas are acknowledged by the masses. Time is of the essence to highlight our 4-part Green New Deal (Economic Bill of Rights, Green Transition, Real Financial Reform, and a Functioning Democracy). To have a sustainable future which values people, planet, and peace over profit, we must take back our Green New Deal and concentrate on local and state successes.

These collaborative efforts are what I look forward to going into 2023 and 2024. [Q1]

As Treasurer, I must work with states, caucuses, and standing committees on fundraising plans and record keeping. I've worked with multiple states through our ballot access efforts for several years and helping candidates through my Greens4Office group, worked with national caucuses as both GPCA Media Co-Chair and GPUS Media Co-Chair, and just recently implemented standing committee Co-Chair meetings in January of 2022. My goals to help each entity succeed have not changed and will amplify my efforts to find the resources they each need.

Thank you for your consideration.
Diana C. Brown
GPCA Delegate