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Introducing the Council Agenda Social Media Template
Calling all municipal politicians! Simplify agenda sharing effortlessly with our Council Agenda Template, tailored for busy schedules. Achieve efficiency, impact, and consistency in your communications. Customize seamlessly, strengthening connections with constituents. Invest in effective communication—empower your agenda, enhance your community bond. Get it now
Simplify Your Agenda Communication
Attention all municipal politicians!
Are you tired of struggling to create eye-catching and informative council agenda posts? We have the perfect solution for you - our Council Agenda Template designed exclusively for municipal politicians. Say goodbye to the days of spending hours crafting visually appealing agenda communications. With this template, powered by Canva, you can effortlessly communicate your meeting agenda, leaving you with more time to focus on what truly matters - serving your constituents.
Simplify Your Agenda Communication
Busy municipal politicians often find crafting eye-catching and informative council agenda posts challenging. Our Council Agenda Template, designed exclusively for municipal politicians, is here to change that. Powered by Canva, it allows you to effortlessly communicate your meeting agenda, giving you more time to focus on what matters - your constituents.
Key Features:
10-Page Comprehensive Template: Every element of a council meeting agenda is covered, along with expert advice to make your content shine.
Easy Customization: Tailor each page effortlessly with your brand's colours, fonts, and style.
Designed for Canva: Familiar and user-friendly platform so you can get started without any design hurdles.
Consulted and Approved: Crafted in consultation with real municipal politicians, ensuring it meets your unique needs.
Your Agenda, Elevated. Your Time, Preserved.
Our Council Agenda Template is more than just a design; it's a solution crafted with your busy schedule in mind. Save countless hours on creating attractive council agenda posts. Connect with your constituents seamlessly, leaving a lasting impression. Prioritize your work, not your design skills.
Professionalism, Simplified: Achieve a professional and consistent look for your agenda communications effortlessly.
Time Efficiency: Spend more time engaging with your community, less time worrying about design intricacies.
Connect Deeper: Effectively communicate your agenda, strengthening your relationship with constituents.
Key Features of our Council Agenda Template
Comprehensive 10-Page Template:
Every element of a council meeting agenda is covered within this comprehensive template. We've also included expert advice to ensure your content shines and captures attention.
Easy Customization:
Tailor each page effortlessly to match your brand's colors, fonts, and style. Make it uniquely yours with just a few clicks.
Designed for Canva:
This template is created on Canva, a familiar and user-friendly platform. You can start using it immediately without any design hurdles, even if you're not a design expert.
Consulted and Approved:
We've crafted this template in consultation with real municipal politicians to ensure it meets your unique needs and expectations. It's designed by politicians, for politicians.
your agenda, elevated. your time, preserved.
Our Council Agenda Template is more than just a design; it's a solution crafted with your busy schedule in mind. Here's what you can expect:
Professionalism, Simplified: Achieve a professional and consistent look for your agenda communications effortlessly. Impress your audience with a polished and visually appealing agenda.
Time Efficiency: Save countless hours that would typically be spent creating council agenda posts. With this template, you can now allocate more time to engaging with your community and focusing on your essential duties.
Connect Deeper: Effectively communicate your agenda, strengthening your relationship with constituents. Create a lasting impression and enhance your connection with the community you serve.
This resource is for you if …
time is of the essence and efficiency is key.
you seek to make a lasting impact on your community.
maintaining a consistent and professional image matters.
easy customization is what you're looking for.
strengthening constituent relationships is a priority.
Don't miss out on this opportunity to simplify your agenda communication and enhance your presence on social media. Purchase our Council Agenda Template today and revolutionize the way you communicate with your constituents.
Let's make impactful agenda-sharing a breeze!
Note: The Council Agenda Template is a digital product available for purchase. After purchase, you'll receive instant access to the template for use on the Canva platform.
And don’t forget to check out our other other, if you’re looking for additional support.
"Voter Outreach" Is Out Now
Learn how to reach out to voters with our new workbook.
Voter Outreach
Campaign your way to a win
It’s time to convert your neighbours into voters
Find your supporters, have meaningful conversations, and turn community connections into votes.
Winning a municipal campaign isn't about knocking on the most doors—it's about having the right conversations with the right people.
The 2026 edition of How to Run for Office: Voter Outreach is your complete guide to building a voter outreach strategy that feels organized, authentic, and achievable. Whether you've never canvassed before or you're looking to improve your campaign's outreach, this workbook walks you through every step of the process with practical tools, updated resources, and easy-to-follow guidance.
Fully revised for 2026, this edition includes refreshed content, improved worksheets, and brand-new planning pages designed to help you adapt every exercise to your unique campaign and community.
What’s Inside:
Updated Guidance: Refreshed examples, links, and campaign resources relevant to the 2026 municipal election cycle.
Complete Voter Outreach Toolkit: Learn how to plan and manage door knocking, phone banking, text banking, email outreach, and volunteer canvassing with confidence.
Enhanced Worksheets: Updated planning tools that help you organize your outreach, track conversations, and build a strategy that fits your campaign.
New Planning Pages: Additional prompts, examples, and guidance make it easier to personalize each worksheet instead of wondering what to write.
Flexible Digital Workbook: Complete the workbook digitally or print the pages that work best for your campaign.
Why This Workbook Works:
Helps you create a clear, realistic voter outreach plan
Breaks down canvassing into simple, actionable steps
Gives you practical systems to stay organized throughout your campaign
Designed to be flexible for campaigns of every size
Created by Amanda Kingsley Malo — educator, campaign veteran, and your personal guide through local politics
Format:
35-page PDF
Instant download
Works on computer, tablet, or phone
Campaing Your Way To a Win
Learn How To Reach Voters
The second module of our How To Run For Municipal Council workbook series is called Voter Outreach For Municipal Campaigns, and it’s all about every canvassing imaginable.
This workbook was written by our founder Amanda Kingsley Malo, who has years of federal and municipal canvassing experience. She has taken everything she learned about converting your community into voters and put it in this book. You’re getting step-by-step instructions on how to canvass your community and original, complete, engaging resources that will set you up for success.
What you will get in this resource:
30 pages of content that give you step-by-step instructions on how to canvass for your campaign.
An overview of the different types of canvassing (along with handy explanations and campaign guides so that you can pick and choose which method is best for you).
A canvassing breakdown to ensure you are successful every time you do any voter outreach, all of the steps that you need to take to stay organized
A handy script guide to help you write copy for your canvasses.
Thirteen worksheets to guide you through the process.
Links to inspiring videos, lessons and articles that help guide further learning.
Resources you need created with municipal campaigns in mind so that you always have tally sheets, Google forms, checklists, and heat maps ready.
A special bonus gift as a “congratulations on doing the work!” — our way of wishing you luck for the next chapter of your journey.
Amanda couldn’t find anything else like this out there — so she made it.
Back when she worked on federal campaigns, she was the ‘canvassing queen’ and specialized in canvass organization, data analysis and volunteer management. She made the product that she knows candidates need to support them, and included all of the sheets and resources she created for her own campaigns. Then, she backed all of that up with tons of research, the experience she has from nearly a decade of running political campaigns, and knowledge about learning styles, resources and creating engaging materials from her 12 years as a teacher.
This workbook is for you if you’ve ever dreamed of running for office but:
a candidate that is running in an upcoming municipal campaign.
a volunteer working to create a canvassing plan for a municipal campaign.
looking to understand more about how voter outreach is done.
needing resources to help you keep your campaign organized.
looking to learn more about door-to-door canvassing, phone banking, text banking, event canvassing, or email lists.
We want to help you break through that uncertainty.
We want you to be able to turn your neighbours and friends into voters.
We want you to run and win.
And don’t forget to check out our other workbooks, if you’re looking for additional support.
Campaign Goals By the Numbers
Learn how to calculate the numbers it will take you to win your political campaign.
The Math of Campaigning
Here’s what you’ll need to do to calculate to help you figure out what you need to win
How many votes do you need to win?
How many doors are you planning on knocking on?
How many people do you want to speak with about your campaign?
How many volunteers do you need to help you achieve those goals?
What’s your campaign budget?
You see, campaigns are a number game. And figuring out your numbers before you get started will differentiate you from your opponents.
One of the first things you need to do is figure out your campaign numbers. That’s what’s going to be what helps you figure out your goals.
So sit down and get ready to do some research.
Win Number
First thing’s first — what’s your win number?
Your win number is the number of votes you need to win your election.
And it is imperative that you figure this out because this number will define your whole campaign. You’ll base everything on this number — fundraising objectives, volunteers needed, people canvassed …
Everything.
To do this, you’re going to look at past elections. You can find this information usually through a Google search of “COMMUNITY NAME + votes + ELECTION YEAR.” Your municipality may even have the information on their website. You’re going to write down how many votes the winner received, how many ballots were cast, and then calculate what their voter share was. It’s best to do this for the last two or three elections, so that you have a couple of different scenarios to compare. Then you’ll average it out for a couple of elections, and ta-da — you have a win number! But wait … you’ll want to add a couple of percentage points to that average, just to be safe (I like to add 3-5%). That way, you have a buffer.
Average # ballots cast X (the average voter % + % safety margin) = WIN #
It will also depend on how many people are running against you. If there’s more than one candidate, getting 50+1% of the vote is not only unlikely, but it’s also unnecessary. Maybe you’ll only need 32% of the vote share, or maybe you’ll need 40% — it entirely depends on the number of candidates, so make sure that you keep that in mind when thinking about your calculation.
Voter ID Target
A Voter ID number is how many people you need to identify as voters to win.
This is not the same as your win number because not everyone you identify as a voter will go out and vote … so you want to give yourself a buffer.
This entirely depends on what the voter turnout is like in your community. If voter turnout in your municipality is high, you don’t need to add as much of a buffer to your win number to make up for the voter turnout (or lack thereof). But if voter turnout is unusually low in your community, you will have to keep that in mind when planning out your canvassing.
I like to add a 20% safety margin to a vote number to come up with the Voter ID target (but you can add whatever number you think is appropriate for your community).
So the calculation becomes:
Win # + 20% = Voter ID Target #
These aren’t perfect numbers. Depending on the kind of race that you’re running, you may need to identify more or less. That entirely depends on you and your team, but these are some excellent rough numbers to at least keep in mind and start building your campaign around.
If you’re looking for a resource to help you calculate this automatically, we included a Win Number Calculator and a Voter ID Target Calculator in our How To Run For Office workbooks. You can find it in the Understand Your Community workbook and the Exploring Your Run workbook bundle.
Everything you need to explore your run, make confident decisions, and prepare for a successful campaign — all in one digital workbook.
Running for municipal office is exciting, meaningful, and yes — a little intimidating. That’s why I created this workbook: to help you explore the possibility, ask the right questions, and get organized before making any big commitments.
The 2026 edition is fully updated, with clearer guidance, new resources, and a brand-new chapter on protecting your peace — because running for office is serious work, and you deserve to feel good doing it.
What’s Inside:
Updated Guidance: Refreshed examples, links, and resources relevant to 2026.
New Chapter: Protecting your peace, including a worksheet to help you set healthy boundaries.
Bonus Audio: A reworked workshop in audio format, perfect for listening on the go.
Clear Explanations: Simplified, step-by-step guidance to take the guesswork out of early campaign decisions.
Practical Worksheets: Define your mission, map your community, and build your campaign team.
Why This Workbook Works:
Helps you make a confident decision to run
Breaks down complex campaign steps into simple, actionable exercises
Created by Amanda Kingsley Malo — educator, campaign veteran, and your personal guide through local politics
Format:
30+-page PDF
Instant download
Works on computer, tablet, or phone
Are you exploring a run for office and want to understand the community you hope to serve?
This Workbook Module helps you map your community, identify key issues, and uncover where you can have the biggest impact. With exercises and reflections, it gives you the clarity and focus you need to take actionable steps toward a municipal council campaign.
In this module, you’ll explore:
Who makes up your community and what matters to them
The issues you can focus on as a candidate
How to prioritize your efforts and take meaningful action
Why grab just this module?
Sometimes you don’t need the full workbook — you just want to dive into understanding your community. This standalone chapter gives you everything from this chapter in one place, so you can reflect, strategize, and plan your next moves without flipping through the rest of the workbook.
This module is the second chapter of the HOW TO RUN FOR OFFICE: EXPLORING YOUR RUN workbook.