League of Women Voters of California

Advocacy - the League advocates independently and works in coalition with other advocacy organizations on ballot measures and legislation. From july 2022 to june 2023, 2 of the bills we supported were chaptered into law; 32 bills we supported either died or were made into two-year bills. We opposed 2 bills; all of which either died or were made into two-year bills. For a full report on our legislative advocacy, see bit.ly/bsrlist. In november 2022, the League advocated in support of 2 measures on the ballot, both of which passed. Some of the legislation we supported were: ab 256 (kalra, 2022) to make the provisions of ab 2542 retroactive; ab 2841 (low, 2022), built safeguards to prevent erroneous voter registration purges and protect the voting rights of people with disabilities under conservatorship; aca 4 (bryan), a constitutional amendment to restore voting rights to people who are currently incarcerated.

Member services - member services-lwvc provides substantial administrative support to developing local leagues, known as members around the state (mas) units, as well as providing advisory guidance to all local leagues across the state and assistance in dealing with their challenges and opportunities. Additionally, several toolkits were developed to provide all California local leagues with communication tools and education on important issues in the state. Lwvc supported the local League coaches program and the organization's diversity, inclusion, and equity program.

Conventions - the lwvc convention brings together League leaders, members, and stakeholders to do the business of the organization, to share innovations and best practices in community engagement, to share trends and challenges in our priority issues areas, and to provide an opportunity for education and engagement to further our mission.

Mylo my League online (mylo) is an open software tool to make state and local leagues more effective, with content sharing, syndication, accessibility, and responsiveness to mobile devices essential to drive traffic and increase engagement.