SD63 Update for March 29

In this Update:

• Get more involved with the DFL!
• Volunteer at our conventions
• Minneapolis DFL officer openings
• SD63’s volunteer teams
• The events calendar
• Mission statement and editorial policies

Get more involved with the DFL!

Once every two years, your local SD63 DFL meets at a convention to endorse our legislative candidates, pick representatives to congressional district and state conventions, forward resolutions to the State DFL Platform Committee…and pick our local unit’s officers and oarty representatives for the next two years. If you are interested in getting more involved with the DFL, to help us engage our neighbors and to prepare for elections both this fall and in 2028, now is the time to sign up!

Directors. SD63 DFL’s Directors take part both in our unit’s governance, and in the organizing and outreach work we do. A Director role can be right for you whether you are new to the DFL and hoping to learn more about what we do (learning by doing!), or an experienced party member lending your experience and leadership.

Members of the DFL State Central Committee (SCC). The SCC holds quarterly meetings to conduct party business and staff statewide committees. SD63 will elect nine representatives to the SCC, plus eleven alternates, to represent our community on this important body. Joining our SCC delegation is a great way to get to know DFLers from across the state, represent our community’s values, and influence statewide party policy.

Unit officers. Our unit’s Chair, Vice-Chair, Treasurer, Secretary, and Outreach & Inclusion Officer carry out the core duties of managing a local DFL unit — completing unit business, running our planning meetings, making the necessary legal campaign finance reports, and overseeing our efforts to reach out to our neighbors.

Before next month’s convention, our Nominations Committee will screen and interview all candidates as time allows. Convention delegates will review the candidates’ applications plus the Nomination Committee’s recommendations, and make their selections at the convention. File your interest now!

Volunteer at our conventions

Our convention is two weeks away, on Saturday, April 11 — we’ll need your help to pull off the day! We need people at the welcome desk, registration desks, and volunteer interest table, Sergeants-at-Arms, Tellers, and more. There’s more information about what we need you to do, and a sign up form waiting for you.

The Minneapolis DFL convention, one week after own convention, needs your help too — sign up here to help out on April 19.

For both of these conventions, please share the links with friends and neighbors who might be interested in helping. All of our conventions are entirely volunteer-run…the DFL is all of us, so let’s help make our DFL events a success!

Minneapolis DFL officer openings

The Minneapolis DFL is also recruiting unit officers for the 2026-2028 term. Get more information about openings, sign up to screen with the citywide Nominations Committee, and get your officer interest in front of the delegates to the April 19 Minneapolis City DFL convention here!

SD63’s volunteer teams

Want to be more involved with the SD63 DFL on a more short-term basis? Sign up for one of our volunteer teams, and we’ll let you know when there’s an opportunity to make a difference.

• The Campaigning and Outreach team — where we bring work that involves talking to others about our DFL values and candidates. The needs we bring to this group will include both face-to-face contact and phone contact, but will always be aimed at direct interaction with other individuals. For example: doorknocking, phonebanking, contacting neighbors (often with precinct teams), staffing tables at events, and walking with clipboards at events.
• The Planners team — working in the background to take care of the logistics and preparations for things we do. For example: organizing issue forums and discussion groups, coordinating town halls, staffing sign-in tables, posting flyers for events, and brainstorming and planning fundraisers.
• The Writers and Data Wranglers team — working individually (or sometimes in small groups) to produce material both for immediate distribution and for later use. For example: writing letter-to-the-editor, or templates for others to build their own letters; designing flyers; researching, creating, and entering new data sets; and checking and updating existing data sets.

You may already have signed up for these at caucuses, and we’re still going through those sign up sheets. We hope to be in touch soon.

There’s never any obligation in signing up for a team — you would be signing up to be asked for help when something comes along, not signing up to actually do any one particular thing. And you can leave the mailing lists associated with these teams at any time. So sign up today, or reply to this email with any questions.

The events calendar

Our events calendar is coming back soon! For now, check out the list of campaign events on the Minneapolis DFL home page.

Our meetings

The next SD63 Central Committee meeting will be on May 6, 2026, at 6:30pm. Our meetings are hybrid: location TBA, and the online session will be via Zoom.

All SD63 Central Committee meetings are open to the public.

Support SD63

Donations to SD63 are used to run caucuses and conventions, maintain web and email servers, support campaigns, and hold issue forums and other community events. We have no paid employees.

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• Support us by check to MN DFL Senate District 63, and posted to

  MN DFL Senate District 63
  Attn: Treasurer
  3616 41st Avenue South
  Minneapolis, MN 55406