MDP Help Desk

We are creating survey questions and activist codes in-house in order to provide better standardization and data storage/mapping. We are now sharing more su...

Survey questions are used to store data collected from the field in VAN. You can include them in the scripts you create to collect information from the fiel...

Auditing and Administering VAN Users Make sure your left sidebar menu is open. If it’s not open, click on the hamburger icon in the top left corner: ...

Step 1: Selecting Grid View To enter data from a paper list, select “Grid View” in the Load Data section or under the Data Entry dropdown from your h...

In the fall of 2024 MiniVAN moved away from the manual commit option to an auto-commit. This means you won’t have to worry about your data going missing bec...

Folders aren't shared by default, so there's an extra step you have to take to share those with other users in your committee.  While in a folder y...

Create A List is used to create lists of voters that can then be used for targeting and voter outreach, as well as volunteer recruitment. Create A List is w...

There's a way to set up the lit drop contact type that makes it really simple for canvassers and allows you to specify folks who were lit dropped in Cre...

VAN automatically applies certain suppressions when you create a list for voter contact. This excludes voters who may have moved or passed away, and drops c...

Field data is some of the most important and actionable information you can use in voter targeting.  VAN is a field database and contains all canvassing inf...