Public Narrative: Story Telling to Move Others to Action (online & offline), is a 2-day workshop, based on the teachings of Marshall Ganz, offered for organizers looking to learn to tell your personal and campaign story (and how to apply it to your campaign). The skill of value-based storytelling requires continued attention and development, and therefore this workshop is applicable to organizers at many levels.
Digital Strategy 101 will teach you the fundamentals of online organizing and digital campaign strategy.
Campaign Leadership for Electoral Success is a 3 part course, designed for those interested in campaign leadership skills.
Online Data BootCamp covers how to use and manage data for organizing and campaigns. Organizers will learn to use cutting edge technology to drive your programs forward and demonstrate power.
On February 16-17, 2012, we're convening organizers from around the country who are focused on engaging the Emerging Majority in the American political process through voter registration. Voter Registration RootsCamp is an un-conference, driven by participants. Come prepared to share your work, and learn from others in the field.
This course dives into the core elements of building and leading an engagement organizing campaign. You'll learn valuable skills that can be applied online and offline to engage others around shared values, build interdependent teams, create dynamic strategies, and mobilize people through meaningful action. Participants in this course will develop and lead an engagement organizing project intended to achieve an outcome by the end of the course.
The holidays are now well and truly behind us. No more seasonal radio stations. No more egg nog. All the winter, none of the cheer. But wait! It's not so dreary as all that. After all, it's almost Valentine's Day. And what better way to head into the shortest month of the year than joining us for our Valentine's Day Happy Hour?
Advanced Online Organzing is a 2-day course for current New Media practitioners who are looking to build their knowledge and skill set. We'll cover advanced strategic and tactical topics, examine some of the newest, cutting edge practices, and examine recent movements to see how social media and online engagement can drive and support real-world actions.
Have you ever wondered how the pieces of your New Media program fit together? Interested in building an online program that adds real value to your campaign, but not sure where to start? Then you're a perfect fit for our upcoming course, Fundamentals of Online Organizing.
The campaign to stop the Keystone XL pipeline galvanized thousands of Americans across the country to challenge Barack Obama to live up to his campaign promises and stop the worst excesses of the fossil fuel industry. Following years of hard work building the scientific case against the pipeline, the fight was launched to national prominence by 2 weeks of civil disobedience at the White House led by the Tar Sands Action, followed by several months bird-dogging President Obama.
Eggnog is in the dairy case. A white-bearded fellow is in every other commercial. Carollers are rehearsing. (People still go carolling, right?) It must be the holidays! Before you head out to celebrate the holiday of your choice or tradition, we hope you'll drop by our non-denominational, non-holiday-specific, cold weather celebration for all peoples (yeah, it's kind of a mouthful).
This Emerging Majority – Latinos, African-Americans, American Indians, Asian-American/Pacific Islanders, unmarried women – has the potential to reshape our country. But even as their population grows, Emerging Majority citizens lag far behind the general public in voter registration rates. Each year, communities with the most at stake go into Election Day at a tremendous deficit before a single vote is cast.