Grassroots Organizing/Campaigns

On a campaign, you talk to someone. And then the next person. And then the next person. Thousands and thousands of conversations are the molecules of a successful campaign. So...

Many multi-issue organizing groups, even some with impressive scale, work on issues that deeply impact women but don’t use an explicit gender lens in determining their strategies, messaging or policy asks....

Tired of elected officials ignoring your press conferences, rallies and email blasts? Learn new disruptive and asymmetric strategies and tactics to effectively overcome better financed and entrenched special interests to...

Sick of trying to explain what hashtags are and why they matter to your organizing staff? Do you want to live out what’s happening online in the streets? Wanna stop sharing...

The netroots have been critical in turning a number of races from unlikely to viable, proving that sometimes our best volunteers are behind a computer screen. This session presents two...

In this session you'll learn how to target local races using basic data mining skills. You'll learn how to extract data from a voterfile, find patterns in voter contact responses...

Over the last few years, the use of GOTV best practices derived from academic and private research have become standard on many campaigns, but we're learning more every cycle. In...

So often we hear about these big-time progressive personalities breaking fundraising goals like it's nothing. But for the rest of us, fundraising is daunting and sometimes intimidating. This session is...

The theory and practice of issue campaigns aimed at Congress can be complex. In this session, we'll talk about the self interests of members of Congress and how media can...