Political / Campaigns Training

The following trainings focus on politics and campaign management.
Activist School

Make a difference in your community by creating a grassroots organization and understanding the tactics for successful grassroots lobbying. This school is suitable for novice activists.
Activist School, Advanced

Learn to further maximize your time, talent, and efforts to make a lasting impact for your cause or candidate.  This school is suitable for seasoned activists.
Campaign Manager School

Organize a winning campaign with a strong grassroots organization and media strategy, even if you're outspent by your opponent.
Campaign School

Organize, mobilize, and deliver your supporters to the polls through campaign organization, fundraising, and get-out-the-vote efforts.
Campaign School, Advanced

Increase your knowledge of a candidate or issue-oriented campaign in order to play a major role in any organized political effort.  Whether raising money, hiring staff, or dealing with crisis communications, you will be prepared to deal with the realities of political campaigning.
Campus Election Workshop

Recruit a campaign staff, develop a message, create eye-catching literature, and build an organization so you can run for, and win, student government elections.
Future Candidate School

Prepare for a successful candidacy by examining the personal and political aspects of a future career in public policy.
Get-Out-The-Vote Workshop

Plan GOTV strategies, implement successful targeted voter-contact, and organize a winning program to get your supporters to the polls on Election Day.
Political Voter Mail Workshop

Advance your cause from the mailbox to the ballot box and create the targeted voter mail that gets voters off their couches and into the polling places.
The following trainings include lectures on politics and campaign management.
Communications Workshop

Communicate your values and ideas while connecting on a personal level with individual voters and activists.
Custom Workshop

Promote your cause or campaign while maximizing your time.  This workshop is ideal for conferences and meetings as it is designed to be flexible in both time allotment and topics discussed.
Fundraising Workshop

Discover how personal solicitation, e-fundraising, and event fundraising can support your cause or candidate.
International Leadership Training Seminars

Discover best practices from American, European, and Latin American public policy experts.  Each seminar is tailored to the needs of the students arriving from abroad.
Youth Leadership School

Organize and lead mass-based youth efforts for candidates or causes of your choice.  Called the “boot camp of politics,” this school has launched more successful political careers than any other Leadership Institute training program.