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Plan. Activate. Engage. Build.

Our programs are structured to support and prepare progressive leaders to:

  1. Plan — Set bold visions and strategies.
  2. Activate — Move their communities into action.
  3. Engage — Retain people and develop their leadership.
  4. Build — Build community and collective power for the long-term.

Our trainings are designed with small-group engagement and community-building in mind, and allow participants to connect and interact meaningfully.

We also emphasize applicability through a pedagogical approach that centers practice and enables participants to build their skills, receive real-time feedback and immediately apply learnings to their day-to-day organizing.

Program Areas

Movement Building

Organizing and mobilizing campaigns, strategic planning, and capacity building

Movement Technology

Community-centered training in tech and strategy, including Digital Organizing and Data & Analytics

Civic
Engagement

Candidate development, campaign management, legislative, voter engagement, and Fair Courts

Governance

Progressive Governance Academy for newly elected officials and skills building for seasoned elected officials

Women of Color Leadership

Creating a robust pipeline of our future leaders by covering skills development, relationship building, and fostering resilience

Each year re:power recruits values-aligned organizations to our Sponsor Fund to help keep our public training costs low and also providing an opportunity for our sponsors to share valuable information with our participants and alumni throughout the year. Click here to see our 2022 Sponsor Fund Benefits or email sarah@repower.org to learn more!

Current/Upcoming Events & Trainings

Movement Building

Grassroots Organizing: Strategy Academy

Strategy is hard coded into our bodies. The question for organizers is: how do we become intentional about developing strategies that bring more people in, enable new people to take leadership, and that can be learned from so you can improve each time. Continue reading

Civic Engagement / Movement Building

Camp re:power

Building on the legacy of Camp Wellstone, Camp re:power is an in-person training space designed specifically for BIPOC grassroots organizers, data strategists and campaign managers, with the aim of deepening and strengthening movement infrastructure and capacity. Continue reading

Movement Technology

Digital Organizer School

The Digital Organizer School (DOS) is re:power’s core offering for progressive organizers, digital practitioners, and communicators who are looking to build technical skills and invest in strategic ability and leadership within the movement. Applicants will be asked to commit to full participation which includes a pre-training online gathering and a 5-day in-person training.  Continue reading

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“The trainers are AMAZING, the course work is comprehensive and challenging, but extremely useful, and the emphasis on training digital organizers/data people other than cis white men makes me hopeful for the future of decolonizing data and creating a world where data works for everyone.”

Eileen Casterline, re:power alum
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Alumni

From grassroots movements that are building power with BIPOC communities, to elected positions that are transforming our political institutions, our alumni are on the frontlines of strengthening our democracy and advancing a vision of inclusive politics.

They are part of groups like the New Georgia Project, We the People MI, and the Working Families Party who are building power on the ground in states like Georgia, Arizona, Michigan, Nevada, and Pennsylvania, to name a few.

They are elected leaders in local communities, like Seema Singh in Knoxville, Tennessee and Lorena González in Seattle, Washington.

They are also behind significant transformational policies like Proposition 17 in CA which restored the right to vote for folks on parole.

Read alumni stories