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Movement Technology Digital Power Series

re:power’s new Digital Power Series teaches strategies and best practices to use digital technology to organize our communities, fight fascism and build power both in our communities and across the progressive movement. Each training session is just 60 minutes long, including an exercise to help participants hold the learnings and will be taught by an experienced movement strategist.

This training series will be ongoing. Check out the curriculum overviews for the currently confirmed upcoming trainings below.

Mobile Campaigning

In this Digital Power Series session, you’ll learn how to build and grow your list, craft an effective SMS strategy, tailor messages for different formats, and stay compliant while running campaigns. Walk away with the tools to make text messaging a powerful part of your organizing toolkit.

Rapid Response

This session will guide you through a scenario-based exercise to sharpen your rapid response skills. You’ll learn how to define your theory of change, strengthen your strategy, and pick up tips to extend your team’s capacity when it matters most.

Finding Our People Online

In this session, you will learn how to identify and define your audience, gather the right data to mobilize them, and craft content with an authentic voice. Plus, we will share best practices to move your people from online engagement to real-world action.

Who is this series for?

Whether you have experience in organizing online or not, we are interested in organizers and campaign practitioners who want to rapidly develop their technical skills. You don’t need to be a professional politico, but we’re looking for applicants with experience doing organizing work on the ground.

Ideal applicants come from all walks of life, from seasoned organizers and campaigners looking to sharpen their skills, to beginners who are passionate about organizing and want to start their learning journey.

At re:power, we center race, class, gender and sexuality across all our trainings – it’s part of our practice of inclusive politics. We want organizers to be open to new ideas regarding it and to the ideas and contributions from their fellow organizers who will reflect our diverse communities.

Sessions

  • Sep 24, 2025

Virtual Workshop

Mobile Campaigning
3:00 PM – 4:00 PM ET

Free

Register
  • Oct 29, 2025

Virtual Workshop

Rapid Response
3:00 PM – 4:00 PM ET

Free

Register
  • Nov 19, 2025

Virtual Workshop

Finding Our People Online
3:00 PM – 4:00 PM ET

Free

Register

Policies & FAQ

For more information regarding payment, refund policy, and other frequently asked questions, please refer to our Training Policies page. Contact us at digital@repower.org if you require further assistance.

Digital Safety and Security

Overview

The Digital Safety and Security training will support participants to better understand the difference between safety and security, to practice making their campaigns more secure across all devices, and to become more confident in their ability to protect themselves and others from potential harm online.

Who is this course for?

  • This course is designed for anyone who uses digital tools to organize
  • Organizers and campaigners looking to keep themselves and their devices safe
  • Digital and data folks tasked with collecting and ensuring the safety of our communities’ data

What will you learn?

Day 1

  • Learn about the historical context of digital security and how it differs from digital safety.
  • Learn what a democratized digital safety plan is and how to create one.
  • Understand phishing, malware, social engineering and how to recognize these threats.
  • Examine the relationship between various components of the digital security ecosystem

Day 2

  • Explore methods and tools for safer communication and internet browsing
  • Learn how to begin digital safety planning for home, field, or office.
  • Learn how to secure networks & devices

Sessions

  • Oct 13 – Oct 14, 2025

2 days, virtual

Monday & Tuesday
3:00 PM – 4:30 PM ET

Free

Apply

Policies & FAQ

For more information regarding payment, refund policy, and other frequently asked questions, please refer to our Training Policies page. Contact us at data@repower.org if you require further assistance.

Digital Advertising

Overview

The Digital Advertising course will equip digital organizers with the knowledge and skills to create impactful digital advertising campaigns. This course aims to foster a deep understanding of how digital advertising campaigns can be harnessed to advocate for social justice and change. We will cover ethical considerations, account setup, strategy, segmentation, creative content, analytics, and ads for multilingual audiences.

*In order to do practice assignments, students will need access to a Meta and YouTube account, EIN Documentation (commonly referred to as a tax ID), Certificate of Incorporation or Formation, Business License, or Form 990. Your organization’s name should match the URL of your website and domain name for the email addresses. If you are unable to access or create an organizational Meta and YouTube account, you can still come to class and learn. Please email digital@repower.org if you have questions.

Who is this for?

  • Organizing Insight: Folks with experience doing organizing work on the ground. That work can be tied to grassroots, electoral, and/or issue organizing. We seek to support organizers who are currently part of a campaign effort or are seeking to build one.
  • Technical Aptitude: Whether you have experience in organizing online or not, we are interested in organizers and campaign practitioners who want to rapidly develop their technical skills. 
  • Graphic Design Experience: Ideal applicants will have a basic understanding of graphic design and/or graphic design tools like Canva.

What will you learn?

Lesson Plan
  • Module 1: Digital Advertising Fundamentals & Ad Account Setup
  • Module 2: Audience, Narrative & Content Development
  • Module 3: Strategic Campaign Planning & Management
  • Module 4: Advanced Targeting Techniques
  • Module 5: Data-Driven Decision-Making & Optimization
  • Module 6: Reporting & Budget Management

Cancelled

  • Jul 1 – Jul 17, 2025

2 weeks

Tuesdays & Thursdays
5:30–7:00 pm ET

$75–$350*

*Please refer to the Training Policies page for more information on our sliding scale system. please reach out to digital@repower.org if you have any questions.

Policies & FAQ

For more information regarding payment, refund policy, and other frequently asked questions, please refer to our Training Policies page. Contact us at digital@repower.org if you require further assistance.

Data Strategy (Self-paced)

Overview

This is a self-paced crash course in “movement data,” with a deep dive into data for legislative advocacy and organizing (including distributed organizing). Participants will have three weeks to practice building an organizing plan with metric goals, learn how models work, and develop tests before coming together with other participants and a re:power trainer to debrief and discuss learnings. They will also investigate and practice working with open data, and assessing the data safety of their organization.

Who is this course for?

  • Staff across departments: This course is helpful for staff across departments: Data, organizing, and digital staff will all find that this course takes their work to the next level.
  • Future Data Managers & Directors: Past students have successfully pivoted to data manager & data director roles after completing this course.
  • Organizing Insight: Folks with experience doing organizing work on the ground. That work can be tied to grassroots, electoral, and/or issue organizing. We seek to support organizers who are currently part of a campaign effort or are seeking to build one.
  • Technical Aptitude: Whether you have experience working directly with data or not, we are interested in organizers who are able to pick up new technical skills quickly and proficiently. If you like spreadsheets and lists, or investigating innovative ways of organizing, you may be a good fit
  • Open to new things: Participants should be excited about challenging themselves to learn new ways of doing the work and partnering with others to come up with creative solutions. 

What will you learn?

Lesson Plan
  • Module 1: Intro to Movement Data
  • Module 2: Data During the Electoral Cycle
  • Module 3: Data for Issue Organizing Campaigns
  • Module 4: Data Collection & the Ladder of Engagement
  • Module 5: Open Data
  • Module 6: Next Top Model

We will also provide supplemental materials on Tests and Experiments, as well as Digital Safety. 

Expectations

This is an asynchronous, self-paced course that culminates with a live debrief conversation on Zoom. Our self-paced course will include 6 modules consisting of recorded video sessions that provide guided instruction to the participant, and a thought and practice exercise for participants to practice what they are learning. Participants can work their way through the modules at their own pace and on their own time. We do ask that all participants complete all 6 modules before the live debrief session.

We recommend participants set aside about 3 hours a week for coursework.

Training Dates

  • Sep 9 – Sep 25, 2025

3 weeks, virtual

Asynchronous/self-paced

$50–$325*

 

Policies & FAQ

For more information regarding payment, refund policy, and other frequently asked questions, please refer to our Training Policies page. Contact us at data@repower.org if you require further assistance.

Data Analytics Camp

Overview

Data Analytics Camp (DAC) equips progressive leaders with cutting-edge data and analytics skills necessary to support electoral campaigns and issue-based organizing. Applicants will be asked to commit to full participation for an intensive 5-day in-person training. We work to accommodate practitioners at various points in their organizing journey and pull from best practices in data, analytics, engineering and organizing to help campaigners and activists build winning online and offline campaigns.

Who is this course for?

  • Folks who are data-curious, whether or not data is a part of your formal role
  • Organizers and field staff who want to learn how to use data to inform their campaigns
  • Folks who want to become future Data Managers & Directors: Past students have successfully pivoted to data manager & data director roles after completing this course.

What will you learn?

Training topics include
  • Intro to Movement Data
  • Data During Electoral Cycles
  • Data for Issue Organizing
  • Lists and Targets 
  • Reports and Queries
  • Data Collection 
  • Data Visualization 
  • Experiments and Tests
  • Digital Safety and Security

If you’re interested in this course but not able to join us in person, please check out our virtual Data Strategy course which offers the same strategy curriculum in an online format. Please note, the virtual Data Strategy course does not include the engineering components of DAC, which are offered as separate virtual offerings.

Expectations

This is an intensive 5-day in-person training course with high expectations for participation. 

During training sections and breakouts we ask participants to be present, share verbally, and participate in breakout group discussion. Participants will be asked to work in groups to complete a group-based assignment.

There are limited spaces available for participants in this course. We ask that you commit to meeting these expectations if you apply to the training.

If you’re interested in this course, but not able to join us in person—please check out our virtual Data Strategy course which offers the same strategy curriculum in an online format. Please note, the virtual Data Strategy course does not include the engineering components of DAC, which are offered as separate virtual offerings.

We will be meeting in person for this training. Please read our latest COVID-19 protocol before proceeding with your application.

COVID-19 Protocol

Training Dates

  • May 19 – May 23, 2025

5 days, in-person

Durham, NC

$275–$5,500*

Apply by May 2, 2025

 

Policies & FAQ

For more information regarding payment, refund policy, and other frequently asked questions, please refer to our Training Policies page. Contact us at data@repower.org if you require further assistance.

Introduction to Digital Organizing

Overview

Intro to Digital Organizing is a 3-week course curated to teach organizers the fundamentals of building online campaigns. Participants will learn the skills necessary to develop a digital base and presence for their online work. In a “post-COVID” world, our communities are more online than ever, and digital organizing is no longer a “nice-to-have,” but a must-have tactic for winning.

At re:power we approach Digital Organizing through a relational-organizing lens—understanding that the work in the digital realm is not meant to replace what is happening offline. This course will help anyone new to the world of online organizing understand best practices on content creation, strategic messages, building audiences, social media and more.

Who is this course for?

  • Organizers and Communications folks who are new to the digital organizing landscape and want to learn the fundamentals of launching or maintaining a digital presence
  • Organizers who see the importance of digital organizing but are unsure where to start.
  • Leaders, Organizers, and other non-profit folks who want to skill up to work in the field of digital organizing.

What will you learn?

At the end of this course you will be able to:

  • Make assessments about your audience in order to tailor content.
  • Build strategic messages and storytelling to cultivate community and move people to action.
  • Write effective emails, and mobile messages.
Lesson Plan
  • Session 1: Intro to Digital Organizing
  • Session 2: Finding Our People Online
  • Session 3: Email Writing & Targeting
  • Session 4: Building Online Communities
  • Session 5: Mobile Campaigning
  • Session 6: Digital Safety & Security

Applications Closed

  • Feb 18 – Mar 6, 2025

3 weeks, virtual

Tuesdays & Thursdays
6:30–8:00 pm ET

$75–$350*

*Please refer to the Training Policies page for more information on our sliding scale system. Please reach out to {contact email} if you have any questions.

Policies & FAQ

For more information regarding payment, refund policy, and other frequently asked questions, please refer to our Training Policies page. Contact us at digital@repower.org if you require further assistance.