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Campaign School for Issue Organizers

Overview

Campaign School for Issue Organizers is built to support issue-focused organizers to connect the dots between elections and year-round issue-based organizing. Through the boom and bust of election cycles, many grassroots organizations find themselves scrambling when money is brought in during big election years. This training will equip organizers in the skills and tools they need to be prepared for these moments.

In this course, we will take participants through the full-cycle of electoral campaigning, from how to calculate a win number and create a field plan, to campaign budgeting and fundraising, to launching and managing a canvass. While the primary focus is on electoral skills, this course is intended to build the confidence, rigor and strategy that organizers need to transfer these skills to issue-based grassroots organizing.

Who is this course for?

  • Grassroots Organizers, Base Builders, Campaigners who want to build inclusive, productive and positive work environments
  • Issue-focused organizers who are, or will be receiving, C3 or C4 dollars to manage electoral programs to uplift issue-focused campaigns ie. ballot measures, pro-working class candidates, etc.
  • Folks who have 3+ years of organizing experience

What will you learn?

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

  • Create a strategic, winning, and movement-building campaign plan
  • Incorporate healthy campaign culture into your work
  • Build strong teams of paid and volunteer staff to drive your campaign
  • Craft persuasive and effective scripts for organizing conversations
Lesson Plan

Overview a Field Plan and Direct Voter Contact Basics
Learn why you need a field plan and program to be successful. Get an overview of what a field plan looks like, how to create your “North Star” (i.e. your campaign Win Number), and the basics of direct voter contact. 

Campaign Budgeting & Fundraising
Understand your role as fundraisers while building your confidence, and how to hold leadership in raising election dollars before, during, and after a campaign cycle.

Targeting Voters & VAN
Learn how to target the key voters that your campaign needs to talk to, how to determine your win numbers, and the basics on how to use the Voter Activation Network (VAN) and navigate its limitations. 

Base Building and Digital Tools
Explore how to build an inclusive base of support and how to craft what you say to your base once you have identified them. 

Script Building
Practice organizing conversations to help shape and inform our field programs. Participants will role play and get the opportunity to write an effective script that connects your target audience with desired outcomes.

Building a Volunteer Program
Identify the 5 elements of a great volunteer program, understand your role in volunteer recruitment and retention, and how to develop volunteer leadership through a ladder of engagement.

Launching & Managing Canvasses
Learn one of the key ingredients of a successful field program: the door-to-door canvass. Participants will learn how to effectively set up canvasses and manage canvass staff.

Managing Up & Across Your Team
Learn to better coordinate and communicate with their peers and managers in order to achieve the shared vision and goals of the campaign.

Format

Campaign School for Issue Organizers can be experienced either as an in-person intensive training or a virtual training.

In-person Intensive

This is a highly interactive in-person training with full days and community-building activities throughout. Participants will have access to coaches and trainers throughout the training period.

Virtual Training

This is a four-week course that meets twice a week, for two hours per session. Participants will have access to coaches throughout the duration of this course.

If you’re applying to an in-person training, please read our latest COVID-19 protocol before proceeding with your application.

COVID-19 Protocol

Training Dates

  • Jun 24 – Jun 26, 2025

3 days, in-person

Minneapolis, MN

$275–$5,500*

Cancelled
  • Oct 6 – Oct 27, 2025

4 weeks, virtual

Mondays
3:00–5:00 pm ET

$75–$350*

APPLY

*Please refer to the Training Policies page for more information on our sliding scale system. Please reach out to electoral@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 electoral@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

 

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.

Campaign School for Field Directors

Overview

Campaign School for Field Directors is designed to build the capacity of campaigns to run effective field programs. This 4-part training series will focus on ensuring that field directors gain the skills and tools needed to determine field strategy and goals. This includes recruiting, hiring and managing field staff, voter targeting and contact, messaging and persuasion, and utilizing digital tools for organizing. 

Who is this course for?

  • Experienced Managers/Directors who want to build inclusive, productive, and positive work environments
  • Folks who have 4+ years of organizing experience
  • Previous experience working in metrics-driven campaigns for direct voter contact

What will you learn?

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

  • Build out a comprehensive field plan for your campaign
  • Utilize VAN to target the folks your campaign needs to talk to.
  • Calculate your “win number” through an inclusive politics lens
  • Craft persuasive messages to your inclusive base
  • Develop a strong team of paid and volunteer staff for your campaign
Lesson Plan

Overview a Field Plan and DVC Basics
This session will provide an overview of what goes into a field plan, how to create your “North Star” (i.e. your campaign Win Number), and what the basic elements of direct voter contact are. 

Targeting Voters & VAN
Break down how to target the key voters that your campaign needs to talk to and learn how to use the Voter Activation Network (VAN) and navigate its limitations. 

Base Building and Digital Tools
This session will explore how to build an inclusive base of support and how to craft what you say to your base once you have identified them. 

Developing Your Team
Learn the best practices on how to build and manage the A-Team that you will need to execute your field plan.

Format

Campaign School for Field Directors can be experienced either as an in-person intensive training or a virtual training.

In-person Intensive

This is a highly interactive in-person training with full days and community-building activities throughout. Participants will have access to coaches and trainers throughout the training period.

Virtual Training

This is a four-week course that meets twice a week, for two hours per session. Participants will have access to coaches throughout the duration of this course.

If you’re applying to an in-person training, please read our latest COVID-19 protocol before proceeding with your application.

COVID-19 Protocol

Training Dates

  • May 5 – May 26, 2025

4 weeks, virtual

Mondays
3:00–5:00 pm ET

$75–$350*

Applications Closed

  • Sep 22 – Sep 25, 2025

4 days, in-person

Atlanta, GA

$275–$5,500*

CANCELLED 

*Please refer to the Training Policies page for more information on our sliding scale system. Please reach out to electoral@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 electoral@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*

Apply

*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.

Grassroots Organizing School

Overview

re:power Fund’s Grassroots Organizing School is an 18-week course built to provide BIPOC grassroots organizers with the training and support necessary to develop a baseline of relational organizing skills.

The curriculum, based on Professor Marshall Ganz’s successful “Leadership, Organizing, and Action” program, is designed to take participants through a full campaign learning journey and includes sessions on public narrative as a leadership tool, building organizing relationships, creating interdependent leadership teams, developing campaign strategy, and taking action with your community. 

Relational organizing is at the heart of Grassroots Organizing School’s approach. At re:power Fund, we believe that movements must center base building in all their strategies and that engaging new people, developing their leadership capacity, and placing them in positions of real responsibility is essential to long-term success beyond any individual campaign. With that in mind, our entire curriculum is built to enhance our organizers’ relational skills and their capacity to distribute responsibility and develop the leadership of others.

Who is the course for?

  • Organizing professionals who are doing 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. Ideal candidates are actively responsible for building out a base of people in order to engage them in political work.
  • Leaders who are excited to build relationships, to invest in the leadership of others, and to build teams of purpose-driven leaders.
  • Movement activists who are looking to make a substantial investment in themselves and their work

What will you learn?

Course modules include:
  • Introduction to Organizing
  • Coaching as a Leadership Practice
  • Public Narrative: Stories of Self, Us, and Now
  • Relationship-Building
  • Building Interdependent Leadership Teams
  • Creating Shared Strategy
  • Tactics & Timeline
  • Mobilizing for Action
Structure

The course will launch with an in-person convening. Following that, we will meet virtually every week from June 9 until August 25. Participants will also be required to meet once every 2 weeks with an assigned small group of peers to complete a group assignment (a Skill Practice Assignment, or “SPA”).  

We’ll close with a final in-person convening.

Expectations

This is an intensive, interactive course, with high expectations for participation. 

During lectures & sections:

  • We ask participants to write in the chat box, share verbally, and participate in breakout group discussion. 

Outside of class time, participants will be asked to:

  • Apply their learning to their work in real time, 
  • Complete required readings,
  • Write biweekly reflection papers, and 
  • Complete biweekly short group projects alongside a small group of other participants. 

Participants should expect to spend about 5 hours a week for coursework—including attending live webinar sessions and completing assignments.

There are limited spaces available for participants in this course. Please be prepared to meet these expectations if you apply.

Make-up Policy

In case of a work or family emergency that cannot be rescheduled without putting jobs/health in jeopardy, participants may miss up to two scheduled sessions (lecture or sections). Make-up work will be required.

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

COVID-19 Protocol

Cancelled

  • May 29 – Sep 7, 2025

18 weeks, in-person & virtual

Virtual Info Session:
Register Here
April 29 – 6-7pm ET

In-person Opening:
May 29–Jun 1, 2025
Ohio

Virtual Sessions: June 9–Aug 25, 2025

In-person Closing:
Sep 5–7, 2025
Maryland

$350–$7,000*

 

*Please refer to the Training Policies page for more information on our sliding scale system. Please reach out to grassroots@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 grassroots@repower.org if you require further assistance.

Digital Organizer School

Overview

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. 

Digital Organizer School is an intensive 5-day training designed to meet people at different points in their career. Whether you are brand new to digital organizing or have been practicing for 1–3 years, you will discover new skills and tools, new strategies and approaches for your work and new relationships with others across the movement. We emphasize strategic decision-making and leadership development to make the training a powerful experience for participants at all levels.

At DOS, you’ll learn how to execute essential digital tactics such as writing effective emails, shifting dominant narratives, online ads, organizing on emerging media platforms, and analytics. You’ll also focus on strategic decision-making and developing digital organizing plans that will be most impactful in your unique community. Finally, you’ll invest in your own leadership at your organization or campaign. This emphasis on strategic decisions and leadership development makes the training a powerful experience for participants who arrive with varying levels of digital organizing experience.

The program begins with an intensive 4-day in-person training where you’ll work in teams to practice what you’re learning through a campaign simulation. On day 5, you’ll present your work to the full group and receive feedback from trainers.

Who is this course for?

  • Field Organizers and Communications folks who are new to the digital organizing landscape
  • Digital Organizers with under 3 years of experience
  • People who want to learn how to integrate a digital program into their current organizing campaign
  • Folks who work for organizations with a digital presence but would like to learn how to be in the role of digital organizing and engagement
  • 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.
  • Openness to learning: Regardless of experience in organizing online, we are interested in organizers who are excited about challenging themselves to learn new ways of doing the work and partnering with others to come up with creative solutions. People should come ready to be present and engaged.

What will you learn?

  • Writing emails 
  • Building strong digital relationships with your supporters
  • Challenging dominant narratives & incorporating stories into your online campaigns
  • Analytics & Testing 
  • Online Advertising 
  • Mobile Campaigning 
  • Digital Security
  • TikTok and New Media
  • Online Fundraising 
  • Storytelling Online 
  • Content Creation & Design for the Movement

Expectations

This is an intensive 5-day in-person 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. While some time will be structured for group projects, groups are expected to work together outside of class time as-needed to complete the 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 Introduction to Digital Organizing course which offers the same curriculum in an online format and paced out over 3 weeks.

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

COVID-19 Protocol

Training dates

No upcoming trainings

*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.