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Women of Color Leadership Development Cohort

Overview

Women of Color Leadership Cohort is a 7-week cohort experience curated specifically by and for self-identifying women of color (WoC), with learning spaces designed to amplify the unique leadership abilities within women of color while building connections and continued growth. This cohort experience focuses heavily on heart work—an intentional focus on personal development of women of color mentally and emotionally—addressing participants’ holistic needs to step into authentic liberated leadership.

Participants will cultivate a national network of WoC leaders; develop skills in management, and strategy; and practice centering their intersectional identities as leaders, managers, and organizers. The cohort will develop skills and practices that address the needs of WoC in management and leadership roles including addressing root causes and issues, strategic planning, and organizing as a leader. This program will also cultivate spaces for relationship-building, resource-sharing and health and wellness to help participants find sustainability and joy in the work. The experience will culminate in transitioning to coaching, mentoring, and joining re:power’s alumni network. 

Who is this for?

  • People identifying as both women and people of color (Black, Indigenous, Latine, Asian, Pacific Islander, Middle Eastern, and Multi-racial)
  • Organizers, legislative and policy advocates, and campaign leaders
  • Mid-level managers and directors from various sectors and regions
  • Folks who are passionate about and want to deepen their impact professionally and personally
  • People who are looking for space to pause, reflect and vision to grow their leadership

What will you learn?

  • Develop skills and practices that address the needs of WoC in management and leadership roles, including addressing root causes and issues, strategic planning, and organizing as a leader
  • Practice healthy ways to address stress, historical traumas, and internalized oppression through our practices in meditation, circle practice, breathwork, and collective activities

Month One: WoC Leadership Past

  • Connecting & Leadership Foundations
  • Exploring WOC Leadership Field Trips
  • Root Cause Analysis
  • Organizing & Leadership
  • Organizing as a WoC

Month Two: WoC Leadership Present

  • Management & Strategy
  • Re:defining our Power
  • Deconstructing white dominant practices and leadership styles
  • Applying Emergent Strategy
  • Brain Trust

Month Three: WoC Leadership Future

  • Funding & Communication
  • Visions of Liberation
  • Root Cause Analysis Remixed
  • Visualization Practice
  • Our Vision for Impact

Expectations

This is a dynamic cohort experience and if you are applying, you should prepare to be fully present and engaged throughout. 

We will meet twice in person at the beginning and end of the cohort experience, and we request that you read and follow our COVID-19 protocol.

  • Participants should set aside 3 days for each in-person convening
  • To maximize connection and community-building during in-person gatherings, we will not offer a hybrid virtual option.

In between the in-person meetups, we will meet virtually once a week for eight sessions.

  • For the virtual sessions, we ask that participants actively engage by using the chat function, coming off mute to share verbally, and participating in breakout group discussions. If you are able, we strongly encourage participants to turn on video during virtual sessions.
  • Participants should set aside approximately 4 hours a week for coursework—including attending virtual sessions and homework.

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

COVID-19 Protocol

2025 Cohorts

  • Jul 22 – Sep 11, 2025

12 weeks, in-person & virtual

In-person Opening:
July 22–24, 2025
Baltimore, MD

Virtual Sessions:
July 31–September 4, 2025
Thursdays, 6:00–8:00pm ET

In-person Closing:
September 9–11, 2025
Los Angeles, CA

$350–$7,000*

Apply by June 30, 2025

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

Campaign School Series

Overview

Our Campaign School Series are designed as mini workshops for the everyday organizer. We have identified a lesson plan of foundational and core trainings that will help talented organizers (like you!) build, win and sustain campaigns. Each mini workshop will prepare you to build effective, transformative, and winning campaigns. From building healthy campaign culture to ensuring safety protocols for your canvassing team to building scripts for different audiences, we’ve curated these sessions with the busiest leaders in mind. Did we mention these trainings are FREE?! (Please check the sidebar for the corresponding date and time of each workshop.)

Workshops

Building Healthy Campaign Culture

Healthy Campaign Culture should be seen as one of our love languages; particularly the one where we are affirmed, held, honored, and supported to handle the long, laborious campaign days in the field. We invite you to explore best practices and frameworks to be a proactive, intentional and thoughtful leader, supporting healthy campaign culture within your field operations to motivate and develop your base and campaign staff who will build the powerful, people-led movements we all envision.

Script Building for Different Audiences

In this highly interactive session, we will overview and practice different types of organizing language and framing that will help shape and inform how we use communications to build successful field programs. Participants will role play and practice drafting an effective script that connects your target audience with desired outcomes.

Launching & Managing Canvasses

In this two-part workshop we will focus on 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 through best practices and role playing.

Physical Safety

Political violence and voter suppression tactics are at an all-time high this election season. In response to this reality, we’ve created this brand new workshop to prepare leaders to build organizational practices that address, respond to and prevent violence and harm targeted to disrupt electoral organizing efforts. Join us for this 2.5 hour training to strengthen your internal and external electoral safety practices for your campaign.

Digital Security

The Digital 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 are these workshops for?

  • Leaders with a commitment to racial, gender and economic equity 
  • Experienced managers with strong interpersonal and organizational communication skills
  • Grassroots organizers, base builders, campaigners who can facilitate inclusive, productive and positive work environments
  • Folks who have 3+ years of organizing experience
  • Folks who aren’t able to attend our virtual or in-person Campaign School for Issue Organizers this year
  • Previous experience working in metrics-driven campaigns for direct voter contact
  • 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
  • Folks who are tasked to take their traditional organizing strategy and use it for online engagement
  • 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
  • Folks who would like to hone any of the skills listed above

Training Dates

  • Aug 11, 2025

Virtual

Building Healthy Campaign Culture
3:00 PM – 5:00 PM ET

Free

Register
  • Aug 25, 2025

Virtual

Script Building for Different Audiences
3:00 PM – 5:00 PM ET

Free

Register
  • Sep 8, 2025

Virtual

Launching & Managing Canvasses
3:00 PM – 5:00 PM ET

Free

Register
  • Sep 22, 2025

Virtual

Physical Safety
3:00 PM – 5:00 PM ET

Free

Register
  • Oct 6, 2025

Virtual

Digital Security
3:00 PM – 5:00 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 electoral@repower.org if you require further assistance.

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

 

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*

 

  • 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*

*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.