Trainings

We provide leaders and activists with the cutting-edge skills and strategies needed to build political power. Each training is tailored to your real-world needs.

Through our trainings, participants:

1. Learn a core idea or skill.
2. Practice that skill with other training participants.
3. Try it out for real in an actual campaign setting.

For instance, we teach why talking with voters one-on-one, face-to-face, about LGBT issues is a highly effective tool for persuading voters to stand with us. After teaching this idea, you'll practice these conversations with each other; finally, everyone goes out talking with voters face-to-face, door-to-door, usually for the very first time.

Most of our trainings focus on how to defeat anti-LGBT ballot measures, including, but not limited to, same-sex marriage.

Sharpen your skills and strategies.

• Power Summits [0] — Intensive electoral & leadership skills training (2–3 days)
• Electoral Organizing — Intensive training to help launch or elevate campaigns to defeat anti-LGBT or pass pro-LGBT initiatives (1–2 days)
• Fundraising — House party program curricula and ABCs of asking, including major donors, finance committee and phone bank fundraising
• Naming Our Destiny [0] — Intensive leadership development and skills training for people of color (2–3 days)

Key ideas and skills taught include:

• Strategy: How to develop your campaign plan
• Building our base: How to identify the voter base we need to win
• Building multiracial teams: How to build progressive alliances and action-oriented campaign partners across race, class and gender lines
• Message: What works and what doesn't; case studies from other winning and losing campaigns
• Fundraising: How to ask for money
• Volunteer recruitment: How to build a team of 500 active volunteers
• GOTV: How to build a door-to-door canvass operation and then get out the vote (GOTV) on Election Day

For more information or to indicate interest in participating, please contact our Organizing & Training Department [1].