Saturday April 26th through Sunday April 27th

9am-6pm each day

You have the power, now learn the skills! The Democracy for America Training Academy is coming to New Jersey for two days of exciting campaign training.

How many votes will it take to win in November? How do you find the perfect message and get it out to voters in your district? How will you raise enough money to pay for it all?

The DFA Training Academy will help you answer these questions and more.

At the DFA Training Academy, top campaign consultants with decades of experience give you the skills to run a winning campaign. Topics include: field planning, voter contact, fundraising, communications, volunteer recruitment and more.

Attendees will also get to hear directly from some of the most exciting 2008 candidates in their area and get a copy of the DFA Training Manual packed with over 180 pages of winning campaign info.

Refreshments will be provided throughout the day and a social event will be organized Saturday evening so you can mingle and network with other activists in your area.

Click here for Campus Map for Monmouth University. Note: Samuel Hays Magill Commons (Saturday morning plenary session) is #34 on the map. Bey Hall (Sunday morning plenary session, and all break-out rooms, both days) is #26.

Click here to see an early training agenda and our presenters. (.pdf)

Click below to see a short video from a previous training:

Lodging Info: We have reserved a block of rooms at a discounted rate near the training venue.

Holiday Inn Express - click link for info
294 Highway 36 East
West Long Branch, NJ 07764
Special group rate is $89, through Wed 4/23 onlyTo reserve - call 732-542-1234.
Rooms held under "DFA Training."
Special hotel group rate has been extended through Wednesday night 4/23. Hotel has free wifi, and free breakfast.

Saturday night Dinner Party
Everyone's invited Saturday night after our first Training Day to join us, and DFA Chair Jim Dean for dinner at Racioppi's, home base of Monmouth DFA, where we'll order off the menu (BYOB). RSVP Ed Zipprich: ejzip@aol.com or 732-219-5192.

If you plan on attending this training and have specific questions, call our Training Department hotline at DFA at 802-651-3200 Ext. 191.

If you are a candidate running for office and plan on attending, please email us at training(at)democracyforamerica.com and let us know.

For more info on the DFA Training Academy visit: www.democracyforamerica.com/training

To send someone to a DFA training see: Support the DFA Training Academy with a Sponsorship

Stay tuned for more info...

Registration Instructions

• Click here or above to RSVP
  
  
• You will be asked to Login or Sign Up before you can RSVP
  
  
• (If you are a DFA-Link member, click "Login")
  
  
• (If you are not a DFA-Link member, click "Sign Up" and fill out a brief registration. You will later be sent an email confirmation, which you must click on to confirm your RSVP.)
  
  
• Once you have signed in, you can pay your tuition fee(s) online using the DFA Contribution Form. Fill out the required information, then click PAY TUITION.

• If you decide to pay your tuition at the door (or via snail mail), don't forget to click on the confirmation email that will be sent to you from DFA-Link. This reserves your place at the training.
  
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  If you decide to pay online later, just LOGIN to your new DFA-Link account and click here: PAY YOUR TUITION ONLINE