Time

Session

Trainer

8:30 – 9:00

Registration

Host Team Volunteers

9:00 - 9:10

Kickoff

Jim Dean

9:00 – 9:30

Training Overview & Homework Assignments

Matt Segal

9:30 – 11:45

Your Field Plan: Vote Goals, Targeting, and Field Strategy

Jennifer Coken

11:45 –12:35

Lunch

12:40 – 1:35

Building Your Activist Base

Matt Segal

1:35 – 1:40

Break

1:40 – 5:45pm

Rotating Sessions

1:40 – 2:35pm

2:40 – 3:35pm

     Break

3:50 – 4:45pm

4:50 – 5:45pm

Rotating Sessions: Trainees divide into 3 groups and go to assigned rooms. Trainers rotate and do small sessions with each group. Room assignments on back

- Developing a Campaign’s Message

- Fundraising Strategy & Making the Ask

- Voter Contact: Tactical Overview

- Campaign & Event Planning

Michael Cook

Jay Parmley

Jennifer Coken

Nick Passanante

5:45 - 6:00

Wrap up 

Nick Passanante

Time

Session

Trainer

9am - 10:05am

Sunday Kickoff & Homework Review

Nick Passanante

10:05am - 11:05am

11:10am – 12:10pm

Sunday Morning Elective Sessions: Trainees choose which sessions to attend. Room assignments on back

- Fundraising Tactics: Events & Call Time

- Running Canvasses & Phonebanks

- Online Organizing

- Working with the Media

Jay Parmley

Jennifer Coken

Nick Passanante & Matt Segal

Michael Cook

12:10pm– 1:05pm

Lunch

1:10pm – 2:05pm

Get Out the Vote (GOTV)

Jennifer Coken

2:05pm – 2:15pm

Break

2:15pm - 3:10pm

3:15pm - 4:10pm

4:15pm – 5:10pm

Sunday Afternoon Elective Sessions: Trainees choose which sessions to attend. Room assignments on back

- Securing Institutional Support

- Careers in Politics – Getting a Campaign Job

- Volunteer Management and Leadership Development

- Advanced Campaign Communications

- Budgeting & Finance

- Making Your Information Interactive: Voter File and GoogleDocs

Jennifer Coken

Nick Passanante

Nick Passanante

Michael Cook

Jay Parmley

Matt Segal

5:15pm – 5:30pm

Evaluations and Wrap up

Matt Segal

5:30 and onward

Change Your Country

Trained Activists!