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DFA Campaign Academy Agenda
Wichita, Kansas - July 11-12, 2009
(agenda subject to change)
Saturday
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Time |
Session |
Trainer |
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8:00 – 9:00 |
Setup |
Volunteers |
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8:30 – 9:00 |
Registration |
Volunteers |
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9:00 – 9:15 |
Kickoff |
Jim Dean |
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9:15 – 9:30 |
Training Overview & Homework Assignments |
TBD |
|
9:30 – 11:30 |
Your Field Plan: Vote Goals, Targeting, and Field Strategy |
TBD |
|
11:30 – 11:40 |
Break |
|
|
11:40 – 12:30 |
Building Your Activist Base |
Bridgett Dooley |
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12:30 – 1:25 |
Lunch |
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1:30 – 5:45pm Rotating Sessions
1:30 – 2:25pm 2:30 – 3:25pm Break 3:50 – 4:45pm 4:50 – 5:45pm
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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
- Campaign & Event Planning - Fundraising Strategy - Voter Contact: Tactical overview - Developing Your Campaign Message |
TBD Jay Parmley Bridgett Dooley TBD
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5:45 - 6:00 |
Wrap up |
TBD |
Sunday
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Time |
Session |
Trainer |
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9am - 10:05am |
Sunday Kickoff & Homework Review |
TBD |
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10:05am - 11:05am 11:10am – 12:10pm |
Sunday Morning Elective Sessions: Trainees choose which sessions to attend. Room assignments on back
- Fundraising Tactics - Citizen Lobbying - Volunteer Canvassing & Phonebanking - Working with the Media
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Jay Parmley TBD Bridgett Dooley TBD
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12:10pm– 1:05pm |
Lunch |
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1:10pm – 2:05pm |
Get Out the Vote (GOTV) |
Bridgett Dooley |
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2:05pm – 2:15pm |
Break |
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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. - Neighbor to Neighbor Precinct Organizing - Volunteer Management and Leadership Development - Running Canvasses & Phonebanks - Advanced Campaign Communications - Budgeting & Finance |
TBD TBD Bridgett Dooley TBD Jay Parmley
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5pm – 5:30pm |
Evaluations and Wrap up. |
TBD |
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5:30 onward |
Change Your Country |
Trained Activists |
Training Presenters
Jay Parmley- Finance
Jay Parmley is the Executive Director of the South Carolina Democratic Party. Parmley initially joined the staff of the South Carolina Democratic Party as part of former DNC Chairman Governor Howard Dean’s 50 state strategy. From 2005-2008, Parmley worked for the Democratic National Committee, first in Mississippi and then in South Carolina. In 2001, at the age of 30, Parmley was the elected as the fulltime Chairman of the Oklahoma Democratic Party. He served two terms and did not seek reelection in 2005. At the time of his election he was the nation’s youngest chairman of a State Democratic Party. He is a past president of the Young Democrats of America, serving from 1999-2001. Parmley was appointed by Governor Dean as an At-Large member of the Democratic National Committee in 2005, and is a member of the DNC Budget and Finance Committee.
Bridget Dooley - Field
Bridget is a political consultant specializing in field work and a union organizer. She has served as Field Director and Campaign Manager on a variety of Congressional and local races throughout the Midwest, taking on ruthless Republicans, timid Democrats, and the Chicago political machine. Bridget currently is works for AFSCME Council 31 in Illinois on a strategic campaign to organize the employees of one of the largest healthcare systems in the Chicago area