New Organizing Institute

By: kover
Published On: 7/7/2007 5:19:18 PM

There is a great new program developed in Washington DC called the New Organizing Institute. It is focused on training future campaign leaders for the Democratic Party. It has a strong focus on the netroots.

This year, they selected 60 participants from all over the United States to participate. These participants are the best of the best and provide a lot of potential leadership.
The program brings in speakers from all over the nation to train the participants. The speakers have included faces familiar to Virginia like Steve Jarding and Jessica Vanden Berg from Jim Webb's campaign, Mike Sager from the Virginia Democratic Party, and Courtney Dozier from Mark Warner's Forward Together PAC. They have also brought in internet people from many of the Presidential campiagns to work with the participants.

The participants and trainers also include many bloggers from around the nation and present a strong future for the blogosphere.

This program is cutting edge and teaches the newest in campaign techology and internet campiagning. This is putting us one step ahead in these areas.

At the end of the program, NOI will help plug in these trained workers throughout the United States. There are two of the currently heading to Virginia for the 2007 cycle and several others that are looking to be in Virginia.

The program is all expenses paid for the participants. This is nice since many of them are campaign workers that could not afford to attend on their own. However, this presents a fundraising challenge. ActBlue is partnering with the participants to help us raise money for the programs future. You can help by going to http://www.actblue.c... and giving a little money.

Check the program out further at www.neworganizing.com.

I hope you'll support this innovative program. Every dollar goes toward our future leaders.

Comments



Need For Website Template For Local Committees (billgarnett - 7/7/2007 10:38:21 PM)
One thing this ?New Organizing Institute? might consider is supplying local Democratic committees with an up-to-date modern and attractive template for their websites that would include levels of access, easy updating, and metrics for evaluating hits.  My local committee has a website, but it is rather stodgy and dysfunctional and is hardly an advertisement to the party or an attractant of young people who will be its future.


Ditto: Website Template for Local Committees!!!! (Dianne - 7/8/2007 8:35:10 AM)
I brought this subject up here.  Virginia committees desperately need help in developing websites that attract visitors and, to date, I haven't seen anyone step up to this need.  I would have thought that this would have been easy and a no brainer for the DPVA.  Wasn't the word last winter that there was record fundraising at the DPVA....????