Campaign Refresher Webinar Series

The campaign trail is wide open this year!

If you’re getting ready to kick off your campaign, whether for re-election or as a first-time candidate, you’ll want to be sure your campaign skills are up to date. If you’re an Emerge Vermont alum, this webinar series will refresh your initial training and give you a few more tools for your toolbox.

Now that we’ve entered “post-pandemic” (sort of) times, what should change about the way you campaign? Maybe there were some aspects of campaigning during Covid that were actually really good that you might want to keep doing. Redistricting has changed the landscape for many candidates, and knowing how to deal with that will be essential to your success.

Announcing Emerge Vermont’s Campaign Refresher Webinar Series!

This is a short series of webinars for candidates planning to run for office this year. It’s a refresher for alums and a campaigning overview for first-timers. Campaign staff are also welcome, so if you have a campaign manager, field director, comms director, or other key team member who needs to gain these skills to help you win election, they can register too.

This webinar series is open to all Democratic self-identified women. While the webinars connect to each other, each of them stand alone. You do not need to attend the previous webinars in the series to understand the others.

Please join us in May for three great sessions to help you launch a great campaign!

Part 1: Strategy & Messaging

Instructor: Ana Burke (Class of 2016)

Thursday, May 19th at 6:30 pm

Register for Part 1

Campaigning in 2022: back to “normal”? Dealing with redistricting? Use this session to kickstart your campaign with updated strategies and tactics to help you refine your approach to adjust to post-pandemic realities, expanded or reduced districts, mail-in balloting, and more.

Part 2: Voter Contact & Earned Media

Instructor: Alise Certa (Class of 2018)

Monday, May 23rd at 6:30 pm

Register for Part 2

Has reapportionment given you more constituents? Will you need to introduce yourself to constituents you’ve never had before? Did voter turnout in your district increase due to mail-in balloting? Use this session to retool your field plan and pick up new techniques for getting voters’ attention.

Part 3: Fundraising & Campaign Management

Instructor: Hannah King (Class of 2021)

Wednesday, May 25th at 6:30 pm

Register for Part 3

Time, money, and people: how much you have and how well you manage them is key to your election victory. Brush up on your fundraising skills and tools to boost your campaign’s momentum and make sure your team has the direction and support they need to win.

Register for 1 or 2 sessions for $25 each, or register for all 3 for $50!

These sessions are available at a fair market rate, in compliance with campaign finance law.
Candidates and campaigns can use campaign funds to pay for this training.

Questions? Contact elaine@emergevt.org.