Raising Money Through Your Candidate’s Network

When just getting started, it can be hard for a campaign to know where to go to raise money. Thankfully, even first-time political candidates will have a personal network to rely on for support. In fact, for any campaign, fundraising begins with those who the candidate already knows — family, friends, neighbors, colleagues, etc. This course will give you the tools you need to efficiently identify and organize your candidate’s personal network in order to kickstart your campaign’s fundraising operation.

Course Objectives

• Identify the foundations of an effective fundraising strategy

• Compile and organize your candidate’s existing contacts

• Assess your candidate’s network based on a donors’ capacity and likelihood to contribute

• Develop a strategy to successfully raise money from different donors