What You’ll Learn
- Identify the primary roles on a campaign’s Fundraising Team
- Identify common responsibilities of campaign fundraising staff
- Connect transferable skills and experiences to campaign fundraising work
Why This is Important
Whether you’re just starting out on campaigns and hoping to get into fundraising or are trying to make a transition into the fundraising department, you already have skills and experiences to do well in a fundraising role. Take stock of those existing strengths, and the areas that may need extra focus to guide you through our trainings and prepare you for a campaign fundraising job.
Related Trainings
- Starting a Career in Politics — Whenever you start something new, there can be some anxiety about what you’re getting yourself into. This course will ground you in the realities of what working on a campaign is like, and help you confirm whether this is the right path for you
- Understanding the Democratic Party — You need to understand the Democratic Party if you want to work within it! If your dream is to work on a campaign, this course will help you decide what level of campaign you want to work on (e.g., state representative, U.S. Senate) and who the organizational players are that you might be engaging with to get that job and once you have it
- Intro to Fundraising — Once you have a 10,000-foot view of what a fundraiser does, explore the strategies and tactics used in the work
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