What You’ll Learn
- How to identify great candidates
- Explore strategies for persuading potential candidates to run for office
- Outline best practices for supporting newly recruited candidates
Why This is Important
One of the first and most crucial steps to drive change in your community is political candidate recruitment — but finding potential candidates to run for elected offices in your area is easier said than done. Candidate recruitment can be one of the hardest tasks for a local leader. This course teaches you a proven candidate recruitment process, which identifies the traits of a good candidate, how to persuade them to run, and best practices for supporting them through the process.
Key Resources
- Sample Candidate Support Plan
- Candidate Recruitment Talking Points
- Candidate Recruitment Scenarios
- Prospective Candidate Brainstorming Activity
Related Trainings
- Story of Self: Crafting and Sharing Your Story — Learn to tell the story of a candidate’s journey to politics concisely and effectively so it resonates with their audience
- Throwing a Fundraising Event — Events can be a good way to bring new people and donations into a campaign. Take this course and learn to throw a great event
- Relational Organizing 101 — Relational organizing is a strategy that produces real, lasting results for progressive candidates and causes
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