How To Build Your Team

Learn how to engage, recruit, and motivate students to join your campaign. Having students on your team is good for the campaign, good for the students, and good for democracy.

 This is a guide for smaller campaigns that are hiring for roles that might have a mix of job responsibilities.

In this training learn how to identify a campaign’s volunteer needs, how to identify methods to recruit people to serve as volunteers, and how to assign common volunteer roles.

Seeking out young people with ambitious goals and plenty of political energy can help your campaign extend a hand to the local youth population— if that relationship is carried out purposefully and with care. Learn a few steps on how to do this successfully.

Take this course to learn how to identify the ways you will ask your contacts to help your campaign — by endorsing (or validating) you, volunteering, and/or donating.

Although one in six voters has a disability, the disability community is often not recognized as an engaged voting constituency. Learn how to make sure your campaign is as inclusive as possible.

Learn how to decide when to bring on consultants or paid staff; determine which roles need to be filled; and make hiring decisions that help make the most of your budget.

Learn how run an effective campaign and keep the candidate, staff, and volunteers on the same page, especially while working remotely, in our Armchair Series Chat with NEWCO Strategies Partner, Emmy Ruiz.