Participants who have completed the Grassroots Activist and Community Mobilizer Certifications are invited to join other community leaders in their state for a multi-day, intensive boot camp training on leadership, strategy, and tactics. Attendees will gain the knowledge and skills to become a top-level volunteer, organize an issue campaign, or pursue a career in grassroots activism.

You can’t beat a plan without a plan of your own. In this session, you will understand the relationships and differences between a mission, vision, and goals. You’ll also learn a holistic process for developing strategies to achieve your desired outcomes.

Grassroots campaigns often fail because they don’t clearly identify or explain specific policy changes. In this session, we will discuss how to take a big idea and slim it down to clear, achievable agenda items.

The first step to building a successful issue campaign is accurately assessing the playing field. Without understanding the environment, advancing a free and open society can’t be accomplished. This session will showcase how to gather intel needed to make strategic decisions in communities.

When a group comes together and mobilizes for their interests, the results can be powerful. The session explains how to find natural constituencies for individual issues and incorporate these individuals into issue-driven campaigns.

Framework For a Free and Open Society

You will understand the value of digital activism, how to engage and drive more interactions with social content, and learn the tools necessary to build a digital campaign.

Grassroots leaders seeking the advancement of an issue often rely upon various events to get their message out to the broader community. This course consists of best practices for organizing, promoting, and managing successful grassroots events.

How to Kill A Bill

This class will examine each stage at which you can impact the content and outcome of legislation you oppose or support.

Street Theatre and Public Performance

This course will utilize the different methods of street theatre and craft ways to promote pro-liberty causes through public performance. You will also learn the benefits of engaging the public through performance and craft your own demonstration, protest, or street theatre performance.

We will discuss why perception is reality in the world of messaging. We will work to hone the skills of articulate effective messaging to be able to cut through the noise of the world.

You will learn best practices for media relations, media strategy, tools needed for securing media coverage, and how to communicate a powerful message during interviews.

In this session, you will learn how your organization can build support within the community by giving people an opportunity to “invest” or “buy in” to your issue campaign.