After completing the introductory training seminars, program participants begin working as field organizers on actual campaigns.  Each participant is given an area of a candidate's district to organize.  The work is focused on activities that will hone the participant's political and organizing skills:

•  Understanding and engaging the self-interest   

    of voters and opinion leaders.

•  Persuading undecided voters.

•  Motivating people to vote and volunteer.

•  Organizing motivational meetings and events.

•  Creating winning teams.

Duties Include    

•  Voter contact operations.

•  Volunteer recruitment.

•  Meetings with community, political, labor, business, and religious organization leaders.

•  Advancing the candidate at visibility or other mass voter contact events.

•  Updating data files with voter contact information.

•  Managing volunteer phone banks and door-to-door canvassing.

•  Generating candidate-scheduling opportunities.

•  Gathering organizational and institutional lists from the community.

•  Managing voter registration, absentee ballots and early vote programs. 

•  Executing Election Day operations.