Coming July 2023
Our Portland PAC Presents
Our Candidate and Our Campaign Worker School
Our community is full of capable leaders. Lets get them in office.
The Our Candidate School will skill up community leaders and prepare them for elected office with training from everything from field organizing and fundraising.
This course will train up a cohort of impacted individuals, especially women and BIPOC leaders, to develop a deep bench of talent that is virtuous and viable.
We will innovate, discuss the ways politics are changing and how they can secure that progress.
Our Candidate School Curriculum
This 2 Week long course with a wide range of valuable sessions about utilizing the newly passed charter reform to run for office in Portland. There is a 16 hour total long curriculum, hosted in person with accommodation needs met. Curriculum includes:
Charter Reform
Campaign Finance Reform Policies
Metro and the City of Portland
State Government and the City of Portland
County Government and the City of Portland
Field Organizing
Running for Office
Crime Dynamics in Portland
Small Donor Elections Program
Movement Building into Electoral Politics
Campaign Finance Compliance
The role of campaign consultants
Press and candidate relations
Personal Impacts of Running for Office
Business politics and relations
Our Campaign Worker School
Concurrent to candidate school, a youth focused program will be run to develop campaign manager and worker skill sets and help expand the breadth of campaign talent available to candidates.
Assets given to graduates include a press list, a free copy of “The Campaign Manager”, ongoing support and networking help, certificate of completion, professional headshot, and resume support.
Empower Portlanders with the tools they need to win
Lets change the landscape of Portland politics
Contact Us
Have questions about Our Portland? Reach out at team@ourportland.org and let’s talk!
Our Portland PAC
PO Box 86212
Portland, OR 97286-0212
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