This July 4th, NOI will invite 60 bright, diverse graduating college seniors, recent campaign staffers, and career-change professionals to Washington, DC for an intensive week-long, all-expense-paid training. BootCamp will cover everything there is to know about campaigning, new media, online organizing, technology in order to work in the progressive movement. Participants, drawn from a highly competitive pool of applicants, will learn from the top practitioners in their field by day, then apply the lessons learned in the context of a simulated campaign in the evenings.
Meet our 2009 BootCampers here! NOI BootCamp trainees will learn about all facets of running a modern campaign for a candidate or organization. Trainees will learn online organizing, field operations, media, fundraising, how to communicate effectively online, develop user-friendly applications, create compelling video, leverage social networks, buy ads, manage distributed volunteers, generate earned media, develop a campaign plan, and grow supporter lists. And in the world of political data, trainees will learn the latest in voter file technology, modeling analytics, and the more technical aspects of get-out-the-vote efforts.
Find out more information about BootCamp 2009 at NOI's wiki.
Trainees from past BootCamps went on to run major online organizing campaigns for organizations and candidates and even work in the White House!
Read more about past bootcamps here.
Thank you for your interest in BootCamp. The application period has ended. We hope you'll consider applying next year!
