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" The DFA Training Academy's mission is to focus, network, and train grassroots activists in the skills and strategies to
take back our country. Staffers, professionals, and volunteers researched and developed a curriculum for winning local
elections and for organizing between elections. We reached out to campaign professionals who shared DFA's vision for
grassroots-led democracy. By themselves, none of the DFA activitists or local candidates would be able to afford this
level of professional expertise."
The Training Manual from the weekend training course is available as a PDF file for you to download, print, and
distribute without copyright infringement. Each chapter can be downloaded separately.
DFA also provides Night School. These training sessions are presented on-line, each covering a specific topic and
requiring less than an hour of your time. Any session can be downloaded and/or run from your computer at your leisure.
| This page provides links to materials that can add to our knowledge so that we can improve our efforts at grassroots organizing. The materials we are referencing from this page should relate to HOW TO GET SOMETHING DONE! Political news, issues, and opinions belong on a different web page (see www.huffingtonpost. com for an excellent example). The buttons on the left will take you to information about specific topics:
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| So, You Want To Get Something Done? |
Approach #1: The patented "Cross Your Fingers and Hope" Method
Approach # 2: Get to work: research, plan, and organize.
- How to get started: Sit, wait, and hope for the desired outcome. There are plenty of other people out there with
experience at these kinds of things. Shake your head until they get it right. If you're especially active, you might
holler and make some noise whenever it seems like it might be fun. The key tactic is to level plenty of criticism at
national figures and make demands of them without doing anything locally.
- Likely result: You have no idea. But the other guys do. They will win. You will lose.
Approach # 2: Get to work: research, plan, and organize.
- How to get started: Uncross your fingers. Do it now. Start planning. Now. Identify goals, develop a strategy, and
engage in effective tactics to carry out your strategy. Victory is a specific goal and the plan to get there is quantified
and written down. In elections, victory equals a specific number of votes - it has a number that is knowable months
beforehand.
- Likely result: Win or lose, you'll have developed your organization, your candidate, and your district. You will show
up; you will put up a fight.
From DFA Training Academy Manual - Getting Started
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| Last Updated April 29, 2007 This web site is purely personal and not endorsed by any organization. Contact chuckandcher@yahoo.com for more information |