Campaign Management Colleges

Campaign Management College (CMC) is a six day program held in Washington, D.C. It is designed to provide attendees the necessary insights required to hold a management level position on a campaign.  CMCs are modeled around the responsibilities and challenges a manager would experience at the congressional campaign level.

Ideal attendees for the CMCs are current campaign mangers (statewide, congressional or legislative), state party executive or political directors and individuals with at least 2 cycles prior campaign experience who are interested in taking on the role of a manager.

Topics presented during a CMC include, but are not limited to:

Budgets, BCRA/Campaign Law, Messaging, Survey Research, Research, Voter Files, Targeting, Staffing/Hiring/Firing, Earned Media, Working with and Hiring Consultants, Scheduling, Television, Radio, Phones, Voter Contact Mail, Fundraising Mail, PACs, Events, 72 Hour/GOTV, Internet, Dealing with 527's, working with State Party's and Victory programs, motivating and recruiting volunteers.

CMC offer little free time to attendees with classes running from early in the morning till late in the evening with assignments to be done, usually in groups, late into the night.