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Campaign Training Resources for Women

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Speak up, gentlemen, I am not opposed to male
participation in government.
- Charlotte Whitton

  1. E-mail inquiries

    This proved to be both the most and least successful research area. The majority of inquiries to US organizations were met either with silence or a flat 'no'. As well, as aforementioned, some non-profits contract professional consulting/training firms to design and run their workshops, and so had no curriculum of their own.

    Examples:

    • Women of the World, the organization based out of Kansas City, which had organized a leadership workshop for Native American Women, for which they contracted with Cathy Allen, author of Taking Back Politics, a guide especially geared to more marginalized persons who want to become involved in politics. 2 e-mails to WOW have not yet been returned. I attempted to track down other parties involved with the Native Women's Leadership project, but was unable to find any intact links.
    • TheWomen's Campaigns School at Yale is unable to share curriculum, but also recommended Cathy Allen's book, which is available for sale on their website.
    • U of Toronto professor Sylvia Trimble (see library resources) did not recommend any curriculum resources, but advised contact with Linda Trimble at the University of Alberta.
    • The Women's Campaign Fund did not return 2 e-mails.
    • Women in Motion - A political training program of the National Women's Political Caucus (U.S.) forwarded my e-mail to PoliTrain Inc., a Toronto-based political training/lobbying company (see For-Profit Organizations)

    The most successful contact was with the YWCA of the USA, who in response to an e-mail to Tavia Cummings of the YWCA's Institute for Public Leadership, couriered a copy of their training manual, which is being phase out in favour of an updated version. The manual is comprehensive and well-written, and, with some updating and replacement of U.S.-specific content with Canadian, could potentially serve as an excellent base for any campaign training designed by One woman One Vote.

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