The 2025 Campaign School for Nurses & Midwives was a smashing success!
We are so grateful to our hosts at Polis: Center for Politics at Duke University’s Sanford School of Public Policy in Durham, NC, and to all of our sponsors.
Thank you to our Sponsors
This Campaign School would not have been possible without their generous support.
Organizational Sponsors
Scholarship Sponsors
Individual Sponsors
Kelly Willenberg, DBA, RN, BSN
Andrea Brassard
Anne McDermott & Robert Byrne
Judith Kunisch
Author, The Center of the Star: Understanding and Changing the U.S. Health System
Darlene Curley
Maine State Legislator, 2002-2007
Advisor, Center for Health Policy at Columbia University
Agenda/Curriculum:
We guided participants every step of the way and offered support before and after the in-person Campaign School. While it was the centerpiece of our training program, it was not the entire program.
Early in 2025, we hosted a virtual fundraising session to help participants learn the basics and create a plan to raise funds for their tuition and travel expenses—if they chose to do so. Participants left with a clear, actionable plan.
Four weeks after the Campaign School, we met virtually for a follow-up session to address questions that arose as participants put their training into action. Whether they needed to clarify a strategy or fine-tune their GOTV plan, we were there to help.
Over three days of training and role-play, we dug deeply into these topics:
- Campaign Planning
- Campaign Budgeting
- Campaign Structure and Organization
- Messaging and Communications Strategy
- Media training: Speeches, Interviews
- Campaign Finance
- Ethics
- Fundraising
- Voter Contact Strategy
- Grassroots Organizing
- Get Out the Vote (GOTV)
Previous Campaign School Trainings
The inaugural Healing Politics Campaign School for Nurses & Midwives
2024 Healing Politics Campaign School for Nurses & Midwives
