Ready to Run
One-day campaign training conference
Ready to Run is a nonpartisan campaign training program to encourage women and their allies to run for elected office, position themselves for appointed office, work on a campaign, or get involved in public life in other ways.
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Program Highlights:
Designed for anyone who wants to address women’s underrepresentation in American politics.
- Participants include women of all ages and their allies who want to address women’s underrepresentation in American politics.
- Anyone is welcome to register.
- $50 registration fee.
- Training materials, parking, and food are provided through generous support from POWER Sponsors and the State of Ohio Leadership Institute.
- Designed for women by women who currently serve as elected officials, lobbyists, campaign managers, and issue advocates.
- Track 1 (Ready to Run) focuses on running and winning a campaign through fundraising, marketing, networking, and political strategy.
- Track 2 (Ready to Advocate) focuses on bringing about change through voter engagement, issue advocacy, and service on nonprofit, corporate, and government boards.
Ready to Run showed me there was a network of support and that even being a mom, a business owner, and a full time worker, I could still make this happen.
Ready to Run® is a national network of nonpartisan campaign training programs to address women’s underrepresentation in American politics. Ohio’s program follows the curriculum developed by the Center for American Women and Politics at Rutgers University.