


THE NEW ORGANIZING INSTITUTE
July 2, 2011
The Following article originated from DiscoverTheNetworks.com
On November 22, 2005,
MoveOn.org Executive Director
Eli Pariser announced that his group had created the
New Organizing
Institute (NOI), "a unique grassroots program that trains young,
technology-enabled political organizers to work for progressive
campaigns and organizations." Victory in the 2006 midterm elections
was NOI's immediate priority. Said Pariser: "The Internet has made
huge changes in politics … Now, our [MoveOn's] former Organizing
Director
Zack Exley is working on cultivating the next generation of
'online organizers' at the New Organizing Institute. The first step:
find 50 talented up-and-coming organizers, put them through an
all-expenses-paid training week, and place them on 2006 campaigns
where they can really make a difference."
NOI's
mission is
threefold: "to train and support a new generation of
technology-enabled campaigners"; "to consolidate and disseminate
knowledge gained in the field of political technology and online
organizing"; and "to conduct new research and post-campaign
investigations that employ results-focused, systems thinking to make
progressive campaigns and organizations more efficient."
The
first
NOI training event was held from February 24 through March 4,
2006 in Washington, DC. Approximately three-dozen trainees took
part in intensive seminars and brainstorming sessions, followed by
mock campaign simulations that were the capstone of each day's
activities. Another training session was held in August 2006.
According to NOI, "graduates" of its trainings would be assigned to
"2006 Democratic campaigns in key roles." "After Election Day," said
NOI, New Organizing Institute personnel would "help find
participants another job, in the world of
Democratic Party politics or in a progressive organization."
NOI training is
modeled on Campaign
Corps' "Campaign
School," a progressive training program for recent college
graduates, initiated by
EMILY's List in the summer of 2005. The Campaign School selected
and educated 41 young progressives and then dispatched them to work
on key campaign races. EMILY's List is an
organizer of NOI.
NOI also holds
occasional day-long workshop/trainings for high-level campaign
managers, party officials, political consultants, union leaders, and
executive directors of leftist organizations. The
goal of these workshops is to "fill that gap and overcome the
insecurity and alienation felt by too many of our leaders about
technology." Within the first two years, NOI
anticipates
introducing "hundreds of new, talented and trained online organizers
and technologists into the job market."
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