Professional development and skills-building is an extremely important part of learning and growing as a political professional. In addition to building your skills, trainings also offer you a fantastic opportunity to meet and network with other political professionals.

Fortunately, there are several fantastic organizations in the progressive movement that offer trainings and advanced skill-development workshops that can help you – whether you are just getting started or wanting to hone your skills.

Click here for a full calendar of available trainings.

In addition, Democratic GAIN has placed our training manuals on-line in Wiki format – so not only can you get the helpful information, but you can help us keep it updated with any new information or ideas you’ve learned on the job!

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Training Organizations You Should Check Out

In addition to our own trainings, GAIN encourages political professionals to take part in trainings conducted by our allied progressive organizations. GAIN provides training materials to our organizational supporters and we can work with you to plan and conduct your training events.

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Academic Institutions

Yes, you can get a masters in politics. Here are a few schools that have applied politics programs.