Virtual Training: Door Knock Canvassing with MiniVAN
2025-06-30 19:00 - 20:15, 2025-07-21 19:00 - 20:15, 2025-07-24 15:30 - 16:45 (America/New_York)
New to canvassing? Experienced, but want a refresher?
Join us for our Zoom training: “Virtual Training: Door Knock Canvassing with MiniVAN” during which we will cover:

Best practices: Canvassing Dos, Don’ts and “What ifs”?
How to connect with potential volunteers and voters at the door with a meaningful, efficient, impactful conversation
Our new WCDP script for Getting Out The Organization (GOTO) and preparing to Get Out The Vote (GOTV)
How to use MiniVAN for canvassing
Your questions and suggestions.

Research shows that door knock canvassing with a conversation at the door is the most effective way to bring out the vote for our candidates!
Together, we will build skills, motivation, and confidence to canvass effectively and win important municipal elections in 2026 and crucial mid-term elections in 2026…Join Us!

Wednesday, June 25th, 7:00 – 8:15 PM
Monday, June 30th, 7:00 – 8:15 PM
Monday, July 21, 7:00 – 8:15 PM
Thursday, July 24th: 3:30 – 4:45 PM

Technology Training Level 2
2025-07-02 18:30 - 19:45
Are you a new or a returning WCDP Precinct Officer, Area Coordinator, or Direct Voter Contact Lead? Welcome!
Ready to take a deeper dive into using the Google Suite of Tools for your precinct and/or Area organizing, capacity building, and leadership?
Join us for “Technology Training Level 2” during which we provide a more in depth look at how to use:

Google Drives
Google Docs
Google Forms
Google Chat and Spaces
Google Calendar (and office hours)
Google Meet, and hosting a virtual or hybrid meeting with Google Meet
New Precinct Specific Dashboards.

This session will provide demonstration and live links for performing tasks related to your Wake Dems leadership role, and well as provide time for Q&A to troubleshoot obstacles.

Wednesday, July 2, 6:30 – 7:45 PM
Wednesday, July 9, 6:30 – 7:45 PM
Sunday, July 27, 6:30 – 7:45 PM

Technology Overview & Training Level 1
2025-07-08 18:30 - 19:45
Are you a new or a returning WCDP Precinct Officer, Area Coordinator, or Direct Voter Contact Lead? Welcome!
Join us for our WDCP Zoom training: “Technology Overview & Training Level 1“, during which we demonstrate and provide links for:
– Basics of using Google accounts and drives to create new files, upload files, and find and share files
– How to contact & stay in touch with your volunteers and potential voters:
– Get comprehensive and customized lists of volunteers and potential voters in your precinct or area for voter outreach including canvassing, phone calling, and social events
– Create and use volunteer groups.
– How to post meetings and other events on the Wake Dems Events Calendar
– How to schedule a virtual meeting.
Together, we will build skills and confidence – Join us!

Tuesday, July 8, 6:30 – 7:45

Technology Training Level 2
2025-07-09 18:30 - 19:45
Are you a new or a returning WCDP Precinct Officer, Area Coordinator, or Direct Voter Contact Lead? Welcome!
Ready to take a deeper dive into using the Google Suite of Tools for your precinct and/or Area organizing, capacity building, and leadership?
Join us for “Technology Training Level 2” during which we provide a more in depth look at how to use:

Google Drives
Google Docs
Google Forms
Google Chat and Spaces
Google Calendar (and office hours)
Google Meet, and hosting a virtual or hybrid meeting with Google Meet
New Precinct Specific Dashboards.

This session will provide demonstration and live links for performing tasks related to your Wake Dems leadership role, and well as provide time for Q&A to troubleshoot obstacles.

Wednesday, July 9, 6:30 – 7:45 PM
Sunday, July 27, 6:30 – 7:45 PM

Technology Training Level 3
2025-07-14 18:30 - 19:45
Are you a new or a returning WCDP Precinct Officer, Area Coordinator, or Direct Voter Contact Lead? Welcome!
Have you taken WCDP Technology Training Levels 1 and 2?
Then you are ready for “Technology Training Level 3” during which we will demonstrate and provide links for:
– The NC Voter Lookup tool
– Navigating WCDP Dashboards:

New Volunteer Dashboard
Welcome to the Precinct Postcard Dashboard
Precinct Specific, Comprehensive Dashboard
Get Out The Organization (GOTO) Dashboard
And a peak at the Get Out The Vote (GOTV) Dashboard.

This session will demonstrate and discuss how to use our dashboards for a variety of leadership tasks of Precinct Officers, Area Coordinators, and Direct Voter Contact Leads.

Monday, July 14, 6:30 – 7:45 PM
Thursday, July 17, 6:30 – 7:45 PM
Thursday, July 24, 6:30 – 7:45 PM
Sunday, August 3, 6:30 – 7:45 PM

Protest Ambassador Virtual Training
2025-07-16 19:00 - 20:00 | Virtual (Zoom or Google Meet), NC, United States
Protest Ambassador Virtual Training

Are you a new or returning volunteer Ambassador for an upcoming protest?
Will you be on the Wake Dems Ambassador team for the July 17th event?

If you answered yes to either question, please join us for this training covering:

Ambassador roles, expectations, and best practices
The ABC’s of event support and safety
Tips and lessons learned from recent protest events

Registration required to attend this training.

Date: Wednesday, July 16th
Time: 7:00–8:00 PM

[Canceled] Technology Training Level 3
2025-07-17 18:30 - 19:45
Are you a new or a returning WCDP Precinct Officer, Area Coordinator, or Direct Voter Contact Lead? Welcome!
Have you taken WCDP Technology Training Levels 1 and 2?
Then you are ready for “Technology Training Level 3” during which we will demonstrate and provide links for:
– The NC Voter Lookup tool
– Navigating WCDP Dashboards:

New Volunteer Dashboard
Welcome to the Precinct Postcard Dashboard
Precinct Specific, Comprehensive Dashboard
Get Out The Organization (GOTO) Dashboard
And a peak at the Get Out The Vote (GOTV) Dashboard.

This session will demonstrate and discuss how to use our dashboards for a variety of leadership tasks of Precinct Officers, Area Coordinators, and Direct Voter Contact Leads.

Thursday, July 17 is canceled, you are encouraged to attend the Good Trouble Rally instead
Thursday, July 24, 6:30 – 7:45 PM
Sunday, August 3, 6:30 – 7:45 PM

Technology Training Workshop (Postponed from 7/16)
2025-07-23 18:30 - 19:30
Join Dave Overdier, current WCDP 4th Vice Chair (Technology), to practice working with the Google Suite of tools and get personalized assistance.

Sign Up Wednesday, July 23, 6:30 – 7:30

Technology Training Level 3
2025-07-24 18:30 - 19:45
Are you a new or a returning WCDP Precinct Officer, Area Coordinator, or Direct Voter Contact Lead? Welcome!
Have you taken WCDP Technology Training Levels 1 and 2?
Then you are ready for “Technology Training Level 3” during which we will demonstrate and provide links for:
– The NC Voter Lookup tool
– Navigating WCDP Dashboards:

New Volunteer Dashboard
Welcome to the Precinct Postcard Dashboard
Precinct Specific, Comprehensive Dashboard
Get Out The Organization (GOTO) Dashboard
And a peak at the Get Out The Vote (GOTV) Dashboard.

This session will demonstrate and discuss how to use our dashboards for a variety of leadership tasks of Precinct Officers, Area Coordinators, and Direct Voter Contact Leads.

Thursday, July 24, 6:30 – 7:45 PM
Sunday, August 3, 6:30 – 7:45 PM

Technology Training Level 2
2025-07-27 18:30 - 19:45
Are you a new or a returning WCDP Precinct Officer, Area Coordinator, or Direct Voter Contact Lead? Welcome!
Ready to take a deeper dive into using the Google Suite of Tools for your precinct and/or Area organizing, capacity building, and leadership?
Join us for “Technology Training Level 2” during which we provide a more in depth look at how to use:

Google Drives
Google Docs
Google Forms
Google Chat and Spaces
Google Calendar (and office hours)
Google Meet, and hosting a virtual or hybrid meeting with Google Meet
New Precinct Specific Dashboards.

This session will provide demonstration and live links for performing tasks related to your Wake Dems leadership role, and well as provide time for Q&A to troubleshoot obstacles.

Sunday, July 27, 6:30 – 7:45 PM

Technology Training Level 3
2025-08-03 18:30 - 19:45
Are you a new or a returning WCDP Precinct Officer, Area Coordinator, or Direct Voter Contact Lead? Welcome!
Have you taken WCDP Technology Training Levels 1 and 2?
Then you are ready for “Technology Training Level 3” during which we will demonstrate and provide links for:
– The NC Voter Lookup tool
– Navigating WCDP Dashboards:

New Volunteer Dashboard
Welcome to the Precinct Postcard Dashboard
Precinct Specific, Comprehensive Dashboard
Get Out The Organization (GOTO) Dashboard
And a peak at the Get Out The Vote (GOTV) Dashboard.

This session will demonstrate and discuss how to use our dashboards for a variety of leadership tasks of Precinct Officers, Area Coordinators, and Direct Voter Contact Leads.

Sunday, August 3, 6:30 – 7:45 PM

VPB Train-the-Trainer (for DVC Leads)
2025-08-05 18:30 - 20:00 | Zoom
This session is for Direct Voter Contact (DVC) Leads and other precinct and area officers planning to conduct Virtual Phone Banking (VPB) training and calling events for their local volunteers. This session covers:

The basics of hosting training sessions for volunteers in Google Meet.
Training volunteers on the OpenVPB phone-banking site.
Available training materials for DVC Leads and other local VPB organizers.
Tips, tricks, and common technical support issues for assisting phone-banking volunteers.

This session is complementary to “Direct Voter Contact Lead 101,” so DVC Leads and precinct officials who wish to organize local DVC events — canvasses and phone banks — also should attend that session also as soon as feasible.

VPB Train-the-Trainer for DVC Leads
2025-08-10 14:00 - 15:30 | Zoom

[CANCELED] Virtual Phone Bank with Wake Dems!
2025-08-14 18:30 - 20:00 | Zoom
Join fellow Wake County Democratic Party volunteers to make phone calls to other Democrat and left-leaning voters! We’ll be calling to recruit new volunteers during our Get Out the Organization (GOTO) phase, building our volunteer base for our later Get Out the Vote (GOTV) efforts in the Wake County municipal elections of 2025 and for the critical midterm elections of 2026!
New to virtual phone-banking? Great! (Experienced phone-bankers — we’d love to have you join us, too!) We’ll provide all the training you need on our calling platform and the call script (about 30 minutes), then make calls to voters (30-45 minutes), then have a quick debrief to answer questions and talk about next steps (10-15 minutes). Our VPB trainers will be there the entire time to provide support and answer questions as needed.
We hope to see you there!

Virtual Phone Bank with Wake Dems!
2025-08-18 18:30 - 20:00 | Location will be provided to registered attendees
Join fellow Wake County Democratic Party volunteers to make phone calls to other Democrat and left-leaning voters! We’ll be calling to recruit new volunteers during our Get Out the Organization (GOTO) phase, building our volunteer base for our later Get Out the Vote (GOTV) efforts in the Wake County municipal elections of 2025 and for the critical midterm elections of 2026!
New to virtual phone-banking? Great! (Experienced phone bankers — we’d love to see you, also!) We’ll provide all the training you need on our calling platform and the call script (about 30 minutes), then make calls to voters (30-45 minutes), then have a quick debrief to answer questions and talk about next steps (10-15 minutes). And our VPB trainers will be there the entire time to provide support and answer questions as needed.
We hope to see you there!

Virtual Phone Bank with Wake Dems!
2025-09-07 18:30 - 20:00, 2025-09-08 18:30 - 20:00, 2025-09-11 18:30 - 20:00, 2025-09-14 14:00 - 15:30, 2025-09-21 14:00 - 15:30 | Zoom
Join fellow Wake County Democratic Party volunteers to make phone calls to other Democrat and left-leaning voters! We’ll be calling to Get Out The Vote (GOTV) for Wake County’s municipal elections on November 4 and to recruit new volunteers both for this year and for the critical midterm elections of 2026!

New to virtual phone-banking? Great! (Experienced phone bankers — we’d love to see you, also!) We’ll provide all the training you need on our calling platform and the call script (about 30 minutes), then make calls to voters (30-45 minutes), then have a quick debrief to answer questions and talk about next steps (10-15 minutes). And our VPB trainers will be there the entire time to provide support and answer questions as needed.

We hope to see you there!

VPB Train-the-Trainer for DVC Leads
2025-09-09 18:30 - 20:00, 2025-09-14 18:30 - 20:00, 2025-09-21 18:30 - 20:00, 2025-09-29 18:30 - 20:00, 2025-10-08 18:30 - 20:00 | Zoom
This session is for Direct Voter Contact (DVC) Leads and other precinct and area officers planning to conduct Virtual Phone Banking (VPB) training and calling events for their local volunteers. This session covers:

The basics of hosting training sessions for volunteers in Google Meet.
Training volunteers on the OpenVPB phone-banking site.
Available training materials for DVC Leads and other local VPB organizers.
Tips, tricks, and common technical support issues for assisting phone-banking volunteers.

This session is complementary to “Direct Voter Contact Lead 101,” so DVC Leads and precinct officials who wish to organize local DVC events — canvasses and phone banks — also should attend that session as soon as feasible.

Virtual Phone Bank with Wake Dems! (Includes Optional Training)
2025-10-02 18:30 - 20:00, 2025-10-05 14:00 - 15:30, 2025-10-09 18:30 - 20:00 | Zoom
